NIP Chapter 421 - 182: The 6 Clan Guardian Beasts!
Chapter 421 - 182: The 6 Clan Guardian Beasts!
"You, you, you..."
The Little Dragon Fish shook slightly in Shen Can’s palm, gazing at the massive facial features in astonishment.
"How have you transformed into human form? That’s not right!"
Shen Can ignored the Little Dragon Fish’s chattering and lifted its tail for a shake.
"Activate your blood energy; let me see your spinal dragon bones."
Seeing Shen Can’s solemn demeanor, the Little Dragon Fish restrained its aura and began to circulate its blood energy.
In a flash, Shen Can’s divine sense penetrated into the Little Dragon Fish’s body.
As the Little Dragon Fish stimulated its blood energy, the power of the dragon species blood was drawn out too.
From the head to the neck bones and then to the spine, the marrow sea within this string of bones was filled with the power of the dragon.
Especially in the middle three sections of the spine, the dragon power was most fiery, its golden marrow liquid glistening like amber.
Subtly and silently, it continually released dragon power, washing over the Little Dragon Fish’s entire body, causing its bloodline to gradually revert to the ancestral state.
Besides these three bone locations housing dragon power marrow liquid, other bones in the Little Dragon Fish also retained some dragon qi, but the amount was negligible.
After examining the Little Dragon Fish, Shen Can did not return to the Ancestral Temple but instead took the Little Dragon Fish over mountains and into a wetland.
They caught all the Water Beasts in the wetland and used several dragon-whiskered Dragon Species fish for comparison.
Compared to the Little Dragon Fish, these Dragon Species fish, though they developed dragon whiskers, did not have dragon qi in their spine, only normal Fish Race marrow liquid.
This indicates that these fish’s providence stops here, with no further possibility of transformation.
Not all Dragon Species fish lack dragon qi; some still retain a little, but the amount is minuscule and has little impact on their own transformation.
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After roaming outside with the Little Dragon Fish, Shen Can returned to examine the condition of the Little Cyan Simurgh Sparrow.
Within the major bones of the Little Cyan Simurgh, there also exists varying amounts of Cyan Simurgh Ancestral Blood aura.
The root of the Dragon Species Wild Beasts is the dragon.
The root of the Cyan Simurgh is the Cyan Simurgh.
Upon entering the River Valley Ancestral Temple, Shen Can tossed out the Little Dragon Fish and Little Sparrow, seated himself cross-legged, and began processing his thoughts.
Wild Beasts devour each other; if they can ingest a similar type of Wild Beast, they can turn the other’s ancestral blood into their own.
But devouring the same type is just one scenario; there’s another scenario, devouring alien species.
Refining the ancestral treasure blood of an alien species into a nutrient for their own ancestral treasure blood type.
The Little Dragon Fish and Little Sparrow have devoured his treasure blood several times, and his treasure blood possesses numerous Wild Beast pattern auras, each differing from the bloodlines of the two little ones.
Over the years, the dragon power within the Little Dragon Fish and the simurgh power within the Little Sparrow have grown increasingly dense.
This unequivocally suggests that the two little creatures have refined the exotic treasure blood into nourishment for their own bloodlines.
Wild Beasts can transform exotic bloodlines into nutrients for their own ancestral blood, so theoretically, the Human Race can do the same.
That night, Shen Can reopened the deduction process.
[After failing, you changed your approach. You felt blazing heat within the spine during your War Body transformation.
Using the Little Dragon Fish and Little Sparrow’s spinal ancestral blood as an example, hypothesize that if the War Body is refined, there would also be ’Ancestral Blood’ in the spine. The Ancestral Blood can devour all things as nourishment.]
[Three hundred years later, you transformed into a nondescript form; your ’Ancestral Blood’ couldn’t suppress the chaotic Wild Beast aura within you.]
[Unconvinced by failure, you tried again, this time without devouring so many types of Wild Beasts, instead choosing solely aquatic beasts, primarily Dragon Species Exotic Beasts.
After another three hundred years, you beastified into a bloated large black fish, with your spine bent into fish bones.]
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[You tried again and again, but could never suppress external beastification.]
[The hypothetical ’Ancestral Blood’ is not actual Ancestral Blood; humans and wild creatures are ultimately different.]
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[After repeated failure with the ’Ancestral Blood’ hypothesis, you used ’willpower’ as a condition to restart deduction.
Humans lacking strong willpower are often eroded by beastification, and clan members cultivating the War Body accumulated much data, corroborating this point.]
[You intended to use your steely will to suppress the War Body’s transformation. A hundred years later, you failed.]
[You found your iron content lacking.]
[Unfazed, you resumed deduction; this time, persisted for one hundred fifty years, but still couldn’t hold out, flesh torn apart, failing once more.]
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[Five hundred years later, the third failure.]
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[Four thousand seven hundred years, the ninth failure.]
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The day dawned.
"Whew!"
Shen Can rose, stretched lazily, and let out a long, relaxed breath.
The repeated failures in deduction didn’t dishearten him.
This time, the War Body transformed into seventy percent human-like form, bringing him many insights.
Relying on ancestral blood isn’t viable for the Human Race; humans don’t have ancestral blood.
Thus, it’s impossible to use inherent dragon power, like the Little Dragon Fish does, to continually devour and assimilate external forces.
Relying on willpower is challenging.
After all, the innate conditions of the Human Race are mediocre, subduing powerful wild beasts for personal use is not easy.
Though now Shen Can suppresses, deduction indicates that if he continues, trouble will arise.
Of course, since deduction revealed it, there’s a way to change this situation.
Willpower can be honed, strength can be enhanced; as beastification intensifies, his realm also elevates.
Days later, within the river valley emerged a Beast Division.
The Beast Division’s purpose is to study the bloodline transformation of wild beasts, starting from the Little Dragon Fish and Little Cyan Simurgh, to capture some ordinary Tier Two, Tier Three Wild Beasts as experimental subjects.
The main experiment involves comparing ordinary Wild Beasts after devouring different treasure bloods and the direction of their own transformation.