"Just like this!"
As he spoke, the words [Just like this!] appeared on both Communication Crystals.
Then a second line appeared beneath the first: [This is the second message!]
"All right, you try it too!"
[Send a message?]
Looking at the third message that appeared on the crystal, Lei Lin continued, "See? It's really convenient to use!"
"But this device still isn't quite finished. First of all, we both have to activate it at the same time to communicate, so we'll need to set a time. Your family should have a clock, right? Let's make it nine in the morning every day!"
"Second, you can only enter three messages each time. Then you have to wait a day for it to recharge before you can use it again."
"It's still being improved. Once you get back to Wushan Town, ask your father if there's anything you need. Just send me a message."
"All right, that's it. I'll be going now!"
The next day, at the Zi'ao Family.
After tucking the blankets around Windsor and Luo Lin, who were beside him, Lei Lin mused, "Hmm, my constitution keeps getting stronger. I should set some training KPIs for little Luo Lin and Windsor. Otherwise, they might not be able to handle the task of carrying on the family line in the future."
He stepped outside and looked at the sun, already high in the sky. Lei Lin sighed, "I parted ways with Lin Lei so quickly earlier that I forgot Alice's storyline was coming up next."
"Whatever. I've already tried everything I wanted to. How could Alice compare to bloodline research?"
"This is precious research material—the bloodlines of a Dragonblood Warrior and a super divine beast like the God-Eater Rat! Although I probably won't discover anything, if I do manage to find something, it'll be incredible!"
He glanced back at the two women, still resting in bed, then walked toward his laboratory without looking back.
"A wonderful life needs the protection of formidable strength!"
After entering his Bloodline Laboratory, Lei Lin began researching Lin Lei's bloodline.
Drawing blood, separating samples, setting up a dual-element micro-observation magic array of water and light, observing the microscopic structure of the bloodline, sketching, recording the time.
Preparing Bloodline Fluorescent Agent, staining the samples...
Adjusting the Bloodline Reaction Reagent, testing the bloodline's reaction to various elemental materials...
For half a month straight, Lei Lin stayed holed up in his Bloodline Laboratory without coming out. He left all sorts of affairs to the Family Elder Council.
"Young master, a package has arrived for you. It was sent by Mr. Lin Lei."
During that time, Lin Lei had also been in touch with him. After they confirmed their friendship and Lin Lei achieved basic financial independence through the Magic Cores he'd earned on his adventures, his outlook had changed somewhat.
In response to Lei Lin's initiative, Lin Lei didn't hold back. After discussing the resources Wushan Town needed to develop with his father, Hogg, he sent Lei Lin a list.
Lei Lin delegated the matter to his subordinates. Through his brief exchanges with Lin Lei lately, he'd also learned that his people were handling the work well.
"A package from Lin Lei? What's inside?"
After having a golem bring the package into the laboratory, Lei Lin opened it. There wasn't much inside—just a few books, a letter, and some odds and ends, like needles and jade tokens.
Lei Lin's brow twitched. He rubbed his eyes, took out the books, and confirmed that the four characters on the cover really did say Dragonblood Secret Manual.
After clicking his tongue a couple of times, Lei Lin read the letter carefully and learned what had happened.
In essence, Lin Lei had told Hogg that Lei Lin planned to study their family's bloodline and had decided to help him awaken his Dragonblood bloodline.
After giving it considerable thought, Hogg had sent Lei Lin the family's inherited Dragonblood Secret Manual, a Dragonblood Needle, and some of the family's research notes, hoping they might contribute to Lei Lin's bloodline research.
Hogg's reason for doing this was simple: he genuinely hoped Lei Lin would discover something. After all, the inability to practice battle qi without a sufficiently strong bloodline was a truly crippling flaw.
The Baruch Family had researched the matter before, but bloodline research was a bottomless pit. The worst part was that even after investing in it, there was no telling whether they'd discover anything.
Even when their family had been at its height, they hadn't managed to uncover anything!
Now Lei Lin believed in Lin Lei's future and was interested in the Dragonblood Warriors' bloodline. Naturally, Hogg had decided to support him without hesitation.
Worried about their inheritance being leaked?
What a joke. Did they think a battle qi manual designed specifically for Dragonblood Warriors was some worthless thing?
Their family members couldn't practice other battle qi manuals, and outsiders couldn't practice the Dragonblood Secret Manual either. The same went for the other three Ultimate Warrior Families: ordinary people couldn't practice their exclusive battle qi manuals. Only members of those families could cultivate their inherited manuals.
Lei Lin hadn't been particularly interested in the Dragonblood Secret Manual at first, because Hogg had already explained in the letter that without the Dragonblood Warrior bloodline, there was no way to practice it.
At first, he focused on the Baruch Family's past bloodline research notes. But before long, he sighed. "Tsk. Theirs may be more comprehensive than mine in breadth, but it's not much better in depth."
"And these records and data are so rough. They lack detail!"
After casually downing a cup of an energizing drink, Lei Lin thought, I'd better keep researching low- and intermediate-level magical beasts. The Dragonblood Warrior bloodline comes from a super divine beast. I should wait until I reach the Saint Realm, when I'll have endless lifespans and my thoughts will move faster and more efficiently, then study it bit by bit.
While secretly chiding himself for overestimating his abilities, Lei Lin opened the cultivation section of the Dragonblood Secret Manual. He'd only meant to browse through it and broaden his horizons. After all, it was a cultivation manual suited to the Azure Dragon Bloodline of Dragonblood Warriors.
The original story didn't say so outright, but this manual must either have been personally written by Beirut, that mighty Main God, for the first Baruch, or have been obtained by Beirut from the Four Divine Beasts family.
Otherwise, could the first Baruch really have created a cultivation manual like this himself?
Lei Lin had also studied battle qi manuals, and he could only say that the idea was pure fantasy. A specialized cultivation method capable of accommodating the bloodline of a super divine beast was out of the question.
Even an ordinary battle qi manual couldn't be created just any old way. Otherwise, the nobles wouldn't have monopolized them so fiercely, leaving ordinary people with nothing but the simple Qi-Nurturing Method to build their vitality and temper their bodies.
That was the allure of knowledge—and the power of monopolizing it!
He'd even tried creating a battle qi manual himself. The results had been hard to describe: all he'd managed to produce was a rather mediocre manual that was extraordinarily difficult to practice, and only he had managed to master it.
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