Su Ningbing continued with a smile, “It won’t be long before your sister can no longer teach you anything. In fact, there are already many things your sister can no longer teach you now.”
“No way.” Luan Ling gave an embarrassed smile.
This was truly not because he possessed some extraordinary talent, but because of the previous transmigrator, His Majesty the Dragon Emperor. Three thousand years ago, he had established a complete system of civilised knowledge, and much of it was something Luan Ling had already studied, even achieving considerable mastery in many areas.
During this period, he truly felt as though he were in paradise. This familiar yet unfamiliar elder sister, Su Ningbing, spent every moment with him day and night. Not only did Luan Ling’s learning progress by leaps and bounds, but the intimate bond between brother and sister grew deeper as well.
Su Ningbing not only taught him theoretical knowledge but also taught him painting and playing the qin.
With such constant closeness, the relationship between the two became increasingly intimate.
At the very least, Ye Jingyu had joked on more than one occasion that Luan Ling seemed more like Su Ningbing’s real younger brother than Suo Lun ever did.
These words did not particularly please Luan Ling, because he did not merely want to be his sister’s real younger brother. He wanted to become her man.
However, he was not yet strong enough. He could not yet shield his sister or the family from wind and rain. Therefore, he still did not wish to confess.
Originally, Su Ningbing had planned for Luan Ling to enter secluded cultivation for two months, but because his learning progress was so astonishingly outstanding, the seclusion ended after only one month. At this point, Luan Ling could directly enter the Royal City Academy without any risk of being exposed due to insufficient knowledge.
In the time to come, Luan Ling would begin receiving martial dao enlightenment under Ye Jingyu’s guidance.
At this moment, he had only one thought: to cultivate martial dao with desperate effort, to pass the Royal City Academy’s graduation grand examination in the shortest possible time, and thereby smoothly inherit the title of Tianshui Earl and the position of Tianshui City Lord, so as to avoid any further complications or delays.
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“From today onwards, I will teach you martial dao enlightenment.” In the empty inner courtyard, Ye Jingyu was still dressed in her black tight-fitting leather outfit.
By now, Luan Ling had learned that Ye Jingyu possessed more than ten identical sets of this tight-fitting leather clothing. The only difference between them was the silver-thread embroidery on the chest.
Even though they had already spent quite a long time together, Luan Ling still felt slightly uneasy facing Ye Jingyu, because her figure was far too explosive, too devilishly alluring, and Luan Ling was still a virgin.
Although he adored his sister deeply, he was after all a young man full of vigour. And since Ye Jingyu always wore such tight clothing, her body would stretch and bend dramatically during training. At those moments, her curves became even more breathtaking, and merely glancing at her made Luan Ling’s heart pound wildly, often triggering certain reactions.
“As long as you are willing, any of the serving maids in the earl’s residence can be summoned to attend to you in bed,” Ye Jingyu suddenly said.
Luan Ling immediately shook his head furiously, his face flushing bright red.
Seeing his embarrassment, Ye Jingyu secretly smiled to herself and said, “Before we begin martial dao enlightenment, we must first test your bloodline to see whether you possess sufficient dragon blood talent.”
The people of this world were called the descendants of dragons. More or less, every person carried dragon bloodline within their bodies, and within that dragon bloodline lay immense power, known as dragon force.
The foundation of martial dao was precisely to awaken the dragon force within the bloodline and convert it into one’s own martial power.
Because each person’s dragon bloodline talent varied, the colour manifested by the dragon bloodline also differed.
At present, the dragon bloodline colours in this world could generally be divided into six types: grey, white, black, blue, red, and purple.
Among these six colours, the further along the sequence, the rarer and nobler they became.
Note that it was rare and noble, not necessarily stronger. For example, purple dragon bloodline basically existed only among the top royal and noble families of the current world. Yet many members of those royal families were not particularly powerful in martial arts.
There was one bloodline colour even rarer than purple: transparent and colourless, appearing perhaps once in a million people. But this rarity did not signify nobility. Instead, it signified calamity. A transparent, colourless dragon bloodline meant possessing virtually no dragon force. Such individuals were known as those cursed by the heavens. They were either exiled to the wilderness or executed.
In this world, those with grey bloodline were the most numerous, accounting for more than eighty percent of humanity. The bloodline power within these people was extremely weak, and there was no point in them learning martial dao.
