Chapter 443: Section 230: Magic Potion Blood Test (Part 1)
Regarding the detection of bloodlines, there has always, in fact, been a lack of efficient and precise methods.
But not none at all.
The simplest method is visual inspection.
The principle is also simple, with different bloodlines generally possessing distinct external traits.
For example, those with an Elf Bloodline often grow a pair of pointed ears and are strikingly beautiful.
Those with a Dwarf Bloodline typically have a short stature, well-developed muscles, and a fondness for drinking.
People with the Cathedral Bloodline often have a pair of beautiful silver-white pupils. Those with a high Bloodline Concentration may even grow a pair of snow-white wings on their backs.
The method of visual inspection is straightforward, but it has many flaws.
Many bloodlines do not display external characteristics, or lack them entirely, which can easily lead to misjudgment.
The factor of Bloodline Concentration also makes visual estimates inaccurate.
Only when the Bloodline Concentration is high do significant external traits appear.
Moreover, these bloodline traits can easily be intentionally concealed.
In Elf Clan history, there was once a Fourth Prince, who possessed great talent but feigned weakness and hid his bloodline traits. When his enemies were off guard, he secretly cultivated, and ultimately seized the throne in one fell swoop.
Furthermore, some bloodlines share similar characteristics with each other, which can also easily lead to misjudgments.
Visual inspection is unreliable, but based on techniques like Fighting Energy and Meditation Methods, calculations of bloodlines are much more accurate.
If a life form cultivates a particular Fighting Energy or Meditation Technique with notable success, it is often possible to deduce its bloodline.
However, in practice, this method is not very efficient.
Firstly, the suitable cultivation method for a life form often involves more than one or two techniques of Fighting Energy or Meditation.
Sometimes, due to circumstances or limited choices, cultivators cannot identify the most suitable method for themselves.
Needing cultivation to yield results, this method of verification also requires considerable time.
Various organizations and powers consciously disseminate their Fighting Energy and Meditation Methods. (This is also why War Merchants can easily collect so many techniques.)
But the most precise method is held by the Divine Sect.
This sect possesses special Divine Arts, such as Bloodline Grade Detection Technique and Bloodline Species Detection Technique.
The results they produce are extremely accurate.
Only occasionally are there errors.
The downside to this method is the high cost!
Such high-grade Divine Arts are not something ordinary clergy can perform.
Divine Arts consume Divine Power, and every sect’s priest charges a fee for performing Divine Arts.
Sometimes, even with plenty of money, one cannot hire clergy.
The most classic example is pirates.
The pirate throne is often vacant, lacking a God of Pirates, pirates do not have priests aboard their ships, resulting in a severe lack of timely medical treatment during naval battles.
The power of clergy comes from their faith, which at the same time, frames their behavior according to beliefs and doctrines.
Visual inspection, cultivation techniques deduction, and Divine Art testing are the three most mainstream contemporary methods of detection.
Among them, the second method is the most widely used.
Because its cost and accuracy rate fall between the other two methods, it proves to be the most cost-effective in practice.
Currently, Zi Di’s method of choice was potion testing.
Different bloodlines react differently to different potions. For example, bloodlines leaning towards the Fire Element often react intensely when encountering a Water Element Magic Potion.
The principle of testing is simple, but its actual application is quite complex.
Take the Fire Element Bloodline for instance, some of its relatively obscure bloodlines might react differently to Water Element Magic Potions. If decisions are made based solely on this test result, the initial judgment is already wrong.
However, Zi Di did not only use potions for testing; she also conducted extensive investigations beforehand.
Such as investigating each survivor’s practiced cultivation techniques.
She also researched their families and ancestors, for if there were any Transcendents, it was highly likely that their descendants’ Extraordinary Bloodlines were related.
She even investigated the survivors’ respective living environments. Bloodlines also have geographical distributions.
Detecting bloodlines seems an exceedingly difficult task with a vast workload, but the scope is actually quite limited.
Zi Di formally began the potion testing.
She operated the Alchemy Array, emitting one of the pre-prepared potions.
Under the action of the array, the potion quickly spread, turning the originally platinum-colored mist green.
After ten seconds, a total of four blood samples reacted.
Sanda’s blood coagulated into a beady texture, resembling a small cluster of grapes.
Mu Ban’s blood was dyed green directly.
Zi Di’s blood emitted a red glow.
Cang Xu’s blood quickly evaporated, tinting the surrounding mist a dense green, and itself transformed into a gray-white liquid.
Zi Di did not need to use a pen and paper to record; the Tower Spirit recorded this scene on her behalf.
Zi Di squinted her eyes, analyzing in secret.
The test potion she had just added was a Wood attribute test potion, filled with Life Energy.
The four reacting blood samples all indicated a Wood attribute inclination in each respective Bloodline.
Of course, the various changes in the blood samples also indicated huge differences between these inclinations.
“My blood was specially extracted from my physical body, containing my life information from before my death. I certainly have a talent for preparing potions, which I tried out in the Magic Academy.”
