"Dragon maidens..."
Xu Cheng ignored Shangguan Wei'er, who knelt trembling on the floor, and slowly rose. His gaze swept over three graceful figures, all dressed in pink dresses, with fair skin exposed at their necks. Farther down, however, dark red scales faintly showed beneath the fabric.
He pressed two fingers together and lightly rested them against his temple.
As his blood-red eyes slowly closed, a crimson hue spread through the surroundings.
An enormous blood eye seemed to appear overhead in the underground city, casting its gaze down upon the ground.
"..."
Several minutes later.
Only when he opened his eyes again did Xu Cheng casually wave at the stunned Shangguan Wei'er. "All right, have them leave."
"Yes!" Though astonished by this first display of Xu Cheng's strength, Shangguan Wei'er hurriedly recovered from her shock and ushered the dragon maidens out.
"Did you discover anything, Elder Yi?"
Xu Cheng asked inwardly.
"These dragon maidens are rather strange. After all, their bloodlines contain traces of dragon blood. In your world, anything that can incorporate dragon blood without dying is either a Soul Beast born with that bloodline or one that accidentally consumed some spiritual fruit containing dragon blood. But they all have one thing in common: they are Soul Beasts," Electrolux said thoughtfully.
"Humans cannot acquire a dragon bloodline. Even if your Martial Soul is a dragon, it will never contain a true dragon lineage. Yet because of their half-human, half-beast constitution, the dragon bloodlines within these dragon maidens have reached a certain critical point. It is so precise that they feel like artificially manufactured Soul Tools rather than something born naturally."
"..."
Xu Cheng nodded slightly.
The original novel had mentioned very little about these dragon maidens, merely touching on them in passing.
But Xu Cheng had always found them somewhat