Chapter 621
Chapter 621
Shen Lang placed the thick research report before Wu Daozi, who eagerly flipped through it. As she continued to read, she couldn't help but look up at Shen Lang.
‘I never would have thought. This fellow is a kindred spirit. To think his bloodline research is so profound.’
“What about your research reports, Master? May I see them?”
Wu Daozi gestured, and the doors of a nearby cabinet swung open. Shen Lang was stunned.
‘So that wasn't a wall. It's completely filled with research reports. There must be at least several thousand volumes here.’
They were all categorized by section: Botany, Zoology, Protozoa, and Bloodlines. Shen Lang pulled out a report from the Bloodlines section and began to read. The content was incredibly detailed and rich with specifics. For a scientist, this was extraordinary. Nearly the entire experimental process had been reconstructed in the report. However, for Shen Lang, it was too meticulous. He needed a textbook, not a top student's lecture notes. He didn't have the time.
After a moment's hesitation, Shen Lang asked.
“Master, there is a matter I wish to seek your guidance on.”
Wu Daozi replied as she rapidly flipped through Shen Lang’s report.
“Speak.”
“My wife, Jin Mulan, used to have difficulty conceiving. There was nothing wrong with my body, yet she could not get pregnant. I am a fairly skilled physician myself, and I examined her body, but found no issues. Her fallopian tubes, her uterus—everything was perfectly healthy.”
“A purple bloodline?”
At Wu Daozi’s question, Shen Lang froze in surprise for a moment.
‘She… she truly is a remarkable expert. She pinpointed it the moment I spoke.’
“The purple bloodline is a mutant bloodline, so rare you wouldn't find one in ten thousand people. It's not an exceptionally powerful bloodline, but it is extremely rare. Those with this bloodline are suited to cultivating both personal and battlefield martial arts simultaneously.”
That was exactly right.
“Furthermore, giving birth to a child with a purple bloodline inflicts severe damage on the mother. If she conceives a second time, her life will be in grave danger, and there is a very high probability that the second child will not be normal.”
‘Ugh?! That's too accurate!’
Shen Lang was amazed. After his mother-in-law, Su Peipei, gave birth to Mulan, she nearly died giving birth to Jin Mucong. His father-in-law had resolutely declared he would have no more children, refusing to let his wife risk her life again. Moreover, while Mulan was so brilliant, Jin Mucong—while not exactly abnormal—was certainly too ordinary in talent to seem like the child of his father-in-law and mother-in-law. Now, at last, he had found the reason.
Wu Daozi continued, “Those with a purple bloodline can be considered first-generation bloodline mutations. It is difficult for such women to conceive because the conflicting bloodline energies prevent the creation of a stable uterine environment. For someone like that to become pregnant, they must undergo extremely deep conditioning, akin to modifying the very source of their bloodline. This causes a massive shock to the body. However, when a person with a purple bloodline does conceive, there is a high probability they will give birth to a second-generation bloodline mutation.”
“A second-generation bloodline mutation? The golden bloodline?”
Wu Daozi shook her head.
“No, the golden bloodline is too difficult to create! A second-generation bloodline mutation does not possess a golden bloodline, but one that is close to it. Nevertheless, it is still an exceedingly powerful bloodline. The method to conceive a golden bloodline was successfully developed decades ago, but it has long since been lost. Both Fudao Mountain and the Ends of the Earth Sea Pavilion have tried every means to create a new golden bloodline, but all have failed.”
“Master, are you aware that there is someone in this world who possesses a golden bloodline?”
“You mean Big Dummy?”
“It seems neither the Ends of the Earth Sea Pavilion nor Fudao Mountain has touched him.”
“He is too precious. We all held a conference about him and concluded that we should not interfere, allowing him to grow freely.”
Shen Lang was half-convinced.
“Do you think we covet the golden bloodline energy in his body and would take him away for various experiments? You think too much. Neither the Ends of the Earth Sea Pavilion nor Fudao Mountain can create a living person with a golden bloodline, but we have no shortage of golden bloodline energy samples. When the Jiang Li Dynasty fell, everyone shared in the spoils until they were full!”
‘I see! After the fall of the Jiang Li Dynasty, the Great Yan Empire and the various transcendent powers seized all of Jiang Li’s legacy, including their research on civilization.’
“Besides, many people are hoping that someone even more important will be born from Big Dummy. So, for a long time, no one will be able to touch him.”
“In that case, I will continue with my wife’s story.”
“Mm.”
“My wife was desperate to have a child. The Ends of the Earth Sea Pavilion lured her in and conditioned her body for several months. Afterward, she came to me, we made love, and she became pregnant. The birth was incredibly, incredibly difficult. In the end, I had to use a needle to stimulate the baby for him to be born. But after that, my wife fell into a deep sleep and has been like someone in a vegetative state ever since.”
Wu Daozi was startled and stopped looking at Shen Lang’s research report.
“What kind of bloodline does your son have?”
“He has no innate bloodline whatsoever.”
“That… that is strange! Based on the situation you described, she should have a second-generation bloodline mutation, an incredibly rare and powerful bloodline, second only to the golden bloodline. How could the child born have no innate bloodline at all?”
Shen Lang was even more shocked and furious inside.
‘The Ends of the Earth Sea Pavilion truly had ulterior motives.’
“Did the Ends of the Earth Sea Pavilion use my wife and her purple bloodline to try and conceive a second-generation bloodline mutation?”
Wu Daozi stared at Shen Lang for a long time before shaking her head.
