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Chapter 132 Evolution in Dreams, Fusion of Bloodlines

Lin Zhuo sat cross-legged on the stone, motionless. The transformative power of the two bloodline templates was taking effect, causing his skin to glow with a yellowish-brown light, while a vertical, dark gray light emanated from his back.

His original body and the symbiotic reproductive cells in his spinal cord are undergoing dramatic changes. The effect of the bloodline template greatly compresses the development period, allowing the bloodline effect to be expressed quickly.

Compared to the painful surgery Lin Zhuo underwent in the real world, his current feelings were hardly agonizing. He simply had a strange association, as if his skin had turned into an insect cocoon, while his internal flesh, bones, organs, and nerves had all transformed into a thick, sticky soup.

His mind was also immersed in the warm soup, like a glimmer of light sinking into a flowing warm bed, gradually losing the ability to think, and sinking into a dreamlike realm.

Lin Zhuo's dream contained no memories of his bloodline ancestors. Indeed, some powerful bloodlines are born with inherited knowledge, a typical example being the True Dragon, who can be born with knowledge. But the Longbo Kingdom people and the Dust-Eyed Bashe, both of whom have blue-grade bloodlines, did not have such good fortune.

Moreover, the templates provided by the comprehensive network are clean and pure, without any impurities or marks of unknown origin mixed in with their bloodline, so he will not see any strange or bizarre messages.

In this dream, all was pitch black, except for his own pure body, which was tall and strong, with an ochre-yellow complexion, and a surge of powerful energy flowing through his muscles, with each breath long and deep.

"Hiss—" In his dream, Lin Zhuo heard a snake hiss and suddenly turned his head to look back. He saw a gray python slowly rising from his back. This was a monster that had crawled out of his thoracic vertebrae and coiled around Lin Zhuo's upper body, binding the burly giant's body.

The conflict and confrontation brought about by the fusion of two bloodlines had already begun without anyone realizing it.

If this crisis cannot be properly resolved, the best outcome will be a failed fusion and damage to the bloodline template. However, this often leads to a malignant mutation that weakens both bloodlines, even severely damaging their origins and severing the path for the fused bloodline to continue developing.

If Lin Zhuo were sober, he could calmly and rationally analyze the situation and try to find a solution.

But he is currently in a dream, and the subject in a dream has no capacity for reflection and is often swayed by emotions, making all sorts of impulsive judgments.

The giant, bound by the gray python, immediately tensed his muscles, his eyes wide with fury, as if he wanted to tear the long snake apart.

The gray python, in response, opened its enormous serpentine snout, attempting to pounce and devour the giant.

The situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse and is now at a critical juncture.

"Senior brother~ Second senior brother~ Time to eat, rumble rumble rumble!" Shu Yuliu called out as if calling a little piglet. She searched everywhere for Lin Zhuo but couldn't find him. She asked in the team channel but got no reply. "Strange, he usually finishes his seclusion by now."

[Knocks on a gong]: Why aren't you eating yet? The fried fish are getting cold!

[Mingxiao Drum]: It seems something has happened to Second Senior Brother. I have a bad feeling. [Knock on Gong]: Hey, stop jinxing me. Fine, I'll help you look for him. The two of them used their lightness skills and finally found Lin Zhuo in the outskirts of the training ground. The boulder beneath him was covered by glowing divine veins. The powerful true essence and magic power twisted the shape of the rock, making the rough, grayish-white stone look like flowing water, clouds, and wild beasts. The surface of the stone slowly rose into the shape of a snake, with scales that were clearly visible. It struggled and twisted, making a muffled sound like thunder. The arms of a giant rose up, grabbing the snake's head and pulling its body. The whole boulder turned into a flowing sculpture, and the scenery changed strangely and was amazing.

"Is this merging with a bloodline template? Something feels off." Shu Yuliu sensed the aura and conviction emanating from Lin Zhuo's body, a mixture of rage, pride, and ferocity. The abundant emotions sent chills down her spine, but the mental will contained within this aura was chaotic and confused.

Jin Xiaohu crossed his arms and stared at Lin Zhuo on the rock. He saw that Lin Zhuo's body was being pushed and swayed by the surging and deforming boulder, like a sampan in the waves. The situation was obviously quite dangerous.

"People are doing foolish things." The tabby cat took out a gong and solemnly struck it, producing a clear and loud sound. A surge of profound true energy flowed out, like a bucket of sweet rain poured on a fire, calming the raging rocks beneath Lin Zhuo.

Upon seeing this, Shu Yuliu immediately took out his own waist drum and began to beat and dance.

