Chapter 220

The talisman paper began to burn rapidly.

A wisp of white smoke rose up and seeped entirely into the ground.

The next moment, twenty arms burst out of the soil.

Ten fair-skinned women crawled out, staring blankly at their surroundings.

Gu Qing said gently, "Welcome to your arrival. Stop looking around — from now on, this is your home. The man in front is our lord, the feudal lord. Go greet him properly."

"Greetings, my lord~"

These ten female villagers were no different from those who normally came.

They all covered their bodies and shyly greeted Zhao Chi.

Gu Qing then led them off to the river.

After they ate, tonight's night watch would be divided among them in shifts.

Of course, there would be female soldiers accompanying them.

Zhao Chi was also very tired now.

But there were still some things left unfinished.

He returned to the lord's house, lay on the bed, and took out the 【Race Improvement Book】.

This kind of beginner improvement book cannot directly improve a race's condition, but it can provide improvement points.

Usually, it randomly grants 1–3 improvement points.

Through improvement points, one can select different improvement genes.

However, one must first possess improvement genes.

He clicked to use it.

【You have activated the "Race Improvement Book." You have obtained 3 Race Improvement Points.】

Zhao Chi sat up at once.

Very lucky!

He hadn't expected to get 3 points on the very first try.

Lucky people are everywhere — why couldn't it be me?

Zhao Chi immediately clicked on Improvement.

【You currently have no improvement genes. Please acquire improvement genes first.】

That was only natural.

A new territory certainly had no improvement genes.

However…

In high spirits, Zhao Chi took out that 【Primordial Shi Laimu Race Bloodline】 he had risked his life to obtain.

A colorful little sphere.

Zhao Chi had no time to admire it and activated it directly.

A system prompt popped up:

【You have activated the "Primordial Shi Laimu Race Bloodline." Please choose a usage direction.】

【1. Set as Primary Race】

【2. Decompose into Improvement Points】

【3. Decompose into Improvement Genes】

All three options were things Zhao Chi was seeing in person for the first time.

But fortunately, they had been covered at the academy.

【Option 1】, of course, meant converting the current Taoyuan Humans into Shi Laimu.

Cao Feng's Shadow Leopard, Hua Hua Yuyin's Bearfolk, Zhou Lue's Griffin, Yuan Zhao's Vampire — they had all been changed this way.

If Zhao Chi chose to change.

The women currently here would still exist, but starting tomorrow, the daily population increase would become Shi Laimu instead.

Taoyuan Humans would no longer appear afterward.

Unless Gu Qing and the others got pregnant and were raised from the fetus stage.

That would be far too slow.

Even if Tang Ruan and all the women got pregnant, it would still be slow.

Although the primary race could also be set to multiple races.

Zhao Chi was currently only a beginner lord, with a village-level territory, and could only possess 1 primary race for now.

Only later would he be able to set multiple primary races.

Moreover, some bonuses only applied to the primary race.

If he set Shi Laimu, what he gained each day would also be ordinary Shi Laimu, not the kind of Emperor Shi Laimu.

They would only be able to be cultivated into various different Shi Laimu branches.

Only then could one obtain things like Red Shi Laimu, Green Shi Laimu, Emperor Shi Laimu, and so on.

It would require a fair amount of effort.

In any case, Zhao Chi definitely would not change his race.

【Option 2】's effect was about the same as the Race Improvement Book.

It could randomly decompose into Race Improvement Points, but it granted a bit more than the improvement book.

That was why race bloodlines were all more expensive.

Race Improvement Books were relatively cheap.

【Option 3】Decompose the racial bloodline into improved genes.

Each racial bloodline can be decomposed into different improved genes.

Cao Feng's Shadow Leopard bloodline can be decomposed into improved genes like "Instant Charge."

Hua Yuyin's Bearfolk bloodline can be decomposed into improved genes like "Bear Transformation" and "Brute Strength."

A Griffin might yield "Flight" and "Dive," while a Vampire might yield "Blood Drain" and "Dark Affinity," and so on.

The decomposed genes come in all varieties.

Some are racial talents, some are racial traits, and some even racial potentials — each one different.

This is what needs to be done now.

Zhao Chi selects Option 3 and clicks confirm.

The Shi Laimu racial bloodline in his hand begins to tremble.

With the trembling, cracks appear across the round outer shell.

The cracks grow wider and deeper.

The entire round bloodline, like melting ice, quickly dissolves into the air.

A system prompt arrives:

【Decomposing genes…】

【You have obtained the racial gene "Self-Healing" ×1 from "Shi Laimu"】

【You have obtained the racial gene "Soft Body" ×1 from "Shi Laimu"】

【You have obtained the individual gene "Hyper Self-Healing" ×1 from "Emperor Shi Laimu"】

【You have obtained the individual gene "Toxic Gland" ×1 from "Green Shi Laimu"】

【You have obtained the individual gene "Cold Resistance" ×1 from "White Shi Laimu"】

【You have obtained the individual gene "Healing Fluid" ×1 from "Light Shi Laimu"】

【Failed to obtain the remaining genes】

A single racial bloodline was directly decomposed into six kinds of improved genes.

That counts as quite a lot.

But that is because what Zhao Chi decomposed was the primal Shi Laimu racial bloodline.

Although the Shi Laimu's combat ability isn't particularly strong, it has a great many subspecies.

Each subspecies has different genes that can be decomposed.

And the primal bloodline contains the genes of all subspecies.

It's a pity some failed to be obtained.

But he is already content.