“No, their target was not your wife. It was you.”
Shen Lang was taken aback by her words.
“Those with a purple bloodline are first-generation mutations, so rare you might not find one in ten thousand. But the Ends of the Earth Sea Pavilion has no shortage of such people, nor do we at Fudao Mountain.”
That was certainly true. The State of Yue had a population of nearly twenty million, so at a rate of one in ten thousand, there would be at least a thousand such individuals. That number was surely not insignificant to the Ends of the Earth Sea Pavilion.
“Shen Lang, you may have told me some partial lies, but I don't mind. The Ends of the Earth Sea Pavilion's scheme involving your wife was definitely because of you. However, they clearly did not get the answer they wanted. They must have sent people to investigate your son, didn't they?”
“They did!”
“Your bloodline is truly special, one in a million.”
“Please, continue.”
“One-in-a-million useless. A person with a blank bloodline can have it modified, and someone with a gray bloodline has at least a sliver of power. But you possess absolute zero power. Moreover, it cannot be modified or enhanced!”
This was, of course, the conclusion Wu Daozi had drawn from Shen Lang's research report. Indeed, Shen Lang himself had reached that conclusion long ago. He too had wanted to modify his own bloodline, but after more than a hundred experiments, he had given up completely.
“However, your blood can kill my advanced protozoa. That is a great mystery that will require long-term study! Perhaps, through your bloodline, I can achieve a groundbreaking research breakthrough and bring about a revolution in bloodlines!”
At that moment, Shen Lang didn't care whether his bloodline was one in a million or one in ten million; all he cared about was whether he could save Mulan. Shen Lang asked directly.
“Then can my wife be saved?”
Wu Daozi was silent for a moment before speaking.
“Shen Lang, you came to Fudao Mountain to save your wife, to borrow the *Blood Classic* to save her, didn't you?”
Shen Lang nodded.
“Such touching love. But why did you try to seduce me, even acting as if you were desperate to sell yourself to me?”
‘Ugh!’
Wu Daozi pursed her lips disdainfully.
“Men are all like this. The heart can be devoted to one person, but the body can be promiscuous? But you have, at any rate, proven your feelings, even being willing to offer your life as payment to save your wife. I suppose that makes you a rather affectionate scumbag.”
“Venerable Master, can my wife be saved? There really isn't much time left. At most, eighteen days. It will take me eleven days just to travel back at the fastest speed.”
Wu Daozi was silent for a long while before she spoke.
“My mother was a first-generation bloodline mutation. I am a second-generation one.”
Shen Lang was stunned. Wu Daozi's innate bloodline was that high?
“Do you find my body strange?”
“Not strange, very beautiful.”
“Tell the truth.”
At Wu Daozi's stern voice, Shen Lang confessed honestly.
“It is strange. Your skin is unusually pale, so white it seems almost translucent, not like a human's. And your body temperature is low. It's two degrees lower than a normal person's.”
“It’s not convenient for me to show you certain parts of my body. In any case, I am not a normal woman. I do not menstruate, so my rumored nickname is indeed…”
‘So the nickname "Stone Witch" is real.’
“My innate bloodline is very high, but I don't particularly enjoy cultivating martial arts; I prefer to research various other fields. Yet, as it turns out, even without diligently practicing, my martial arts are still extremely high.”
‘Damn it, another one of those people. Comparing my situation to others just makes me sick.’
“My father was an elder of Fudao Mountain, so in some respects, my circumstances were much better than yours. After my mother gave birth to me, she fell into a deep sleep. My father used every method he could to extend her life for about three years, but it was a life in a vegetative state. In the end, she passed away…”
It was devastating news. He had never imagined that Wu Daozi’s mother had gone through the same thing as Mulan. Even with the power of Fudao Mountain, she couldn't be saved.
“My son is completely normal, not like you.”
“That is what's so strange. However, your wife's situation is identical to my mother's. Even my father, an elder of Fudao Mountain, was powerless.”
The implication was crystal clear: just as Wu Daozi's father had been unable to save his wife back then, Shen Lang would be absolutely unable to save Jin Mulan now. For a moment, Shen Lang couldn't breathe. He took several deep breaths. His voice was choked with emotion as he said.
“Master, I wish to borrow the *Blood Classic*.”
Shen Lang would never give up. He had a computer, and the millennia of scientific civilization from modern Earth. He might be able to do what the Fudao Mountain elder could not. Wu Daozi looked at Shen Lang and said.
“You intend to study the *Blood Classic* to find a way to save your wife?”
Shen Lang nodded.
“Then there is no need to read the *Blood Classic*. I can tell you directly. This situation is recorded in Volume One, page 325. It is called the reproductive result of a second-generation bloodline mutation initiator!”
“Is there an explanation within?”
“There is. You are a rather formidable physician, so you will be able to understand my words.”
“Please, speak.”
“Your wife is currently in a state where her bloodline energy has fallen completely silent, and her life force is empty.”
Shen Lang nodded.
“That's right. I've tested her blood. Through a special light, I discovered that her bloodline energy is in an extremely dim state. Like a firefly on the verge of death, it can no longer emit light.”
“The source is in the bone marrow, not the blood. The bone marrow is the source of the bloodline!”
Shen Lang could, of course, understand that. The blood in the human body contained various blood cells, all of which originated from primordial stem cells—hematopoietic stem cells—and the progenitor cells they differentiated into, located in the liver, bone marrow, and thymus gland. This was the fundamental principle of how the human body produced blood.