“There are many Bloodlines that enhance potion-making, but I also have a talent for preparing Barbarian herbal medicine. Therefore, it logically follows that my Bloodline contains Wood attribute.”
“As for the emission of red light, could it be that it also contains the Fire property?” Zi Di speculated silently.
After becoming a ghost, she had frozen her physical body and preserved it well.
Thus, extracting blood samples for this experiment was very easy.
“Cang Xu’s situation is different from mine; his body underwent an Undead transformation, turning him into a living dead. His blood changed as a result, mixing with lots of negative energy.”
“The remaining gray-white liquid is blood filled with negative energy. The part that evaporated earlier was directly soluble in the Wood attribute potion, which proves that his inherent Bloodline leans towards a Wood property.”
Despite being full of negative energy, Cang Xu’s blood still hung in mid-air, but it repelled the green mist, creating a clear, fog-free gap, distinctly separating the two.
“It makes sense for Mu Ban to have a Wood Bloodline. He is a Woodcrafter who excels in crafting wooden products, which is a manifestation of his talent. Mu Ban possesses an Extraordinary Bloodline, but its concentration is too low, falling below the minimum standard. Thus, he remains a mortal.”
“Regarding Sanda, I didn’t expect him to have a Wood nature. In previous background checks, he couldn’t pinpoint his homeland, having roamed from place to place since childhood. Information about his parents and such is also void.”
Zi Di operated the Alchemy Array.
Soon, the green mist was completely cleared, replaced by the initial platinum mist.
Zi Di personally took action, removing Cang Xu’s gray-white blood and replacing it with a fresh sample.
She waited a few more minutes until the blood of Mu Ban, Sanda, and herself had all returned to normal before continuing to add test reagents.
This time, Zi Di used a Water-Nature test reagent.
Soon, the platinum-colored mist turned light blue.
There was no reaction in the blood of Zi Di, Cang Xu, and Zong Ge.
Sanda’s blood changed again; the originally liquid blood transformed into a pile of powder, white like flour.
Lan Zao’s blood, like an inflated balloon, expanded in volume by about double in a few seconds.
Big Guy’s blood reaction was the most intense; it emitted a strong yellow light, repelling the light blue mist far away.
Zi Di found it hard to keep up with all these changes.
“My blood didn’t change, so it appears that my earlier speculation about containing a Fire property was incorrect.”
“Sanda’s blood has changed again, indicating that his Bloodline contains a Water property—wait, I can’t rule out Frost properties either.”
“I didn’t expect Lan Zao’s blood to expand so much. This indicates that his Bloodline contains a strong Water property, at least at Black Iron Level. But due to its low concentration and incomplete Bloodline, his strength is confined to Bronze Level.”
“Big Guy, this guy…”
Finally, Zi Di’s gaze focused on Big Guy’s blood.
Big Guy’s blood emitted a strong yellow glow, repelling the surrounding light blue mist far away.
“Such a strong reaction indicates that his Bloodline is at least at the Gold Level. Since his Bloodline and Water Nature potions react repulsively, it’s very likely that he possesses a strong Earth property.”
Zi Di had already estimated Big Guy’s Bloodline Grade earlier.
Shortly after the survivors escaped from Mysterious Monster Island, all Fighting Energy techniques and Meditation Techniques were made available.
During this period of cultivation, Big Guy had shown extraordinary Cultivation talent.
Based on the efficiency of Fighting Energy produced during his cultivation of Fighting Energy techniques, the Dragon-man youth had deduced at the time that his Bloodline was at least at the Gold Level.
As for more exact grading, that was difficult to judge.
However, Big Guy did not rise to the occasion.
His intelligence was very limited; during the cultivation of Fighting Energy, he couldn’t comprehend the routes of Fighting Energy circulation. Each failure caused him harm.
For his cultivation problems, the Dragon-man youth and Zi Di thought of many solutions.
Previously on Snake Rat Island, they had sought an Intelligence Potion, but it failed.
After acquiring a Magic Jasper Bath later, the survivors’ ability to produce Magic Potions greatly increased, and Zi Di personally prepared several Intelligence Potions.
However, the effects on Big Guy were poor.
Although these Intelligence Potions were Low-level, they also indirectly demonstrated the severe gaps in Big Guy’s intelligence.
After this method failed, Zi Di proposed using the Soul Implantation Technique to possess Big Guy’s body to help him complete his first cycle of Fighting Energy cultivation.
But later, when Zi Di truly cultivated the Soul Implantation Technique, she found that this method wouldn’t work.
The Soul Implantation Technique, in her ghost state, forcibly occupied another life form’s body.
During this period, negative energy would invade the target, completely hindering the circulation of Fighting Energy.
Big Guy’s Fighting Energy, derived from the energy of Life, was absolutely incompatible with negative energy, and the mutual repulsion was too strong to coexist.
Moreover, negative energy would also cause harm to Big Guy.
After repeated failures, the Dragon-man youth and Zi Di could only let go temporarily, waiting for a more suitable opportunity in the future, such as when the survivors could produce mid- to high-level Magic Potions.