"Sun Buxiao, what are you doing?"
Zi Yan asked as she gnawed on a lizard leg, watching Sun Buxiao roast something over a flame.
"I'm... refining dragon blood."
Sun Buxiao had collected all the Earth-Splitting Demon Lizard King's blood and placed it over his Netherworld Poison Flame, slowly roasting it.
"Refining dragon blood out of this thing?"
Zi Yan looked at the Earth-Splitting Demon Lizard King with no small amount of disdain.
??
Sure, this thing might have had a tiny sliver of dragon bloodline, but there was so ridiculously little that she could barely even sense it.
Refining dragon blood from this thing?
"I actually got the inspiration from my sister-in-law."
By sister-in-law, he meant Medusa. Nothing wrong with that.
Back then, Medusa had broken herself down to rebuild herself, burning her body with Green Lotus Core Flame to purify her bloodline. In the end, she had transformed into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, leaping from a Sixth-Rank Magical Beast to one with ninth-rank potential. That proved this path was viable.
Besides, what Sun Buxiao was doing now wasn't anything as sophisticated as evolving a bloodline. He was merely extracting that tiny trace of dragon blood from all the rest.
As the Netherworld Poison Flame roasted it, the enormous quantity of blood kept evaporating, until all that remained was...
One drop.
"...How about I just cut myself and give you some blood?"
Looking at that single drop of pure dragon blood, Zi Yan's entire face went blank with speechlessness.
She'd thought he'd roast out a decent amount... She'd bled more than this the last time she chipped a tooth chewing on a magic core.
"Sure. Here, fill this pot first. I'll make a spicy blood stew."
From somewhere, Sun Buxiao produced an enormous pot with a radius of five