Lapis Awakens His Bloodline

A few minutes later.

Lapis came back after getting beaten up again.

Mo Yuan had kept his promise and hadn't hit him in the face.

However.

The clothes that had been fairly loose on Lapis were now a little tight.

He also limped as he walked, barely able to move properly.

And with his face swollen and bruised from Lazuli's beating,

he looked pitiful.

After all, Lapis was his brother-in-law now.

As soon as they returned to the Lookout, Mo Yuan healed him.

"I didn't expect you to know how to do that."

Lapis stretched his fully recovered body and looked at Mo Yuan in surprise.

In just a few seconds, all his injuries had completely healed.

Maybe it was because they were only superficial wounds, but it was still quite unexpected.

Mo Yuan smiled calmly and said, "There's plenty more you don't know."

After that beating, Lapis was thoroughly convinced.

With Mo Yuan protecting his sister, he could finally rest easy.

At the same time, Lapis had become even more interested in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

Whatever the reason,

there was no doubt that Mo Yuan and Lazuli had grown stronger.

So the Hyperbolic Time Chamber must hold extraordinary power.

Lapis couldn't wait to go inside.

After a year, he would definitely be even stronger.

Maybe he could even beat the two of them with ease.

After all, he'd been stronger than them before.

If they all trained for a year, wasn't it only natural that he'd be stronger?

Hehehe~~~

Lost in his fantasies, Lapis wore a strange smile.

Nearby, Lazuli saw her little brother staring at the Hyperbolic Time Chamber with a peculiar look on his face.

Knowing her brother, Lazuli figured he definitely wasn't thinking about anything good.

So she said to Mo Yuan, "I think something's up with him. He looks like he really needs a beating!"

"Mm." Mo Yuan nodded in agreement.

Then he made a suggestion. "How about... we beat him up again?"

→_→←_← They exchanged a knowing look. They were definitely on the same page!

Just as Mo Yuan and Lazuli were rubbing their hands together, ready to get started,

Lapis suddenly felt a chill down his back and shivered.

Then he saw his sister and her sweetheart staring at him with unfriendly expressions.

"Y-you two... what are you going to do?"

A vague sense of danger made him take half a step back.

"What were you scheming just now? Hmm?"

Lazuli's casual tone made Lapis feel intensely uneasy.

It wasn't the pressure of a stronger fighter, but the oppressive force of his big sister's bloodline.

"I-I wasn't... I wasn't thinking about anything."

"Heh. Weren't you just thinking that after training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, you'd be able to beat the two of us?"

"How did you know?!"

When Lazuli revealed what he'd been thinking, Lapis couldn't keep it together.

Lazuli curled her lips into a faint smile and looked at him teasingly. "Now I know."

"What?? You... you..."

Lapis felt a storm of conflicting emotions. He pointed at Lazuli with a trembling finger, unable to say a word.

I can't believe even someone as clever as me got tricked.

Is this what it means to be too talented for your own good?

Why did Heaven create me, only to create Lazuli too?

Mo Yuan and Lazuli folded their arms and watched coldly.

After a long while,

Lapis gave up and lowered his arm. He closed his eyes and stopped resisting.

His feelings churned, until they finally condensed into a single sentence.

"Just don't hit my face..."

Lazuli and Mo Yuan were happy to grant the last request of her little brother and his brother-in-law.

And so,

after a string of "Mm," "Ah," and "Oh" from Lapis,

everything returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.

That is, if you ignored Lapis's swollen body...

As his brother-in-law, Mo Yuan considerately healed Lapis again.

Lapis expressed his gratitude with gritted teeth.

After all their joking around, they had grown much closer.

Lapis was ready to enter the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and train.

Since only two people could enter the chamber at a time, Mo Yuan decided to go in with Lapis for a while.

He would teach him how to train and see whether he could sense Vitality and awaken the bloodline power of an Earthling.

As for Lazuli, she would stay outside with Android 16 for now.

Lazuli was already strong enough to beat anyone on Earth with ease.

Besides, Mo Yuan didn't need to spend a full year inside. He only had to teach Lapis how to train.

Once the two of them entered the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, Lapis couldn't wait to start training.

Mo Yuan explained the training method to him.

Lapis truly lived up to what the old-timer had said about his extraordinary potential.

After Mo Yuan explained it just once, he began training.

In just a few minutes, Mo Yuan sensed qi within him.

Lapis had sensed the qi inside his body. Now, he only needed to absorb qi from the world around him through training to increase his own.

More importantly, he also sensed a different kind of qi.

It was purer and more powerful.

Mo Yuan had already told him about it earlier. If nothing unexpected happened, this had to be Vitality.

Lapis could feel his body yearning for this Vitality.

Without hesitation,

Lapis immediately began absorbing the Vitality drifting through the air.

The Vitality around him responded to his pull, gathering at his side and flowing into his body in an orderly stream.

He absorbed the Vitality bit by bit, slowly nourishing his bloodline power.

Mo Yuan was a little surprised.

He knew Lapis had great potential,

but he hadn't expected it to be this great.

It was his first time training, yet he could already sense and absorb Vitality.

Of course, that might have been because there was so much Vitality in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

But it also proved that his potential really was extraordinary.

Speaking of the Vitality in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, there really was a lot of it.

Last time, Mo Yuan had drained nearly all the Vitality from the entire chamber, but after a while, it had appeared again.

Vitality recovered countless times faster there than it did outside.

As Lapis absorbed more and more, the Vitality around him began to thin out.

But he couldn't draw in the Vitality farther away.

Once he absorbed all the Vitality nearby, he would have to move to a new spot to keep absorbing it.

Seeing this, Mo Yuan acted without hesitation.

In an instant, his Mind's Eye enveloped the entire Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

He drew in all the Vitality at once.

It rushed toward them at incredible speed.

In no time, fierce winds swept through the Hyperbolic Time Chamber,

whipping up a storm of Vitality.

As he trained, Lapis sensed the Vitality around him, which had been sparse, growing plentiful again.

There was even more than there had been before he started training.

There was so much that it was almost an ocean of Vitality.

Lapis wasn't stupid. With such a drastic change around him, there was only one person who could have caused it: his brother-in-law, Mo Yuan.

After all, there was no one else here but the two of them.

Now that the problem with Vitality had been solved,

Lapis could train without any reservations.

He quickly cleared his mind, settled down, and continued training.