Chapter 705: Dragon Bloodline Rises Dramatically
Ice Sculpture Kingdom, a plain mountain range on the outskirts.
Inside a cave, within a divine domain, the dragonman youngster was currently using the Bloodcore.
A familiar scene played out as the Bloodcore’s light enveloped a white dragon talon.
Very quickly, the gold level white dragon talon turned to ash, and the Bloodcore’s blood light returned, increasing the dragonman youngster’s White Dragon bloodline by a bit.
The dragonman youngster experiencing this sighed to himself.
The Bloodcore only absorbed a gold level target, not increasing the bloodline by much. Most of the dragonman youngster’s bloodline had come from Mystifying Monster Island – the legend level Flame Dragon King bloodline.
He always wanted to collect dragon bloodlines and strengthen this aspect.
During his experience away from the corps, he had obtained a massive investment from Charming Blue Goddess, his Surging Wave fishman bloodline had emerged as a new force to be reckoned with, surpassing his dragon race bloodline and moved up as the top bloodline.
“Without divine blessings, I would have to collect bloodlines myself, it’s quite exhausting.”
“Perhaps I can do some blasphemous prayers to the Dragon God to receive his divine gifts?”
The dragonman youngster tossed his head, suppressing this notion.
At present, he didn’t want to do that.
It was too risky.
The hidden danger of Charming Blue Goddess hadn’t been dealt with yet; it was bound to be exposed in the future. Furthermore, the current circumstances made it untenable for blasphemous prayers.
“If I can obtain the Dueling Godhead, I will be classified as a high-end power, and perhaps I will have a higher assurance of blasphemous prayers.”
“Currently, the group has plenty of money and collecting dragon bloodlines is easier than ever.”
“Don’t rashly take risks. Although the earnings are immense for the risk, if I do it more, I will eventually die for it.”
The dragonman youngster criticized himself, finding his ego was somewhat inflated.
There was nothing that could be done, the treatment in the Ocean Mother Nest was excellent and Charming Blue Goddess personally looked after him. Now that it was his turn to work hard, there was an obvious gap in propriety.
The dragonman youngster promptly adjusted his mindset.
The dragon bloodlines still needed to be collected vigorously.
Because publicly, he was Long Fu who relied on the massive augments his dragon bloodline provided.
Since he was vying for Dueling Godhead, he had to battle foes and the safest way to do so was to use his dragonman identity.
Of course he could use his fishman form, then cover himself in a few Charming Blue divine spells, but doing that was very dangerous. If he came across something similar to the Truth Slate, there was a chance he’d be exposed.
Especially during the later stages of the National Ceremony, each duel was public. Don’t speak of the many spectators, there was Ice Sculpture Kingdom leadership watching these, along with many powerful figures not native to the Ice Sculpture Island.
If a slip up appeared, the dragonman youngster would ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basket.
Conversely, if he used the dragon bloodlines and just the Bloodcore’s abilities, the dragonman youngster would be extremely difficult to see through. Because his life form manifestation was just as it appeared, there was no need to disguise his appearance or form.
Right now, the dragonman youngster collected dragon bloodlines in mainly two ways.
The first was through Snow Bird Harbor City Lord’s channels, where he could get hold of some pure dragon race contraband.
The second was from buying many wyverns on the market. Wyverns had scant dragon bloodlines in them, but so long as the quantity piled up, it was a considerable amount.
The first channel didn’t provide a lot and was risky, but the main risk was assumed by Snow Bird Harbor City Lord.
The second channel had low quality but basically no risks.
The second channel was the main avenue.
The main thing was that there were many wyverns on the market at a cheap price.
This was mainly because the Ice Sculpture Kingdom had a considerable white dragon community living in it. Dragons had a lascivious nature, and the white dragon community made many wyverns all year long. Wyverns usually had a high reproduction rate, to the extent that the Ice Sculpture Kingdom had to organize large hunting events at regular intervals to clean out the wyverns to prevent them from running rampant.
The dragonman youngster wasn’t just absorbing a white dragon talon.
Since he left till now, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had been actively buying wyvern materials.
This purchasing had been so vigorous to the extent that when Tripleblade was nervous about finances, he wanted to cancel these purchases to alleviate the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ financial pressure.
When the dragonman youngster returned, the wyvern materials had become a small mountain.
Totally absorbed!
This was the benefit of having personnel and capital.
If he were by himself, doing this would be rather troublesome, take a great deal of time and effort, and would be done very inefficiently.
Nowadays, the number of dragon bloodlines in the Bloodcore has increased dramatically!
