Three wooden buckets filled with dragon blood stood before the three children. With a flip of his hand, Lin Lei took out a handful of Blueheart Herbs from his spatial ring. The leaves of the Blueheart Herb were emerald green, with a faint blue halo shimmering within, and felt cool to the touch. Lin Lei divided the bunch into three portions, each containing five stalks.
"Listen up, all three of you," Lin Lei said, looking at the children.
Xini, Taylor, and Sasa stood attentively before Lin Lei, ready to heed his instructions. Lin Lei advised, "Soon, I want you to drink this dragon blood until you're full. But before you drink it, you must eat this Blueheart Herb. Theoretically, three stalks per person should be enough. But to be safe, eat them all."
"Eat grass?" Sasa wrinkled her brow.
Asking children to eat Blueheart Herb—especially children who hadn't suffered much hardship since birth—naturally met with some resistance.
"Sister, Father went alone to the Magic Beast Mountain Range when he was a teenager, just to find Blueheart Herb and drink the blood of a Thornback Iron-Armored Dragon. Now Father is bringing the dragon blood right to us, so why are you afraid to drink it?" Taylor didn't care about consequences; he grabbed the Blueheart Herb and stuffed it into his mouth.
He chewed vigorously, then swallowed it whole.
Seeing this, a satisfied smile appeared on Lin Lei's face. He was quite pleased with his son Taylor. Although rather lively and mischievous, the boy could endure hardship and trained diligently. His strength was comparable to what Lin Lei himself had achieved at ten.
Xini also smiled faintly and simply ate his portion of the Blueheart Herb.
"Sasa, it's fine. The juice from this herb is quite refreshing and pleasant," Xini coaxed.
"Oh?" Under her parents' gaze, Sasa still picked up the herb and ate it. As she chewed, her expression turned bitter. "Brother Xini, you tricked me! The juice is refreshing, but the leaves make my mouth go numb!" Even as she said this, Sasa finished eating it, enduring the sensation.
Lin Lei and Dilia both smiled.
"Glug, glug~~" Taylor was already the first to lift the small wooden bucket and tip its contents straight into his stomach. He knew the more dragon blood he drank, the easier it would be to awaken the Dragon Blood Warrior bloodline within him. Without hesitation, he drank in large gulps.
Xini and Sasa also picked up their small buckets and began to drink.
"Glug, glug~~" The sight of the three children drinking dragon blood together filled Lin Lei with emotion.
One generation plants the trees; the next enjoys the shade.
Lin Lei's own efforts meant his descendants would no longer need to face that life-threatening danger.
"Ah!" Taylor, who had started drinking first, suddenly cried out in pain. The bucket fell from his hands and clattered to the ground. Taylor collapsed, rolling in agony, his face turning deathly pale as beads of sweat the size of beans seeped out.
Dilia's expression changed instantly.
"It's fine," Lin Lei reassured her.
Dilia knew... the first time a Dragon Blood Warrior awakened the blood, a natural transformation would occur, and this transformation would be excruciatingly painful. Lin Lei himself had endured that pain back then... pain so extreme one could pass out from it. Sure enough—
As black dragon scales emerged from his body, Taylor lost consciousness.
Immediately after, Xini and Sasa also cried out in pain, each rolling on the ground. Green dragon scales slowly emerged from Xini's body. The pain of growing dragon scales from one's flesh was more agonizing than being killed.
"If you can't even endure this pain, how can you manage?" Lin Lei watched calmly.
After a short while, both Taylor and Xini had completed their transformations. Sasa, who had drunk the dragon blood last, was still in the process. Taylor's scales were black, inheriting the color of the Tyrannosaurus Dragon's body. Xini's scales were green, as the Lightning Dragon was also green.
As for Sasa...
Her entire body was covered in golden dragon scales. Sasa looked as if she were wearing a beautiful, ornate golden suit of armor. Not only that, but a golden dragon tail had also emerged. More than that—
"Lin Lei, look!" Dilia seemed alarmed.
Lin Lei also noticed the change in Sasa. With a "hiss, hiss" sound from her back, two thin, translucent wings of a pale gold color had sprouted. They were clearly the pair of massive, fleshy wings inherited from the 'Golden Dragon.' The pale gold wings made Sasa look almost like an elf.
However, the golden scales covering her entire body, including her face, made Sasa appear much more mysterious. The dragon horn on her forehead and the dragon tail, in particular, gave Sasa the dominating aura of a 'Dragon Blood Warrior.'
A while later, the three children woke up one after another. Each of them looked at their transformed selves with excitement.
"Oh, sister, you have wings?" Taylor looked at Sasa enviously.
Sasha was also delighted with her wings. She found she could move them as easily as waving her arms. The two wings flapped, and Sasa easily lifted into the air. She shouted excitedly, "I can fly! I can fly!"
"I'm so strong now!" Taylor exclaimed, punching excitedly at a nearby rock. The rock split open, shattering into pieces. For a ten-year-old child to shatter stone with a punch? An ordinary person could never do that.
Xini couldn't hide his excitement either.
"Whoosh!" With a mere blur of motion, his body surged forward, leaving a faint afterimage due to his incredible speed.
Lin Lei, Dilia, Wotton, Nina, and the others watched with smiles.
"So wondrous," the Saint Realm Golden Dragon praised. "The Dragon Blood Warriors truly are formidable." The three Saint Realm dragons were also marveling at the sight. The legendary ultimate warriors were indeed extraordinary. They could envision it... decades later, these three children would become three Saint Realm Dragon Blood Warriors.
After the children had tired themselves out playing...
"Mother, where are my clothes?" Sasa asked Dilia.
Transformations wreaked the worst havoc on clothing. Sasa's trousers were relatively intact, just a bit dirty, but her top had been torn apart by the two wings. In her current transformed state, it didn't matter, but once she reverted to human form, wouldn't she be naked?
Dilia laughed.