After Canaan Moore’s "Eternal Elves" project, as if unwilling to lag behind, the Terra Nations also revealed their own related modification plans.
In no time, the entire world was swept up in a wave of "New Humanity"—although it’s a plan destined for the next generation, who would want their child to be left behind at the starting line? Who would want others’ children to be new humans, while theirs remain old humans?
Indeed, practicing the Way of Ascension can quickly bridge, or even completely flatten, the gap between new and old humans, but... in this world, Sublimers are only a few. Moreover, when it comes to actual practice, new humans grasp it much faster than old humans.
Amid this trend, the conflicts and disputes among nations intensified... Not only in the Fiery Flame Land, but the Empire and Azure Sky Royal Court were fully engulfed in war, and many discordant voices arose within the countries themselves. Get full chapters from noⅴelfire.net
In the face of this new era’s surge, all the ambitious and conspirators were eager to act, hoping to seize the initiative amid the grand momentum.
Xia Hui Territory... naturally was no exception.
Terra Year 780, March 9th.
South Ridge, Xiahui City, Bison Hospital.
A pair of twins with dragon horns and wings, with faint metallic scales visible on their cheeks, were carefully delivered from artificial wombs.
[True Dragon’s Blood?!]
The Galewind Dragon King, who had calmed down, suddenly shouted, turning with shock to look at Ian with a solemn expression: [Not Dragon Sub-humans, nor Sublimers with True Dragon Bloodline... this is someone purely possessing True Dragon’s power, a True Dragon’s soul human! Born this way, not ascended nor demihuman, but purely Dragonfolk!]
Sublimers with True Dragon Bloodline essentially transform themselves into True Dragons, possessing all the powers of a True Dragon, but their soul remains that of a human.
Dragon Sub-humans are likely experimental creations from a previous civilization era, naturally possessing some dragon or sub-dragon power, but this power is not acquired like a Sublimer, it is innate. Practicing the dragon bloodline true form will enhance it, but it doesn’t result in other Sublimation Organs appearing with growth. They also lack a Dragon Soul, being purely human.
But the Dragonfolk appearing in Xia Hui Territory are different...
Like Dragon Sub-humans, they are naturally endowed with part of the True Dragon’s power—pure True Dragon’s power, True Dragon’s body, reaction speed, and intelligence. They are born immune to almost all diseases and toxins, with exceptionally strong learning abilities. This is a special ability granted by the Dragon Soul feature.
[How exactly was this achieved?]
"The answer is I don’t know either."
Ian calmly answered, explaining before the Galewind Dragon King could speak: "As a Prophet, I can only know ’possible outcomes,’ specific research, and construction must be done by myself—I truly don’t know how it’s achieved, but I can guess a little."
Thus, the young man muttered thoughtfully: "Bison Dragon God, or Qiang Steel Dragon, had a set of data in Iron Dragon Nest on how to transform mountain people into his true followers, though it wasn’t successful, it indeed made the mountain people’s bodies adaptable to dragon blood."
"Besides, both Master Gravie (Alchemy Master, creator of Affiliated Elves) and I surely conducted related research—look at those dragon scales, these infants evidently have the bloodline of Qiang Steel Dragon... I suspect this is achieved through ’familiarization.’"
"However, the ’god’ granting Dragonfolk’s familiarization power, Qiang Steel Dragon God, died hundreds of years ago... so it was this easy to obtain His essence of power."
This was Ian’s speculation, and also his real line of thinking.
In reality, all Terra People inherently contain a certain amount of True Dragon Gene.
The True Dragon Gene is the source of Terra’s Way of Ascension today; without the True Dragon Gene giving Terra People powerful bloodline adaptability, it would be impossible for them to draw sublimation organs from other magical beast lifeforms for their own use... Conversely, as long as a method is found, reactivating the human’s True Dragon Gene and catalyzing with strong dragon blood, transforming humans into Dragonfolk might not be difficult.
In addition, Ian estimated that he acquired quite a bit of technology from ’Ian of the Swarm’ and ’Ian of the Spirit Calamity’, allowing him to rapidly catch up with the progress of the Terra Confederation.
Undoubtedly, this is a superhuman transformation plan unique to Xia Hui Territory, and all the mountain people welcomed this transformation immensely, believing that this proved Dragon God blessing them once again, turning into power to forever be with them!
As with other cyborg retrofitting plans, Dragonfolk are also best modified from the fertilized egg and embryo stages. But adults can also accept "Dragon Blood Awakening," with much lessened intensity, only slightly enhancing physical fitness, body resilience, and regeneration ability, other enhancements are negligible.
However, due to the Qiang Steel Dragon Blood’s metal compatibility, even those awakened post-birth can highly adapt to ’Cyborg Retrofitting.’
They can acquire immense strength and combat prowess via metal prosthetic modifications, quickly forming an elite constructed warrior troop, capable of obtaining various abilities through interchangeable modules inscribed with different inscriptions, achieving a combat prowess nearing a Sublimer through detach-and-combine adjustments!
In increasingly chaotic international tensions and war environments, Xia Hui Territory is vigorously preparing for war, with the constructed warrior troops constituted by [Awakeners] training, learning, and adjusting to this new power at all times... soon, a year later, their time of trial approached.