The Dragon Saliva bloodline, 18.3% - dragons with this bloodline often had stronger dragon breaths. The distinctive feature was that it was easy to drool while sleeping.
Dragon Talon Inheritance bloodline, 9.6% - dragon talons would become sharper and tougher. This bloodline’s heredity probability was very high, so long as one of the dragon race parents had it, their descendants would almost certainly have indicators of it.
Frost Hair bloodline, 21.5% - a wyvern’s fur seemed to be covered in a layer of white frost, it is not only capable of keeping it warm, but also able to absorb and store external ice elements and during times of crisis, cause death or injury.
Dragon Wing Dynasty bloodline, 2.7% - a dragon or wyvern with this bloodline will possess expansive dragon wings and have strong flying capabilities.
Ice Triangle bloodline, 33.7% - wyverns with this bloodline have formidable horns on their head, usually three of them. The dragon horns are incomparably hard and are mighty when used to ram something. At 70% bloodline concentration, natural runes will appear on the horns that possess constant ice magic (the specific spell depends on the dragon).
Cold Moon Tracker bloodline, 41.6% - one can easily hunt in the most biting cold environments, their silent footprints vanish in the snow and can fatally ambush enemies.
Second Ice Heart bloodline, 68.8% - this bloodline is the most commonly seen bloodline in wyverns. When bloodline concentration reaches 50%, it can form a second heart. This heart is similar to an Ice Heart and completely follows the composition of an ice crystal. It is entirely transparent, and when blood flows through it, it can clearly be seen from the outside.
Dragon Pack Heart bloodline, 24.9% - wyvern beast kings usually have this bloodline and have natural leadership with other wyverns.
The Cold Flesh bloodline, the Cold Wind bloodline, the Glacier Tusk bloodline, the Winter Tail bloodline, the Cold Wing bloodline…
The dragonman youngster’s foundation rose dramatically.
Due to the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s ecosystem, the wyverns thriving here that were collected had two big traits: one dragon race trait and one ice trait.
“A bit inconvenient, my outside appearance is that of the Flame Dragon King, orange yellow dragon eyes, red dragon scales, so many bloodlines cannot be brazenly used.”
“However, they are still very useful.”
For example, the Dragon Saliva bloodline was a common bloodline. The dragonman youngster could secretly use it to increase the power of his dragon breath.
Another was the Second Ice Heart bloodline, when the dragonman youngster secretly used it, nothing could be discerned from the surface as a second heart formed inside his body and increased his ice resistance massively. If the concentration was higher, then he would gain a racial magic.
The Cold Flesh bloodline could be used in the same way.
But the Ice Triangle and the Dragon Wing Dynasty bloodlines were unusable. These two bloodlines would severely change the dragonman youngster’s form, provoking all kinds of suspicions.
The lower the concentration, then more precious the bloodline.
This was obvious with the Dragon Wing Dynasty bloodline. It was only 2.7%.
The ability to fly is an immense advantage. The bloodline has to reach 10% to gain a flying racial magic.
Historically on the Main Plane, the most glorious period of the dragon race’s hegemon era was known as the Dragon Wing Dynasty. At the time, it was purported that the wing shadows of dragon flocks could cover the continents and oceans.
As for now, the dragon race was rare, and the dragonman youngster could only glimpse at the divine might the dragon race had in ancient times from these bloodlines.
The dragonman youngster tested all of the dragon bloodlines once through, gaining usage experience and also producing all kinds of new notions.
“Unfortunately, Charming Blue Goddess has few believers with dragon bloodlines.”
“Otherwise, I’d be able to get all kinds of useful experience from divine blessings.”
“Perhaps I ought to have ‘faith’ in a dragon god?”
The dragonman youngster began to watch magic images.
The information in these images were records of past duelists fighting, training ground recordings, and other duelist related materials.
None were of silver levels, all were gold.
Upon returning, since the dragonman youngster wanted to go for the Dueling Godhead, the dragonman youngster naturally had to know himself and his enemies.
After watching for a while, the dragonman youngster had a deeper understanding of the National Ceremony Grand Duel.
“No saint level has participated in these duels.”
“Gold levels are the protagonists of the later duels, while silver levels are a level below them.”
“The experts participating in the duels are mostly Ice Sculpture Kingdom natives, but there is a minority of outsiders coming on account of its reputation.”
The dragonman youngster saw many gold level duelists, each of them had their own skills that were quite striking, and some would be very troublesome for him to deal with.
“The dragonman form is unlike the fishman form, and in public, if I don’t risk using a deception divine spell to mask myself, I can only use battle qi to fight,.”
