Most of the Azure Dragon bloodline within Sadius had already been transferred into the Azure Dragon egg, but a small portion still remained in his true body.
He wanted to test whether his true body could undergo the baptism and awaken a water-elemental talent.
If successful, then even without relying on his second divine body, he would become a four-element soul mutate.
And if he added the second divine body's innate talents on top of that, wouldn't he become a five-element soul mutate—something even the original Coiling Dragon novel never had?
"Sadius, you should know the Dragon Transformation Pool is a unique supreme treasure of our Azure Dragon clan, created through the research of the Ancestor Azure Dragon Sovereign. Even outsiders find it difficult just to visit it, let alone use it," Gailson said solemnly.
Sadius' thoughts turned. He immediately understood what Gailson was truly implying.
This fellow wanted him to carry his Azure Dragon egg and formally join the Azure Dragon clan.
With Sadius' current strength, he was definitely among the very peak of Shura-level experts.
And behind him stood the Redbud Sovereign as his backer.
If Sadius joined the Four Divine Beasts clan, then the crisis of the Eight Great Families would soon be resolved.
"Gailson, I also carry the Azure Dragon bloodline within me. Although it isn't of the exact same branch as yours, are we not still both of the Azure Dragon lineage?"
Hearing these words, Gailson couldn't help but feel overjoyed.
With Sadius' statement, the Four Divine Beasts clan would no longer need to fear the Eight Great Families.
"However," Sadius continued, "I have also heard of the things the Four Divine Beasts clan once did. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been jointly hunted down by the Eight Great Families."
Gailson fell silent.
Indeed, the current downfall of the Four Divine Beasts clan was largely due to the actions of its own descendants.
Ten thousand years ago, the younger generation of the clan relied on the fact that their four Ancestors were Sovereigns and ran rampant across countless planes, committing wanton atrocities.
This was why, after the Four Divine Beasts perished, all the planes joined in exterminating their descendants.
The Eight Great Families even relocated from the various planes to the Youlan Prefecture of the Infernal Realm, swearing to slaughter the Four Divine Beasts clan until none remained.
"If the four clan leaders can put aside the arrogance of once being a Sovereign-backed family and are willing to live as an ordinary clan in the Infernal Realm, then I, Sadius, am willing to help you eliminate the threat of the Eight Great Families."
The four clan leaders hesitated.
Their fathers were once mighty Sovereigns—how could they possibly set aside the pride of being a Sovereign family?
Seeing their silence, Sadius patiently explained the stakes once again.
"If the Four Divine Beasts clan continues to cling to such arrogance, then even if I eliminate the Eight Great Families for you, there will be new crises. After all, it wasn't just the Eight Great Families you offended in the past. In these ten thousand years, how many elders of your clan have died? How many still live? If this continues, in less than another ten thousand years, the clan won't even have a single Seven-Star Fiend left."
"Are we to simply let everyone continue to mock us like this?" the Vermilion Bird clan leader muttered.
"Power is what earns respect. As long as the clan's strength is preserved, who would dare look down on the Four Divine Beasts clan?"
The four fell silent.
"I will instruct the clan's younger generation," Gailson finally said, his tone low and heavy. "From now on, they will live peacefully."
He was still a child of a Sovereign—how could there not be pride in his heart?
"Good. After the bloodline baptism, I will take action and resolve the Eight Great Families' threat."
This bloodline baptism, if successful, would dramatically raise Sadius' strength.
In fact, he would become the very first mid-level deity in the entire Coiling Dragon universe to naturally possess the Power of Will.
Since Sadius' talent wasn't of the four fundamental elements of earth, water, fire, and wind, even with a soul mutation, he wouldn't have the overwhelming Will surpassing Great Perfection like Linley.
But obtaining Will power was certain—already set in stone.
With the Power of Will, Sadius' strength would essentially reach Great Perfection.
Perhaps slightly weaker than a true Great Perfection, but still far beyond an ordinary Highgod.
After all, Will power wasn't something any ordinary Highgod could even touch.
If Sadius' true body awakened water-elemental talent, and his second divine body later achieved divinity of death-elemental laws, then Sadius could indeed become a five-element soul mutate.
In that case, the reward in Will power might be far beyond normal Great Perfection—perhaps even two layers of Will energy at once.
But whether this would happen could only be known after the bloodline baptism.
"Very well. I will organize it and open the Dragon Transformation Pool ahead of schedule."
Normally, the Dragon Transformation Pool was opened once every hundred years.
But Gailson decided to open it early—he couldn't wait any longer.
The next day, Azure Dragon clan leader Gailson announced to the clan that in three days, the Dragon Transformation Pool would be opened.
