Chapter 497: Bloodline
Yet, in this world, nearly all supernatural power was monopolized by the Bloodline Houses. To preserve the purity of their bloodline, they even rarely intermarried with outsiders.
As for the only source seeds that outsiders might obtain, they had always been the focus of all the great families, making it utterly impossible for ordinary people to even lay a finger on them.
Thus, even as a transmigrator, without the aid of some absurdly overpowered cheat system, she too found it incredibly difficult to overcome this formidable barrier.
After trying to add one point to her "attack" attribute, Lu Yuesheng took a deep breath, awaiting the subsequent transformation.
Seconds later, her attack attribute shifted from 1.2 to 2.2.
She could immediately feel a surge of warmth emanating from the location of the system on her chest, spreading throughout her entire body in an arcane manner.
Wherever the warm current coursed, her muscles and bones would be suffused with a faint warmth.
She raised her hand and found it felt somewhat lighter, more agile. When she drew the Twilight Fire from her waist and held it, it also distinctly felt much lighter than before.
“Is this something Earth developed over the past twenty years?” she asked, excited like a child with a new toy.
Operating a Gundam versus *being* a Gundam—the two felt vastly different.
“Something like that.”
“What do you want me to do? How can I gain new free points?...” A string of questions tumbled out.
Having been stranded alone in another world for twenty years, and with no one in the Manghuang Realm capable of understanding the profound loneliness of a social creature separated from its kind, she now seized every opportunity to find ways to speak with Bai Mo.
“Let this world burn.”
“Huh?! You mean, as long as I keep stirring up trouble, I’ll gain new free points?”
“Roughly so.”
“Has Earth truly pioneered a Demonic Path of cultivation, where one grows stronger by witnessing the world’s destruction?” She couldn’t fathom what significance global chaos held for him, or why it was worth him producing a system that, no matter how one looked at it, possessed utterly heaven-defying functions.
“While collecting souls in this world, I discovered something rather interesting.”
“Those killed by imprinted firearms—their souls can truly be drawn to you?” Even though she already knew this, she couldn’t help but ask again, as such a thing, even in the Manghuang Realm, was considered the stuff of fantastical legends.
“I saw a great net, connected to every person born in the Manghuang Realm, and their spiritual bodies were covered by a layer of cloud-like mist.” Bai Mo didn’t answer Lu Yuesheng’s question, instead continuing to speak to himself in strange remarks.
“Many years ago, I could already directly perceive a network between people, but I had never noticed these clouds of different colors on them.
Then I examined their memories and discovered that the varying colors of the mist on their soul bodies corresponded precisely to their social status...”
“Causality! Qi Luck! You can see such things?!” She was shocked once again. As a native-born, traditional Huaxia person, Lu Yuesheng’s mind immediately seized upon this notion.
Bai Mo thought the same, but what he couldn’t understand was why people on Earth didn’t have Qi Luck clouds, yet every native in the Manghuang Realm had such a layer of mist on the surface of their souls.
“Then what about my Qi Luck?” Lu Yuesheng asked a question that most people would pose.
“Only causality, no Qi Luck.” Bai Mo’s answer was unexpected.
“You’re using me to stir up events; do you want to uncover the secret behind Qi Luck?”
She wasn’t foolish. If she couldn’t connect the dots after Bai Mo’s seemingly irrelevant remarks, she would be unworthy of her twenty years of struggle on this land.
“I have some theories, but they require an experiment to verify, and I just happened to meet you.
Several thousand others came with me from Earth; I hope they can also give me some surprises.” Bai Mo dropped yet another bombshell.
“...” Stunned by the relentless barrage of revelations, Lu Yuesheng was at a loss for words.
......
“Then I’ll share the information I’ve gathered over the years regarding this world’s history.” After several minutes of mutual silence, she was the first to break it.
She had realized that if she waited for Bai Mo to consider the atmosphere, she’d probably be waiting until the end of the world.
“Approximately eight thousand years ago, the ancestors of the human race in the Manghuang Realm established their kingdom in the heart of this land, specifically in the Central Province where Baiyu Jing of the Great Wei Dynasty is now located.
Over thousands of years of conquest and administration, humanity’s sphere of activity expanded step by step from the initial Central Province to today’s core nineteen provinces.
At that time, it’s said that the distinction between Bloodline Houses and common families wasn’t so clear, and the power of bloodlines would often suddenly manifest in ordinary people.
However, after acquiring the core nineteen provinces, humanity seemed to reach the limits of its expansion. The endless external wars not only made it difficult for the civilian population to grow, but also caused heavy casualties among the Bloodline Houses, who were the primary fighting force.
Moreover, it was precisely at this time that the highest echelons of the legendary four great families were said to have ascended, thus fixing the national territory established by humanity within the core nineteen provinces.
For the next three millennia, the state of affairs in the Manghuang Realm remained largely unchanged, until the appearance of that taboo figure.
He originated from the Nanxuan family, but all records of his name have since been erased. He was the most dazzling genius among the Bloodline Houses of that era, yet also the most unconventional.
Over three thousand years, the interest groups of the Bloodline Houses had become entrenched and unbreakable. They had lost the impetus to continue expanding, wishing only to stifle all change and make time forever halt in those days.
Because every instance of external expansion required immense sacrifice from the superhumans who formed the primary force, and they had lived too long, they had grown fearful.
To break the stalemate, that individual from the Nanxuan family employed an utterly drastic method.” As she spoke these words, Lu Yuesheng suddenly blushed.
“Sowing seeds across the world,” she murmured, her voice as thin as a mosquito’s buzz, softly uttering those four words.
Upon hearing this, Bai Mo roughly guessed the outcome, but he remained silent, continuing to listen to her explanation.
“The elder Bloodline practitioners’ complacency and their focus on self-preservation filled him with disappointment. Even when he seized the highest authority through his power, he still had no way to deal with these obstinate old fogeys.
Because of the unique nature of bloodline power, master-disciple relationships held little meaning.
So he decided to vastly expand his harem, spreading his own bloodline power to allow more of the new generation to participate in humanity’s upper-echelon expansion wars.”
“A harem for humanity’s rise...”
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