Chapter 0339: It Can’t Reach Ninety, Right?!

“What is this?!” Watching the red light beams shoot from the Dragon Blood Stele and pierce straight into the sky above the mansion, revealing a clear image of a five-clawed golden dragon, Li Yifeng and Gergil were stunned, unable to believe their eyes.
The black-haired woman, Buri, also couldn’t hide her shock. This… this?! For billions of years, she had tested the dragon blood of descendants from the Luning family’s headquarters in front of other deities in the family, but had never encountered such a situation.
Testing dragon blood, and the Dragon Blood Stele actually showed abnormal behavior?!
What was this five-clawed golden dragon?! It was something she had never seen before.
Then, a thunderous dragon roar echoed across the heavens, its sound spreading for hundreds of thousands of miles. High in the sky, the clouds churned and the weather changed.
Centered around the mansion, within hundreds of thousands of miles, all descendants of the Luning family turned in shock and looked in that direction.
When they turned and saw the five-clawed golden dragon high in the sky, they all stood frozen in awe.
“A dragon, the Dragon Blood Stele!” As everyone was in shock in the grand hall, suddenly, Gergil pointed at the Dragon Blood Stele in terror, stammering.
Li Yifeng and the black-haired woman quickly turned their gaze from the sky back to the Dragon Blood Stele.
At that moment, the stele emitted intense bloodlight, with a faint green glow appearing.
Within that green glow, a green dragon was faintly visible.
“This… how is this possible?!” The black-haired woman, Buri, cried out in shock.
Inside the Dragon Blood Stele was a dragon soul, and it was said that only descendants with an astonishingly high concentration of dragon blood could awaken it.
Yet, this phenomenon hadn’t occurred in countless eras.
Buri had only seen records of it in the family’s ancient books.
After seeing the dragon soul appear in the stele, she then looked in horror at the yellow dragon standing in front of it. This young man with black hair had actually awakened the dragon soul inside the stele. She understood very well what this meant, and precisely because of that, she was filled with terror.
Recalling that legend, she thought of even more.
“Could it be that the Luning family is about to produce another peerless powerhouse?!” Her heart was in turmoil.
Since the founding of the Luning family, any descendant who could awaken the dragon soul in the Dragon Blood Stele would achieve at least the status of a peerless powerhouse in the future!
Without exception!
This had already been proven.
Of course, this was just the minimum achievement.

The Luning family is indeed the top family in the Netherworld, but powerful individuals like peerless warriors are equally important to them.
“He was able to awaken the dragon soul within the Dragon Blood Stele—his dragon bloodline must be astonishingly strong. Even the descendants of the ancestral gods might not surpass him. But what will the final concentration of his bloodline be? Eighty? Eighty-five?!” thought the black-haired woman Bree in shock, guessing the result the Dragon Blood Stele would ultimately show.
Over a hundred thousand miles away from the testing site in the Luning family’s manor, an elder dressed in Luning family attire also watched in astonishment at the dragon shadow above the Dragon Blood Stele.
Apart from wearing the same attire as the direct descendants, this elder also had a black dragon emblem on his left chest—a mark unique to the Luning family’s elders.
This elder was one of the Luning family elders, Donald, a peerless warrior whose jurisdiction covered this entire area of the Luning manor.
“So, is that where the family descendants test their dragon bloodline?!” After being shocked, Donald realized, “What’s going on?! Could it be?!” Without hesitation, he flew swiftly toward the manor where Huang Long and the others were, his figure flickering like black flames as he moved—this was the “Flicker” trait of the Dark Rule.
Inside the small hall where the testing took place, the towering column of blood retracted, and the dragon shadow disappeared. All the light dimmed, leaving only the Dragon Blood Stele emitting a faint red glow. From within this glow, a stream of blood light rose steadily from the bottom of the stele.
The entire Dragon Blood Stele ranged from zero to one hundred, with the higher the blood light rose, the greater the concentration of the dragon bloodline being tested. Reaching the top meant a score of one hundred—though none of the Luning family descendants could ever achieve this.
This was because the Dragon Blood Stele was based on the standards of the Luning family’s ancestor, the Water Element God, who was the only one capable of reaching one hundred.
The blood light rose slowly, gradually ascending from the bottom of the stele.
Bree, Li Yifeng, and Gergil stared intently at the blood light on the Dragon Blood Stele, their expressions similar—tense, excited, and in disbelief.
Besides the three of them, Huang Long also felt the eight auras that had previously targeted him growing stronger, indicating that these eight people were equally tense and eager. However, at this moment, those auras were no longer focused on Huang Long.

