"Buzz buzz buzz...
Blood-red runes rose at Long Chen's fingertips, transforming into clusters of flames that surged into the rapidly growing Dragon Blood Heavenly Vein.
This was the method given to Long Chen by the Chaos Dragon Emperor Sect, and it was also the result of its own fantasy. Since Long Chen was not a dragon, his physical body was too small, and compared to a dragon's body spanning tens of thousands or even millions of li, it was simply incomparable.
The amount of dragon blood in Long Chen's body was limited; even if he burst his body, it wouldn't be enough to imprint the dragon bloodline runes.
The dragon clan's bloodline divine abilities are all powered by bloodline runes. Simple divine abilities often require hundreds of runes to be activated simultaneously.
If it were a high-level divine ability, it would require gathering tens of thousands of bloodline runes simultaneously, and that peerless divine ability required even more—so much so that even the Chaos Dragon Emperor himself couldn't calculate it.
Since Long Chen's physical body couldn't work, he could only rely on his dragon vein to enhance it, imprinting the dragon blood rune onto the vein, which would also allow him to master dragon divine powers.
However, this requires an extremely harsh condition: Long Chen must be able to comprehend the nature of these runes from within.
This difficulty was heaven-shattering. Even the Chaos Dragon Emperor was prepared for long-term instruction, hoping that after Long Chen mastered the most basic runes, he would first master the simplest divine abilities of the dragon clan.
However, Long Chen's astonishing comprehension even surprised him. The speed at which dragon blood imprinted runes was even faster than that of pure-blooded prodigies of the Imperial Dragon clan.
"Rumble rumble rumble ..."
The
dragon blood vein kept growing, runes imprinting endlessly. These runes clung to the dragon vein like scales, and as the runes increased, the veins began to roar and explode.
"Idiot, slow down. The condensation speed is too fast, the dragon vein can't handle it." Seeing that the Dragon Blood Heavenly Vein hadn't even had time to be digested, and Long Chen was still branding it relentlessly, the Chaos Dragon Emperor couldn't help but curse.
"How can you call me an idiot? I was clearly following your rhythm, but you gave me a rune, and I just imprinted one?" Long Chen said, looking aggrieved.
"You... "You've learned how to talk back, huh?" The Chaos Dragon Emperor shouted angrily.
"I wouldn't dare,"
Long Chen was speechless. What could he say? He could only admit defeat, but deep down, he still felt unconvinced.
The Chaos Dragon Emperor also seemed a bit embarrassed. This matter really couldn't be entirely Long Chen's fault. He threw out a large pile of runes, originally hoping that if Long Chen encountered some incomprehensible runes, it would be easier to explain to him.
As a result, when Long Chen encountered difficulties, the imprint speed would slow down. However, it hadn't expected Long Chen's comprehension ability to be so astonishing that the imprint speed was so fast that even the Heavenly Vein Dragon Qi couldn't withstand it.
The Chaos Dragon Emperor's tone softened slightly: "Although the sixth Heavenly Vein dragon energy is powerful, it cannot withstand so many dragon blood runes.
You don't need to worry. The reason I asked you to imprint the rune when you condensed the sixth heavenly vein is because the strength of the dragon vein at this moment can withstand the dragon blood rune.
The next Heavenly Vein will bear even more, and so on—enough for you to brand yourself.
Moreover, once all rune imprints are completed, they will automatically merge into different dragon veins, and from now on, there will be no distinction of strength among dragon veins."
Long Chen nodded. He had indeed been anxious before. Each of these Dragon Blood Runes was a treasure. This time, Long Chen had suffered a heavy defeat in a fierce battle against Hou Tianwu, Xue Yingfeng, Xiang Tu, and others, and was holding back a surge of anger.
Now that he had the chance to become stronger quickly, how could he remain calm? Of course, he desperately absorbed them. After all, every rune imprinted meant his strength grew stronger.
"Boom!"
Soon, the sixth dragon blood heavenly vein was fully formed. However, as the six veins lingered behind Long Chen, the original five veins' dragon energy began to coil toward the sixth.
Just as the Chaos Dragon Emperor said, the dragon blood runes on the other six Heavenly Vein dragon auras gradually transferred to the other vein dragon energies.
After being burdened with the dragon blood runes, the sixth heavenly vein felt much lighter, while the other five dragon energy veins became somewhat violent, seemingly still adapting to the dragon blood runes.
"Buzz"—
After
the sixth dragon vein was completed, Long Chen immediately began to form the seventh. The runes the Chaos Dragon Emperor gave Long Chen seemed endless, and Long Chen kept condensing them according to the Dragon Emperor's instructions.
Time flew by rapidly as Long Chen continuously condensed runes. Condensing runes carried the power of his bloodline, and when the dragon vein was complete, the power would automatically return to his body, forming a cycle.
But such a tedious process lasted a whole month. Even with Long Chen's willpower, he felt like he was going crazy.
Over the past month, Long Chen had condensed countless bloodline runes. Although the dragon blood power circulated endlessly, the consumption of soul power was already overwhelming.
However, when the nine dragon blood veins appeared behind Long Chen and he felt the endless dragon blood power surging within him, at that moment, he felt it was all worth it.
"Finally perfected, hahaha..." Long Chen was thrilled. He was now filled with strength, wishing he could find a master and have a great fight right now.
"Perfect? Thinking too much?" The Chaos Dragon Emperor said calmly.
"What do you mean?" Long Chen was taken aback.
"If you only inherited the divine abilities of the ordinary Imperial Dragon clan, then you are indeed perfected at this moment.
But what you inherited is mine, just like your Nine-Star Overlord Body Technique. Nine is not a perfect number." The Chaos Dragon Emperor said.
"Could it be that the Dragon Blood Heavenly Vein also has thirteen branches?" Long Chen was startled:
"But I feel the dragon vein's power is saturated and I can't condense a new one?"
"The reason you were able to condense the Dragon Blood Heavenly Vein so quickly is because of the Reverse Scale of the Imperial Dao. To put it plainly, all these opportunities were given to you by the Reverse Scale of the Imperial Dao.
Remember, it was given to you, and what comes next is something you have to snatch yourself." As he spoke, the Chaos Dragon Emperor's voice grew dark and solemn.
Long Chen looked toward the depths of the passage, where waves of fluctuations surged forth. He seemed to hear a powerful heartbeat, and at the same time, felt a suffocatingly terrifying pressure.
At that moment, he understood that when he chose to use the power of the Imperial Dao Reverse Scale to condense the dragon vein, everything was already decided.
He wanted to obtain the Reverse Scale of the Imperial Dao; only by obtaining it could his Dragon Blood Heavenly Vein truly be perfected.
And the Reverse Scale of the Imperial Dao also wanted him, perhaps because he possessed the primordial power of the Chaos Dragon Emperor, which it urgently needed.
Now, Long Chen had no way out; the Reverse Scale of the Imperial Dao and himself could only survive in this world.
"Did you sense it?" The Chaos Dragon Emperor said.
"I sensed it. It was an extremely cold, evil, and brutal will." Long ChenHe nodded in agreement.
"In fact, it's my inner demon."
The voice of the Chaos Dragon Emperor grew deep.
"What?"