Long Fu externally claimed to be a fighter that revealed a few racial magics.
Bing Yang’s Frost Aura had solved a big problem for the dragonman youngster, it was an acceptable explanation for the masses as to how a silver level suddenly became a gold level.
But this rational explanation would not help the dragonman youngster convince others when he told them: “I am not just a gold level; I am also an experienced caster and clergyman.”
Under the dragonman form, the young man’s combat strength was constrained, and couldn’t be fully displayed.
Using this form to duel, he would face a small number of gold levels that would be challenging.
“There is also that Long Meng, he is really strong!”
The dragonman youngster saw some of Long Meng’s duels, it shook his heart.
Each time Long Meng dueled, he held an enormous advantage and could efficiently resolve any battle without fooling around.
“He is absolutely not using his full strength!”
“With just a fraction of his power, he is able to dominate massively. His combat strength advantage is considerable, his combat tactics are implemented flawlessly, his mood is steady and stable, and he has no weaknesses or vulnerabilities.”
“It’s no wonder he is the most popular person in the National Ceremony Grand Duel!”
The dragonman youngster was unable to estimate Long Meng’s limits.
This feeling was like when he used the fishman form to deal with Snow Bird Harbor City Lord and Tan Mo.
“If I use my fishman form, can I fight against Long Meng?” The dragonman youngster’s countenance was heavy.
He couldn’t calculate it.
Everything needed to wait until he personally traded blows to have a result.
Because key information was too scarce.
“Therefore, with regards to the entire mercenary corps, information is an immense weakness that needs to be complemented.”
The dragonman youngster thought of Zi Di’s situation when she met with danger inside the Wisteria store, she had been scared into a cold sweat. Recalling it now, she still had lingering fears about it.
Information gathering was lacking, and the survivors needed to develop an information organization, this was a consensus Zi Di and Zong Ge had come to earlier.
Now, the dragonman youngster endorsed it greatly.
“Information is very important.”
“Putting the rest aside, let me size up what’s in front of me. If I had formidable information gathering, I could scout out the strengths and weaknesses of gold level opponents, thereby focusing my guard.”
“Some gold level duelists, especially outsiders, often have some original skills that can win from a position of weakness and make a comeback from adversity.”
These skills were also a threat to the dragonman youngster.
When Zi Di was returning from the capital, the dragonman youngster was practicing battle skills.
After being promoted to a gold level fighter, the dragonman youngster always lacked time to practice.
The identity of Long Fu mainly still had to use battle skills. His prior suite of battle skills was reasonable, but they were silver level, and at the gold level, they needed to be supplemented.
The brunt of the burden was long ranged battle skills.
Gold level battle qi could condense outside the body, thus at this stage, a gold level fighter’s attack range rapidly expanded, and battle skills had all sorts of effects.
The dragonman youngster chose the Dragon Talon Strike battle skill as his main long ranged battle skill.
Then the important thing – a flying battle skill.
To the masses, flying battle skills were rare, but to the dragonman youngster, he was spoiled for choice.
Thank you again War Merchant!
The tower spirit’s database had many flying battle skills in it.
The dragonman youngster practiced his new battle skill a bit, then stopped after dipping into it.
“My progress is too immense; I can’t keep practicing.” The dragonman youngster sighed, worried at how fast he was improving.
Zi Di walked over, “The rumors we spread have gotten results already. This time, the Jing Xiang Clan has decided to send us an invitation letter.”
The dragonman youngster glanced at her, “The opportunity is ripe, transmit this message, the Jing Xiang Clan is bullying us around, and I Long Fu am unsatisfied, I want to challenge Mi Fang.”
The rumors merely gave the public an explanation. The dragonman youngster never thought about abandoning the Li Jian Clan to rely on the Jing Xiang Clan.
Cooperating with the Jing Xiang Clan still meant they were giving benefits to another party.
Why couldn’t he work on his own? Why couldn’t he alone enjoy the profits of the mount potions?
The dragonman youngster possessed peak gold level combat strength, had immense prestige, and could draw power from Charming Blue Goddess’ divine might.
The Li Jian Clan, an Ice Sculpture Kingdom top noble power, only had a gold level clan leader.
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps nowadays were qualified to take over the mount potion benefits!
Now the problem was other people didn’t believe the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps was qualified to hog all of the earnings.
Hehe.
The power revealed and painful beating that followed would wake them up and allow them to recognize who was strong and who was weak!
Negotiate with the Li Jian and the Jing Xiang Clans?
That would have to wait until after he defeated them.