179: The sorrow of a small country

Big Yellow Dog didn't eat the green plum.

He shared the green plum with Little Yellow Dog (Little Yellow).

The green plum left for Dudu, Dudu didn't eat it either.

After getting the green plum, he waddled over to the fish tank and gave it to his little brother, Clownfish.

Big Old Black, the rooster, also didn't eat the green plum.

He wanted to rely on his own efforts to embark on the Emperor's Path.

So, Yang Dian distributed his 8 green plums among the other little guys.

'If those people outside knew that the heaven and earth treasures they desperately sought were being passed around by these three guys, I wonder if their Dao Heart would collapse.'

Holding the glass jar and standing in front of the Orca Pool, watching Little Orca sneakily swim towards him from the bottom of the pool, Yang Dian couldn't help but think of a possibility.

'Could it be that Little Orca also won't eat the green plum?'

Fortunately, Yang Dian was mistaken.

Dudu, Da Huang, and Big Old Black were just a very few exceptions.

Little Orca ate with more joy than anyone else.

After finishing the ten plum blossoms Yang Dian gave him, and seeing that there were still more in the jar, he even bit Yang Dian's clothes and started whimpering, not letting him leave.

"You little rascal~"

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

This saying also applied to Yang Dian.

Helpless with Little Orca, Yang Dian took out two more plum blossoms from the jar and fed them to Little Orca, much to Professor Shen Fei's horrified expression, who had just arrived, seeing such a waste of rare treasure.

"Hiss~"

"Feeding heaven and earth treasures to a fish, only you would do that."

Little Orca was unhappy to hear that, so he dove into the water, took a mouthful, and spat it at Professor Shen Fei.

Fortunately, a Qi and Blood curtain timely blocked in front of Professor Shen Fei, preventing him from becoming drenched.

Yang Dian reached out and stroked Little Orca's head, "Be good, don't mess around."

"Professor's body is so fragile, a splash of water from you might make him sick."

Professor Shen Fei, who was called 'fragile' by Yang Dian, wasn't angry.

He numbly reached out and pressed the Qi and Blood curtain in front of him.

Then he looked at Yang Dian in disbelief:

"Did you really Breakthrough to Martial Dao Level 6, Qi Blood Dragon Transformation?"

Yang Dian turned around and smiled modestly:

"With 450 million Merits (merit points) invested, even a pig could fly.

"My Breakthrough to the Qi Blood Dragon Transformation Realm is nothing to make a fuss about."

"Hiss~~" Professor Shen Fei gasped sharply;

"Nothing to make a fuss about!"

"Do you know how many Martial Arts Grandmasters there are in the country?"

Yang Dian was a little curious.

He had heard Lin Mo say before that there were no more than 10 City-Level Awakened on the surface of the entire world, and no more than 30 in secret.

Thinking about it carefully, he always felt that Lin Mo had understated it.

"How many Martial Arts Grandmasters are there in the country?"

Professor Shen Fei spread his five fingers:

"5."

"Mo Yuntao, Director of the Martial Security Bureau, Director of the Wuan General Bureau, Deputy Director Yue Shan, Daoist Qingfeng of Qingcheng Mountain, and Old Man Tang Shichang, a reclusive Cultivator from Zhongnan Mountain."

Just as Yang Dian was waiting for the fifth person, Professor Shen Fei pointed at him again:

"You, the fifth one."

Yang Dian was stunned, "Besides me, only four?"

During the support mission in Chengdu, three City-Level combatants arrived at once.

Two of them were Martial Arts Grandmasters and one was an Awakened, so he thought Martial Arts Grandmasters were not that valuable.

Professor Shen Fei on the other side affirmed his statement again:

"As far as I know, only four."

"After Earth eroded other dimensions and devoured the Origin of other dimensional worlds to nourish Earth's living beings, everyone's Aptitude has increased to some extent."

"Perhaps in the future, others will Breakthrough their Realm and become Grandmasters of the Qi Blood Dragon Transformation Realm."

"But currently, the Martial Arts Grandmasters in the country are just you five."

Yang Dian said thoughtfully:

"There are only five of us in the country, meaning there are others abroad?"

"Chen Zhenzhong, the Sect Leader of the Red Gate, is also a Martial Arts Grandmaster."

"There might also be hidden Martial Arts Grandmasters, both domestically and internationally."

"However, after you become a Martial Ancestor, you should also know that Martial Ancestors have complete control over their Qi and Blood; if they truly want to hide, others won't be able to find them."

"So, the Martial Ancestors we know of are only a few."

"What about Ancient Cultivators from other countries?"

Professor Shen Fei glanced sideways at Yang Dian:

"Since you've become a Martial Arts Grandmaster of the Qi Blood Dragon Transformation Realm, your authority is naturally sufficient; go and check for yourself."

As he spoke, he turned his gaze back to the glass jar in Yang Dian's hand, to the remaining three green plums:

"Are these left for our Research Institute to conduct experiments?"

Yang Dian nodded and handed the jar to Professor Shen Fei:

"The rare treasure green plum blossom has the effect of awakening intelligence in animals."

"There were originally 49, but I distributed them all, leaving only these few for the Research Institute to see if anything can be researched from them."

Professor Shen Fei then realized:

"No wonder you would feed this to the orca."

Then he frowned again:

"If it can awaken intelligence in animals, can it increase human intelligence?"

Yang Dian shook his head:

"I ate three, and I didn't feel any effect."

"There's probably a threshold; it only works for low-intelligence creatures."

Thinking of Big Old Black who mutated after eating the plum blossoms, Yang Dian added:

"For animals, this thing might also increase their chances of mutation."

Professor Shen Fei, holding the jar, turned and left amidst Little Orca's dissatisfied thrashing:

"Alright, I understand. I'll take it back for a simple test first..."

Watching Professor Shen Fei leave, Yang Dian turned around and began to comfort Little Orca.

Once Little Orca stopped fussing, he lifted his leg and sat on Little Orca's head, letting him carry him in low-altitude circles while he dialed Yue Shan's phone number.

The call connected instantly.

Before Yang Dian could even speak, Yue Shan's voice came through to him:

"Good boy, you finally decided to call me."

"Do you know how long I've been waiting for your call?"

Yang Dian was stunned:

"Uncle Yue, you knew I had a Breakthrough?"

Yue Shan chuckled on the other end of the line:

"Heh, you just had a Breakthrough and caused such a huge commotion near the coast. If we couldn't even monitor that, wouldn't it make us seem too useless?"

"Are you calling me now to share good news, or do you have something else?"

"First, to share good news." As for the second, Yang Dian also spoke frankly:

"As for the second, I want to ask the organization's opinion on what will happen next in Saudi Arabia."

Old William's prophecies were many.

Yang Dian only cared about the disasters that would erupt domestically and the Opportunities that would appear around the world.

The incident in Saudi Arabia was an exception.

What major event happened in Saudi Arabia?

In mid-September, the Lizardman God entered Earth through a spatial node and unleashed a massacre in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.

The massacre lasted only half an hour before the Lizardman God was driven back to the Alien Planet by a barrage of missiles.

But even in that short half an hour, the Lizardman God managed to turn Riyadh into ruins.

Post-war statistics showed that the number of survivors in Riyadh was less than 500,000.

Before this, as the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh had a population of over 7 million.

This is the tragedy of small countries in this Qi Revival era, without strong individuals to defend them and without extraordinary technology to protect their homeland.