Bloodline Awakening

"We did it!"

Zhao Nan looked at Linley and Hogg, whose expressions had finally calmed, and couldn't help speaking up.

Ace and the others all breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Zhao Nan.

Zhao Nan, however, wasn't particularly surprised. After all, the original story had clearly recorded that Linley succeeded through this very method.

The only difference was that Hogg was involved this time.

But the method was sound, and Sathius's dragon blood was fine.

Zhao Nan believed there was no doubt that they would awaken their bloodlines.

"Chichi~~"

The dragon blood inside Hogg and Linley was refined bit by bit, then turned into streams of Dragonblood Battle Qi.

This time, Linley hadn't swallowed Sathius's Dragon Crystal, so he wouldn't experience the same agony as in the original story.

As a result, awakening their bloodlines was much easier for Linley and Hogg this time.

The original story had recorded that Baruch, the first Dragonblood Warrior, had repeatedly captured dragons and drained their blood to awaken the bloodlines of family members who didn't meet the required standard.

Moreover, those dragons had all been Saint-level dragons.

So the blood of a mere Level Nine Magical Beast could only serve as nourishment for their bloodline awakening.

And that was exactly what happened. As the dragon blood was steadily refined and their own bloodlines continued to awaken, Linley and Hogg began crying out in pain.

Then, black scales strangely began emerging across their skin. The sharp scales tore through their clothes.

Black scales continued to appear on their arms, legs, and heads.

As the scales emerged, Hogg and Linley's cries of pain rang out again and again across the hills behind Wushan Town.

Fortunately, Zhao Nan had cast a Sound-Isolation Array around the area. Otherwise, Wushan Town, which had just weathered two sudden incidents, would have been thrown into chaos once more.

As the two continued to cry out, sharp dragon horns suddenly grew from their heads.

Their bodies convulsed with pain. Their entire spines trembled, and spikes slowly grew along their backs, piercing through the surface muscles as they gradually emerged.

The agony made them groan in pain, while sweat poured from every part of their bodies.

As the sweat appeared, scales continued to sprout all over them. Their shape was extremely similar to the Armored Spined Dragon's, though they were much smaller.

Even as they endured the pain, they continued circulating the secret arts recorded in the family's Dragonblood Secret Codex.

As they repeatedly circulated the techniques, the Dragonblood Warrior bloodline within them, which had been dormant and faint, began to erode Sathius's dragon blood. But because their own bloodline was so weak, their forms looked more like Sathius than the Dragonblood Warrior form recorded in the family's texts.

"Chik~~"

A bloodstained tail covered in black scales slowly emerged from the base of each of their spines. It was like a long, steel whip.

By now, the two had recovered from the worst of the pain. They stared at the changes to their bodies, especially the spikes on their backs and foreheads and the scales covering them, and stood there in a daze.

They had both read their family's Dragonblood Secret Codex. It recorded that Dragonblood Warriors had three forms: human, half-dragon, and fully transformed into a dragon.

At this moment, they were in the third form: fully transformed into dragons.

A Dragonblood Warrior's third-stage, fully transformed form was covered in azure dragon scales, with dragon horns on the forehead.

But Hogg and Linley were completely different. Their bodies were covered in black scales, and spikes lined their backs.

After examining their bodies, Linley and Hogg were struck by another wave of pain.

When a Dragonblood Warrior first cultivated Dragonblood Battle Qi, their body would lose control and enter the third form. This first transformation was extremely painful, but it only happened once. Future transformations wouldn't hurt.

Linley and Hogg had just successfully cultivated Dragonblood Battle Qi.

As the Dragonblood Battle Qi surged, streams of deep azure energy, almost black in color, spread throughout their bodies. Every muscle and meridian absorbed the energy, and their physical strength rose at a terrifying pace. This rapid improvement was just as agonizing for them.

Then their entire bodies suddenly shuddered again. All ten fingers and all ten toes were racked with bone-deep pain. The tips of their fingers grew sharp, like miniature dragon claws.

The pain of their claws growing out forced Linley and Hogg into unconsciousness.

Zhao Nan was stunned by the sight.

Having read the original story, Zhao Nan knew that Linley really had passed out the first time he awakened his bloodline, but that was because he had absorbed Sathius's Dragon Crystal, which made his transformation different.

But his two children and Wharton's child hadn't gone through anything like this when they awakened their bloodlines!

They had still retained some traits of magical beasts, but overall, they hadn't suffered nearly as much as Linley and Hogg.

Zhao Nan thought it over for a while but couldn't come up with an explanation. In the end, he stopped dwelling on it and simply assumed that the two were in so much pain because they had too little Azure Dragon Essence Blood in their bodies.

Linley's and Wharton's children, on the other hand, were different: Linley had already awakened his Dragonblood Warrior bloodline, and Wharton was a pure-blooded Dragonblood Warrior. Their children therefore had a sufficiently strong bloodline, so they hadn't had the same problem.

"Teacher, Linley and Uncle Hogg have passed out."

As Zhao Nan was pondering, Ace came over and spoke to him.

"Mm.

"I know. It's nothing serious. Once they wake up, they'll be able to become Dragonblood Warriors!"

Zhao Nan heard Ace, patted his head, and replied.

After Zhao Nan spoke, Ace, the Bark Five Brothers, and Sathius—all six people and one beast—waited in silence.

Time passed quickly. Half an hour went by in the blink of an eye, and Zhao Nan suddenly remembered that Linley had taken three days to wake up after his first transformation.

So, looking at Linley and Hogg, who were still unconscious, he waved his hand and took them to their respective rooms.

Unlike Linley in the original story, they hadn't absorbed a Dragon Crystal. They were only unconscious for a day before waking up in their beds.