Chapter 37: Bloodline AwakeningIn the afternoon, Ye Feng brought Jin Ling into the cultivation room.Ye Feng wore a stern expression, and although Jin Ling did not know what they were going to do, seeing his serious expression, she obviously knew the gravity of the situation.Her small face was tense, her back straight, as she sat in the middle of the cultivation room."Ling'er, we are going to try condensing a natal spirit ring next. I have a hunch that this will completely transform you."Jin Ling, who had been completely solemn a second ago, instantly broke character and asked doubtfully:"Master, isn't it only possible to obtain a spirit ring at rank ten spirit power? Besides, can spirit rings even be condensed?""That is indeed the case for most Spirit Masters in the Spirit Master's world, but your master here has cracked the mystery of the spirit ring and successfully researched a method to self-condense spirit rings."Without hiding anything at all, Ye Feng proudly displayed his spirit rings.Black, black, black, black, black.A uniform set of ten-thousand-year spirit rings caused Jin Ling's mouth to open slightly, clearly stunned by this terrifying spirit ring configuration.Without waiting for Jin Ling to recover her senses, Ye Feng continued answering her question."Self-condensed spirit rings can break through their age limits as one's cultivation increases.""My five ten-thousand-year spirit rings were initially nothing more than white ten-year spirit rings.""Ordinary Spirit Masters indeed need to reach rank ten spirit power to absorb a spirit ring.""But you are different. I have probed your body, and your degree of beastification is extremely high. Your internal meridians are closer to a Spirit Beast's than a human's.""Ling'er, I suppose your parents both had ordinary lion or canine Spirits, right?"Recovering from her shock and hearing Ye Feng's question, Jin Ling reminisced for a moment and replied:"That's right. I remember Grandma saying that my father's Spirit was a lion, and my mother's Spirit was a canine."Ye Feng's lips curled up slightly as he nodded and said:"The Douluo Continent has never had a Spirit Master with the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff Spirit. If there were, they would have become famous throughout the world long ago.""Therefore, your Spirit is most likely caused by the atavism of your own bloodline.""Bloodline atavism consumed the vast majority of your origin, which is also one of the reasons for your low innate spirit power.""At the same time, a body with a severely depleted origin could not bear a powerful Spirit like the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff. Your body suffered a backlash, creating your current bodily mutation.""This also means that the current you lean closer to being a Spirit Beast.""Uh... Rest assured, I won't look down on you. Look at Yaoguang, didn't I raise her very well too?"Upon hearing Yaoguang, Jin Ling, who was on the verge of crying, finally calmed down."Ahem, let's continue. Reaching rank ten to absorb a spirit ring is a restriction for Spirit Masters, but Spirit Beasts do not need to do so.""This is our goal today: to help you condense a natal spirit ring."Jin Ling carefully jotted down what Ye Feng said and raised a question:"Master, what is a natal spirit ring? How is it different from your self-condensed spirit ring?""Spirit Masters with special bloodlines can awaken a spirit ring under some special circumstances. Just like my self-condensed spirit ring, its age can also increase along with the improvement of strength.""It's just that a natal spirit ring doesn't require you to break through the age limits yourself; it will automatically increase in age along with your body's tolerance."Afterwards, Ye Feng explained some precautions to Jin Ling, acting just like a nagging mother, until finally, Jin Ling grew somewhat tired of listening before he stopped.Ye Feng took out a sandalwood box, inside of which quietly lay a golden chrysanthemum—the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum.The Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum is a neutral Immortal Herb among Immortal Herbs. Consuming it invigorates the four limbs, clears the eight extraordinary meridians, and can forge an indestructible body of vajra.It was extremely suitable for Jin Ling, who needed to smooth her meridians and temper her physique.Her Spirit, the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, specialized in strength, and her tyrannical physical strength paired even more perfectly with an indestructible vajra body.It could be said that there was no Immortal Herb more suitable for Jin Ling than this.As everyone knew, the earlier an Immortal Herb was consumed, the better.Ye Feng consumed his at age twelve, and Jin Ling was consuming an Immortal Herb at age six; one dared not imagine what terrifying height she would reach in the future.Ye Feng did not rush to let her consume the Immortal Herb; they were still in the preparation stage.He released soul fragments from within his body. Over the years, soul splitting had been ongoing, and the soul fragments had been increasing day by day. By now, the quantity had already filled the entire ceiling.Ye Feng gathered one-third of the soul fragments in his hand and retracted the rest back into his body.spirit rings were composed of soul and spirit power. To help Jin Ling condense a natal spirit ring, Ye Feng had to consider her soul strength.Thinking this, he crushed the soul fragments in his hand, used his mental force to erase the lingering obsessions within them, and left the purest soul energy Binding around his palm.With his palm formed into a sword-finger and soul energy Binding at his fingertips, his sword-finger abruptly poked toward the center of Jin Ling's brows. This sudden finger caused Jin Ling's eyes to widen.Immediately following, a burst of coolness spread through her mind, a trace of clarity flashed across her gaze, and even her eyesight improved quite a bit.Ye Feng observed her expression, and only after confirming nothing untoward had happened did he let out a sigh of relief.Repeating the cycle, Ye Feng fed Jin Ling soul energy nine more times.Regarding the soul, Ye Feng was still an outsider and dared not feed her too much, afraid that some accident might occur.However, according to Ye Feng's estimation, the energy of ten soul fragments should be enough for her to condense a spirit ring.Ye Feng took out a schematic diagram of a blank spirit ring he had drawn before and asked Jin Ling to memorize it.Spirit Masters had very good memories; after glancing at it a few times, Jin Ling memorized all of it.Preparation work completed, Ye Feng handed the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum