Bloodline Spirit Patterns and Dragon Clan Arts

Azure Profound Realm, temporary residence.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged on the stone platform, the veins beneath the inner side of his left forearm faintly visible.

An extremely thin thread of spiritual power seeped beneath his skin from his fingertips, slowly advancing along the walls of his blood vessels. At its tip condensed the embryonic form of a miniature Spirit Pattern. The pattern's spiritual-power frequency had already been adjusted according to the method provided by the Flood Dragon clan, bringing it close to the resonance range of Flood Dragon blood essence.

The instant the Spirit Pattern touched the blood vessel wall, the blood essence flowing through his veins produced a repulsive reaction.

The repulsion was not intense, but it was enough to knock the embryonic Spirit Pattern away from the vessel wall. The Spirit Pattern's structure shattered under the impact, and fragments of spiritual power spread along the vessel wall, causing a faint backlash to the surrounding tissue.

The backlash was extremely weak.

It would be more accurate to say that Li Yuan's physical body was simply too formidable for it to have the slightest effect.

Li Yuan did not pause. He adjusted the Spirit Pattern's frequency and tried again.

Over the course of half a day, the failures accumulated to more than thirty attempts. Every failure came with a faint backlash, but none caused any substantial harm to Li Yuan's body. For an ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivator, more than thirty consecutive spiritual-power backlashes within the bloodline would have been enough to clog the meridians or even rupture blood vessels.

To Li Yuan's body, such backlash was no more than mosquito bites.

That meant he could carry out extensive systematic testing.

Li Yuan narrowed the scope of his tests to three types of Spirit Patterns: gathering, enhancement, and defense.

The tests