Inside his body, amidst the repeated tug-of-war and reconstruction, Lin Ming sensed faint, incredibly fine threads of Dark Gold Blood beginning to appear among the flesh and blood that had been torn apart and healed over and over again.
Though these blood threads were minute, they were incomparably resilient. They spread throughout his flesh and blood, winding around his bones like countless miniature True Dragons and True Phoenixes circling within his body.
Unlike the domineering Dragon-Phoenix Blood Essence from before, they did not attempt to devour everything. Instead, they slowly wriggled, maintaining a subtle balance and harmony with the Five-Colored Emperor Blood within him.
Faintly, these dark-gold blood threads seemed to emanate an utterly terrifying vitality. The sheer abundance of that life force was several times greater than before.
What surprised Lin Ming even more was that, as the dark-gold blood threads gradually fused into his flesh, blood, and bones, the two powers he had refined in the past also quietly awakened at this moment, as though summoned by something.
One was the power of Dragon Emperor Essence Blood Zhu Kun had left in his body when he had used the essence blood of an Ancient Void Dragon Emperor to cleanse Lin Ming's marrow and forge his body. Though Lin Ming had long since completely absorbed and refined that power, the dragon source belonging to the Ancient Void Dragon Emperor had always lain dormant in the deepest depths of his bloodline.
The other was the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix bloodline power contained within the Ninth Grade Golden Pill he had absorbed when he used the essence blood of the entire Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan as the catalyst to refine it.
These two bloodline powers, originally branches of the dragon and phoenix bloodlines, still existed within him after he advanced to Dou