The Essence of Drinking Living Dragon Blood

Lei Lin pondered the situation with Hogg while entering a cultivation chamber constructed entirely of seventh and eighth-rank magic crystals, its surface inscribed with an Energy Gathering Magic Array.

Without modifying his bloodline, maximizing the concentration of surrounding magic elements was the best method Lei Lin had to increase his strength.

The results were quite good; it had taken him nine years to go from the first rank to the seventh!

But from the seventh rank to the peak of the seventh, it had only taken him a year, and he was on the verge of breaking through to the eighth rank at any moment!

However, the bottleneck for every rank after the seventh was no longer as easy to overcome as before, and he wasn't certain when he would finally break through to the eighth rank.

After grinding in the cultivation chamber for a week without achieving a breakthrough, Lei Lin eventually set aside the thought of advancing, brewed a few potions, and headed toward Wushan Town.

After all, breaking through was a process of slow refinement; there was no use in rushing.

If his estimation of the timeline regarding Hogg proved incorrect and he failed to arrive in time to provide rescue, his investment in Hogg would essentially go down the drain.

Upon arriving in Wushan Town, Lei Lin went straight to the Baruch Family estate; he had been here more than once or twice and was already well-acquainted with the route.

Seeing that it was Lei Lin, Hillman immediately announced that the little ones currently in training were to have a day off, and he personally led Lei Lin to see Hogg.

Looking at the increasingly heroic Lei Lin, Hogg set down the book in his hand and said, "Lei Lin, you've come. Has there been another breakthrough in your experiments?"

"Hillman, tell the kitchen to make lunch more sumptuous, and roast two more sheep; Lei Lin has a big appetite!"

With the help of the Zi'ao Family, Wushan Town had developed, and the lives of the common people were getting better and better.

As the lord, Hogg's standard of living had also gradually returned to the level of an ordinary noble.

Lei Lin chuckled and said, "Uncle Hogg still understands me, but two sheep aren't enough for me to eat anymore."

"Add another one, or change it to a cow!"

As his strength increased, Lei Lin's appetite grew larger and larger, and given his relationship with Hogg and Lin Lei, there was no need to be polite.

"Also, Uncle Hogg, I've developed the seventeenth version of my Dragonblood Potion. The effects this time should be even better; testing it tonight should give you a pleasant surprise."

Hearing this, Hogg laughed, "Oh, that is truly wonderful!"

"Every time I take the potions you develop, Lei Lin, I feel a sense of enhancement. As long as we keep going, you will definitely succeed!"

"Our Baruch Family will surely be able to awaken once more, I..., I don't even know how to thank you~!"

As he spoke, a man like Hogg, who strictly adhered to noble etiquette, found his voice trembling with a faint, imperceptible sob of excitement.

After all, once Lei Lin's research succeeded, their Baruch Family would never again have to worry about being unable to practice the Dragonblood Secret Manual due to insufficient bloodline concentration.

The name of the Dragonblood Warrior would surely shake the continent once again!

Thinking of how the territory had improved over the past few years with the help of the Zi'ao Family, and thinking of the potential future prosperity of his family, Hogg could not help but be moved!

Lei Lin could understand this; compared to Lin Lei, Hogg had a much deeper obsession with the family.

He immediately interrupted Hogg, saying, "Alright, alright, Uncle Hogg, what is there to thank me for?"

"I'm researching this for my own sake as well!"

While comforting Hogg, Lei Lin thought to himself, Sigh~, although I am researching this primarily for myself, it is undoubtedly of huge help to you Dragonblood Warriors.

So even if I intentionally hide the results and don't let you awaken, Uncle Hogg, you surely won't blame me when you find out in the future, right!

That's right, although the first version of the Dragonblood Potion had failed quite thoroughly.

But relying on the cooperation between Hogg and Lin Lei, combined with the Dragonblood Secret Manual—that manual of bloodline explanation—and Warton's bloodline samples.

As early as the sixth version, Lei Lin had already figured out how to turn dragon blood that had been outside the body for too long into a potion to help Dragonblood Warriors with insufficient bloodline concentration awaken their bloodline.

Because he had already grasped the essence of drinking living dragon blood to stimulate the Azure Dragon Bloodline!

In Lei Lin's view, this did not count as activating the Azure Dragon Bloodline.

A true activation should be like the Dragon Transformation Pool, allowing a Dragonblood Warrior to directly master the innate divine ability of the Dragon Roar and comprehend a profound mystery of the water-element laws.

Only then could it be considered a proper activation!

This method of activating the bloodline through Saint Realm dragon blood was more accurately described as stimulating the Azure Dragon Bloodline to manifest a trace of the divine beast's power belonging to the Azure Dragon, and merely controlling the corresponding dragon blood.

After all, compared to the Azure Dragon, which should accurately be considered a super divine beast, the level of Saint Realm dragon blood was far too low.

Let alone drinking just that little bit of dragon blood, even if one were to swallow a whole Saint Realm dragon alive, what would that even mean to an Azure Dragon divine beast?

Saint Realm dragon blood was truly not worth mentioning!

The so-called activation by drinking living dragon blood was, in essence, the Azure Dragon Bloodline reacting to stress, manifesting a bit of the dragon divine beast's power to subjugate the corresponding dragon blood.

This was also the reason why using corresponding dragon blood would cause the appearance of dragon-like characteristics after transformation.

After Lei Lin discovered this through several bloodline sample studies, he finally understood why Lin Lei had drunk the blood of the Spine-backed Iron-Armored Dragon in the original story, and even swallowed the Dragon Crystal.

He understood why Lin Lei possessed his own attributes without being influenced by the Spine-backed Iron-Armored Dragon to develop dark attributes.

One must know that if an ordinary person bathed in dragon blood and survived, or drank a dragon blood potion, the biggest characteristic of a bloodline mutation was usually not physical strengthening.

Instead, it was the acquisition of the attributes of the corresponding dragon race, such as the fire attribute of Red Dragon blood, the water attribute of Green Dragon blood, or the light attribute of Silver Dragon blood.

This was the most direct manifestation of a bloodline being influenced by dragon blood!

This was also why novels often liked to use dragon slaying and bathing in dragon blood as climactic scenes!

Lei Lin also realized the reason why living dragon blood must be used: because once dragon blood left the body for too long, it lost the aura of [Life], and thus could not cause the Azure Dragon Bloodline to produce a stress response.

For the Azure Dragon Bloodline, this kind of dragon blood shifted directly from the concept of an [enemy] to the concept of [food], so naturally, it could no longer trigger a reaction from the Azure Dragon Bloodline!

This had nothing to do with the freshness or vitality of the dragon blood itself, which was also the reason why Lei Lin's first bloodline experiment had failed so thoroughly.

Having grasped these essentials, he knew how to concoct the Dragonblood Potion.

It was simple: just stimulate the concept of [life] related to dragon blood!

Setting aside his disdain for [classical] potion-making, he followed the magic arrays provided to him by the Holy See, which Death Alchemists used to extract the concept of [death] from dead rats, the concept of [evil] from fangs, and the concept of [life] from infant blood.

Lei Lin produced the latest Dragonblood Potion.

After testing it with blood samples from Lin Lei and Hogg and discovering that both samples exhibited the bloodline stress response he had hoped for, he knew he had succeeded!

However, he later intentionally weakened the grade of the dragon blood, using eighth-rank or even seventh-rank dragon blood as the main ingredient, which resulted in insufficient stimulation.

That was why Hogg and Lin Lei had never [awakened]!