"Come over here!" Zhao Nan said with a smile when he saw everyone.
At his words, the group took a few more steps forward and gathered around him.
Linley was the first to ask, "Teacher, what is this?"
Zhao Nan pointed to Sathius and introduced him. "This is my newest disciple. He's a Level Nine Magical Beast named Sathius.
"Go ahead and introduce yourselves.
"He can't speak yet, but he can use Soul Transmission."
As soon as Zhao Nan finished speaking, Sathius greeted Linley and the others. They all looked at Zhao Nan in confusion.
Seeing their expressions, Zhao Nan realized that Linley and the others weren't Saint-level experts yet. They didn't have soul power; they had spiritual power.
With no other choice, Zhao Nan focused his thoughts and sent his soul power into Linley's Coiling Dragon Ring. He awakened Doehring Cowart and asked him to come out and translate Sathius's words for everyone.
Doehring Cowart had assumed Zhao Nan had woken him for something urgent. When he heard that he was needed as a translator, he couldn't help rolling his eyes, but he still prepared to do the job properly.
He was just rather annoyed about it.
Zhao Nan didn't care in the slightest that Doehring Cowart was annoyed. If he didn't make these arrangements now, they wouldn't be able to communicate after Zhao Nan left.
With Doehring Cowart translating, everyone exchanged greetings.
Sathius then spent a while discussing the matter of senior and junior fellow disciples with Linley and the others.
Linley and Ace were both quite reluctant, but when they saw that their teacher wasn't going to intervene, they had no choice but to accept.
As for Barker and the other disciples, they were outer and nominal disciples, so their situation was entirely different from Linley and Ace's. They said nothing and continued to address the two as senior brothers.
Sathius and the others naturally had no objections either, and simply called them senior brothers.
Once Zhao Nan saw that they had all met, he took several hundred stalks of Blue Heart Grass from his Space Ring and handed them to Linley and Hogg.
Linley and Hogg accepted the Blue Heart Grass in confusion, then looked at Zhao Nan, wanting to ask what it was.
Zhao Nan understood what they were thinking and explained, "Mr. Hogg, Linley, this is Blue Heart Grass.
"With it, you two will have a chance to awaken your Dragonblood Warrior bloodline."
Hogg and Linley both stiffened at his words.
Linley said nothing, since Zhao Nan was his teacher. Hogg, however, was different.
As someone who harbored a deep grudge, Hogg felt that Zhao Nan had quite literally saved his life. He bowed deeply to Zhao Nan and said gratefully, "Mr. Zhao Nan, words can't express my gratitude. If you ever have any orders for me, I, Hogg Baruch, swear on my family name that I will carry them out."
Hearing Hogg's oath, Zhao Nan hurriedly waved his hands and told him there was no need. But Hogg was stubborn and remained set on his promise.
Seeing this, Zhao Nan decided not to press the matter. He turned to Sathius and said, "I assume you know about Dragonblood Warriors.
"Then you should know they need to drink living dragon blood to stimulate their bloodline and transform into Dragonblood Warriors.
"So you know what to do, right?"
Sathius understood what Zhao Nan meant and knew he wouldn't refuse. "Yes, I know what to do.
"This is a fitting gift from me, their senior brother, to my junior brothers."
After speaking, Sathius turned to Linley and Hogg. "Go and get two buckets."
Linley and Hogg understood what Sathius meant. They thanked him, then hurried inside to look for wooden buckets.
Seeing this, Zhao Nan simply reached into his Space Ring, and two wooden buckets appeared on the ground.
Sathius saw this and realized that his teacher must have prepared everything in advance.
To be honest, Sathius hadn't willingly become Zhao Nan's disciple. As a proud Level Nine Magical Beast of the Dragon race, how could he willingly submit to a human?
Even if that human was a Saint-level expert.
In the end, he had joined Zhao Nan for two reasons. First, Zhao Nan had promised to help him become a Saint-level Magical Beast. Second, the first time he saw Zhao Nan, he sensed the threat of death.
That threat of death was what had ultimately made Sathius accept him as his master.
But after seeing how Zhao Nan had made all these arrangements for Linley, Sathius began to feel a sense of belonging. Becoming Zhao Nan's disciple no longer seemed so bad.
Though each of Sathius's scales was only palm-sized, when he lifted one, a drop of crimson blood seeped out from beneath it.
The drop fell into the wooden bucket below and immediately filled it to the brim. Sathius then lifted another scale and filled the other bucket.
Once both buckets of dragon blood stood before them, Zhao Nan hurriedly said to Linley and Hogg, "Drink it quickly, or the dragon blood will lose its potency.
"But swallow the Blue Heart Grass first."
At Zhao Nan's words, Linley and Hogg quickly grabbed a handful of Blue Heart Grass and swallowed it.
As the Blue Heart Grass entered their bodies, both Hogg and Linley felt a cool sensation.
They hurriedly picked up the buckets and gulped down the dragon blood.
"Gulp, gulp..."
As they continued drinking, waves of heat surged through their bodies. Linley and Hogg each grabbed another handful of Blue Heart Grass, shoved it into their mouths, chewed it, and swallowed.
After taking the Blue Heart Grass again, they both felt the heat inside them subside considerably.
Seeing how they were doing, Zhao Nan hurriedly called out, "Quick, cultivate the Dragonblood Secret Codex!"
As soon as Zhao Nan's voice fell, Linley and Hogg sat cross-legged and began following the Dragonblood Secret Codex's inherited secret method for using dragon blood to awaken the Dragonblood Warrior bloodline. They drove the dragon blood within their bodies into motion.
As the secret method circulated, the Dragonblood Warrior bloodlines hidden deep within Linley and Hogg began to manifest.
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