Chapter 2347: Three Months Later

Three months later, by the Naiwen River in the Northland.

Simple houses were arranged neatly like fish scales on both sides of the river, and a stone bridge, identical in shape and simplicity but possessing a metallic luster, connected the settlements on both sides.

On the outskirts of the settlement were large tracts of cultivated plantations; although this was not the optimal planting season for crops, they were growing quite well under the influence of Magic.

At this moment, Xia Duo hovered quietly at a high altitude, looking down at the New Homeland of the Demon Descendants below, feeling a sense of pride and accomplishment; although he felt no personal identification with the identity of a Demon Descendant, this was, after all, a result he had personally participated in building.

It was just a pity that these achievements could only go this far for the time being; in the morning, he had received a Sending from Elder Suoermante, saying that Evereska had begun investigating the Demon Descendants' gathering of survivors from the Wilderness War.

To avoid provoking them, Suoermante wanted Xia Duo to temporarily stop the act of gathering survivors, and to this, Xia Duo could only agree.

"What a pity, if we could have kept gathering them, we could have reached a population of at least two hundred thousand!" Xia Duo could not help but sigh.

Currently, the settlement opened by the Demon Descendants had fewer than ten thousand Demon Descendant residents, the same as when they set out, but there were many Pure-blood Elves—even after deducting the Gold Elves already handed over to Yinerfalan, there was a population of nearly one hundred thousand.

The proportion of Demon Descendants was too low, and Xia Duo was somewhat uneasy; otherwise, he would have already activated "Fast Forward" to go to the future to reap the fruits of victory.

Landing back on the ground, two Demon Descendant Elves immediately darted out from a corner with fanatical eyes and saluted Xia Duo, "Leader!"

"No need to be nervous, I am here to check the progress of the Research Institute, you continue your patrol." Xia Duo waved his hand casually and then walked straight toward an independent courtyard with a surrounding wall.

He had long since become accustomed to this scene over the past few days; just as he had guessed, when he conjured Magic Energy, all the Demon Descendants, including the several Elders, were won over.

The Bloodline Riot problem that had plagued the Demon Descendants for thousands of years and killed countless clansmen had been thoroughly solved, so Xia Duo deserved such treatment, but he would not be this leader for long; once things stabilized here, he would head to the future.

Passing through an isolation Jieti to enter the courtyard, the first thing Xia Duo felt was the Demon Aura spreading wantonly within the Jieti; ever since he "invented" Magic Energy, the high-level Mage among the Elders and Yinsitedaoge had completed the design focused on Magic Energy under his guidance.

Logically speaking, there should not be an overflow of Demon Aura here, but the Research Institute was different from other places; it was a place specifically for various research projects, and although the space was small and the conditions simple, the projects were being established in an orderly manner.

One of them was the Bloodline Sequencing Project, which aimed to solve the Demon Descendants' bloodline problem from the source; executing this project required a large number of bloodline experiments, which was the reason for the appearance of a large amount of Demon Power.

Seeing this scene, however, Xia Duo felt very dissatisfied; he had already said many times before that anything involving Demon Power must be done in an isolated environment and properly cleaned up afterward.

Because the main body of the Research Institute was still conducting research related to Netheril Magic, it was easily interfered with by Demon Aura, not to mention that the accumulation of a large amount of Demon Aura could not guarantee that it would not trigger an Abyss descent.

Arriving at the door of the Laboratory, Xia Duo saw a "Experiment in Progress" warning sign hanging on the door, along with a Spell warning, so he could only suppress the dissatisfaction in his heart and wait patiently.

But he did not just stand there doing nothing; instead, he took it upon himself to clean up the Demon Aura overflowing from the Laboratory.

Only by personally transforming into a Demon Descendant to comb through and control the bloodline could one truly feel the terror of Demon Aura, or rather, Abyssal Power.

It was not that one could rest easy just by creating Magic Energy; Magic Energy would also carry Demon Aura, and these Demon Aura would also infect others and even the external environment, which was not one hundred percent safe for oneself, as there existed a certain risk of mutation.

Therefore, even if one had already created Magic Energy and controlled the bloodline, one still needed to comb through it constantly; otherwise, if the bloodline erupted one day, it would likely not be something that mere Magic Energy could save one's life from.

In other words, Magic Energy did not actually truly solve the safety problem of the Demon Descendants; to solve it thoroughly, one still had to start from the root of the bloodline.

Most of the Demon Descendants in this New Homeland were born as Demon Descendants and were accustomed to coexisting with Demon Aura; once they had a method to control Demon Aura, it was inevitable that they would develop a sense of pride.

And pride would largely fuel the risk of Demon Aura mutation; "The Abyss lures people to fall" was not just a rumor, but a reality.

Soon, a burst of abnormal Magic Net oscillation came from the Laboratory, and then Yinsitedaoge and a high-level Mage Elder named "Aosi" opened the Laboratory door with weary faces.

"Leader, kept you waiting." Yinsitedaoge said while taking out a notebook to start recording all the details of the experiment just now.

And Elder Aosi, after nodding to Xia Duo, began to introduce the recent experimental progress, "The Demon Bloodline is unpredictable; recently we haven't even started sequencing the bloodline, we only wanted to make a rough judgment on the attributes of the bloodline, but unexpectedly even this couldn't be done. It seems we can only summarize it from the appearance of the bloodline for now."

"What was the situation with the experiment just now, such a big commotion?" Xia Duo asked curiously.

"What we just did was an infection experiment with Demon Power of specific attributes; the samples were all wild rabbits, but the results of the infection with the same attribute of Demon Power were completely unexpected."

"Did you use the wild rabbits caught by the Patrol, or cloned rabbits?" Xia Duo asked again.

"Of course they were cloned rabbits; if they were wild rabbits caught, it would be difficult to achieve complete consistency, only cloning can do that, and the infection process was exactly the same, yet the result was like this! Sigh—"

Although he had long personally experienced the difficult and strange nature of the Demon Bloodline, now that all interference had been excluded, he still could not glimpse any essence of the Demon Bloodline, so Elder Aosi could not help but feel a bit frustrated.

"It really is disordered to the extreme!"

Xia Duo did not know much about the Demon Bloodline; he had basically taught everything he knew to the Demon Descendants, and at this moment, he dared not draw any conclusions casually, lest he lead the future research direction astray, which would be troublesome.

He was currently in the identity of a leader filled with Divine Nature, and his every word and action had great influence, but in his heart, he could not help but develop a speculation: perhaps it was impossible to completely control the Demon Bloodline.

Only by clearing out the Demon Bloodline was the ultimate path of Jiusu for the Demon Descendants.

But this was not absolute; as long as the Demon Descendants' degree of research into the essence of the Demon Bloodline always exceeded its Application, then this annoying Demon Bloodline would not only not become an obstacle, but would instead become a strong driving force leading the continuous development of Demon Descendant Magic.

Two paths: one conservative and steady, relatively easy to achieve, while the other was relatively radical, or rather, full of enterprising spirit, but if one were slightly careless in the future, it would lead to disaster.