The remaining five colours—white, black, blue, red, and purple—were all suitable for martial cultivation, provided the bloodline grade was sufficiently high.
How did one judge the grade of a bloodline? By its colour. The deeper the colour, the higher the grade, and the greater the power of the bloodline.
As long as the grade was high enough, any of these five colours could produce a powerful martial practitioner.
For instance, those with white dragon bloodline were suited to become swordsmen, because their strength and agility talents were relatively high, while their mental, sinew-bone, and endurance talents were also passable.
Those with black dragon bloodline had especially high mental and agility talents, but the other three talents were particularly weak. Thus they were suited to become assassins: one fatal strike, not suited for prolonged combat.
As for those with blue dragon bloodline, they possessed very high mental talent, decent strength talent, and merely average talents in the remaining three areas. They were suited to become archers.
Those with red dragon bloodline had powerful strength, excellent sinew-bone talent, and good endurance, but very low mental and agility talents. Such people were suited to become great swordsmen. Once clad in thick armour and wielding a massive sword, they became like human tanks on the battlefield.
As for those with purple dragon bloodline, they had good mental, agility, and strength talents, as well as decent sinew-bone and endurance. With relatively balanced talents across all five attributes, they were best suited to become knights. They were natural leaders. They could swing treasured swords from horseback or draw bows and shoot with fury.
It was precisely because of this that those with purple dragon bloodline gradually rose to become the most elite families in the world.
The previous Suo Lun had possessed red bloodline, though of very low grade. Moreover, he could not endure hardship, so his martial prowess was practically negligible—he could not even defeat any of his numerous lovers in a fight.
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“Drink this bottle of firestone fluid,” Ye Jingyu said as she handed over a porcelain bottle.
Only after allowing the firestone fluid to merge with the blood, then dripping it into dragon spring water, would a reaction occur and reveal the colour of the bloodline.
Luan Ling drank the firestone fluid. Moments later, he felt his body growing hotter and hotter. Even more embarrassingly, the certain part of him that had only just calmed down suddenly became fiercely erect once more. He immediately dared not look at Ye Jingyu, awkwardly bending slightly at the waist.
This firestone fluid, if brought to Earth, could serve perfectly well as Viagra.
Ye Jingyu gave him a light glance and said, “Extend your index finger.”
Luan Ling extended his index finger. Ye Jingyu lightly sliced it with a knife, and fresh blood dripped into a jade bowl on the table.
Inside this crystal-clear jade bowl was dragon spring water, specially used for testing dragon bloodline. It was completely transparent and colourless, indistinguishable from ordinary clear water.
After the blood dripped into the dragon spring water, a burst of red instantly spread out, growing fainter and fainter.
“I hope it’s not grey bloodline. That would mean you cannot cultivate martial dao at all,” Ye Jingyu said.
Luan Ling saw that the colour inside the jade bowl had already become almost transparent. The original red of the blood had nearly vanished completely.
Ye Jingyu’s expression suddenly changed in shock. “It, it couldn’t be transparent and colourless, could it?”
Those with transparent, colourless dragon bloodline were cursed by the heavens. Legend said they would bring disaster to their family and those around them. Therefore, once discovered, such individuals would certainly be exiled. And if the Divine Dragon Temple found out, they would certainly be executed.
Luan Ling’s heart also skipped a beat. He hoped desperately it was not transparent and colourless. If it were, his position in the Suo clan would become extremely awkward. He might even bring calamity to his sister and the family.
Nevertheless, deep down he still had considerable confidence. He believed his dragon bloodline talent should not be low, because within his body resided a demon star—an incomparably powerful and mysterious demon star.
As the dragon spring water in the bowl became thoroughly transparent, Ye Jingyu’s face had already turned deathly pale.
But right at that moment, the dragon spring water in the bowl trembled gently, and a colour appeared.
Ye Jingyu let out a long breath of relief. As long as it was not colourless, that was fine. If it truly had been colourless, she genuinely would not have known what to do.
But immediately afterwards, her delicate body shuddered, and her expression changed dramatically.
Because the colour that appeared in the dragon spring water was one that had never been seen before.
In the current world, dragon bloodline colours consisted of only seven types: grey, white, black, blue, red, purple, and colourless.
Yet right now, the colour presented within the dragon spring water in the jade bowl was…… yellow!
Throughout history, no one had ever seen, nor ever heard of, a yellow dragon bloodline!