Chapter 474: The Yanhuang Bloodline

“Yanhuang Bloodline.”

Qin Ziwen’s eyes were immediately drawn to the newly awakened bloodline.

Few Chinese who transmigrated from Earth would be unfamiliar with the name Yanhuang.

“What does your awakened bloodline do? Did you get stronger? More agile? Or maybe you can think faster?”

“No, it’s none of those.” Qin Ziwu frowned and stretched his limbs. He found that his body had indeed improved significantly, but that wasn’t from his bloodline. It was from advancing to One Star.

The awakened bloodline gave him a special, indescribable feeling.

Qin Ziwu closed his eyes tightly. A moment later, he opened them. “Brother, the Yanhuang Bloodline gives me compatibility. Its super-strong adaptability allows me to develop resistance to external damage. And I feel like there’s more. The bloodline is very inclusive. If I can raise its Level, it’ll have even more uses.”

‘Compatibility…’ Qin Ziwen thought the description was a perfect fit for the Yanhuang Bloodline.

The history of the Yanhuang people was one of constant expansion and inclusion.

Looking at the last cursed Golden Apple on the table, Qin Ziwen picked it up and handed it to Du Yu.

“You guys eat first. There are more on the tree. I’m not in a hurry.”

Du Yu cupped his fists and said solemnly, “Thank you, my Lord!”

After eating the cursed Golden Apple, Du Yu awakened the Radiant Sun Bloodline as expected.

The only ones left were Pura and Pangding, who were at the back of the line.

Only after everyone else had finished did they step forward to take the Golden Apples from the table.

After Pura finished eating, his body trembled.

A roar escaped his throat as his height began to skyrocket.

Right before everyone’s eyes, he transformed step-by-step from a shriveled, scrawny Artisan Fishman. His hands grew longer and more slender, his head expanded, becoming large and round, and his eyes bulged out even more.

Mogu’s eyes lit up. “What a handsome, pure-blooded Artisan Fishman,” he praised.

“…”

Everyone present gave Mogu a peculiar look.

‘So the aesthetic gap between Fishmen and humans is really that big, huh?’

‘This Fishman’s sense of beauty… is hard to put into words.’

After breaking through to the Extraordinary level, Pura awakened the Sea Vortex Fishman bloodline.

Mogu said, “I remember the Artisan Fishmen are divided into two factions. One is the Sea Vortex Fishmen, and the other is the Sea Tide Fishmen.”

Pura extended a hand. Transparent ripples appeared in his palm as an invisible force gathered there. “Lord Mogu is correct. In truth, there isn’t much difference between the two types of Fishmen. We just have different forging schools.”

“?” Qin Ziwu stared at the vortex in Pura’s hand, his expression shifting slightly as a thought occurred to him.

Qin Ziwen knew exactly what he was thinking. He turned to Pura and asked, “Can your vortex only move air, or can it affect other things? For example, the various elemental energies in the air.”

Pura gave it a try. The vortex in his hand spun faster, but that was all.

“Here, try this.” Qin Ziwen brought over a piece of iron ore.

Pura summoned the force again, then placed his hand on the iron ore.

“BZZZT—”

The iron ore shook violently.

A depression formed in the ore, centered on the point of contact.

Qin Ziwen noticed that while the force was strong, it also vibrated straight through to the core.

But its inherent killing power wasn’t very high. It wasn’t an ability designed specifically for slaughter.

It was more like… forging.

Using the power of the vibrations to refine the ore and expel impurities from within.

And then using the twisting force of the vortex to temper the ore a thousand times over.

As Pura grew familiar with his power, Pangding’s breakthrough on the other side was also nearing its end.

Its newly awakened bloodline was called the Insect Brood Bloodline.

Strangely, its appearance hadn’t changed much after the breakthrough.

It looked exactly the same as before.

Mogu chimed in, “In this situation, there are two possibilities. One is that the absorption failed. The other is that its original bloodline was already very pure, and it had no higher-level bloodlines waiting to be activated within its body.”

Qin Ziwen gave Pangding a deep look.

Then he turned around and said to everyone, “Go and get some rest. If you can’t sleep, go to the training ground to familiarize yourselves with your new powers.”

…

After everyone had left, the hour passed midnight.

[You have successfully survived a second week in the Underground Caverns. Current map day: 13. You explored an underground ruined city and obtained a Golden Apple Tree; buried prey to obtain a large number of Hunting Artifacts; completed a zero-cost trade with an Otherworld warlord to obtain a large quantity of supplies; successfully slew the Fishman Tribe’s hidden killing machine, the Six-Armed Vile Puppet; your ship has been promoted to an ancient Ghost Ship… Comprehensive Score: 5050]

[Rewards obtained: [Function Card] Level 1 Insight, [Function Card] Level 1 Guild, [Expansion Card] Height Expansion Card (Large) x1, [Duplication Card] Advanced Building Copy Card x3, [Ultimate Building Card] Level 1 Brood Hive]

[Score detected to be over 5000. Upgrading… Upgrade in progress.]

[Upgrade complete. Settlement function has been upgraded. You may now freely switch between 1-day, 7-day, and 30-day settlement periods.]

Lying in his bedroom, Qin Ziwen froze.

‘So now I can settle my score daily, weekly, or even monthly?’

The higher the score, the easier it was to get higher-level rewards.

He knew this from deep experience.

Then, his gaze fell upon the other Card rewards.

First were the two Function Cards. Now he could upgrade his permissions.

Then there were the Expansion Card and Advanced Building Copy Cards, which were self-explanatory.

Finally, there was the Ultimate Building.

Giant Beast Heavy Industry had given him a taste of what was possible, and he had no idea what this Brood Hive would be like.

With a flick of his wrist, the Ultimate Building Card appeared in his palm.

After a moment of thought, he got up and put on a jacket.

He turned and walked toward the deepest part of his Home.

Arriving at the empty area in the deepest section, he silently recited the command to activate the Card.

The Ultimate Building Card in his hand dissolved into a beam of light that merged with the empty ground before him.

The tranquil Home suddenly trembled.

A vast, continuous expanse of light covered a 300×300 area in front of him.

And it wasn’t just the ground; a great deal of light shone up from beneath the earth as well.

Giant Beast Heavy Industry, which had been lying quietly in the back, suddenly stood up, turned around, and pointed its rear end in this direction.

What appeared before Qin Ziwen was a super-large “honeycomb briquette” shaped building.

Half of this building was exposed above the surface, while the other half was buried underground.

Its surface was covered with densely packed holes.

From the outside, its core was a very standard polyhedral sphere.

But, of all things, a circle of legs grew from the edge of this polyhedral sphere!

Qin Ziwen counted them. There were twenty-four in total.

The legs were shaped like a “∧”, with smooth surfaces and barbs at the joints.

He took out a solar-powered flashlight and shone it forward.

The spherical core of the Brood Hive was brilliantly colored, like an art graffiti wall splashed with paint, covered in all sorts of splendid hues.

The twenty-four spider-like legs on the edge were even more peculiar. Depending on the viewing angle, their surface color changed.

This kind of zoomorphic appearance made it hard for him not to form a certain suspicion.

‘Could it be that all Ultimate Buildings are alive?’