Chapter 227: Dark Seed

Naimi Xisi looked at the leopard, decided to spare its life, as a dead experimental target would greatly reduce its value. So he began to search among his own spells for an appropriate one to control the opponent.

He snapped his fingers, and the leopard immediately woke from the spell's control; its bound body moved slightly, and its previously dull eyes now sparkled.

It began to thrash violently, muscles bulging in blocks as it tried to break free of the tightly coiled chains. The chains clanged "whah‑whah" under its struggle.

"Roar!! Damn it, let me go!! How dare you imprison a war's believer!"

His eyes turned blood‑red like burning flames, and low roars kept coming from his mouth; though far better than his previous mute state, they still carried full madness.

Naimi Xisi transformed into a human shape, his body drifting through the air to stand before him, gazing into the other's pupils.

In those amber‑like pupils, a barely perceptible yet profoundly deep black hue could be seen.

That aura suddenly felt familiar to him.

Naimi Xisi frowned; Juan Ce Long's eidetic memory instantly recalled where that familiarity originated.

It was the tomb underground in the Ni Ke Sa Lan Basin!

The black energy summoned by the self‑proclaimed Yi Pa Na San Shi Mummy matched the aura on this leopard perfectly.

He still remembered that Mummy called it.

"Zha Er Tai Ke's Curse?" Naimi Xisi murmured.

Ku Na De's body stiffened, a flash of disbelief crossed his eyes, and even his frantic momentum subsided considerably.

How could he possibly know a curse lay on him? Did he know the secret art's existence? Impossible!

Ku Na De's mind was a tangled mess, while Naimi Xisi now curled his lips. Mind Power had already read every thought in the man's mind.

"【Dark Seed】? Is this the secret that lets you cross the Legendary boundary?" Naimi Xisi whispered.

But Ku Na De's gaze turned as if he had seen a ghost; just as he was about to question how Naimi Xisi knew, Naimi Xisi had already lost interest.

Seven‑Ring Enchantment Spell — 【Instantaneous Endless Slumber】.

He gently exhaled; the magical energy turned into a light breeze that brushed Ku Na De's cheek, his eyes grew hazy, his eyelids drooped heavily, and he soon fell into a deep slumber.

This spell, like a curse, forces any recipient unable to resist its magic into permanent sleep, as if dead, yet the body remains alive.

With Naimi Xisi's current spell power, even a normal pseudo‑Legendary Warrior could not resist his Enchantment Spell, let alone a dim‑witted leopard.

He no longer needed to extract information from Ku Na De, because he already understood how the other managed to cross the Legendary boundary.

It matched his conjecture; it was linked to the 【Zha Er Tai Ke's Curse】 within the opponent.

Just like Yi Pa Na San Shi, the Ku Er Ta Ka Kingdom worships Zha Er Tai Ke, so their ruler naturally knows of the 【Zha Er Tai Ke's Curse】.

This dark energy is an external manifestation of Zha Er Tai Ke's divine power, like a war sweeping the world, possessing a domineering ability to devour everything.

The king of Ku Er Ta Ka devised a secret technique that harnesses this energy, called 【Dark Seed】.

The practitioner can plant a seed condensed from this dark energy into another person; through this seed, the subject gains a way to wield Zha Er Tai Ke's divine power. They obtain an ability called 【Wail】.

【Wail】 can temporarily transform the subject's bloodline into that of a Zha Er Tai Ke divine descendant, which is the half‑human, half‑leopard form Ku Na De now possesses.

In legend, Zha Er Tai Ke's image resembles the Maztec specialty—the jaguar; his later‑generation divine blood also bears a jaguar‑like appearance.

【Wail】 makes the subject take on this ugly form, yet also grants the opponent terrifying speed.

Zha Er Tai Ke's divine descendants are born with agility that surpasses the Legendary limit, but as a price, their other five attributes are far weaker than ordinary people, especially their intellect, which is extremely low. This makes them rarely seen in common society; they instead live in deep forests, relying on instinct to hunt.

【Wail】 gives the subject exactly that—unparalleled speed.

Honestly, the 【Dark Seed】 secret technique does not benefit Naimi Xisi himself. He lacks Zha Er Tai Ke's Curse as a casting source, and he does not care for a method that sacrifices other attributes to boost agility.

Nevertheless, he is greatly intrigued by the principle of the 【Dark Seed】 technique itself.

In the end, this technique relies on using divine power as a key, secretly prying the bloodline's strength!

A dragon's bloodline is undoubtedly a top‑tier existence in the Multiverse, naturally possessing a mighty physique, terrifying dragon breath, and supreme magical talent.

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But it is not the strongest existence!

Within the Multiverse, the truly unique top‑tier bloodline is only one kind—the divine bloodline!

That is, the divine descendant!

When a deity gives birth to a child, regardless of whether the other parent is also a deity or a mortal, the child inherits immensely powerful strength; being born legendary is merely the most basic condition, and many children are deities from birth!

However, divine birth is extremely difficult, especially when both parents are deities.

Families with divine bloodlines are not rare, but many are merely exceptionally gifted mortals, for that very reason.

When a deity and a mortal combine, they produce a divine descendant, yet deities are far rarer and more noble than any dragon or seraph; most divine descendants are born from mortal partners, and the highest are other divine descendants.

This leads to the divine bloodline circulating among mortal societies being diluted generation after generation, eventually fading among the masses.

Scholars who have studied this have said that starting from the first‑generation divine descendant, just five generations of intermarriage with mortals will cause the divine glory to be lost.

To this day, many first‑generation divine descendants born of deities even choose sibling incestuous marriages, refusing to pollute the bloodline with mortals.

Thus, such a rare and precious bloodline, the 【Dark Seed】 can temporarily grant the subject the abilities of a second‑generation, even first‑generation divine descendant—truly unheard of.

"If one obtains another deity's emblem of power, can one gain that deity's descendant abilities?"

"Further, can one, by some means, permanently solidify the divine descendant bloodline rather than keep it temporary?"

"Even… could this be used, in a future Legendary era, to trace the bloodline's origin and seize the authority of the gods?"

Just thinking about it makes Naimi Xisi feel the technique's prospects are dazzlingly bright.

(End of chapter)