All descendants who had not yet undergone the baptism could participate.
During these three days, Sadius traveled to the valley where the Baruch clan resided.
When Jason Baruch and the others saw Sadius arriving, they were excited.
"Clan leader, this is the Lord Sadius I mentioned to you—a super expert who came from our Yulan Plane."
The "clan leader" Jason spoke of wasn't Gailson, but the Baruch clan's leader—the very first Dragonblood Warrior, Baruch.
Currently, Baruch was only at the level of a mid-level deity, having only been in the Infernal Realm for a few thousand years.
"Welcome, Lord Sadius. I never expected our Yulan Plane could give birth to someone like you."
Baruch had also learned of Sadius' strength. This man was even stronger than Azure Dragon clan leader Gailson, a Sovereign's Emissary.
"Just luck," Sadius smiled faintly. "Baruch, your name is legendary in the Yulan Continent."
Three days later, the Azure Dragon clan's bloodline baptism began.
A group of Azure Dragon descendants was brought to the mountain where the baptisms were held.
"That's the clan leader himself! He actually came personally to watch the baptism—this is so rare!"
The others gazed in awe at Gailson, while Jason Baruch's family stared dumbfounded at Sadius and his son Luoshen.
Why were they here?
Were they…here to witness the Azure Dragon clan's bloodline baptism?
But Jason thought of Luoshen's Dragon Soul Transformation, so similar to their Dragonblood Warrior transformation.
Could it be…they were also here to undergo the baptism?
Sadius…was he a descendant of the Azure Dragon clan?
But wasn't Sadius a magical beast—an Iron-armored Dragon many times stronger? How could he be of the Azure Dragon lineage?
Before Jason could untangle his confusion, the bloodline baptism ceremony began.
Within a vast hall was a circular pool two hundred meters in diameter. The water exuded a peculiar fragrance.
Several black-robed figures threw large amounts of special herbs into the pool. The water began to boil.
Then, a bald man tossed in a fist-sized azure crystal, and instantly the pool shone with a dazzling brilliance.
The pool boiled furiously, and azure mist coiled above it.
Soon after, around twenty Azure Dragon clan members entered the pool for their baptism.
As for Sadius and Luoshen, they would enter with the Azure Dragon egg after the others.
After all, Sadius, as the sibling of the second-generation Azure Dragon, likely had a bloodline concentration rivaling the first or second generation descendants.
And Sadius was a super expert—naturally, he should undergo the baptism separately.
Sadius watched the group of Azure Dragon juniors entering the Dragon Transformation Pool.
Indeed, this pool was miraculous—it could allow even non-pureblood descendants of a super Divine Beast to awaken water-elemental talent, even granting innate divine abilities.
Which Sovereign of other Divine Beasts wouldn't covet such a treasure?
Other Sovereigns had tried to research the Dragon Transformation Pool, but found no clues and could only give up.
Across the entire Coiling Dragon universe, Sadius only knew of the Extreme Intent
Fiend who managed to research from the pool to create a second divine body. No one else had achieved anything similar.
For the Azure Dragon clan's bloodline baptism, those with average talent finished within a day or two, while those with better talent might take six or seven days.
This time, there were two descendants with decent talent who absorbed the azure mist longer than the rest.
But nothing too shocking.
Soon, the group completed their baptism, and during the process, the laws of the universe descended repeatedly.
Such was the wonder of the Dragon Transformation Pool.
Any Azure Dragon descendant who underwent the clan's bloodline baptism would automatically awaken water-elemental talent and gain complete comprehension of the Profound Mysteries of Water.
Those who finished were led out of the hall by the black-robed attendants.
"Sadius, Luoshen, it's your turn now. The Dragon Transformation Crystal still has plenty of energy—it should be enough for both of you."
Sadius nodded, taking Luoshen into the pool.
The two sat cross-legged in the pool.
Azure streams began to flow toward them, wrapping them like two cocoons.
Sadius instinctively transformed into his true form—the Amethyst Dragon God.
The massive dragon body instantly occupied most of the pool.
His Amethyst essence seemed to resonate with the energy within the Dragon Transformation Crystal.
What exactly was this crystal? To actually resonate with Amethyst essence?
Countless azure streams surged into Sadius' body.
The Dragon Transformation Crystal's energy rapidly diminished.
On Sadius' head, the Amethyst spines began to change.
The original Amethyst spines shed off, replaced by azure crystal spines that greedily absorbed the released energy.
It was as though he was directly plundering it.
In Sadius' mind, inherited memories slowly surfaced.
It was the method for awakening the Azure Dragon clan's bloodline.
