Lu Mingfei, become the King of Elden!

Chapter 57 Bloodshed
The follow-up to this document seems to have been taken away or destroyed, with only a few sentences remaining, leaving people completely baffled.

Lu Mingfei raised his head and looked at Chu Zihang standing to the side. The pale light outlined the cold profile of his face.

"Principal...why do you want me to see this?"

Lu Mingfei already had a guess in his mind, but he still wasn't sure.

He dared not overestimate his abilities.

Before he went to the border region, he was a hopeless case with questionable cultural literacy; after going to the border region, Lu Mingfei grew up and became a brute with still questionable cultural literacy but high combat prowess.

Chu Zihang did not answer immediately. He remained silent, his gaze sweeping over the forbidden file on the table before finally settling back on Lu Mingfei's face.

"I heard you've been going to the library a lot lately?"

How come everyone knows what he's been up to lately? Has Fingel's business expanded to the point where he's started selling "S-class daily tracks"?

"Ah."

Lu Mingfei nodded, but didn't ask any further questions.

"How much do you know about dragon bloodlines? Or, what do you think is the key to allowing hybrids to maintain their 'human' identity?"

Chu Zihang didn't mince words and directly pointed out the most important issue.

Lu Mingfei fell silent as well.

He had a vague idea of ​​what the so-called forbidden path, "Bloodlust," was roughly.

"Spirit."

Lu Mingfei said in a low voice:
"I think the most credible explanation is that hybrids have two minds that simultaneously possess human and dragon attributes."

The two conflict, but human personality often prevails due to a higher proportion of genetic predisposition.

It is natural that the "human spirit" of modern hybrids is very stable.

Because they have undergone "high-quality breeding".

The birth of hybrids is bloody and sordid. Humans forcefully mate with dragons, selecting offspring generation after generation until a stable lineage is born.

They were thieves, robbers, Prometheus who stole fire.

Dragons are gods. They crave the power of the gods and thus use dirty and despicable means to obtain power, attempting to usurp power and even become gods themselves.

Lu Mingfei saw such a word in a very old and obscure alchemy notebook.

The road to becoming a god.

The significance is self-evident: it represents humanity's attempt to transcend critical lineages while maintaining the spirit of being human.

However, Lu Mingfei felt that this was simply impossible.

Because once the bloodline of a hybrid exceeds the critical blood limit, the powerful force of dragon blood will forcibly rewrite human genes into dragon genes. However, when they are only one step away from becoming a dragon, their human genes will launch a terrifying counterattack, making their dragon genes infinitely close but never reaching 100%. Therefore, they cannot become a true dragon, but they are no longer human either, becoming an unconscious, dead creature that obeys the dragon.

Deadpool.

That's their name.

This is a forbidden door, Pandora's box, and no one can escape its clutches once it is opened.

Chu Zihang nodded slightly, agreeing with Lu Mingfei's statement.

This is normal.

Because the books Lu Mingfei borrowed were all books he had borrowed before, and the path Lu Mingfei was now exploring... was also one he had explored before. "I've seen part of the Equipment Department's inspection report."

Chu Zihang's voice was calm, yet it struck Lu Mingfei's heart like a heavy hammer:

"Your mental threshold, your physical strength... are far beyond what can be explained by a conventional S-level. Your final state underwater at the Three Gorges Dam... also exceeded the record."

Lu Mingfei felt as if his breath had stopped.

Chu Zihang knew it after all! Or rather, he guessed it!
“The principal believes,” Chu Zihang continued, “that in that life-or-death moment, you may have inadvertently… pushed open this door.”

He pointed to the forbidden file on the table, titled "Bloodlust".

"It was just a crack, or it was just touching the door panel."

“But this is really dangerous. If you’re not careful, what’s behind the door could completely devour you, turning you into the person in the photo, or even… worse.”

Lu Mingfei wasn't really clear about his own situation.

All he knew was that once the Dragon's Flame was fully ignited, the dragon bloodline within his body would become active to an almost limit.

In that instant, he will transform into a demon and a yaksha, and gain power that surpasses everything.

Normally, after mortals in the border region perform the Dragon Offering Ceremony, they will irreversibly transform into the direction of the dragon. First, their eyes will turn into golden, vertical pupils similar to those of a reptile; then, scales will gradually grow on their bodies, eventually covering their entire bodies; and then their hands and feet will slowly turn into claws.

Driven by an intense craving for dragon hearts, they would continuously devour them, eventually replacing even the heart itself and transforming into ugly earth dragons.

How ironic that those who once hunted the heart of the dragon have become prey for their own kind.
However, Lu Mingfei did not transform into a dragon. Or rather, his dragon transformation was controllable.

Only when his bloodline and the power of the Dragon's Blessing are fully activated will he transform into a demon and a yaksha.

He had a guess:
Hybrids are born to bear the power of dragons.

Their cells, nerves, and bones exhibit far greater tolerance and adaptability to dragon power than ordinary fading beings. This directly solves the biggest physical drawback of the Dragon Feast—the unbearable dragonification mutation of the body.

In other words, the dragon bloodline of hybrid species has "compatibility," judging foreign dragon power as "of the same origin" or "inferior" and absorbing it.

The "human heart" of a hybrid is itself a powerful core of will, capable of suppressing the "dragon heart" and effectively resisting the invasion of external will.

Spirit is the foundation of everything.

"If I'm not mistaken, the so-called 'bloodlust' is a technique that uses the mind to temporarily cross the critical bloodline."

Am I right, senior?

Lu Mingfei said slowly.

Chu Zihang gave Lu Mingfei a deep look, and after a long while, he said:
"You've changed so much since we came back from the Three Gorges."

Lu Mingfei's heart, which had just been at ease, was once again on edge.

But Chu Zihang didn't say anything more, he just nodded:
“You’re right. ‘Blood Explosion’ is such a technique.”

"By using 'hypnosis' to suppress the human spirit within the body, the dragon spirit is briefly released."

At this point, not only did their mental state change, but their dragon genes also seemed to sense this change and began to activate. Various hidden dragon-like characteristics within their bodies were activated, and their genes began to modify human genes—this is the theoretical basis for 'berserk blood'.

“It took me six months to barely deduce its outline, while you only looked at the notes once and you’ve already reached this level.”

"You are remarkable."

(End of this chapter)