Chapter 718

Liang Qu's gaze shifted: "Pinghe, what about you?"

"Me?" Long Pinghe lowered his head in shame. "I am not as intelligent as my brother. Half a month ago, my Heavenly Bridge was completed, but I haven't captured the opportunity for the Hunting Tiger stage where spirit and qi-blood blend. Perhaps... there is one?"

In the study room.

Long Yao and Long Li poured the new tea of the third month.

The tea leaves bubbled and unfolded, seeping out a clear yellow-green.

Liang Qu sniffed the tea fragrance and lightly scraped the tabletop with his index finger.

The Pingjiang and Pinghe brothers were both brought under his command in the middle of last year, and there had been no strange encounters in between; they should have been stuck before Hunting Tiger...

"How did the old Long Jun create the Dragon species? Tell me in more detail."

Long Binglin said: "According to the tribe's elders, Long Jun used his own essence blood as a guide, found human women martial artists who were pregnant, and cast spells to integrate it within the three months before the fetus in the womb was formed. Afterward, he gave a generous reward. Generations of Dragon-men were all conceived this way. Anyone who had Heaven and Earth Long Qi was without exception a Jiang Zongshi."

Liang Qu knew these things.

He was too lazy to care about human rights or not; it was already done, and the parties involved couldn't be found.

"What about other Dragon species?"

"Except for Dragon-men, most are the same. The second largest Dragon species in Jianghuai, the Long Xun, was born this way, but in terms of quantity and quality, they are far inferior to Dragon-men. Now only one Great Demon remains, living with some Long Xun in the Long Yuan Dao of the Western Water Domain, ignoring outside affairs."

"No Martial Saints or Demon Kings?"

"Hmm, I haven't heard of any."

"What about second-generation and third-generation Dragon-men?"

"First-generation Dragon-men combine with tribespeople or humans, and the offspring born are second-generation Dragon-men. From then on, there are significant differences among Dragon-men."

"How so?"

"Being second-generation, when Dragon-men combine with Dragon-men, the bloodline must be stronger than when Dragon-men combine with humans, unless the latter is rewarded for merit and obtains Long Jun's essence blood again. By the third generation, the differences among Dragon-men are even greater.

At that time, Long Jun was still alive, and the new generation of Dragon-men were not necessarily older than the second generation, and there were always those who loved each other.

When the two combined, the offspring born also belonged to the third generation, yet were stronger than many second-generation ones, while those who combined with humans generation after generation might not be as good as fourth-generation tribespeople.

Eying, Yanrui, and I are all offspring of excellent second-generation Dragon-men and first-generation Dragon-men, so our bloodlines are stronger than ordinary second-generation ones."

Success comes from Dragon blood, and failure comes from Dragon blood...

Honestly, Liang Qu could understand why Dragon-men cultivated fast.

There are a limited number of True Dragons in the world.

The Jianghuai Long Jun is even the only furnace Long Jun.

Half-human, half-dragon, their natural martial bones are not even as good, and natural martial bones cannot guarantee a stable entry into Jiang Zongshi.

If you aren't strong, who is?

Many Demon species are naturally fierce, and it's not uncommon for them to be Spirit Monsters or even Demon Beasts at birth.

But the Dragon-man tribe is quite strange.

They cultivate fast at the beginning and slow at the end, so slow that they get stuck and don't move.

It doesn't make sense.

In cultivation, Dragon blood actually plays the dual role of assistance and resistance at the same time.

"Could it be a natural racial defect?"

Liang Qu held the teacup with his palm, and the thought suddenly popped up, followed by an inevitable deep reflection.

The Dragon-men created by Long Jun in this way are too simple and crude; perhaps they cannot be considered a sound species, just coincidentally able to operate simply, and once they encounter the complex logic of cultivation, they will jump out with "bugs" and conflicts.

Did the Ze Ding's completion fundamentally improve the species attributes of Pingjiang and Pinghe, repairing the conflict "bugs" and creating a "Dragon-man" race in the true sense?

Of course.

The second possibility cannot be ruled out.

The old Long Jun did it on purpose.

It actively left a "backdoor" in the "Dragon-man" program.

The purpose was to create an auxiliary strong race that completely relied on itself.

It obtained the natural intelligence and cultivation methods of humans, while also possessing the fierceness of the Dragon species bloodline, and at the same time, for the sake of further progress, they could not betray, and they were even all handsome men and beautiful women, showing the excellence of its own bloodline, which was face-saving when taken out.

