246: Bloodline

So, in the arena, it wasn't just the children who hadn't awakened their bloodlines who were incredibly nervous.

Their parents, whose children's futures were at stake, also looked incredibly tense.

Xiao Dou looked at these children and smiled, nodding.

These were the future of their Xiao Clan!

He only hoped that this time, more children with powerful bloodlines would emerge.

After all, the bloodline of their Xiao Clan was becoming increasingly diluted!

Then, Xiao Dou waved his hand, and all the patterns on the ritual platform immediately lit up.

From where Xiao Dou stood, the lit patterns quickly began to spread, soon reaching the feet of the stone statue.

Immediately after, starting from the statue's feet, they rapidly spread up the statue's body, until all the patterns on its entire body were lit.

Then, the Seven Stars in the statue's eyes suddenly burst forth with dazzling light.

At this moment, everyone in the arena felt a sense of bloodline attraction.

The source of the attraction was the stone statue before them.

From the deepest part of their bloodline came a feeling of intimacy, and... worship.

At the same time, Chen De also felt a consciousness, or rather, his perception of the consciousness within the stone statue became clearer.

Chen De could tell that the other party was currently unconscious, still in a deep sleep.

All the phenomena occurring now were merely passive reactions.

As the source of the bloodline, it didn't need to awaken; a mere ripple of consciousness was enough to awaken the bloodline in its descendants.

Next, those children standing on the ritual platform, with their feet on the patterns,

Under the illumination of the light from the statue's eyes and the blessing of the stone platform beneath their feet, officially began their bloodline awakening.

During the bloodline awakening, seven faint stars appeared on different parts of these children's bodies.

Although they only appeared for an instant and then vanished, Chen De saw them clearly.

Those were the seven stars that would only appear after one had entered the Purple Firmament Seven Stars Mixed Method.

Now Chen De understood that bloodline awakening was actually about making these stars appear on their bodies, or rather, awakening these stars.

After entering the cultivation method, they could manifest the stars.

Chen De also understood why this cultivation method required the Xiao Clan bloodline to cultivate.

This was because only with the bloodline could one possess these seven stars.

These stars provided them with the foundation for cultivating the method.

The Purple Firmament Seven Stars Mixed Method was a cultivation method used to light up the stars.

Outsiders simply didn't have the foundation to cultivate this method; they couldn't even enter it and manifest the stars.

Because they themselves didn't possess these seven stars.

These seven stars were brought by the Xiao Clan bloodline; they were innate to them.

But others didn't have them!

No wonder the Eight Clans attached so much importance to bloodlines.

Chen De had been puzzled, thinking, 'Can't anyone with a bloodline cultivate?'

Then, with a Heaven-tier cultivation method, they definitely shouldn't be weak.

Now Chen De understood: their cultivation methods and techniques.

All of them were tied to their own bloodline; from birth, their future was already determined.

Whatever the strength of their bloodline, that would be the achievement they could ultimately reach.

The Seven Stars they cultivated were brought by their own bloodline.

Those with low bloodline strength could almost never light up the next star.

Because with low bloodline strength, the next star itself simply couldn't be lit.

Of course, it wasn't that they couldn't cultivate other Heaven-tier cultivation methods.

With the strength of the Xiao Clan, they could completely achieve this.

However, those with the clan's bloodline who cultivated their native methods had an almost 100% compatibility with the method.

Therefore, their cultivation speed was extremely fast, much faster than those who cultivated other Heaven-tier methods.

And the stronger the bloodline, the faster the cultivation speed.

Most importantly, before the bloodline reached its limit, they would hardly encounter any bottlenecks, and their growth speed would be extremely rapid.

The resources to cultivate a weak bloodline user were far greater than the resources to cultivate a strong bloodline user.

Moreover, after cultivation, weak bloodline users were often no match for strong bloodline users.

Given these conditions, it was naturally obvious who would be cultivated.

So, for weak bloodline users, the clan would still give them cultivation methods to practice.

However, for other aspects of cultivation, especially resources, the clan would not invest too much.

It was still the same saying: the same resources, given to him, would yield greater returns than given to you.

It's not that there isn't any; even if there is, it won't be given to you; it's being saved for others.

Under these circumstances, weak bloodline users were naturally far inferior to strong bloodline users.

However, it wasn't that weak bloodline users had never produced powerful individuals.

There were indeed a handful of such rare individuals in the Xiao Clan, but they were only fringe figures within the Piming Realm.

And they themselves would actively and eagerly seek to unite with strong bloodline users.

In order to ensure that their next generation could obtain a slightly stronger bloodline.

Because having experienced it themselves, they understood even more clearly how difficult it was to grow without a bloodline.

Furthermore, here, there was no need to worry about the problems that only internal marriage would cause in Chen De's previous life.

The biggest problem with internal marriage was that, after union, it would increase the probability of homozygous recessive traits combining in the genes.

Increasing the possibility of genetic defects appearing in the next generation.

But they were different; their bloodline had been altered and transformed, making it relatively perfect.

There were no inherent defects in their genetic bloodline; no matter how much the probability was increased, zero multiplied by anything is still zero.

Soon, this bloodline awakening ceremony was over.

Some were happy, some were sad. For example, Xiao Dou was not very satisfied with this awakening ceremony.

In the Xiao Clan, the strength of bloodline power is divided into seven star grades, according to the star level.

This basically corresponds to how many stars one can cultivate in the Purple Firmament Seven Stars Mixed Method.

For example, Xiao Miao, Xiao Ying, and Xiao Shao were all Seven-Star Bloodline geniuses.

In the Xiao Clan, possessing Seven-Star Bloodline potential meant being able to break through to the Piming Realm at least.

And this bloodline awakening ceremony didn't produce a single Seven-Star Bloodline genius.

Of course, this was nothing; in the Xiao Clan, Seven-Star Bloodlines were extremely rare.

Even hundreds of thousands of years ago, Seven-Star Bloodlines weren't present every time.

Even more so now, so the absence of a Seven-Star Bloodline was normal.

But the key was that there weren't many Six-Star Bloodlines either, only a mere three hundred-plus people.

The rest were mostly Five-Star or Four-Star Bloodlines.

One- to Three-Star Bloodlines were in the minority, but their numbers were still much greater than those with Six-Star Bloodlines.

Of course, although Xiao Dou was not very satisfied with this result.

However, the dilution of the bloodline was an objective fact, a general trend, which could not be changed by a mere bloodline awakening ceremony.

It was just that deep down, he still held some hope.

So, as per custom, he spoke a few words of encouragement to these newly awakened children, telling them to cultivate diligently and not to...

This bloodline grand ceremony was considered concluded.

However, most of the children who awakened Six-Star Bloodlines and their parents were quite satisfied.

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