Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

This continued for days, and finally when all of his opened meridians and nodes became fortified by the rays, the core rumbled again.

"Are you not satisfied with my little meridians now?" he laughed when he noticed more meridians were now opening by force, getting expanded and strengthened by his energy, before they got support from the rays as others.

This time his legs had meridians being opened. It all started from his pelvis node and went downwards towards his two legs until they opened a long line of meridians towards the toes.

During this, the two nodes at his ankles got opened and strengthened as well. He couldn't assess the benefits fully, yet he was pretty sure his new meridians were all on par with the end core formation stage and with a little push they might even be compared with an early nascent soul stage.

"Now what?" he watched his self depending star map and cores opening more meridians, extending from his chest node this time. "Oh, it's the turn of my arms then," he smiled while watching the meridians get opened in both arms while opening the two wrist nodes.

"Y'know there are two nodes at the arm you missed, one at the shoulders and one at the elbows. You also missed the nodes at the thighs and knees," he sarcastically commented, acting like all experienced and high masters here.

Yet his star map and the new core didn't care about his remarks. When the meridians in the hand finished opening and strengthening, everything went to stillness all of sudden while the previous coat of protection started to disappear around his core.

"Rumbl!"

This time the rumble literally shook his body and made the twitches from early on come again to his real dragonair body. As the rumbling kept occurring for minutes, he gritted his teeth and endured the pain while watching what was happening inside his new dantian.

"This is all you aimed for from the beginning then… interesting," he muttered in surprise when he realized those rays from before weren't rays but real threads, all connected to the core, connecting it to his entire node and meridian system.

"This is worth the pain and humiliation to be honest," he muttered to himself while watching his new core getting finally to work. With all these extensive networks of threads connecting it to his meridians and nodes, Arthur was pretty confident in his ability to go even higher than he went before in his past life.

"Sigh, I need to stabilize things here first before calling it over," he sighed before thinking about his next tribulation. "My first one was weird, I hope this one will be more classic."

He started to regulate his breathing while inhaling more energy. He wanted to fill his entire meridians and nodes, especially with the new addition his energy was almost enough to keep things running.

It took his couple more days to finish doing this. And when he opened his eyes, he thought first of the tribulation, and second of the time spent here.

"Any updates?" he asked while standing and checking his body to make sure everything was ok before returning to be a human again.

"Finally," the golden dragon sighed, "you gave me a scare for many moments there kid. My old heart can't take all this worry, damn!"

"Ding! You took two weeks at least to finish training this time."

"Wow, all this time…" Arthur paused before adding, "what about others?"

"Ding! They are training, and your new gloves are doing miracles to them," the system said in a delighted tone, "Agnus seemed to have insight over your project and he finally made them."

"The spears? At last," he muttered before adding, "bring me my sword please."

The next moment his sword came flying from nearby where he had his other gears thrown off after he transformed into a dragon. "Bring me others as well," he muttered and then wore the boots, the gloves, and the guards before turning to inspect the sky.

"Strange…" he muttered, "no tribulation yet."

"Ding! Your tribulation is selected and it will appear after some time."

The system said these vague words which made Arthur's heart clench. "What's it then?" he asked with bad premonition.

"Ding! It's regarding the next competition," the system said before explaining further, "Ding! You will meet with unfortunate circumstances there and you need to crush them all."

"Why do I smell something bad here?" Arthur shook his head while muttering, "I didn't even plan to have such a bizarre way of tribulation. What does that even supposed to mean?"

"Ding! This is what I got from the world's will, and I don't know any details about it, sorry."

"Never mind," Arthur waved his hand, "it's not your fault," he sighed while seeing the bright side in this. "Then I can use and upgrade my cultivation base without any worries."

"Ding! Just don't hit the next major one, or else more challenges will occur to you."

"As if I have a saying in that," Arthur bitterly laughed as he recalled what just happened during his breakthrough.

"What's all this fuss all about?" the golden dragon said before adding, "your dragonair's energy is the only supreme energy in the entire world!"

"Sure, that's why you died early, old man," Arthur sneered before holding his sword and his face changed. "Watch me."

Arthur was new in this world, with many yet to learn and much more hidden from him. Yet what he never forgot were the techniques he once prevailed with in his past life.

His body, his lack of cultivation limited him a lot, but now everything changed. He was now having a core formation base, with meridian and node system on par with the highest stage in it.

And his energy was far superior to real monsters in legends back in his world.

Right now, he was a brand new monster creating his own legend.

"I'll try a small technique… like the dragon sword," he muttered to himself before his body started to take the old stance he used a long time ago.

His two legs were slightly apart, bent and his waste retreated backward for a bit. His sword was held by both hands, put on the side of his right shoulder.

His eyes were focusing on a hundred meters away from a large piece of rock.

"Ha!"

He gritted his teeth and this muffled cry came from him before he finally moved. He stirred up all the energy inside his dantian and the next moment he was shocked to see himself appearing next to the rock, covering the entire distance in one jump.

"Boom!"

The moment his sword hit the rock, a shadow of a faint blue dragon covered it and hit the rock massively; smashing it into pieces.

This didn't end here, as his sword dragon phantom slightly roared before exploding, sending even Arthur flying backward.

"Dummy dragon," he cursed, "I'm your master dumbass!"

He stood up while watching the devastation caused by this technique. Everything in the radius of fifty meters got smashed, like a gigantic hand just crushed anything in this area just now.

Even the ground of his strong garden got depressed by five meters.

"Amazing," the golden dragon muttered, "I like this dragon."

"Shut up," Arthur was annoyed by being hit by his own technique. "That means I lack control over my energy properly, a side effect of leveling up so fast," he shook his head while checking the damage.

"This power…" he paused while lost in his thoughts. "it's not that different from a full strike of a nascent soul cultivator."

"What are you talking about?" the golden dragon was immersed in his joy, "this dragon rocks! You don't need to complicate things, and try to enjoy being strong."

Arthur bitterly smiled while picturing the scene of him getting hit by his own sword. "This isn't right, things need to be understood and properly analyzed for me to learn, adapt, and upgrade."

"Such sophisticated needless words, tsk. We dragonairs only care about one thing… power. As long as you have it, just cherish it and don't complicate things like that."

Arthur didn't heed to the golden dragon's words as he kept analyzing the strike before he checked himself. "I got a slight backlash too," he sighed when he noticed some organs were hurt during this throw. "But to stabilize my power I need to regularly use it."