401 Cathulhu Creates Life
Chapter 401 – Cathulhu Creates Life
After dealing with the dragons, Xiaomao tried to open his game inventory menu.
DING
It still worked. Xiaomao put the heavenly fate crystal in his game inventory. Then, he checked the surroundings if more dragons were in the area. Aside from the shrine and the three dead dragons, only tall trees were within 10 kilometers.
Xiaomao deeply exhaled.
“Let’s go back to the dantian universe first, munya. I collect the corpse and clean the mess. Then, I’ll follow you there.”
Lilith still had a thousand questions to ask Xiaomao about his sword domain. The three moms sighed and returned to Xiaomao’s dantian universe.
Xiaomao leisurely collected the dragon corpses into his inventory. As usual, the instinct skill automatically dissected the dragons and gave him all possible loot drops. Dragon blood, dragon hearts, dragon magic stones, meat, scales, hides, and many raw materials filled Xiaomao’s inventory.
Unfortunately, there was no equipment among the drops. Xiaomao was disappointed.
“I thought dragons are natural hoarders, munya. Lame!”
After the corpses were cleaned, Xiaomao sheathed Vehicle Sword. However, he covered Wei Huang’s long katana with chaos element essence.
The aura of the sword was pitch black. The katana hummed as the aura devoured all natural Qi nearby and transfer to Xiaomao’s dantian.
“MUNYA!”
A dozen catterflies also orbited around Xiaomao. Their white aura flowed into the sword, forming a long thread and coiling around the sword as well. The white thread contrasted with the chaos element, causing the aura to separate into a white section and a black section.
Xiaomao ignored this phenomenon. He thought that it was a normal occurrence since he had been using this technique ever since he mastered the chaos element. Thus, he treated it as a form of muscle memory that he had learned from the Wei Family’s memory orbs.
He looked at the sword and pursed his lips, “What’s so special about the sword domain and my aura, munya? Isn’t this a regular sword intent? Even Wei Feng, Wei Xiong, and Wei Huang mastered this technique, munya.”
He shrugged and began carving a hole in one of the trees. He created a temporary resident and a door to cover the hole in case he needed to hide. It only took him five minutes to finish the task.
After securing a shelter, Xiaomao entered his new home and sealed the entrance with the makeshift door, made from the wood that he had carved out earlier. He also created a few small holes for ventilation.
In the hollowed tree trunk, Xiaomao looked around in the darkness. He didn’t bother creating a source of light as he could see everything in here. After making sure that no sentient creatures or nasty spiritual beings lived here, Xiaomao closed his eyes and meditated. His consciousness returned to the dantian universe.
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When Xiaomao returned to the dantian universe, Lilith and the others had been waiting for him. Because the planet had nothing but wandering catterflies and grasses, the people were bored to death.
“Master!” Lucky cried and jumped into his arms. It had only been an hour in reality, but 60 days in the dantian universe had passed.
Xiaomao dryly laughed. He wasn’t used to accommodating people in here, so he had no idea what to do. He turned to Lilith.
Lilith snickered, “I guess they aren’t used to living in desolate places. How about we start building houses, farms, rivers, trees, and nature on your primary planet? You don’t need to make it a complete world. A place where your friends and allies can gather and have fun should be sufficed.”
Xiaomao tilted his head, “I can only summon clones and cultivate so far. How do I build things from scratch, munya? I’m not an almighty god.”
“You ARE an almighty god of your own dantian universe. Just allocate some wood, water, wind, and metal element essence here. Then, use your imagination to build a place for us to live. Oh, don’t be impatient though. It took me one year to create the first object in my universe that I can bring outside. In your case, it might take a while.”
“… I’ll try.”
Xiaomao had a vague idea of how he could create materials from nothing. He borrowed the essence from a chaos star and shaped it into a doll.
DING
A second later, a strand of chaos element Qi transformed into a plushy doll of a party girl.
“Huh? It’s this easy?”
On the other hand, Lilith flinched, “Eh?”
Addicted to the power, Xiaomao allocated more chaos element Qi to the primary planet. He imagined a luxury mansion house next to a beach in Barcelona that he had seen on the internet.
RUMBLE
The whole planet trembled. A massive sea, a beach, and a 4-story window mansion manifested from nothingness.
Andrew and Peter dropped their jaws, admiring the beauty of the place. John grinned and welcomed the first air of the sea while James finally remembered that he forgot Cardachion in the dungeon.
Undine and Nymph were the happiest people. As they were mermaids, they felt suffocated living on the land for two months. Now that a sea appeared, they quickly jumped in and reverted to their natural appearance.
