The poorest member of the Imperial Guard, the Empress begged me to embezzle.

"The secrets within will be revealed once you receive the inheritance."

Ying Wuyou sighed softly, stroked his own skeletal remains, and murmured, "After being dead for so long, I can finally see the light of day again..."

Chu Xiu sensed her emotions and, seeing this, did not disturb her.

After a moment, Ying Wuyou suppressed his grief, tore off a smooth, jade-like rib from the sternum of his true body, and threw it into the pool of blood in front of him.

The blood pool boiled suddenly after only a few breaths after the rib entered it, emitting an extremely rich bloodline aura, several times stronger than what Chu Xiu had felt before!

"That rib contains all the essence of the dragon veins and the marrow of the dragon bones within this palace..."

"I have placed my hopes for the survival of the Yinglong lineage on you, young man. I hope you will not disappoint me..."

Ying Wuyou solemnly instructed.

Chu Xiu nodded heavily.

"Eat my Dragon Pearl, remove your clothes, and enter the Blood Pool."

Ying Wuyou casually tossed a palm-sized dragon pearl, radiating dazzling golden light, to Chu Xiu.

Chu Xiu caught it with both hands, "It's so big? How are we going to eat this..."

Ying Wuyou rolled her eyes, waved her hand, and the dragon pearl in Chu Xiu's hand gradually liquefied and flew into Chu Xiu's mouth on its own.

"It can still be like this..."

After the Dragon Ball liquefied and entered his body, Chu Xiu immediately took off all his clothes and stepped straight in, but his feet slipped and he fell into the blood pool.

I thought it was just a pool of blood, but it turned out to be a blood pool tens of meters deep!

Chu Xiu gradually sank to the bottom of the pool. The blood that submerged him gradually became viscous after he entered the blood pool and actively clung to his body.

His tightly closed eyes suddenly snapped open.

The blood in my body seemed to be drawn by the blood outside my body, and it was boiling!

The area around his dantian felt especially warm because of the dragon ball he had previously ingested.

At that moment, Ying Wuyou's voice transmission came: "Lower your guard and let the essence blood flow into your body. The Dragon Pearl will help you absorb it!"

Chu Xiu steeled his heart and obeyed Ying Wuyou's instructions.

The viscous blood around him began to seep into his body through every orifice after he released his physical defenses, and a bone-corroding pain suddenly surged into his heart!

Chu Xiu gritted his teeth and endured it. In the next moment, he realized that his perception of his own bloodline and the surrounding blood energy had suddenly become several times more acute!

He could clearly see with his naked eye that powerful streams of bloodline energy were violently surging into his body.

He was then controlled by the dragon pearl in his dantian, which spread throughout his body via his meridians, filling every inch of his flesh and blood.

"Fight!"

Chu Xiu endured the excruciating pain and began to actively absorb the bloodline power within the blood pool.

Suddenly, each of its nine orifices emitted an extremely strong suction force, forming nine vortexes within the blood pool, frantically devouring the blood!

At the same time, the Yinglong Dragon Pearl within his body also shone brightly.

The true blood of Yinglong that he absorbed was condensed by the dragon pearl and transformed into high-concentration essence blood when it passed through his dantian, and began to merge with Chu Xiu's own essence blood.

Outside the blood pool, Ying Wuyou was not idle either. One spell after another, driven by her divine soul power, was imprinted into the blood pool. Without her assistance, Chu Xiu would not have been able to mobilize such a large pool of Yinglong True Blood with just the power of the Dragon Pearl.

Seeing the churning blood, Ying Wuyou frowned: "This kid... you can't rush things..."

Sensing Ying Wuyou's spiritual fluctuations, Chu Xiu opened his eyes and smiled: "It seems this Senior Ying is truly holding nothing back from me..."

"In that case, I, Chu, must not disappoint you, senior."

"Give it to me! Suck it!"

Chu Xiu's rate of absorbing blood increased dramatically once again, and the water level in the blood pool was decreasing at a visible speed.

Meanwhile, in the ancient palace outside the Ascending Blood Pool.