At this moment, they no longer doubted that Huang Long was a descendant of the Runing family.
“Thirty!” Gergil exclaimed excitedly and nervously.
Generally speaking, among the descendants of the Runing family in other divine realms who underwent the dragon blood test, few reached the age of thirty.
If they reached thirty and there were no accidents, with the family’s cultivation, they could become high-ranking gods.
The blood light continued to rise.
Thirty-one, thirty-five—gradually approaching forty. In the grand hall, everyone’s breathing grew heavier, almost audible.
“Forty! Forty!” Gergil shouted inwardly.
Forty was already close to the requirement for direct descendants of the Runing family.
If the dragon blood test showed a concentration above fifty, they would be directly accepted as direct descendants by the family.
As for Gergil, his initial dragon blood concentration was only forty-two.
The dark-haired woman, Bree, was also extremely nervous. Although she knew Huang Long had been able to awaken the dragon soul in the Dragon Blood Stele earlier, indicating a very high blood concentration, watching the blood light rise steadily still filled her with anxiety, excitement, and even a hint of hope.
“Forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine!” At this point, as Gergil saw the blood light on the Dragon Blood Stele rise to forty-nine, nearly half its height, he clenched his fists nervously, with beads of sweat forming on his forehead.
“Fifty!” Finally, under everyone’s anxious and excited gazes, the blood light reached fifty.
After reaching fifty, it didn’t stop but continued to rise.
By then, Huang Long had stepped aside and, observing the expressions on Li Yifeng, Bree, and the others, secretly shook his head with a smile.
A Dragon Blood Stele test?
In fact, during the test just now, Huang Long had hidden his own dragon blood and only activated the blood from the Dragon Blood Crystal he had obtained in the Giant Dragon Mountains. After nearly twenty years of integration, that Dragon Blood Crystal had fully merged with Huang Long. Thus, the result of the Dragon Blood Stele test would show the blood concentration of the primordial dragon god of the Runing family, not Huang Long’s own.
Huang Long was afraid that if the test actually measured his own dragon blood, it might even “explode” the Dragon Blood Stele!
The ancestor of the Runing family—a water domain supreme god?!
Although Huang Long didn’t know the dragon blood concentration of that water domain supreme god, he knew his own was definitely higher than that of the Runing family’s ancestor.
One hundred? Huang Long glanced at the top of the Dragon Blood Stele and secretly shook his head.

However, Huang Long also wanted to see to what extent the concentration of the Primordial Dragon God’s bloodline in the Luning family reached. After all, over a dozenera ago, that Primordial Dragon God of the Luning family was also an unparalleled powerhouse.

As expected, the blood light continued to rise. Under the astonished gazes of the dark-haired woman Bree, Gergil, Li Yifeng, and others, it had already reached seventy.

“Seventy!” Seeing the blood light still rising, Bree and the others clenched their fists nervously, their bodies even trembling slightly. Bree herself had only reached sixty-six initially.

The blood light kept rising, like a demonic glow that attracted everyone’s attention. Seventy-two, seventy-four, seventy-eight—breaking through eighty!

Eighty was the standard for direct descendants of the Luning family to become unparalleled powerhouses. Generally speaking, a bloodline concentration of eighty or above allowed one to become such a powerhouse.

When the blood light surpassed eighty and continued to rise, Bree couldn’t help but look at Huang Long in shock, filled with envy, jealousy, and even reverence. It was easy to imagine that this family descendant from the Water Deity Realm would undoubtedly be given special cultivation by his family. It was even conceivable that in the near future, this dark-haired young man, who was currently only a mid-tier god, would surpass her and become someone she admired.

“B-Bree-sama!” Just as Bree stared at Huang Long, her mind filled with complex thoughts, suddenly Gergil opened his mouth wide, pointed at the Dragon Blood Stele, and exclaimed in astonishment once again. Bree quickly turned to look at the Dragon Blood Stele. The blood light, after breaking through eighty, continued to rise and had now reached eighty-eight, gradually approaching ninety!

The dark-haired woman Bree widened her eyes in disbelief as she watched the blood light. In her estimation, she thought this dark-haired young man would at most reach eighty-five. Eighty-five was already an extremely terrifying figure—even among the more than a hundred elders of the Luning family, few had reached eighty-five!

Eighty-eight—even fewer!

Yet, the blood light kept rising.

“Could it be that it won’t reach ninety?!” Bree thought in horror.

Ninety—only a dozen people in the entire Luning family had ever reached that level, and each of them was the supreme existence in the family!

Even the current head of the Luning family, Kennedy, had only reached ninety-six. After all, their head, Kennedy, was a supreme god of the Water Element at the highest level.

Finally, under everyone’s astonished gazes, the blood light broke through ninety!

When the blood light surpassed ninety, Bree even heard a “click” in her own heart.