Tales Of The Mighty Dragonair

"What's strange about it?" the voice laughed, "but don't worry, the eggs who failed to produce our kids are the ones turning into the source of energy."

Arthur understood his meaning. "So they don't contain any living form of you, right?"

"Indeed, but this turns them into a source of endless energy."

"That's why Gege coveted it," Arthur understood now why Gege sat her gaze upon the egg inside his garden.

"Any egg can turn a mere wild monster into one with a human body and immense strength. Our eggs have great abilities that you can call magical."

"Indeed they are," Arthur muttered before glancing over the egg down below, "how can I turn it off then?"

"You mean… deactivating the egg?" the voice asked in doubt.

"As there is a way to activate it, there must be to do the opposite, right?"

"And why would we think of deactivating this?"

"Don't tell me… you never thought of this situation before?" Arthur was speechless for a moment there before adding, "sigh, I have to find a way to deactivate it."

"I think it's impossible," the voice said, "after all you'll need an equal form of energy to deactivate it in theory."

"I know," Arthur understood the meaning of the voice's words, "but I already have an egg inside my garden, and another one connected to it through a portal. I can simply activate the one inside me and let its energy deactivate the one here."

"They will just explode together and you won't gain anything in return," the voice sighed, "this already happened many times before."

"I'll find a way," Arthur said before adding, "but tell me how to activate the egg and through that I can hypothesize about the way to deactivate yours."

"You are really stubborn."

"I just want to set you free," Arthur said, "don't you want your freedom?"

"I want… to die," the voice suddenly said, "if I was let loose then they would come down and kill you before imprisoning me again."

"You don't know that," Arthur argued.

"I'm pretty much sure of that," the voice sighed, "just… drop this off and don't bring calamity for you."

Arthur glanced at the egg which looked like a trapped beast. "Just tell me how to activate it."

"You… sigh, humans are always hard to deal with."

"Hahaha, you are right."

"It's your life anyway. To activate it you'll need to establish a certain array where you will feed the egg with energy constantly," the voice said.

"What form of energy?"

"Any form is fine," the voice answered, "but the higher the form of energy the better, as the time needed will be greatly shortened this way."

Arthur thought and the first thing that came into his mind was the golden pearl energy he had. But he dropped such thought fast, after all his golden pearl's energy was scarce to begin with.

"Can you teach me about that array?" he asked while flying to the surface once more.

"I can draw this one for you," the voice then paused and Arthur saw the earth below show markings like a gigantic stick was excavating the earth.

"You…" Arthur's corner of the eyes twitched, "you could help but you didn't!"

The voice laughed before saying, "I told you, you are the one asking for that not me."

"…"

Arthur watched in silence the drawing that showed the steps of how to create that array. "Forty-nine grand array… this is something new to me," he muttered while memorizing what the voice drew for him.

"This is just a simple array for us," the voice said before adding, "back in time we could make arrays out of thousands above thousands of angles."

"This…" Arthur was truly surprised this time, "how could you control it?"

"I told you kid," the voice laughed, "our form of energy is just higher than what you think. Plus we used the eggs in many ways, one of them was to provide such arrays with their great limitless energy."

Arthur nodded as many applications for the egg started to appear in his mind. "Do you know how many of these are out there?" he asked while pointing towards the deep pit in the ground.

"When I was out there, we had an endless supply of eggs before our world was shattered and we lost everything," the voice seemed to recall unpleasant memories as he paused for a long time. "Sigh, if we knew losing our world would have such a detrimental effect on the war we wouldn't have let anyone touch it!"

'It's a known fact that your base is your strongest defense against your enemy," Arthur stated the obvious for himself, "I think you lightly dealt with such grave matter."

"We were… kind of arrogant," the voice sighed, "anyway you've got what you wanted and now let me live my life in peace."

Arthur felt that what he just spoke with the voice owner stirred up deep and bitter memories.

"It's a sad thing to see strong people fall due to the simple sin of arrogance," he muttered before glancing again over the drawings on the ground and made sure he memorized them right.

Then he went down and sat there, silently closing his eyes and started to breath calmly and regularly while cultivating.

His cultivation base was stagnant still at the nascent soul stage six. He didn't have time to upgrade it, yet during that time he managed to properly strengthen his base.

And now he could safely hit the higher bases without any problem at all.

"Above the nascent soul is the earth, heaven, and star soul stages. Then I can finally hit the immortal stage," he muttered while arranging the path lying ahead of him.

Each contains nine stages, and that meant he still had a long way before finally breaking through the immortal stage, the real powerful stage he aspired to reach.

Last life he was at the pinnacle of this grand stage.. It was common knowledge that the stage below the immortal stage was called the man stage, or mortal stage as some preferred to say.