Magdalene and Yuan Hua stared at the mansion in a daze. Although Yuan Hua was once a princess, she never had a mansion near a beach like this. Also, this place coincided with her dreamt palace that she wished to build when she was young.
“Wow,” Yuan Hua approved of this place.
Magdalene pouted, “I’m sure Shepherd can build a better dantian universe! Hmm!”
“Hehe, don’t be like that. We should learn a thing or two from here. When Shepherd comes back to life, we can teach him and gain some credits.”
“Meh. I don’t wanna learn from…”
Suddenly, Magdalene sensed a malicious glare from a distance. Levy and Lilim had been listening to them and glaring at the fairy.
Magdalene coughed and changed her attitude, “W-We must watch and learn from Great Lord Xiaomao, Yuan Hua! Note that down! Write that down! Draw pictures of everything and take notes!”
Yuan Hua blankly stared at Magdalene. Then, she saw the death stare from the two spirits. She giggled, “Okay.”
RUMBLE
Xiaomao didn’t stop. He created a small coastal peninsula lighthouse to decorate the area. He suppressed the sea so that the waves wouldn’t be too high. Then, he created a super yacht cruiser.
“Hahaha! This is fun, munya!”
Lilith broke a sweat as Xiaomao learned this ability too fast!
“Is this the talent of a protagonist?” She felt cheated. “I wonder how long it took Miaomiao to master this power. Oh, wait. The first few things he created were a dryad farm. He skipped the materials to living organisms right away. That might still be impossible for Xiaomao…”
While Lilith was comparing Mao Miaomiao and Xiaomao, the latter laughed as a massive tuna fish appeared out of thin air and fell to the sea.
“MORE!!”
Xiaomao thought of ecology and created small organisms, such as plankton, small fishes, shrimps, clams, crabs, and small sea creatures.
Nymph screamed in delight when she spotted a beautiful 5-meter-long tuna. She chased it, planning to catch it for dinner. As for Undine, she jumped out of the sea and sprinted toward Xiaomao. She interrupted him, asking for something special.
“Xiaomao! Salmon! Make big salmons! Make sure 90% of them are pregnant while the rest are male!”
“Err, okay?”
Xiaomao waved his hand, and more chaos element Qi flowed to the primary planet. Over 100,000 salmons of various sizes fell from the sky and joined the calm ocean.
After creating several million lifeforms, Xiaomao got lightheaded. He sat on the grass and stop for a moment.
“Why am I dizzy, munya…?”
Xiaomao collapsed on the ground, looking at the sky. His vision span as if he had anemia.
Lilith shook her head and sat next to Xiaomao. She poked his forehead with her finger, “You overused your authority. Every time you create a new life in your dantian universe, you consume your life force. Your lifespan decreases, too.”
“It wasn’t free?!” Xiaomao was shocked.
“Obviously, nothing in the universe is free! You’re not omnipotent or omniscient in your universe yet. Had you never stolen the dragons’ life force back there, you would have already run out of lifespan in reality!”
“Why didn’t you tell me this before you told me to create a house, munya?”
“WHO ASKED YOU TO CREATE A MILLION FISHES IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU SICKO!?”
Lilith smacked his forehead again. Xiaomao whimpered and sulked, but he wasn’t sad.
He was happy. This was a sensation when his human mother scolded him when he did something wrong. This homey nostalgia was what Xiaomao yearned for.
“MUNYA!”
“MUNYA!”
Because Xiaomao was happy, the catterflies left his feathers and entered the universe. Some of them migrated to the primary planet and rested on the ceiling of the mansion.
Xiaomao noticed the immigrants. He shouted at the newcomers, “That house is new, people! Don’t shit or scratch on it!”
“MUNYA! (TOO LATE!)”
“You son of a-“
BONK
Lilith smacked his forehead and put him on her lap. She sighed, “Don’t get worked up because your residents want to have fun. The local creatures come here to eat the karma of happiness.”
“They eat karma, munya? Will I be in trouble?”
“On the opposite. Once you sow positive karma with someone and you’re happy, that karma string will stay with you forever. Even if the local spirits eat it, the karma will automatically regenerate and multiply as you do good deeds by feeding the local residents of your dantian universe. In short, the more they eat, the more you get stronger. Therefore, keep feeding them and be nice to them.”
“…”
Xiaomao brightly smiled and closed his eyes, enjoying the lap pillow of his stepmom. However, the next moment, he remembered that he had forgotten something.
He hadn’t touched the tree seed yet.