In other words, Sadius now knew how to awaken the water-elemental bloodline in Azure Dragon descendants.
Unlike the clan that required the Dragon Transformation Pool, Sadius only needed to use the crystal spines on his own head to awaken the bloodline for them.
At the same time, he learned that this true body of his could not give birth to a water-elemental divine clone.
Although some Azure Dragon bloodline remained in him, he had already condensed a second divine body, which held the purest Azure Dragon bloodline.
Once that second body underwent the bloodline baptism, it would become a water-elemental super Divine Beast Azure Dragon.
Sadius had originally thought his second divine body would gain death-elemental talent, since when he used the Extreme Intent Fiend's secret technique, he had split off a pure fragment of his soul. By rights, it should have had death-elemental affinity, since cultivating the Laws of Death required high soul purity.
But the Azure Dragon bloodline within him automatically merged into the second divine body, forming an Azure Dragon egg.
So it seemed the second divine body's talent would only be the water-element.
Within the Dragon Transformation Pool, Luoshen quickly completed his baptism.
His purity was comparable to that of a third-generation Azure Dragon descendant.
The laws descended, and Luoshen became a water-elemental deity, choosing external Divinity.
Afterward, Luoshen stepped out of the pool.
Gailson watched the ongoing scene within the pool.
Sadius was still greedily absorbing the power of the Dragon Transformation Crystal.
The energy in the crystal was dwindling fast.
Normally, one Dragon Transformation Crystal held enough energy for ten baptism sessions.
The twenty-some other clan members had consumed only about ten percent of its energy, Luoshen alone consumed twenty percent.
The remaining seventy percent was entirely devoured by Sadius.
Time passed bit by bit.
Still, no universal laws descended.
Those outside the pool grew curious.
"Could it be that as a sibling of the second-generation Azure Dragon, Sadius' bloodline is even purer than mine as a direct child of the Azure Dragon?"
Finally, within the pool, all azure streams were completely absorbed by Sadius. The cocoon dispersed.
Sadius reverted to human form and flew out of the pool.
"Sadius, was the energy in the Dragon Transformation Crystal insufficient for you to absorb?" Seeing the crystal drained dry, Gailson asked immediately.
Sadius gave an awkward smile.
"No, it's just… I cannot awaken the Azure Dragon bloodline. Perhaps it's related to my earlier evolution into an Amethyst Divine Beast."
Sadius then recounted his encounter in the Amethyst Mountains.
"To think you are actually the second person in existence to become a three-element soul mutate. To gain the fortune of evolving into an Amethyst Divine Beast…truly a stroke of fate."
"Then next, we should prepare to hatch your younger brother." Gailson took out another fully charged Dragon Transformation Crystal—this one was specially prepared.
It was meant to give the Azure Dragon egg sufficient energy to absorb.
Gailson personally placed the crystal into the pool along with the special herbs.
Sadius nodded, taking out the Azure Dragon egg and placing it into the Dragon Transformation Pool.
Azure mist filled the pool, gathering around the egg.
A blue cocoon enveloped the Azure Dragon egg as energy constantly poured into it.
Sadius could feel the soul within the egg growing stronger.
Soon, other clan leaders from the remaining three clans arrived, along with the four great elders, all to witness this baptism.
The first-generation Four Divine Beasts were naturally born at the dawn of Heaven and Earth.
This second-generation Azure Dragon, however, was born from an egg—somewhat similar to the God-Eater Rat.
Beirut had been naturally born on the Yulan Continent.
Bebe, however, was a mutated offspring of Beirut.
Ten full days passed.
Only then did Sadius sense the soul within the Azure Dragon egg become full and stable.
Then, Sadius felt he could finally control the soul within the egg.
At that moment, the universal laws descended, and water-elemental Divine Spark emerged.
Sadius controlled the soul within the Azure Dragon egg, preparing to breakthrough in the Infernal Realm.
A Divine Spark appeared beside the egg, offering Sadius the choice of becoming a God within or outside the body.
It could choose to become a God outside the body?
Sadius was overjoyed.
If it could choose external Divinity, didn't that mean the second divine body still had the chance to cultivate other laws or elements?
External Divinity—it must be external Divinity!
The soul within the Azure Dragon egg split into two—similar yet subtly different from Sadius' own soul.
An Azure Dragon soul emerged from the egg that was about to hatch and merged into the Divine Spark.
Soon, a figure appeared, almost identical in appearance to Sadius, though with a slightly different aura.
Thankfully, the pool was shrouded in mist, preventing the full form of this water-elemental divine body from being seen.
But at that moment, the universal laws descended once again…