Episode 1: The Ring of the Coiled Dragon Chapter 3: The Dragon Blood Warrior Family (below)
“A dragonblood warrior clan?”
Linley felt his brain buzz violently.
In Linley’s opinion, his own clan was just an ancient, decaying clan. How could it be connected to the legendary Four Ultimate Warriors?
“You don’t believe it?”
There was a touch of pride on Hogg’s face, “Linley, you can go up and take a closer look at those spirit seats, you can read now, and on the reverse side of each spirit seat are engraved the events of this ancestor. Those top three spirit seats represent ancestors who were all Dragonblood Warriors!”
Hogg took Linley’s hand: “Follow me.”
Hogg took Linley and walked to the end of the side where the many spirit seats were placed. Hogg picked up Linley: “Look carefully at the words on the back.”
Linley’s eyes widened as he looked – the words on the reverse side of the topmost spirit table were carved deeply and clearly. The ancient and simple words, which were 5,000 years old, recounted a single earth-shattering event!
“Baruch, the first Dragon Blood Warrior of the Yulan Continent. In the 4560th year of the Yulan Calendar, Baruch fought the Frost Dragon and the Black Dragon underneath the city of Linnan City, and finally killed the Frost Dragon and the Black Dragon, making him famous in the heavens. In the 4579th year of the Yulan Calendar, Baruch fought against the Hydra Emperor on the coastline of the North Sea of the continent. On that day, the tsunami continued, and the city collapsed, after a day and a night of fierce fighting, Baruch finally killed the Hydra Emperor and eventually established the Baruch family, the first generation of the Baruch clan leader!”
“Ryan Baruch, the second Dragon Blood Warrior of the Yulan Continent, in the 4690th year of the Yulan Calendar, he defeated and subjugated a Sanctuary Golden Dragon in the Beast Mountain Range, and became a Golden Dragon Paladin! Hazard Baruch, the third Dragon Blooded Warrior of the Yulan Continent, born in the 5360th year of the Yulan Calendar, first fought the Holy Realm Beast, the Blood Eyed Maned Lion, in the Sunset Mountain Range, defeating the Blood Eyed Maned Lion and causing it to flee, making him famous throughout the world! “One great name, one shocking event, causing Linley’s blood to surge and boil within his body.
“My family, it’s actually a Dragonblood Warrior family?”
Linley was excited for a long time.
Next to him, Hogg said in a low, deep voice: “The first three generations of our Baruch family, three consecutively, were all dragonblood warriors. Once you become a dragon blood warrior, your lifespan will be extremely long. The second generation patriarch, Ryan Baruch, waited until he was over seven hundred years old before he married and had children.”
“What about the latter?”
Linley queried, “Father, how is it that there are no more dragonblood warriors in our clan now?”
Huo Ge nodded and said, “To become a Dragon Blood Warrior, it mainly depends on the concentration of the Dragon Blood Warrior bloodline in the body, the higher the concentration the better. As generations of children pass on, the concentration of the Dragon Blood Warrior bloodline will become thinner and thinner in the future generations of Baruch family children. However, it is not absolute, because as the generations pass on, sometimes there will suddenly be a certain child who has a higher concentration of Dragon Blood Warrior bloodline.”
“About a thousand years after Hazard Baruch, there was a fourth Dragonblood Warrior in our Baruch family. Then about fifteen hundred years later, dozens of generations later, a fifth Dragonblood Warrior appeared in our family. However, in the following thousand years until now, there has not been a single Dragonblood Warrior.”
Hogg shook his head and sighed: “The fifth Dragonblood Warrior only existed on the Yulan continent for more than two hundred years, and then disappeared. After more than a thousand years, our Baruch family has completely declined.”
A thousand years down the line, even the most brilliant family could decline.
“However, there is still hope for our family, maybe which generation’s son or daughter, the concentration of the dragon blood warrior bloodline in their body, reaches the condition of becoming a dragon blood warrior, as long as they reach that condition, and cultivate hard for several decades, they can become a true dragon blood warrior. Our Baruch family will be able to restore the glory of the ‘Dragon Blood Warrior Family’ once again!”
Hogg’s eyes glowed, “Linley, you’re also six and a half years old. According to the rules, when you reach the age of six, the concentration of your Dragonblood Warrior bloodline will be more accurate, so today, I’m going to ask you to take a test.”
Linley’s heart shook: “Test the Dragonblood Warrior bloodline concentration? Test mine?”
Linley understood in his heart the meaning of what his father was doing. This test would detect whether or not he had the conditions to become a dragon blood warrior.
“Linley, wait a moment, I’ll go fetch the ‘Dragonblood Needle’.”
Hogg said with slight excitement, Hogg then headed towards the secret room at the back of the clan hall.
“Dragon Blood Warrior? Will I become a Dragonblood Warrior?”
Linley was apprehensive.
Standing there, Linley’s heart was flustered with anticipation and a hint of fear, fear that the concentration of the Dragon Blood Warrior bloodline in his body would not meet the conditions.
“If it fails, father, he’ll probably be very disappointed.”
Linley couldn’t help but think. Having grown up dependent on his father and brother, Linley didn’t want his father to be disappointed. It was just that the concentration of the Dragonblood Warrior bloodline in his body wasn’t something he could decide.
In just a moment, Hogg walked out of the secret room at the back of the clan hall holding an extremely thin, transparent long needle that was nearly twenty centimeters long.
“Dragon’s blood needle?”
Linley looked at the long needle in his father’s hand and naturally guessed the name.
