In another world, Lu Mingfei is learning card making.

Don't want to play? Why don't you want to play? You clearly have such great skills and such an excellent teacher, yet you're unwilling to showcase them...

Liu Miaomiao couldn't quite understand, but Lu Mingfei's words were etched in her heart:

"I just don't want to play, there are no excuses. I'm learning piano... okay, someone was urging me to learn, but my decision not to play is my own, and nobody can interfere."

It was his decision, his own decision, so he could choose not to play if he wanted to.

"Then, what can I decide?" Liu Miaomiao murmured softly, her gaze gradually hardening.

Looking back over the past ten years, she has been decided and interfered with by others. Even the performance during military training was a "show" arranged in advance by her parents.

But now, perhaps there is one more decision she can make:

"At least I can decide who I will fall in love with."

……

On Sunday, at a hospital.

—Of course it wouldn't be a "People's Hospital" or "First Hospital" or anything like that. Those are public hospitals. Even if the red-robed monk were rich, he couldn't possibly book an entire floor for Lu Mingfei like he did now, and even pile all the testing machines into one room.

All for the sake of obtaining Lu Mingfei's physical data after his awakening as soon as possible.

Lu Mingfei donned a full-body rubber suit and attached electrodes to all parts of his body. Invisible rays swept over his entire body every five seconds, illuminating his bones and muscles.

After waiting for half a minute and obtaining the full body data before the mutation, Lu Mingfei took a deep breath, prepared himself mentally, and directly opened his backpack on the integrated network interface, selected Dragon Scale and used it.

[Should I fuse it with the bloodline material - Dragon Scale?]

"Yes."

Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth, raised his hands high, spread them out in a starfish shape, and braced himself for sensations such as "severe pain," "paralysis," and "electric current."

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

Nothing happened.

Besides the text that flooded the webpage:

[Interference from another plane's consciousness detected, in process of determining...]

[Classified as: Information transmission, in accordance with regulation CZX7729, link permitted]

[Bloodline ability awakening is in progress...]

[Changes detected in the bloodline template, detecting...]

[Detection complete. This falls under the category of Procedure 997 for Handling the Possibility of Bloodline Awakening in the Comprehensive Network. Proceed with the bloodline awakening process...]

Your bloodline template has changed.

[Current Bloodline Template: Dragon]

"What do you mean? I'm a dragon?" Lu Mingfei looked up in astonishment, staring at his limbs.

They were still human hands and feet, not transformed into the hands and feet of a Western-style giant lizard, nor did they conjure up the tiger arms and eagle claws of a Chinese five-clawed golden dragon—if one had to point out any difference, his skin seemed to have undergone some kind of top-tier skincare, gleaming with a jade-like luster under the soft hospital lights…

As Lu Mingfei gazed at the strange luster, some odd lines of poetry flashed through his mind—like, "A gentleman as fine as jade, unparalleled in the world"—

No, no, no, he shook his head slightly, trying to shake off those strange thoughts. Putting those odd ideas aside, the first thing that came to his mind was his uncle's strange behavior after Lu Mingze's incident.

Turning white hair black and regaining youth—this was something that kings and generals once dreamed of. But these things could actually be given to him directly by this bloodline template called "dragon"?

Lu Mingfei pondered for a moment, then gasped.

Would those kings and generals, those emperors who became senile in their later years, really gamble their entire country for something so vague and unrealistic?

Or have they already seen some success stories?

Lu Mingfei almost subconsciously tried to control his thoughts, but at this moment, just like the famous story of "don't think of an elephant," the more he tried to control them, the less he could.

From emperors seeking immortality thousands of years ago to the "Qigong craze" of the past decade or so, behind these crazes that have swept across the nation, how much profit have those scaly creatures, both human and reptile, actually extracted?

And where will they invest this money?

"Thank goodness—I have something they've never had..."

Lu Mingfei comforted himself softly, his eyes shining as he looked at the webpage of the comprehensive website.

[Bloodline Template: Dragon]

Bloodline Quality: Legendary

Origin of the bloodline: Untraceable

Bloodline type: Humanoid/Dragon

Bloodline Ability:

1. Word Magic: Directly command the magic power of the plane through language to form spell-like abilities, and is not limited by spell slots; form spell circuits by inscribing words to directly perform high-level enchantments.

Currently awakened Word Power: None

2. Immortality: Gain immortality, and this ability is strengthened as the bloodline level increases.

3. Dragon Banner: All dragon units with a bloodline level lower than yours will unconditionally obey you.

4. Mysterious: 涓嶅彲鐭ワ纴涓嶅彲瑙�

"That's right, look, this is the orange bloodline material..." Lu Mingfei had just straightened up confidently when he turned his head and saw the four lines of bloodline abilities.

—Oh, to be precise, it's three lines, but the last one is still a mystery and gibberish, which can't even be deciphered.

"Hmm, the first one is Word Magic—using language to command magic power, forming a spell-like ability that is not limited by spell slots—it's very powerful, but it requires awakening, so it has no combat power."

"Immortal, unable to die, simple and clear, but lacking combat power;"

"Dragon... what dragon? To make dragon units obey, I only have one dragon unit right now, and it's my own magical spirit. It will definitely obey me, so it still has no combat power."

"mystery……"

Lu Mingfei clenched his fist, wishing he could punch the screen of the network and smash out this string of gibberish.

"So, the devil was just lying?"

Having encountered a setback upon awakening, Lu Mingfei suddenly felt a sense of relief—having forcibly taken something from the devil, Lu Mingfei had been wondering what kind of opponent he would face. But since the devil's possessions were so…weak?

That means the devil didn't have anything good in his hands to begin with.

So, an opponent who can be seduced by the devil might be quite weak. After all, there isn't much bait used for groundbaiting when fishing. Do you really expect anglers to put a large amount of bait on the hook?

That doesn't make sense.

Lu Mingfei adjusted his breathing, removed the electrode pads from his body, took off the rubber clothes that covered him, changed back into his regular clothes, and walked out the door.

The red-robed attendant stood at the doorway, his expression extremely serious.

"Master, did you do anything during the bloodline awakening?"

"No, I didn't do anything." Lu Mingfei's heart suddenly tightened. "What happened?"

"No detection equipment can project your internal body onto the screen—to the machine, it appears as a vast expanse of low-density shadow..."