"I.. I got to go..!"

Nightingale left those words before breaking away from the crowd to endure the scorching heat of her boiling blood.

Roar!

It did not take long before Nightingale issued a mighty dragon roar to the heavens as a way of resisting the pain coursing through her dragon body.

"Her bloodline awakening started," Leon's eyes flickered.

Nevertheless, he had already seen it once and did not need to see it again; instead, he shifted his gaze to the other dark wyrms.

"Who hasn't gotten their blood refinement yet?" Leon asked.

"U-us, my Lord!"

A few Mid-rank Greater Demon-level Dark Wyrms shuffled forward hesitantly as they weren't included in the group for blood refinement.

They were only part of the crowd attracted to Lord Shadowtail's bloodline awakening.

Nevertheless, Leon did not mind the details, thinking the sooner he raised more Divine Beast-level Earth Dragons, the better it'll be for his cultivation.

In the next six hours, he began performing a few hundred blood refinements for the Greater Demon-level Dark Wyrms.

At the same time, Nightingale succeeded in her bloodline awakening and joined the ranks of Demon Lord-level Earth Dragons.

She was the second, but definitely not the last.

Two more Peak-rank Arch Demon-level Dark Wyrms had also successfully awakened their true dragon bloodline and evolved into earth dragons during that time.

Nevertheless, after Leon finished performing his blood refinement for the Dark Wyrm Clan, he left them to their own devices and returned to the western region with the Dark Wyrm Origin Blood he collected.

While Nyfarella and the other dark faes cultivated inside the medicine bath with their eyes closed, they sensed Leon's presence drawing closer.

"My Lord..? Do you need something?" Nyfarella asked.

"Gather everyone over. We'll be switching up the training method today," Leon stated before pulling out ice barrels filled with dark wyrm origin blood. "You'll be cultivating with these instead."

"This is..?" Nyfarella and the dark faes glanced at the blood barrels with startled looks.

"Dark wyrm origin blood. Even if you cultivate with dark energy, the effect is minimal, but it's a different story if you use dragon blood," Leon casually stated.

Body cultivation requires a tremendous amount of medicine, and depending on how dragon blood is used, it can be poison or medicine.

"I understand, my Lord," Nyfarella uttered.

Shortly after she left to round up the dark faes in the other medicine baths, Leon turned to Saresha and transmitted the Dragon God Bone Forging Method to her with a tap on the forehead.

"Once you digested the knowledge, teach it to the others," Leon instructed.

"Y-yes, my Lord!" Saresha stuttered with surprise.

She found the newfound knowledge imprinted in her memory to be overwhelming yet astonishing at the same time.

A body cultivation method with Dragon God in its name shouldn't be simple.

Sometime later, Nyfarella gathered all 250 dark faes to Leon's location before he also transmitted the Dragon God Bone Forging Method to her and a few select individuals among them.

"My Lord, may I ask why we are cultivating with this method?" a dark fae raised her hand to ask before expressing her doubt, "Isn't this method meant for dragons, my Lord?"

"That's right," Leon admitted with a nod.

"However, just because a method was made for dragons, it doesn't necessarily mean only dragons can practice it. In fact, I am also cultivating a dragon method myself. Adopting superior traits from other races to strengthen what we lack is one way to become stronger."

"I have seen how diligent the Dark Fae Clan had been cultivating, so I wanted to bestow this opportunity onto your clan. However, the choice is up to you, whether you wish to accept it or not."

"We will happily accept it, my Lord!" Nyfarella spoke on behalf of her entire clan.

"Good!" Leon nodded with approval before saying, "Alright, you may teach the Dragon God Bone Forging Method to your clan members and cultivate on your own."

"Do not disturb unless it's urgent or if the medicine bath's effect depleted," Leon added.

"Understood, my Lord," Nyfarella and the rest of the dark faes complied.

Shortly after, Leon swept his divine sense over Duna's cultivation chamber before entering his own and sealed himself inside.

Duna appeared to be fine inside her cultivation chamber, but it was clear that she hadn't finished absorbing all the soul energy within the Demon King-level crystalized soul core.

'I'll give her another three days; if she doesn't finish by then, I'll have to return to the Infertile Plains without her,' Leon decided.

With his adoptive parents and little sister still in the Darkmoon Tribe, he couldn't afford to delay his return any further than that three-day period he set for himself.

Leon took a few moments to adjust his mental state before taking out the Black Turtle Blood Essence to refine Black Turtle Origin Blood for his flesh tempering.

One whole day passed within the blink of an eye before a nudge on Leon's cultivation chamber disturbed his cultivation.

Leon slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath of foul air.

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At that moment, his fleshly body was practically glistening, looking every smooth and tender, but in actuality, hid a terrifying amount of defensive strength.

'About one day and 3000 wisps of True Grandmist Energy to reach peak Rank 4 Body Transformation in the flesh-tempering phase with Black Turtle Origin Blood from a Half-step God Beast, huh?'

Leon smiled wryly at the jarring difference in the quality used for body cultivation.

'I didn't immerse myself in cultivation for the sake of keeping track of the time, but this gap is really something else.. Although I already know this, you really can't compare quantity and quality, huh?'

Leon shook his head helplessly.

After he gradually got up and exited his cultivation chamber, his eyes directly fell on the clan leader of the Dark Fae Clan, Nyfarella, who had her head lowered apologetically.

"I'm sorry for disturbing your cultivation session, my Lord."

"The medicine bath's effect depleted?" Leon calmly asked.

"Well, there's that," Nyfarella admitted with a nod before adding, "But we also have a situation on our hand."

"Oh?"