“Alright, Linley, the tip of this needle is just gently piercing the skin, it doesn’t hurt, stick your hand out.”
Hogg said with a smile, Linley nodded, then took a deep apprehensive breath and extended his right hand out. The slightly trembling right hand also reflected that Linley was really nervous at this moment.
Not only Linley, in fact, even Hogg himself was also nervous.
“Hold on a little.”
The transparent dragon’s blood needle in Hogg’s hand gently stabbed at Linley’s right index finger, easily piercing the skin. Linley only felt a piercing pain, and that dragon’s blood needle turned from transparent to crimson.
Hogg immediately trembled as he placed the dragon blood needle in front of his eyes and scrutinized it.
Linley tilted his head and looked at his father with unblinking eyes, his heart restless: “Is the concentration of the Dragon Blood Warrior bloodline in my body enough? Father has been looking at that ‘dragon blood needle’ for so long?”
Linley had a bad feeling in his heart.
“Alas,” with a sigh, Huo Ge placed the Dragonblood Needle aside.
Hearing his father’s sigh, Linley, whose heart had been tense for a long time, knew that the Dragonblood Warrior bloodline in his body had definitely not met the conditions, and tears ‘wowed’ out of his eyes.
“Linley, why are you crying, don’t cry, good boy, don’t cry.”
Huo Ge immediately picked up Lin Lei, looking at the crying Lin Lei, Huo Ge also had a heartache, after all, Lin Lei was only six and a half years old now. Still a child.
“Don’t cry, eh, don’t cry.”
Linley sobbed twice, forcing back his tears, “Father, I’m sorry, I’ve let you down.”
Hearing Linley say this, Huo Ge only felt a warmth in his heart and couldn’t help but hold Linley tightly in his arms: “Linley, don’t be sad. Father actually did not hold too much hope, more than a thousand years, dozens of generations have not become a Dragon Blood Warrior, you can not reach, no. Father doesn’t blame you.”
Feeling the warmth of his father’s chest, Linley’s heart gradually relaxed.
At this time, Walden, who was only two and a half years old, had long since fallen asleep in the arms of his housekeeper, Hiri.
“Linley ah, nowadays the Baruch family only has me left, as well as you and your brother. I don’t have much of a goal in my life, becoming a Dragon Blood Warrior, I don’t dare to hope for it.”
Hogg smiled to himself, becoming a Dragon Blood Warrior, would it be that easy?
Linley also looked up at his father.
Linley seldom saw his father talk to him like this, usually his father was so strong and strict.
Hogg looked at the rows and rows of spirit seats, and said quietly with a hint of longing in his eyes, “My real goal is to retrieve the treasure of our Baruch family’s heritage.”
“Inherited treasure, what is it, why haven’t I heard of it?”
Linley inquired curiously.
Hogg proudly said: “Our family’s inherited treasure – the war knife ‘Kill’, is our Baruch family’s first generation patriarch, the entire Yulan continent’s first dragon blood warrior Baruch’s weapon. Alas, the children and grandchildren are unfilial, more than six hundred years ago, due to the decline of the family, the patriarch of that generation had the luxury of enjoying himself, and even sold our family’s inherited treasure.”
Speaking of this, Hogg’s body trembled with anger.
“Sell the treasure of inheritance?”
Linley’s heart was also a little angry, even though he was only six and a half years old, he understood after reading many books. It was that even if it was more difficult, one shouldn’t sell the treasure of inheritance. What’s more, listening to what his father said, that generation of patriarchs just up their own extravagant enjoyment.
Hogg shook his head and said helplessly: “Every generation of patriarchs after that, want to get the war knife ‘killing’ back. Just this goal, our generations of children have worked hard for six hundred years also did not succeed. After all, the sword ‘Killing’ was sold for 180,000 gold coins. 180,000 gold coins, not to mention that we can’t get it out at all, even if we can get it out, others won’t sell it to us.”
As an ancient dragon blood warrior family, but the family’s inherited treasure was sold.
This was disgraceful!
The shame of the ancient Dragonblood Warrior clan!
Every generation of the clan had wanted to get the warblade ‘Killing’ back, but their efforts for six hundred years were unsuccessful.
The current patriarch of the Hogg family, of course, was also looking forward to it. However, the entire family’s economic situation is very poor today. One hundred and eighty thousand gold coins? Even if you sell your ancestral home, I’m afraid you won’t be able to gather this huge amount of wealth.
The treasure of inheritance was outside, and this shame often caused Huo Ge to feel heartache and shame in his heart, unable to face his forefathers.
Seeing that expression on his father’s face, Linley spoke out to comfort him, saying, “Father, don’t worry, one day, I will bring back the treasure of our family’s heritage.”
“You?”
Huo Ge laughed and stroked Linley’s head lovingly.
In his heart, Huo Ge was secretly saying, “Lin De, how did you know that I also said this to your grandfather back then?”
Six hundred years of the efforts of that many generations of disciples had not succeeded, how could it be that easy to do? After all, the person who was able to collect the warblade ‘Killing’ was certainly not an ordinary person.
People will not sell?
Even if they were to sell it, would the price be affordable to the declining Baruch family?
“Father doesn’t believe me?”
Linley tilted his head and looked at his father in doubt.
“Believe, believe.”
Hogg smiled.
Father and son snuggled up to each other, the ancient Dragonblood Warrior clan inherited to this day, with only these three members remaining. This ancient family that had been in decline for more than a thousand years, when would it be able to regain its splendor? And at this moment, lying in his father’s arms, Linley’s fists were clenched tightly!