A Day of Peace and Quiet (24)

Just as Vick could no longer hold back from drawing his cane sword to protect Vegapunk, the killing intent around Ron suddenly vanished.

"Since this involves the Celestial Dragons... let's not make an exception again!"

Phew...!!

Vegapunk let out a long sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly.

"Azure Dragon Vice Admiral, please rest assured. I researched your blood purely out of curiosity. The Lineage Factor technology is already sufficiently advanced, so there's no need to use you as the original sample."

This was not sarcasm or bragging. Vegapunk was doing his best to distance himself from his true intentions.

No matter what he had truly been thinking or doing, he did not dare let Ron develop murderous intent toward him.

Over the years of research, Vegapunk had learned clearly just how terrifying a monster this inhuman being before him was, formed from a pile of those unscientific cells.

It was a forbidden abyss even more frightening than a Devil Fruit, one he dared not touch!

Blood self-replication?

Sorry, but compared to what they discovered later, that was nothing worth mentioning!

Seeing this, Caesar pursed his lips in disappointment and spread his hands. "How boring!"

Suddenly noticing Vick's extremely unfriendly gaze, he hurriedly changed the subject.

"By the way, Azure Dragon Vice Admiral, give me a tube of your blood. The original samples were all copied material. Their functions are worlds apart from the original fluid."

Ron's bodily tissues needed energy supplied by his body to regenerate. The two were mutually dependent, and neither could be lacking.

Once separated from the body, blood alone had a greatly reduced effect.

And if it had been cloned through other methods, the effect would decline even further, nearly losing all reference value. The Styx River Virus had torn through it without resistance.

That was