into Jin Ling's hands and informed her of the consumption method.Jin Ling knew that the moment to condense a spirit ring and change her destiny had begun.She solemnly took the Immortal Herb and swallowed it in one gulp according to the method Ye Feng described.The Immortal Herb melted upon entering her mouth, and before long, a warm current flowed from her lower abdomen to her limbs and bones, causing Jin Ling to hum comfortably.The meridians in her body, riddled with holes and tortured by the mutation, were like long-dry land meeting sweet rain; her hidden injuries disappeared, and her meridians became increasingly tenacious.Jin Ling did not immerse herself in the comfortable feeling either; following the blueprint given by Ye Feng, she slowly outlined the appearance of the spirit ring.The spirit ring was completely transparent and formed entirely by spirit power. Her mental force was too weak, so she could not mobilize the soul energy.Ye Feng's mental force surged, heading toward Jin Ling's soul, or rather, the soul energy she had not yet completely digested.Although this portion of soul energy had not yet been completely absorbed by her, it was tainted with her aura and could already be considered a part of her soul, which could be used to construct a spirit ring.Ye Feng's mental force turned into a blade, aiming at Jin Ling's soul, and cut down without hesitation. Jin Ling let out a muffled groan, cold sweat pouring from her forehead as she clearly endured immense pain.But in the end, she clenched her teeth and endured it.Ye Feng also let out a sigh of relief following this; to be honest, he was truly afraid she wouldn't be able to endure it.When Ye Feng created the self-condensed spirit ring method, he created it completely based on his own situation. He had experienced the pain of soul tearing countless times and was long used to it.For Jin Ling to be able to carry through it could be considered a sign of powerful willpower.Ye Feng controlled Jin Ling's soul to merge into the spirit ring, blending with the spirit power.Just as the spirit ring was about to take shape, an ancient roar echoed from within Jin Ling's body.In an instant, Jin Ling's skin turned from fair to blood-red, her bright golden hair fluttered, and a vermilion mark surfaced on her forehead.Ye Feng was shocked, yet somewhat pleasantly surprised. This was the original purpose of this operation: to utilize the Immortal Herb to trigger the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff bloodline and use soul energy to prompt the formation of a natal spirit ring.The roar sounded like a lion's roar, yet also like a dog's bark, growing louder and louder.Jin Ling's expression also grew increasingly painful, her brows tightly knitted as tears flowed uncontrollably.Her delicate body softened, almost failing to maintain her cross-legged posture. Ye Feng hurriedly supported her, only to discover that her body was terrifyingly hot.Ye Feng injected mental force to check, only to find that her internal state was ghastly; her blood was flowing at an extremely fast rate. If not for the medicinal efficacy of the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum supporting her, she probably would have already exploded and died."Damn it"Ye Feng's expression changed drastically in alarm, and he hurriedly channeled pure spirit power to her.As Ye Feng's mental force penetrated deeper, he discovered that there were two forces inside Jin Ling's body secretly competing.One came from Jin Ling's Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff bloodline; the scarlet bloodline power was roughly remodeling her body, making her muscles increasingly robust and her meridians approaching those of a Spirit Beast.Another force came from the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum; the golden medicinal power scoured her body, healing and recovering the meridians ravaged by the bloodline power.The two energies, one golden and one red, took Jin Ling's body as a battlefield and engaged in a fierce struggle. Neither could do anything to the other, forming a delicate balance.Jin Ling had already fallen unconscious; the intense pain had triggered the human body's protective mechanism.Ye Feng felt a faint sense of regret, sweating profusely with anxiety. Had he known earlier, he wouldn't have listened to that ethereal feeling.In the current situation, he couldn't intervene and could only continue transmitting pure spirit power, terrified that the balance would be broken.Fortunately, as time passed, the scarlet bloodline power gradually grew quiet.The golden medicinal power was also running low, permeating deep within Jin Ling's body.Ye Feng wiped the cold sweat from his head, just when he thought everything was over.An angry roar that sounded like a lion yet a dog rang out, and the huge beast roar penetrated the house, shaking the skies.Even Yaoguang, who was sleeping on the Evergreen Tree, was startled awake, her body stiffening as she fell from the tree.The aura of an ancient forest overlord and top predator permeated the entire courtyard.Along with the beast roar, a white spirit ring emerged from within Jin Ling's body, smashing the self-condensed spirit ring originally Binding around her waist into pieces and replacing its position.The fragments of the self-condensed spirit ring were absorbed by the white spirit ring. As the fragments were injected, the color of the white spirit ring gradually deepened.As the last piece of fragment submerged, the white spirit ring turned from white to yellow, completely breaking through into a century-old spirit ring.In the end, the yellow spirit ring submerged into Jin Ling's body.In place, only Jin Ling's sound of deep sleep and Ye Feng's deafening silence remained....Meanwhile, in the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest a thousand li away from Heaven Dou City...Around the Lake of Life, several Spirit Beasts whose auras were as powerful as an abyss surrounded a stone platform, holding their breath and concentrating, looking as though they were cultivating.On the stone platform, a plump white ice silkworm with golden patterns on its back lay motionless there. Its body was stiff, its eyes carried fear, and it wore a crying, mournful expression.Beside this group of fierce beasts, a golden little beast with a lion's shape and dragon claws was playing while chasing butterflies. Suddenly, the little beast—which was very pretty, its fur presenting a translucent crystal texture, and its head growing vertical pupils emitting red light—paused.Suddenly, without any warning, the vertical pupil at the center of the little beast's brow abruptly brightened.The little beast felt something in its heart and looked toward the direction of Heaven Dou City.
