103: I have become divine blood!

Lin Chen decided to walk the Causality Dao.

What is causality? In simple terms, it's just one sentence.

It is the connection between all people and things, things and things, things and objects, and objects and people.

Because Lin Chen ate, he was full; this is a simple causal relationship.

Cause: Eating

Process: Eating food into the stomach

Effect: Full

To glimpse the Causality Dao and anchor the Causality Dao, Lin Chen must cause trouble and participate in various events.

By perfecting one causal connection after another, he could stumble upon that flash of insight and glimpse the shallow manifestation of causality—the causal line.

As long as he courted death enough, causality would naturally be triggered.

Offending a certain evil god today and reducing that evil god to ashes tomorrow—once this causal relationship is established, it will naturally elevate Lin Chen's cultivation by a notch.

After all, the heavier the causality, the more feedback generated upon its completion.

Accepting causality, balancing causality, and severing causality—this is the logic of cultivating and comprehending the Causality Dao, without too many twists and turns.

The core is to court death and cause trouble; the more trouble he causes, the stronger his power and the higher his cultivation.

Lin Chen's current understanding of causality is like this; he has already stepped halfway into the door of the Causality Dao.

He only needs a flash of insight, and the difficulty of breaking through to the Ascension to God level will naturally be overcome.

The higher the realm of cultivation, the more abstract and unadorned it becomes; comprehension and spiritual sensitivity are the aptitudes focused on here.

The Prodigy Exchange did not last long before it ended.

After the exchange, the prodigies returned home, uniformly choosing to enter seclusion to digest their gains, settle themselves, and transform their potential into tangible cultivation and combat power.

Lin Chen also had his Copy Body and Three Souls Clone return with their gains, not remaining on the battlefield.

He was also preparing to enter deep seclusion, and his Copy Bodys needed to seclude with him to share his cultivation tasks.

The Azure Dragon Legion will only focus on the One-Eyed Giant Race territory for a short time.

Only after completely eliminating the One-Eyed Giants and harvesting a large amount of resources will they continue their advance.

Therefore, during this period, the military will not assign tasks to Lin Chen, allowing him to fully engage in deep seclusion until his military service ends and he enters the stable cultivation period of garrison duty.

He entered a state of seclusion.

Lin Chen's main body refined divinity, increasing his progress in divinization and steadily raising his cultivation.

His Copy Body practiced various martial arts, deepened his mastery of professional skills, and enhanced his combat power.

The Three Souls Clone' task was simple: enter a state of learning, primarily focusing on Federation history and cosmic history to provide information support for future relic exploration and star-traveling.

Time always flows by unnoticed.

In a blink, 11 months passed, and Lin Chen had half a year left of his military service.

Originally, he planned to remain in seclusion until his military service ended, then emerge to participate in the annual commendation ceremony, temporarily retire, become a Federation Guardian, and undertake a six-year guardianship mission to continue his stable cultivation.

However, a special event occurred, forcing him to emerge from seclusion.

The main reason was that this matter had a significant impact on him.

"I've become a Godblood?"

Lin Chen felt the active bloodline within him; even without testing, he knew his compatibility with the Dao of Space exceeded 50%, because his application of spatial power had inexplicably risen by a level.

Not only that, all his innate aptitudes had improved, some by as much as 15 points, others by as little as 7 points.

Suddenly, his already maxed-out aptitudes again required a large amount of resources to be fully replenished.

This was naturally beneficial for Lin Chen; he was just worrying about having too many resources, and now he needed a large amount to further improve his acquired aptitudes.

Resources that could only be hoarded and slowly consumed were now transformed into tangible aptitudes, completely integrating with Lin Chen, becoming inseparable.

It seemed like a good thing in every way.

"I wonder which of my fifth-generation direct ancestors broke through to become a god.

Becoming a Godblood, I'll probably have to go to Mount Xuankong to attend the elder's God Ascension banquet."

When a god breaks through, it benefits their family.

Direct bloodlines up to five generations above and below will become acquired Godbloods, and collateral bloodlines up to fifteen generations beyond the fifth can also enjoy a bloodline refinement, which can increase their overall innate aptitude by several points.

For example, if Lin Chen breaks through to godhood, his parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, and great-great-great-grandparents—these five generations—would all benefit and become Godbloods.

And the collateral relatives of these five generations would receive the blessing of a bloodline refinement.

Therefore, a single god represents the rise of a Godblood family, capable of actively and passively influencing the destinies of hundreds of thousands of people, leading to significant changes in the future of tens of millions, even hundreds of millions, and impacting the future direction of large regions.

For ancient families like the Suspended Mountain Lin Family, where gods constantly emerge, as long as the descendants are not too far removed from their ancestors, becoming an acquired Godblood is not an issue.

Lin Chen belonged to the thirty-seventh generation in the lineage, not far removed from his ancestors, so with the birth of a god among his ancestors, he naturally acquired the Godblood.