The essence of wood she comprehended lies in vitality and life force. The supernatural internal energy she created has an extremely strong effect on enhancing the profound true energy, so the effect can be described as immediate.

With green scales on its face, a descendant of the Kui dragon, skilled in singing and dancing, the heartbeat of the jade-like creature resonated with the rhythm of the waist drum, the music soaring and joyful. The surrounding earth and flowers swayed at the sound, nourished by the true essence of wood, they sprouted and grew, blooming in clusters, a hundred flowers in full bloom, and grass stems climbed along the giant rocks, paving a lush green path for this gray-white, furious beast. Even though it was broken and torn apart by the dancing snake and its arms, it still grew tirelessly.

Shu Yuliu sang softly, drawing upon a wooden pendant from her chest to continuously refine the true essence of wood.

She was never good at fighting; what she enjoyed most was freeing the lifeless world from its troubles. When the audience cheered with joy, the dancers would also feel gratified.

True martial arts never limit itself to any form. It doesn't necessarily have to be a fighting technique; it can also be a unique skill, a lightness skill, or a musical martial art.

At this moment, she was using her own newly created True Self Martial Arts, the effect of which was that the more beings affected by the music and dance, and the happier the audience was, the stronger the bewitching effect of the Mysterious True Qi.

Even though there are only two listeners now, the effects of the music and dance, enhanced by supernatural internal energy, are still quite remarkable.

Wild grass transformed into a cage-like net, binding the giant rock, and the warrior sitting cross-legged on the rock top calmed down.

Shu Yuliu did not stop singing and dancing, fearing that if she stopped, Lin Zhuo's condition would worsen.

Jin Xiaohu asked Zhu Baixuan for help, only to learn that the giant panda had already gone to run a dungeon and couldn't come.

The tabby cat shook its head, lamenting its bad luck. It could only anxiously stare at its teammate and mutter to itself, "The cat will protect you—may you get through this."

Lin Zhuo's dream has changed at this moment.

The giant and the python, who had been fighting to the death, both felt the vibrant life force of the wood element. As a result, the two, who were covered in wounds, gradually recovered. After the music calmed their anger, the giant stopped fighting, and the python also stopped attacking.

In his dream, Lin Zhuo realized a simple truth: from beginning to end, the giant and the python were not enemies. The giant was him, and the python was obeying him. When anger arose, both were swept up in the fighting spirit and began to fight.

The song from beyond the dream transformed into a warm, radiant light, illuminating the pitch-black surroundings. Lin Zhuo looked down and saw a strangely scribbled symbol beneath his feet, resembling the tail of a snake. Upon seeing it, he immediately understood its meaning.

【石】

This character contains the principles, form, spirit, ancient history, and long future of all ordinary rocks.

The giant of Longbo Kingdom was moved by the aura of the true talisman and wanted to transform into a corner of the earth and mountains. So he curled up his body and slowly solidified into a stubborn stone.

"Look!" Jin Xiaohu exclaimed, "The person is sinking!"

Lin Zhuo's true form gradually disappeared into the stone. This stone, covered with lush green flowers and grass, resembled the eggshell of a giant creature, containing a mortal undergoing transformation.

In the dream, Lin Zhuo's mind shifted from the giant's body to the python's. Several days earlier, the dragon rider cells had developed a second brainstem, which was now functioning as the organ of thought.

This was the first time Lin Zhuo had ever felt the snake's body so clearly: cold, tough, and with an insatiable hunger.

Scientists in the real world have no idea about the origin and biological principles of the Dragoon's armor cells. Although they have proposed many hypotheses, none of them can be definitively concluded. This is a product of alien technology from the ground up; humanity simply obtained it by accident and began to use it.

What changes would occur to the dragon rider cells after they were infused with the bloodline of the Dust-Eyed Bashe is even more unknown.

For players of the multiverse, there is no need to fear difficulties and risks, because there is always a way to start over. Lin Zhuo's attempt is certainly bold, but in the context of the multiverse, such a thing is nothing special.

With Shu Yuliu's help, Lin Zhuo had almost passed the most dangerous stage of bloodline conflict. If things proceeded smoothly like this, then after a while, the two bloodlines would take root in the main body and the symbiote respectively, achieving a peaceful state with clear distinctions.

But Lin Zhuo was not satisfied with this.

He actually has three bloodlines in his body at this moment. According to the classification of the comprehensive network, the Dragon Rider Armor Cells are probably of medium grade white, or barely reach high grade blue, because its enhancement effect is not significant. It is only special because it can adapt to the Void Dimension.

