Chapter 540: Yuan's Scent

"That's impossible! You must be joking! There's no way your blood is ordinary or that you do not have a special bloodline. If that were the case, we wouldn't be so attracted to your blood in the first place!" Grandpa Fang immediately stood up from his seat, convinced that Yuan had a very special and powerful bloodline.

"But... I'm certain I don't possess any bloodline," Yuan mumbled, pondering whether he truly had a powerful bloodline or not.

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Name: Yuan

Age: 19

Cultivation: Ninth Level Spirit Master

Qi Experience: [1676638/100000000]

Legacy: None

Bloodline: None

Physique: Heaven Devouring Physique

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However, when he checked his status again, he still saw the same thing: no bloodline. He felt disappointed, despite Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang's claims that he had an extraordinary bloodline.

"Hmmm..."

Grandma Fang and Grandpa Fang thought for a moment before saying, "You definitely have a powerful bloodline; we're 100% sure of it. Perhaps it just hasn't awakened yet and is dormant within you. You simply need to awaken it to feel its presence."

"Dormant within me, huh? Do you know how I might awaken my bloodline?" Yuan asked, his interest piqued.

He also had a mission from the System that required him to awaken his bloodline, but he had no idea how to do it. Since the Fang family was a cultivation family with extensive knowledge of such matters, he was hopeful they might know a way to awaken the dormant bloodline within him.

Upon hearing his question, the old couple chuckled. "It might be fate that you came to us, young man. To awaken your bloodline, all you need to do is drink a few drops of blood from my granddaughter."

Yuan was completely speechless upon hearing this and stared at the old couple with a dumbfounded expression.

"Drink Miss Fang's blood? You've got to be joking, right?" Yuan asked, still in disbelief.

He was a human being, and humans don't drink other humans' blood. It's taboo and, to him, very disgusting.

"Well, it seems there's been a misunderstanding. I should've clarified this sooner," Grandpa Fang said, noticing Yuan's shocked expression. "The truth is, we're not actually humans. We're Divine Beasts, so you won't be consuming human blood if you're worried about that."

"Divine Beasts? Unbelievable...!" Yuan was taken aback by this sudden revelation.

He had suspected they were not as simple as they appeared, but he never imagined he was a guest in a family of Divine Beasts. It was almost beyond belief.

A few minutes later, Fang Xiaoyan stood up and said, "Come with me. I'll show you where the hot spring is. It will take us a few moments to get there."

"If you don't mind," Yuan replied, nodding as he followed her out of the dining area with a calm expression.

As they headed to the hot spring a few minutes later, Yuan asked, "Miss Fang, has your family always been like this, or is it just because of me?"

"Well, most of the time, they have always been like this. However, they care a lot about me... and I love them too. But they can be pretty annoying sometimes," Fang Xiaoyan replied.

Then she continued, "Compared to the men from Xian City, you're extremely talented and also quite handsome, and my family wants strong offspring to carry on the bloodline."

"In our family, my father, grandfather, and I are the only Divine Beasts. My grandmother is a Flame Crane, a Spiritual Beast that became conscious and took human form after reaching a certain level of cultivation. As for my mother, she's a Dark Flame Raven, another Spiritual Beast with a common bloodline."

"Why didn't your parents try for a second child? Wouldn't that have solved the issue?" Yuan asked, curious.

Fang Xiaoyan merely laughed and said, "For Divine Beasts like us, our birth rate is extremely low. An ordinary Spiritual Beast can only give birth to one child with a Divine Beast in their entire life."

"I see... No wonder your parents haven't tried for a second child. But couldn't your father have found a second partner and tried with her?" Yuan asked, puzzled.

"My mother is an extremely jealous woman. She would never allow my father to be with another woman. She'd beat him up for days and make him do all the housework for months!" Fang Xiaoyan replied.

Then she looked at Yuan curiously and asked, "Don't you have too many women? Do they ever fight with each other?"

"Well, they do get jealous of one another sometimes. But, they've never fought even once and are very harmonious, treating each other like sisters," Yuan replied with a smile. He wondered in his heart where they might be right now and what they were doing.

"I see... I'd like to meet them since you're praising them so much," Fang Xiaoyan said with a smile, and they continued moving forward.

A couple of minutes later, they arrived at the hot spring.

"Yuan, you can take your time enjoying the hot spring. I'll wait for you outside," Fang Xiaoyan said, giving him his privacy, and left him alone.

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"Mom Anna! Mom Grace! I can smell it! It's hubby's scent!"

Xi Meili's loud exclamation resounded from the distance, immediately drawing Anna, Grace, and the others' attention toward her. They quickly approached her, their faces lighting up with excitement.

Anna asked eagerly, "Which direction is his scent leading?"

"That way," Xi Meili pointed toward the dense forest covered in fog. Her expression suddenly turned furious. "Also, I sense another scent with him—it's the smell of another Divine Beast... a Chicken!"

"A-Another Divine Beast?! And it's a... Chicken?!" Anna and the others could hardly believe it. They stared at Xi Meili with puzzled expressions. Since when did a chicken become a Divine Beast?

After pondering for a moment, Anna said, "Anyway, can you follow the scent to where it's leading? That way, we can find him in no time."

"I'll try," Xi Meili replied, her eyes narrowing in determination.