Of course, what Lin Chen obtained was acquired Godblood; the improvement was only on his current innate aptitude and limited in scope, with the improvement decreasing the further the bloodline connection.

The most potential among Godbloods lies in innate Godbloods, which usually only exist for one generation: the offspring of a god.

Only the direct descendants of a god are innate Godbloods.

However, there have been no innate Godbloods born in the last three hundred years; many active Godbloods are acquired Godbloods, including Oriental Red Sleeve.

After calming the bloodline fluctuations, Lin Chen called his grandfather Lin Yuan's communication video, asking him which family elder had broken through and what he needed to do.

Lin Yuan connected the video immediately.

From Lin Chen's perspective, Lin Yuan's aura was completely different; before, he seemed somewhat content to lie flat, lacking ambition, and had shifted his focus to the younger generation.

Now, Lin Yuan was sharp and radiant, experiencing a second spring in life.

He was full of fighting spirit, returned to his youthful state, and directly had hope of Ascension to God; as for becoming a god, it was hard to say.

Lin Chen: "Grandpa, did Grandma also receive the Godblood blessing?"

Lin Yuan: "Naturally, she received the Godblood blessing, with the same extent of blessing as I did."

Lin Chen wasn't worried about his grandfather, but he didn't see his grandmother.

He first asked about his grandmother Luo Zhiyuan's situation, and after getting an answer, he began to ask his grandfather which elder had broken through to godhood.

After his grandfather's explanation, Lin Chen knew which elder had broken through to godhood.

Lin Lie, his grandfather Lin Yuan's grandfather, Lin Chen's great-great-grandfather, was only about 800 years old, a territory-level prodigy, and had been active in the outer regions for a long time, with a low sense of presence in the family.

His sudden breakthrough to godhood in the outer regions was something the family hadn't predicted, which was why Lin Chen wasn't aware and needed to ask his grandfather Lin Yuan for accurate information.

Lin Chen realized belatedly why the Feng City Lin Family, though a small branch, allowed his grandfather to directly contact the patriarch, the Seventh Elder, of their main lineage after he awakened the Great Accomplishment Late Bloomer talent, without needing elders to relay messages.

It turned out his family truly had influential ancestors.

Moreover, he suspected that his grandfather Lin Yuan might have some conflict with the family; otherwise, his grandfather Lin Yuan wouldn't have avoided taking them, the younger generation, to visit relatives in the family he grew up in for so many years.

However, this was an elder's matter, and he wouldn't pry.

What he needed to do was to become even more outstanding, become a god in the future, and once again bestow the Godblood blessing upon his grandparents, allowing them to be even prouder, and become their solid backing.

In this world, his closest relatives were his grandparents; he had lived by their side since childhood, so this familial bond was naturally very deep.

Lin Chen: "Grandpa, has there been any news from Great-Great-Grandfather Lin Lie?"

Lin Yuan: "Not yet, but Federation gods must hold a God Ascension banquet and preach to all beings; he will definitely return."

Lin Chen: "Alright then, Grandpa, you make the arrangements.

As a junior, I'll just follow you to the feast then."

Lin Yuan: "Feast? Boy, why do you speak so crudely? It's called attending a banquet."

Lin Chen: "It's all the same."

Lin Yuan: "Do as you please.

Anyway, he'll definitely be happy to have a descendant like you.

Maybe he'll even rely on you in the future.

That's enough talk; I need to go protect your grandmother while she breaks through her realm.

Cultivate well; I'm waiting to leech off you."

Lin Chen: "Grandpa, you'll definitely be able to leech off me in the future.

I'll let you."

After ending the communication with his grandfather, Lin Chen was somewhat curious about the matter between his grandfather Lin Yuan and his great-great-grandfather Lin Lie.

From his grandfather's words, it was clear that something was definitely going on between them; otherwise, his grandfather Lin Yuan wouldn't have consistently referred to him as 'he' instead of using a respectful address like 'grandfather'.

Soon, Lin Chen suppressed this curiosity; he would naturally find out what happened when he met Great-Great-Grandfather Lin Lie in the future.

For now, he needed to continue his seclusion, and he had an additional cultivation task: to raise his acquired aptitudes to their limit.

Time flowed like water, and five and a half months passed.

Lin Chen ended his seclusion; his two-year military service was also nearing its end, and the intensity of the war in the One-Eyed Giant Race territory was continuously decreasing.

It was estimated that the war would end soon.

Currently, Lin Chen's cultivation was also steadily increasing, not far from breaking through to the mid-Demigod stage, perhaps only a month or two away.

Calculating this way, if nothing unexpected happened, he could break through to God Ascension First Order before he was 30, becoming a Ascension to God powerhouse and entering the core ranks of the Federation.

It must be said that plans never keep up with changes.

When he graduated from the academy, he was hoping to break through to Demigod before 30; now, it had become breaking through to Ascension to God before 30.

This speed of change even caught him somewhat off guard.