When the germ cells inside the human body mature, they spread to various tissues and organs, forming an "inner armor" that provides protection and enhances physiological functions. However, due to the inherent limitations of the human species, this inner armor is still relatively fragile, and true protection requires an outer armor.

The main body of the outer armor is also a biomass structure formed by prosthetic cells. It can be equipped with additional mechanical and electronic modules, which are wrapped in an alloy to make it strong and tough, driving various prosthetics to enhance combat power.

Without this armor, the armored warrior is only slightly beyond the limits of human capability; with this armor, he truly becomes a formidable force on the interstellar battlefield.

Some researchers have hypothesized that one day, when the technology matures, the human body may be completely abandoned, allowing the prosthetic cells to completely replace the original flesh and blood, with no barrier between the inner and outer armor. This would increase the combat power of the dragoon warriors several times over.

Lin Zhuo has watched many training courses and read a lot of materials these days, so he naturally has some understanding of this area.

He didn't expect to be able to completely replace his flesh and blood with his armor. Such a thing was not feasible for scholars in reality, nor for him, a level 5 Qigong master. He wouldn't even dare to dream of doing it.

Lin Zhuo's real intention was to use the colony as a bridge to achieve a deep integration between the bloodlines of the Longbo people and the Chenxiangbashe.

Dragoon cells possess strong regenerative capabilities. They do not appear to carry genetic material themselves, but rather replicate and modify the host's genetic information.

In the dream, the python opened its gaping maw and began to devour the giant who had turned to stone. This snake had grown from the giant's spine, and when it swallowed the giant's back, it ate its own tail, forming a ring—an ouroboros.

The dragon rider cells began replicating the genetic information of the Longbo people. The ouroboros's body swelled and grew, continuing to devour its own tail, in a nested, cyclical pattern.

In reality, Lin Zhuo slept peacefully in the stone egg, the dark gray color on his back spreading to his whole body, then slowly turning into a bright yellow, and then turning back into dark gray, alternating repeatedly.

"Crack!" The pendant on Shu Yuliu's chest shattered after exhausting its energy. She had been dancing so intensely that she had forgotten her emotions and did not stop. She raised her hand to catch a piece of spirit wood that Jin Xiaohu threw to her and continued to draw energy and activate her sonic power.

"Live on, I want you to live on—to be safe and sound, I want you to be safe and sound!"

Time passed, day and night turned. The sky was pitch black, Shu Yuliu's singing voice had become hoarse, sweat poured down her face, her cheeks were thin and cold, like the face of a peach blossom under a ghost lamp, her dance was still joyful, but her body, which was on the verge of its limit, staggered like the steps of a mountain ghost.

Jin Xiaohu frowned, and for the hundredth time, he couldn't bear to say, "Take a break!"

This was the hundredth time that Shu Yuliu had ignored him.

Under the moonlight, the stone egg suddenly emitted a faint glow, and intense spiritual energy burst forth from its vein-like meridians, releasing yellowish lumps...

It was a bright red, like the color of the sun on the horizon at dawn or dusk.

Jin Xiaohu shouted, and Shu Yuliu finally stopped dancing, standing there like a skeleton, gazing at the imagery of the moment.

Both Qigong masters sensed that the martial artist in the stone had awakened, his will fused into every strand of Qi, so clear and exhilarating.

Crack! Crack—the pebble cracked open, revealing fine spiderweb-like patterns.

A pair of faintly transparent, earthy-yellow hands pried open the stone shell, pressed against the crack, and pulled out the enormous body. The upper body alone was ten feet long, while the lower body swam out from the stone egg, which turned out to be a snake tail that stretched for an unknown distance.

Jin Xiaohu and Shu Yuliu were stunned, speechless.

Lin Zhuo, with his human body and snake tail, had his black hair blazing like fire. He looked at his teammates, nodded slightly, and then his enormous body disintegrated, turning into thousands of points of light that rolled back into the cracked stone shell.

This was clearly just an illusion of spiritual energy, yet it was so real that it was difficult to discern.

Footsteps echoed, and a familiar figure emerged between two small hills piled with rubble and weeds.

Lin Zhuo was shirtless, and his master-level martial arts attire was stretched and torn by his increased size, making it unusable.

Jin Xiaohu banged on the gong, jumping up and down, "Congratulations on your resurrection!"

Shu Yuliu smiled, wanting to say something, but her lips trembled slightly, and her body suddenly staggered forward. Before losing consciousness, she heard the tabby cat's exclamation and saw an arm coming to support her. Then she lost consciousness.

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