Everyone's attention is focused on a stone tablet engraved with information about the participants in the bloodline awakening.

The information on the stone tablet is floating and appearing.

"Long You, who comes from a branch of the Alligator Dragon lineage, has already increased the concentration of Alligator Dragon True Blood to 99%!"

"It's a 100% success! A 100% success!"

"I never imagined that Longyou, a mere branch of the family, could recreate the glory of the original Tuolong Ancestor!"

The person who spoke shouted excitedly, but when he turned around, he found that everyone around him was staring silently at another stone tablet, at the name that kept climbing upwards.

This stone tablet records the real-time ranking of the bloodline concentration and strength of those who awakened the true dragon bloodline here.

The Demon General of the Li Dragon, possessing the true blood of the Li Dragon, with a bloodline purity of 100%.

His ancestors were the offspring of a dragon king in the East Sea before the chaos of war. Therefore, the Lilong Demon General is indeed a descendant of a true dragon!

Jackal Dragon Demon General, with Yazi True Blood, bloodline purity of 30%.

Yazi is a direct descendant of the true dragon, and the true form of the jackal dragon demon general's grandfather was a real Yazi!

The name of the Lilong Demon General is listed at the very bottom—the 303rd, and he is one of only three demon generals whose names were originally recorded here.

The top 300 are all demon generals, and the Jackal Dragon Demon General is ranked 150th.

But now, a brand new name has emerged on this stone tablet and is gradually rising!

"That's... a crocodile!"

"The name of the alligator dragon has indeed appeared on the stone tablet that records the bloodline of the true dragon!"

"His ranking, and the purity of his Yinglong bloodline, are gradually rising!"

The Jackal Demon General's eyes flashed with cold light as he gritted his teeth and stared at the name that had surpassed his own and was still climbing higher, his heart filled with endless hatred.

Meanwhile, Li Long sighed helplessly.

The current Tuolong has surpassed him by far... He is powerless to catch up...

Just as everyone was marveling, a figure dressed in a phoenix skirt and dragon robe appeared in front of the stone tablet.

The Demon Emperor's divided soul descends!

Those present looked shocked and knelt down in worship.

"See Your Majesty!"

The Demon Emperor ignored everyone, looked at the names of the alligators that were constantly rising on the stone tablet, and smiled. He then waved his hand and projected the information on the stone tablet into the sky above the entire Yu Ling Sect.

The Demon Emperor's power enveloped the entire Yu Ling Sect, and instantly, everyone's attention was drawn to the projection floating above the sect.

"That is... the True Dragon Bloodline Stele!"

"That name... Tuolong? Is it that demon general who sought fame and fortune?"

"The rumors are true! This alligator dragon has actually awakened its true dragon bloodline and gained His Majesty's favor!"

Within the third layer of the Yuling Sect's territory, hundreds of powerful figures emerged from dozens of bustling and prosperous cities, gathering high in the sky and projecting below.

The aura of each figure was either comparable to, or even greater than, that of the Jackal Dragon Demon General.

"The demon general Tuolong under the command of the Jackal Dragon... What is Your Majesty's intention in making his awakening ceremony public?"

A demon general with the body of a white tiger was the first to speak.

"Heh, I've heard that Jackal Dragon kicked Alligator Dragon out of his ranks a long time ago and gave him away as a pawn to that bastard Dragon Bear, but Alligator Dragon managed to escape."

A black dragon-headed demon general sneered.

"Oh? So, the Crocodile Dragon is now a free man? Doesn't that mean we have a chance to bring him under our command?"

"What unrealistic dreams are you having? He's a demon general now, but what about after the ritual is completed? Didn't you see that the purity of his Yinglong bloodline has already reached 70%?"

"That's 70%! Of our 300 demon generals, is half of them as strong as the alligator dragon's bloodline?"

"...You mean, he, Tuolong, will participate in the upcoming Demon General Competition and compete with us for the position of Demon General?"

These words immediately caused the more than two hundred demon generals present to look at each other in bewilderment.

"It seems His Majesty, seeing that we have been stagnant for too long, wants to send Tuolong, a rising star, to give us a warning!"