From the perspective of a vassal race, Dragon-men are simply perfect!

But judging from past events... it doesn't look like it.

Liang Qu didn't state the second speculation, lest it reach the ears of the old Dragon-men and cause a rift. He replaced the first speculation with a set of rhetoric that Dragon-men could understand and explained it.

Long Eying's eyes shone.

"If it is true, will Pingjiang and Pinghe's future cultivation depend entirely on themselves, no longer relying on bloodline?"

No longer relying on bloodline?

Long Binglin's heart pounded.

Isn't the biggest pain point of the Dragon-man tribe that they lose the source of their bloodline, decaying generation after generation, weakening generation after generation?

Now, not only can the bloodline problem be solved, but can the weakening be solved once and for all?

"Fourth Elder, what about me?" Long Yanrui asked hurriedly, "Is my bloodline shackle still there?"

"You?"

Liang Qu looked him up and down.

Long Yanrui accepted his Spirit Fish and used it to promote to Jiang Zongshi, suppressed by divine power, and must have been influenced by the Water Ze essence in the middle, but whether he used this to solve the species "bug" is unknown.

Long Pingjiang originally had the Heavenly Bridge realm, which could be verified by promoting to Hunting Tiger, but it is much more difficult for Long Yanrui, who is a Jiang Zongshi.

"Cultivate hard, and strive to let the Dragon-man tribe produce a Great Jiang Zongshi, and also verify it for me."

"Alright."

"Elder, this matter is of great importance, please allow me to return to the tribe once more."

"Go."

Liang Qu waved his hand, and Long Binglin said goodbye and turned around. Before leaving, he instructed Long Yanrui to protect the path well and Long Pingjiang to cultivate hard, striving to verify the speculation as soon as possible.

"Brother Binglin, rest assured, if another Jiang Zongshi attacks, they will have to step over my corpse!"

"I will definitely not fail the tribe's expectations and will break into Hunting Tiger soon!"

The two were solemn.

Afternoon.

Liang Qu sent a letter to Ningjiang, incidentally sent out the transcribed two consciousness methods, visited the Master's wife, Lady Xu, to understand the sales situation of the Dragon Xiao, and talked about what he saw and heard in the capital.

Xu Wenzhu was also at the Yang Prefecture, exchanging cultivation insights with Yang Dongxiong.

Lady Xu was as calm as ever, letting Liang Qu stay for dinner, but only when he was leaving did she let Nan Di send over a small gift box.

"What is this that the Master's wife sent..."

Liang Qu looked at the gift box, inexplicably familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, but couldn't remember for a moment.

Nan Di said: "A new product from the Xu family, only given away, not sold."

"Cough, cough."

Liang Qu coughed awkwardly.

He finally understood why it was familiar; he had caught a glimpse of it on the fourth floor of the Tianbo in the capital.

As the founder of Dragon Xiao, high-end products naturally had to be strictly controlled.

He accepted it reluctantly.

Midnight.

Sea butterflies wandered in the pond, with dots of fluorescent light, and thick fog steamed from the hot spring.

The big beaver was gnawing on a piece of wood, clanging away to build a second small wooden house for Long Yanrui.

The old toad had a white towel on its head, leaning against the square pond stone, its round white belly floating on the water, bubbling out a faint pink. It opened its frog mouth to the sky, sighing and groaning, feeling so comfortable.

When the Sea Fangzhu came, Liang Qu bought a portion of volcanic algae, using it to let the big beaver build a semi-open-air, semi-wooden "hot spring" bathhouse. As a result, he was summoned and went to the capital, and now he hadn't used it once, but let the old toad taste it first.

"Frog Duke!"

"Liang Qing!" The old toad grabbed the towel, its webbed claws patted the pond stone, very satisfied. "Liang Qing, this bathhouse is well built! The big bathhouse at the Heposuo is also not bad, but unfortunately there are too many people inside. As soon as I go in, they call 'Frog Duke, Frog Duke' non-stop. It's really noisy, even more annoying than the little toads in the Great Ze."

"Virtue is heavy, and ghosts and gods respect it." Liang Qu was well-read and quoted readily. "The mouth is the gateway of the heart; the heart is the master of the spirit.

Frog Duke divines fortune and misfortune for the Heposuo, and I don't know how many innocent lives you have saved. Everyone respects you, Frog Duke, from the bottom of their hearts!"

(End of this chapter)