Chapter 868 - Bloodline Awakening
Leon silently engraved the Black Turtle God Beast's favor in his heart before he went ahead and collected the blood essence oozing out of the gap in the ground.
Not long after, he teleported back to the western region.
"Welcome back, my Lord," Shadowtail greeted.
Behind the Peak-rank Arch Demon-level Dark Wyrm, a whole row of other Arch Demon-level Dark Wyrms lined up orderly with glints of excitement and anticipation.
"Welcome back, my Lord!" the rest of the dark wyrms greeted with a resounding volume.
"Un," Leon acknowledged their greetings with a nod before saying, "Give me a moment. I have something to do first."
Shortly after saying that, Leon immediately pulled out the icebox containing the Tier-6 Divine Winterdew Grass and several other tier-4 to tier-5 spirits herbs as supplements for the Tier-6 Divine Returning Spring Pill.
With a flick of Leon's wrist, a tier-6 pill cauldron appeared; with another flick, Leon fired up the tier-6 pill cauldron for preheating.
As he waited for the pill cauldron to reach the adequate temperature, Leon mediated to stabilize his mind to peak conditions.
'In my past life, I've refined no more seven tier-6 divine pills after becoming a Tier-6 Divine Alchemist. Therefore, refining the Tier-6 Divine Returning Spring Pill will be a true test of my skills,' Leon mused.
Nevertheless, his alchemy foundation cannot be compared to the past, at least not when he has a wealth of alchemy knowledge from the Divine Book of Life to strengthen his foundation.
He was very confident in his pill refinement.
For the first step of his pill refinement, Leon dropped a block of ice in the cauldron and let it melt to boiling temperatures.
Shortly after completing that step, he extracted the essence of the supplementary herbs and introduced them into the boiling water, leaving the Tier-6 Divine Winterdew Grass for last.
'The main herb is of the water attribute, so I had to set the right condition before I can add the Tier-6 Divine Winterdew Grass's extract into the mix. Doing otherwise will lose a substantial portion of the extract's efficacy.'
Leon silently methodically followed the steps to the teeth.
Although he was confident, that was only the case if he followed the steps accordingly; he didn't dare play around with such a rare herb.
Half an hour later, Leon completed the pill refinement smoothly.
He lifted the pill cauldron lid before a wave of medicinal fragrance and hot air assaulted his senses; the medicinal fragrance, in particular, was quite intense.
This indicated that he had lost a large portion of the pills' efficacy.
"Six Mid-rank and three Low-rank Tier-6 Divine Returning Spring Pill, huh?" Leon muttered while staring at the nine blue pills inside the pill cauldron with a calm look.
He expected the outcome to be low due to his inexperience and low proficiency in refining tier-6 divine pills.
Nevertheless, the result still turned out better than his expectation, albeit slightly.
'The pills' efficacy might be on the lower end, but none of the medicinal extracts turned into dredges,' Leon mused.
After letting the nine divine pills cool down, he prepared a special pill bottle of ice to store them before putting everything away in his Worldspace.
"Alright, I'm done here," Leon uttered before he turned his head to the dark wyrms and asked, "So, who wants their blood refinement first?"
Shortly after Leon raised the question, the dark wyrms immediately retreated several paces, leaving Shadowtail in front as the sole candidate for the first blood refinement.
The dark wyrms had no intention of competing with their current clan leader for the first time.
"I guess you're first, Shadowtail," Leon glanced at the giant Peak-rank Arch Demon-level Dark Wyrm and nodded. "You remember what you need to do, right?"
"Yes, my Lord!" Shadowtail responded with excitement.
The Peak-rank Arch Demon-level Dark Wyrm bit its tongue and unloaded gallons of blood essences before Leon caught it all with his divine will and held it in midair, not letting a single drop touch reach the ground.
Shortly after, Leon revolved vigorous crimson blood pool in the air, indicating the official start of his blood refinement with the Everlasting Blood Mantra technique.
As Leon refined the blood pool, he could sense the content in the blood pool was richer with True Dragon Blood Essences than last time.
Without a doubt, it was thanks to the increase in True Dragon Origin Blood.
Even so, Dark Wyrm Blood Essence comprised most of the blood pool.
'Shadowtail is still far from transforming all the Dark Wyrm Blood Essence in his body into True Dragon Blood Essence with the True Dragon Origin Blood, huh?'
'However, given his present strength, I doubt a complete transformation is needed for Shadowtail's bloodline awakening…'
The True Dragon Blood Essence was barely a tenth of the blood pool, which indicates the ratio of True Dragon Blood Essence in Shadowtail's body was, more or less, the same.
'Perhaps, two-tenth is enough for the first bloodline awakening?' Leon speculated.
Fifteen minutes later, he completely refined the blood pool into origin blood.
Most of the Dark Wyrm Blood Essence naturally turned into Dark Wyrm Origin Blood, with only a tiny portion becoming True Dragon Origin Blood.
On the other hand, nearly all True Dragon Blood Essence turned into True Dragon Origin Blood.
'It seems that each additional blood refinement will have an exponential effect,' Leon mused.
He infused all the True Dragon Origin Blood back into Shadowtail's bloodstream before keeping all the Dark Wyrm Origin Blood for himself.
"Thank you, my Lord!" Shadowtail said sincerely.
"Alright, off you go," Leon shooed away the Peak-rank Arch Demon-level Dark Wyrm before turning to look at the other dark wyrms. "Who's next?"
"I'm next, my Lord," Nightingale immediately shuffled forward from the crowd.
Her strength might be slightly lower than Shadowtail, but she was also a Peak-rank Arch Demon-level Dark Wyrm.
Leon acknowledged with a nod.
…
As Leon spent the next twelve hours refining origin blood for the Arch Demon-level Dark Wyrms and a select few Peak-rank Greater Demon-level Dark Wyrms, Shadowtail's aura surged with towering ferocity.
In that instance, Leon's eyes flickered with expectations.
'Shadowtail must be undergoing his bloodline awakening!' Leon quickly determined after shifting his gaze to Shadowtail's location.