"Ten-thousand-year Dragon Blood Grass?"
Zeng Tian instinctively accepted the blood-red herb Di Tian handed him.
Although he did not know exactly what this ten-thousand-year Dragon Blood Grass did, the fact that Di Tian had brought it out meant that, in Di Tian's eyes, it would be useful to him.
Yet after hearing Di Tian's words, Miss Auspicious Beast curled her lips in displeasure and could not help complaining:
"Just one stalk of ten-thousand-year Dragon Blood Grass? Di Tian, aren't you being a little stingy? He's my new underling, after all. For my sake, you should at least give him eight or ten!"
Dragon Blood Grass was an herb that could only grow where a Giant Dragon had fallen, bathed in its blood.
Creatures without a Dragonkind bloodline had a chance of acquiring one after eating it.
Creatures that already possessed a Dragonkind bloodline had a chance of awakening their own bloodline after eating it.
For Soul Beasts with weak bloodlines, it was a priceless treasure.
Under normal circumstances, even thousand-year Dragon Blood Grass was exceedingly rare. If it appeared in the human world, it could fetch hundreds of thousands or even millions of Gold Soul Coins at auction.
As for ten-thousand-year Dragon Blood Grass, that was the stuff of legends.
To Di Tian, however, such things amounted to little.
He had lived through long ages. If he wished to cultivate it, a mere ten thousand years was no more than the flick of a finger to him.
Hearing the Auspicious Beast complain like a mother shielding her young, Di Tian smiled helplessly. "You little rascal. Well, luckily, I still have a ten-thousand-year dragon scale fruit. It's of little use sitting around anyway, so I'll give it to this little fellow as well."
With that, Di Tian reached out and tore open the void again, taking a purple, oval fruit from the Black Space Portal. Faint patterns of golden scales shimmered across its surface.
Dragon scale fruit could likewise strengthen a Dragon-type bloodline, and its effects were no weaker than those of Dragon Blood Grass.
"And this Lake of Life-you can soak in it from time to time, little fellow. I can see plenty of hidden injuries in your body. If you don't deal with them properly, they may become obstacles to your future growth."
After handing the dragon scale fruit to Zeng Tian, Di Tian vanished in a flash and plunged back into the Lake of Life.
"Tch, he certainly ran off quickly."
After Di Tian left, Miss Auspicious Beast curled her lips. Were her words worth only one ten-thousand-year dragon scale fruit?
Then Miss Auspicious Beast turned to Zeng Tian, her eyes full of curiosity. "Zeng Tian, how come I never noticed you had a Dragon-type bloodline?"
"Uh... maybe it's too thin?"
As he said this, the corner of Zeng Tian's mouth twitched. Who knew what GF had been thinking when they designed him? He was clearly called Charizard, yet he did not even have the Dragon type.
For Charizard to acquire the Dragon type, he had to undergo Mega Evolution into Mega Charizard X. Only then would he truly possess it.
"Actually, there's nothing strange about that..."
At that moment, the Scarlet King approached and explained, "Dragons are lustful by nature. Many of them enjoy sowing their seed everywhere, and Dragon-type bloodlines are exceptionally powerful. That's why most Soul Beasts nowadays have at least a little Dragon-type blood in them."
There was one thing the Scarlet King left unsaid: he, too, possessed some Pureblood True Dragon blood.
If he did not mention it, who could tell that a fellow who looked part lion and part dog possessed a Pureblood True Dragon bloodline?
"All right, Zeng Tian, go soak in the Lake of Life. It'll bring your body into peak condition. Eating the ten-thousand-year Dragon Blood Grass and ten-thousand-year dragon scale fruit afterward will give you better results.
"I'm very curious. You're already this strong without having awakened your Dragonkind bloodline. If you successfully awaken it, just how much stronger will you become?"
Hearing this, Zeng Tian nodded, walked to the edge of the Lake of Life, and jumped in.
As Zeng Tian's entire body sank into the Lake of Life, streams of dense life energy surged into him like mad. Far from being affected by the lake water, the flame on his tail burned even more fiercely.
I never imagined my body had so many tiny hidden injuries. Di Tian wasn't lying.
Sensing the life energy repairing injuries throughout his body that were normally impossible to see, Zeng Tian felt a chill of alarm.
Previously, he had focused solely on training like mad and raising his level. He had never imagined that his body would accumulate so many hidden injuries in just a few months.
They showed no obvious effects now, but once they accumulated to a certain degree, they would inevitably affect his body and might even hinder his progress.
No wonder wild Pokémon usually struggled to reach their final evolutionary forms. Aside from a lack of resources, these old hidden injuries might also be one of the main reasons.
Whenever a trainer's Pokémon suffered even a minor injury, the trainer would take it straight to a Pokémon Center soon afterward. Wild Pokémon never enjoyed that kind of treatment.
A quarter of an hour later, Zeng Tian jumped out of the Lake of Life.
It really lives up to its reputation as one of the Douluo World's finest treasure grounds. With the Lake of Life backing me up, I'll never have to fear getting injured during training or battles again.
Now, not only had all of Zeng Tian's hidden injuries vanished, but he also felt incredibly comfortable. He even felt that his body had never been this healthy in his entire life.
The moment she saw Zeng Tian emerge from the Lake of Life, Miss Auspicious Beast hurried over to him and urged anxiously, "Zeng Tian, hurry up and eat those two herbs! I want to see what you'll look like after awakening your Dragon-type bloodline."
"All right."
Zeng Tian nodded. There probably was no safer place in the entire Star Dou Great Forest.
Besides, Zeng Tian was also curious whether these herbs from the Douluo Continent could actually give him a Dragon-type bloodline.
"I suggest eating the dragon scale fruit first. It's a little gentler than Dragon Blood Grass."
The Scarlet King offered this reminder.
Zeng Tian did as instructed, picking up the purple ten-thousand-year dragon scale fruit, bringing it to his mouth, and swallowing it in one gulp.
The skin of the ten-thousand-year dragon scale fruit immediately burst, sending juice splashing through his mouth.
Zeng Tian's face changed at once, his expression twisting into a grimace.
"Scarlet King, nothing bad will happen to Zeng Tian, will it?"
Seeing the change in Zeng Tian's expression, Miss Auspicious Beast immediately grew flustered and looked up at the Scarlet King to ask.
Although they had only spent a few hours together, she already considered Zeng Tian her friend. Naturally, seeing her friend like this made her anxious.
The Scarlet King smiled and shook his head. "Don't worry, Auspicious Beast. The effects of dragon scale fruit might be hard for other Soul Beasts to endure, but to Zeng Tian, they're nothing at all.
"As for why he looks like that, I'd guess it's simply because dragon scale fruit tastes so terrible."
The Scarlet King had eaten dragon scale fruit himself, and its awful taste remained vivid in his memory.
"Oh, so that's it."
Hearing this, Miss Auspicious Beast gradually relaxed.
She had never eaten dragon scale fruit, nor did she need to. She already possessed an exceptionally potent Golden Dragon Bloodline, so most herbs that strengthened Dragonkind bloodlines were useless to her-even ten-thousand-year dragon scale fruit.
Perhaps only a hundred-thousand-year dragon scale fruit could offer her current bloodline a chance to advance further.