Chương 173: War God — Chapter 173 - The Bloodline Power of Eastern Sakura

Alien Beast Bloodlines. Not the offspring or descendants of alien beasts. Rather, modern martial artists who, after awakening their talent, find that in certain ancient family lines the martial talent causes bloodline powers, long since dormant and inactive — to slowly reawaken. In short, these martial artists have ancestors from ancient times who produced powerful warriors. Those powerful warriors weren't satisfied with their own strength.

They hunted certain powerful ancient beasts, using secret methods to absorb the blood of those ancient beasts, gradually transforming themselves. The most famous example is the bloodline secret arts of the Northern Bear Empire. It's said that through bloodline power, one can temporarily transform directly into a terrifying creature resembling an alien beast.

At the same time, through martial talent, one can unlock gene locks, deeply activate the latent power within the bloodline, inherit various martial powers, and stack them. Their strength surges explosively. Foreign martial systems still follow the rules of the Nine Realms, but they're quite different from those of Dragon Nation. For example, Martial Secret Skills are unique to Dragon Nation.

While foreign bloodline secret arts, spirit-calling secret techniques, and so on are all similar pathways for improving martial secret skills and various martial arts. But those kinds of secret arts and secret techniques aren't something just any foreign martial artist can cultivate. What's required is "true-spirit blood." Meaning your ancestors must have possessed this bloodline. A kind of alternative "bloodline theory" within the martial path.

But in modern times, the bloodline power of martial artists with these special lineages has gradually thinned, and those who can cultivate such secret arts and techniques are now very few. Unless one uses certain special methods to slowly activate it... In the later era, many ancient martial families abroad attempted to use alien beast blood to activate or even purify their own bloodline power. And thus, it gradually came to be called "alien beast bloodlines."

However, even in the later era, that method was extremely dangerous. Of those who attempted it, not one in 10 survived. Even worse, a single careless mistake could trigger large-scale "beastification" phenomena, causing widespread urban casualties. Wang Xian remembered several such "beastification catastrophes" occurring abroad.

Beastification catastrophes happen when martial artists using alien beast blood to activate and purify their bloodline power undergo mutation, transforming into beasts and becoming unable to control their bloodline power to change back. Over time, they slowly lose their humanity. Under the influence of the alien beast blood, their bestial nature surges. You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. And it evolves into disaster. This is even more troublesome than Beast Cancer.

Beast Cancer is, after all, a gradual process of change. Most martial artists infected with Beast Cancer still retain some rationality. They can also be controlled. These two absorbed a large amount of stellar marrow essence liquid, and it suddenly activated the true-spirit blood within them. Too hasty. Wang Xian merely glanced at them. Chiba Ryusaki's originally black hair was slowly turning blood-red, his clothing splitting and tearing, revealing muscular arms.

On his arms, various scalp-numbing black demonic patterns crawled across the skin. This is... the bloodline power of the Eastern Sakura ancient beast, the Chiba Giant Toad. At this moment, several staff members beside the two immediately used various instruments to test their life force, wanting to probe the specific situation. The remaining few, like Chu Xiao and the others, immediately ran outside, intending to call for medical personnel to come down.

Within the range of the stellar marrow pool, the energy field was too powerful. Many commonly used communication devices didn't work. Otherwise, there wouldn't always be staff members watching over this area. Wang Xian looked toward the white-haired girl on the other side. The anomalies on the white-haired girl's body were different from Chiba Ryusaki's. Her white hair was turning pale pink, and pale red demonic patterns appeared on her arms.

Even fine fuzz emerged, and her originally petite ears were slightly enlarging, carrying a hint of beast-ear flavor. These two are siblings, yet their true-spirit blood is different. This Chiba Reisakura's true-spirit blood is the Eastern Sakura ancient beast, the Shinki Celestial Fox... in later generations, this bloodline power had already gone extinct in Eastern Sakura. Wang Xian was slightly surprised.

In the later era, Eastern Sakura produced quite a few Martial Gods who possessed bloodline power, making it a nation with considerable combat strength on the alien battlefields. Unfortunately, because bloodline power gradually went extinct, after the "Lamenting Cataclysm" struck, there was no time to unite with the other surrounding nations. With the Martial Gods dying on the alien battlefields, it was the first to be swallowed by the cataclysm.

The Dragon Nation Martial Gods who later rushed to Eastern Sakura for rescue arrived too late. When the lips are gone, the teeth grow cold. Without Eastern Sakura as the barrier for Dragon Nation's eastern coast, Dragon Nation's coastal regions were soon swallowed by the cataclysm as well. It was roughly around that point in time. During the great eastern evacuation period of Dragon Nation, many people didn't have time to retreat and died in the cataclysm.

Wang Xian remembered that it was also at that time, when he went alone to rescue a major coastal city already nearly swallowed by the cataclysm, the city where Chen Yuting had not yet managed to evacuate, that the final scene occurred. Wang Xian pondered for a moment, then said to the staff member nearby, "These two have absorbed too much stellar marrow essence liquid. Now a portion needs to be drawn back out. Once it's drawn out, the follow-up medical personnel will be able to rescue them..."

Once true-spirit blood is activated, if they cannot endure it themselves and beastification anomalies appear, then they must be brought under control at the very first moment. These two came to Dragon Nation to train. Even if they hadn't fully reported this rather special bloodline power, as Dragon Nation's military department, Wang Xian believed this side wouldn't be completely ignorant of true-spirit blood.

"The stellar marrow essence liquid has likely already permeated into their bodies," one staff member said in a deep voice.

"It won't be easy to handle in a short time."

"I have a method." Wang Xian looked at the group.

"You?" The several staff members were stunned.

"I can absorb a portion of the stellar marrow essence liquid from their bodies. Do you have any Nine Nether Dark Worm molt material here?" Wang Xian asked. One staff member walked to the side and looked up some data, nodding slightly.

"We do, but only a tiny amount. Why are you asking about such an obscure material?" It was indeed obscure. Nine Nether Dark Worm molts can gather spirit malevolence, and aren't considered a good material.

"Give me a little, let me try." Wang Xian glanced at the two of them.

"Otherwise, it will be very hard to save these two. You've also seen it, right? It's because their true-spirit blood has been activated. Right now they definitely can't control themselves. Once beastification completes, they will inevitably lose control. Either we restrain them and send them back to Eastern Sakura, but even then, these two will certainly die upon returning. But if we can't control it, it will inevitably cause unnecessary casualties on this island.

Look, the beastification characteristics on their bodies, once they spread to the brain." Wang Xian pointed at the two's heads.

"That means complete loss of control. Time is pressing." The several researchers nodded slightly, and one of them walked out. After a moment, he returned carrying a box.

"Inside here are the Nine Nether Worm molts. Very few martial artists ever collect these, and since this kind of alien beast is also extremely rare, we only have a little here." ➤ Next: If You Want to Thank Someone, Thank That Wang Xian