The guard arrived at the center of the city, where a large palace stood. He approached the guard at the entrance and said, "Deliver this to the Elder, it has an important message.”
The other guards noticed the storage bag in the other guard's hand but didn't ask much since everyone in the city knew each other well.
He took the bag and went inside to deliver it to the elder. When he arrived at the elder's room, he called out loudly, "Elder Yun, this was delivered by the guard at the gate and he told me it seems to contain an important message."
"Leave it there on a table," Elder Yun instructed. The guard placed the bag on the table and left. Elder Yun, who looked quite old and weary, stood up from his resting position. At almost 900 years old, he had lost hope of reaching the Nascent Soul stage since the dragons had only granted his ancestors a bloodline capable of reaching the Golden Core level. He sighed deeply thinking about it.
Elder Yun walked over to the table and opened the storage bag. He first saw a human body with the golden horn fish bloodline, then he noticed a note.
The note was written in very poor language:
"Humans are capturing Demonic beasts and transferring their bloodlines into their bodies. Not only do they gain bloodline benefits, but they are also not restricted by bloodline limits and can continue to practice their own cultivation.
This is proof I managed to catch one of them, but I can't come because humans are chasing me.
Elder Yun read the note and laughed. "This fool thinks he can deceive anyone with this note and the body of a human," he said. "I have lived for 900 years and already know that humans can transfer bloodlines. There's even a sect dedicated to this. They can tame Demonic beasts, but so what? Everyone knows this. It's nothing new. Even Demonic beasts can transfer bloodlines. Humans doing it isn't anything groundbreaking. This weakling probably wants to start a fight between humans and Demonic beasts, thinking he can gain the bloodline of powerful beasts if humans and other species start fighting."
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Elder Yun sighed deeply. "Those higher-level species like dragons have already set up restrictions in their bloodlines that can't be transferred without specific means known only to the heads of their races. If it were really that easy, wouldn't he just need to kidnap one of the dragon children to break through from the Golden Core to Nascent Soul and be free from this slavery?"
He shook his head in frustration. "And even if a fight happens, only we the servants will suffer. Take this incident for example. Even if someone wants to start a fight between powerful species, they use my people as Experiments, same with humans they don't mess with dragons, but capture our species to get bloodlines" Anger flashed in his eyes as he crumpled the note in his hand.
But after some time, Elder Yun calmed down and started thinking more strategically. "Maybe this isn't such a bad idea after all. Nobody has succeeded in breaking the bloodline restrictions because they didn't have enough experimental subjects. What if a war between powerful species is triggered? Wouldn't that mean more subjects? And as long as one of our people achieves the next stage, wouldn't we be able to advance too?" He paused, considering the possibilities. "But we need a solid plan to continue this."
He looked at the crumpled note again, his mind working rapidly. "As for this guy, he seems to be a weakling, using a Qi Refining human as an experiment. Even if he got a bloodline of golden core, so what? It will take 100 years to break through to the Golden Core from Qi Refining." Elder Yun began drafting several letters for different allies and close elders of the clan who worked in various areas, including the Dragon Palace. Of course, he used spiritual energy to write and seal it.
A couple of years passed, and Crab waited patiently, practicing his breathing technique. His skills had improved significantly:
**System: Talent Enhancement System**
**Name:** Rock Crab
**Age:** 15 Years / 22 Years
**Race:** Demonic Beast (Level 9)
**Skills:**
- Ground Slash Digging Lv 3 [10/300]
- Eating (Level 4) [290/400]
- Swimming (Level 5) [299/400]
- Venomous Shadow Shell Technique Lv 3 [299/300]
- Running Lv 2 [189/200]
- Poison Lv 2 [154/200]
**Note:** Merge different bloodlines to break through to a higher level.
Finally, his breathing technique was almost maxed to Lv 3. There were numerous benefits to this technique: it improved his poison ability and hiding skills, enhanced his movement speed, and more.
However, many years had passed, and Crab's patience was wearing thin. He couldn't wait so many years for the war to start. As a short-lived creature, he didn't have the luxury of time. He needed lower-level bloodlines up to Golden Core for now and planned to advance to Foundation Building straight away. Then he could think of the next step. After all, as long as he was strong, he could obtain more bodies of those beasts in war.