Eternal Life Begins with Learning

Chapter 406: Chapter 375: Different Lives

A torrent of thoughts raced through his mind. After a long while, the projection slowly faded.

Chu Mu took out a Jade Scroll and probed it with his Divine Sense, inscribing the "textbooks" he had prepared for his three Named Disciples.

He had to admit that viewing the Artifact Refining Skill from a teacher’s perspective offered a completely different experience than when he had studied and researched it alone.

This was the second time he had felt this way.

The first time was during his years in the Northern Border.

And now, having taken on three Named Disciples as part of a transaction, this feeling was even more distinct.

As he inscribed the body of knowledge on Artifact Refining into the Jade Scroll, he reviewed what he already knew, and in doing so, seemed to gain several new insights.

This process continued for nearly an hour before he slowly set the Jade Scroll down.

He glanced toward the Artifact Room. Amidst the swirling Array Prohibitions, wisps of Fire Attribute Spiritual Energy were gathering. Clearly, his "bargain" disciples had already begun their Artifact Refining practice.

He pondered for a moment, then stood and walked directly to the rear courtyard.

A flowing Array Prohibition separated the front and rear courtyards. As he reached the end of the covered corridor, the Array Prohibition Token at his waist flickered, and a pale blue portal abruptly materialized.

He took a step forward, his figure vanishing into the portal. The next moment, the pale blue light flickered, and the portal vanished abruptly.

The front courtyard was tranquil, a place of leisure and comfort.

The rear courtyard, however, was now tinged with the distinct smell of blood. In an open area stood more than a dozen cages, each flickering with Array Prohibition Patterns. Inside them were Demon Beasts of all shapes and forms.

There were flying birds and land beasts, fish, shrimp, crabs, and snakes—it seemed no kind was missing.

The Demon Beasts were not of a high Grade; all were at Tier One Cultivation.

Judging from the bloodstains on the cages, it seemed these Demon Beasts were not living well in the True Understanding Pavilion.

Chu Mu scanned the Demon Beasts, then with a sweep of his hand, produced a Jade Scroll before walking toward one of the cages.

Ice Jade Snake. A body like jade, cold as frost.

Although it only possessed a Yellow Tier Upper Grade Bloodline, this Demon Beast grew only in frozen lands, making it quite rare.

However, the Ice Jade Snake in the cage before him seemed somewhat different from the one recorded in the Demon Beast Atlas.

On its jade-like body, the clinging frost had turned a faint red. Its pupils, originally a pale blue, were now mostly a faint red, with the blue confined to a tiny dot in the very center.

Seeing Chu Mu approach, the Ice Jade Snake grew extremely vigilant and uneasy. It flicked its tongue and reared up, adopting a wary, predatory stance.

But with a wave of Chu Mu’s hand, the cage’s Array Prohibition activated, completely immobilizing the Ice Jade Snake in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, the cage door swung open. Chu Mu stepped inside, and as he observed every inch of the Ice Jade Snake, he recorded his findings one by one onto the Jade Scroll.

’The bloodlines of the Red Compassion Snake and the Ice Jade Snake show signs of merging... Estimated fusion progress: ten percent...’

’Specific traits include... frost turning red, pupil discoloration, slight mental instability, increased appetite... Possibility of bloodline rejection leading to unknown mutations cannot be ruled out...’

’Physical changes are expected to continue... complete pupil discoloration...’

’Can be soothed with a Calming Pill...’

Chu Mu’s observations were meticulous. He examined every part of the dozens-of-feet-long Ice Jade Snake, inside and out, and clearly recorded everything he could see in the Jade Scroll. By comparing these notes with the records of every previous observation, he could form an exceptionally clear timeline of the bloodline’s fusion.

Over the past year, apart from planning the advancement of his own skills, his main focus had been on these dozen or so Demon Beasts. To be precise, he had acquired over a hundred Demon Beasts one after another.

The dozen or so Demon Beasts before him were simply the lucky ones that had survived his repeated experiments.

He had fused each Demon Beast with a bloodline that shared a common origin with its own.

For instance, with this Ice Jade Snake, he had chosen to fuse it with the Red Compassion Snake bloodline. Thanks to his accumulated experience and deepening understanding of bloodlines, this particular Ice Jade Snake had maintained stable vital signs to this day.

He spent nearly a full day on this, working late into the night until he had observed the experimental progress of all dozen-or-so Demon Beasts.

The Jade Scroll was now packed with more than ten new experiment logs.

Chu Mu casually chose a clean spot and sat cross-legged. Probing the Jade Scroll with his Divine Sense, he saw a series of experiment logs appear in his Divine Sense Perception. They formed a clear progression, stretching back more than half a year.

Under the effect of his Spiritual Radiance Blessing, he carefully combed through the logs from beginning to end, once again deepening his understanding of bloodlines.

By now, he was certain that bloodline fusion was no mere fantasy, but a genuine possibility.

However, it was also clear that bloodline fusion involved a great deal of uncertainty.

It was like opening a loot box. Sometimes, even when two powerful bloodlines were fused, the result was a creature even weaker than its progenitors.

Other times, the fusion of two unremarkable bloodlines could result in something unexpectedly potent.

As of now, his research was still in its early stages. He wasn’t yet sure if this randomness was truly arbitrary or if there were underlying patterns to be found.

Although he had now collected a number of texts and Jade Scrolls on the subject of bloodlines, from what he had observed, Bloodline Cultivators in the Vast Sea Cultivation Immortal World clearly placed far more importance on bloodline purity.

The higher the Grade of a Bloodline Cultivator’s bloodline, the more obsessed they were with its purity.

Take the Vast Sea Chen Family’s Flood Dragon Bloodline, for example. As far as he knew, in the tens of thousands of years since the clan’s founding, the direct descendants of the Chen Family had never once intermarried with outsiders, all to ensure the purity of their bloodline.

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