The Golden Cloud Pavilion is the second largest and most luxurious restaurant in Yuan City.
It has a total of nine floors, each representing a different cuisine, with highly skilled master chefs personally overseeing the cooking.
Additionally, there is a source of tiger blood behind the scenes, which serves as the signature dish of the Golden Cloud Pavilion.
This makes it quite famous throughout Yuan City.
But now, on the fifth floor of the Golden Cloud Pavilion, in a sealed luxurious private room.
Zhang Zhenhai was crouching on the ground, her lower body fully exposed, her pretty face showing an extremely painful expression.
When Zhang Rongfang pushed the door open and entered, this was the scene he witnessed.
The most astonishing thing was that he could clearly see blood-red oval eggs being continuously pushed out from beneath Zhang Zhenhai.
One after another, one after another, as the female pharmacist and midwife nearby stood dumbfounded, not even noticing Zhang Rongfang’s arrival.
A dozen red eggs had already been laid on the thick carpet spread in the room.
And Zhang Zhenhai was still laying them relentlessly; within a few minutes, another dozen had emerged.
Judging by the trend, it seemed like it would never stop.
Zhang Rongfang’s expression quickly became solemn.
He sensed a bloodline aura from these red eggs that was completely of the same origin as his own, but extremely pure.
It was not just a simple blood race ancestral bloodline; there was also the ultimate lifeform bloodline within them.
As for the new Nine Phoenixes bloodline, perhaps it was not yet fully activated, so it was not present in these red eggs.
Nonetheless... even these auras were already terrifying.
Especially the bloodline concentration of these red eggs, which was many times stronger than that of the first generation bloodline.
It was even incredibly close to the level of his own body.
This meant that these red eggs might give birth to terrifying beings possessing partial blood race ancestral abilities and the powerful adaptability of ultimate lifeforms.
"Imperial Tutor!" Only now did the surrounding group notice Zhang Rongfang’s arrival, and they all knelt in salute.
"No need for formalities, all of you, leave." Zhang Rongfang sternly commanded.
"Yes..." The group initially wanted to report the situation, but considering the Imperial Tutor’s transcendent powers, being an Upper Immortal of the Taoist sect, they realized he probably didn’t need their report.
Hence, they intended to rise and exit the room immediately.
But then, just at that moment.
A red egg suddenly made a cracking sound, and a hole instantly appeared in the eggshell, from which a red shadow burst out, lunging at one of the midwives.
Ah!!
The midwife, who was also of the bloodline, reacted instantly with a terrified scream.
The red shadow carried an overwhelming aura she couldn’t resist; despite having the strength to dodge or block, sensing that aura rendered her completely powerless.
Just as the red shadow was about to pounce on her face.
A large hand suddenly blocked her way like lightning, precisely intercepting the red shadow.
Bam!
The red shadow couldn’t evade and slammed into the large hand, getting firmly grasped.
Only then did everyone clearly see what it was.
What Zhang Rongfang held in his hand was a blood-red worm with a child’s face!
The worm was only palm-sized, with black rings all over its soft body that could continually expand and contract, resembling a hairless caterpillar.
If not for its childlike innocent face at its head, people might have thought it was a newly discovered special insect.
The key was that once Zhang Rongfang captured the worm, it seemed to sense something and quickly stopped struggling, instead using its face to affectionately rub against the back of his hand.
But seeing its occasional opening and closing mouth full of densely packed sharp black teeth, one knew the horrifying scenario that would occur if it lunged at someone.
"What... is this thing?" Zhang Rongfang said, his face bewildered as he carefully observed the human-faced worm in his hand.
No matter how he examined it, there was only one conclusion: this creature was his own offspring.
Meanwhile, Zhang Zhenhai continued laying eggs, feeling embarrassed as Zhang Rongfang’s gaze fell on her private parts, attempting to cover herself with her hand.
In the midst of severe pain and shyness, she failed to notice that the eggs she was laying began to slightly tremble, as well as the human-faced worm in Zhang Rongfang’s hand.
There were already over thirty red eggs on the ground, and the number kept increasing.
A faint trace of blood mist drifted naturally into the air, surrounding the room.
"Out." Zhang Rongfang spoke again.
The crowd, previously frozen in shock due to the attack, suddenly came to their senses and hurriedly exited the room one by one.
But even after leaving, the terrifying scene they just witnessed remained etched in everyone’s minds.
The human-faced worm that burst from the red egg, what on earth was it...?!?
Everyone was left with such a question in their hearts.
Soon, only Zhang Zhenhai, continuing to lay eggs, Zhang Rongfang, and Celestial Maiden Tong Zhang stood dazedly in the room.
Tong Zhang had been forcibly brought here, her freedom restricted by Zhang Rongfang to prevent her self-destruction.
This meant she couldn’t freely go anywhere.
Feeling confined, Tong Zhang was unable to eat, drink, or find relief without suddenly being enveloped by the blood mist, which could carry her away at any moment.
This constant anxiety created in her a growing desire for freedom.
With desire comes the absence of self-destructive tendencies.
She suddenly understood this was Zhang Rongfang’s intent.
Better to resent him than die.
But at this moment, seeing the scene before her, Tong Zhang’s initial frustration from being confined turned into curiosity, horror, and anticipation.
Zhang Zhenhai laying so many eggs was entirely unexpected for her.
What will happen next?
No one knows.
Even Zhang Rongfang himself doesn’t know.
At this moment, rows upon rows of red eggs began to tremble once again. Cracks started appearing on the eggshells.
"It’s happening again!" the Celestial Maiden reminded.
Pop pop pop!!
Countless red shadows broke through the shells at the same time, shooting out towards him.
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen black-red human-faced worms floated in the air around him.
All the worms had similar childlike human faces. And all these faces resembled Zhang Rongfang.
"Daddy!"
"Daddy, Daddy!"
"Dad, let me go!"
"I want to eat meat, Daddy! I want to eat that woman over there!"
A group of worms began to scream.
They quickly began to devour the surrounding blood mist.
But this devouring didn’t last long; soon it ended, and the worms began emitting black-red mist instead.
These black-red mists, upon coming into contact with the surrounding wooden furniture and fluffy carpets, quickly produced clouds of black smoke.
The furniture developed patches of black pits, and the carpets burned through with several holes.
"...It seems they’re all your children." Tong Zhang blinked; from these human-faced worms, she couldn’t help but feel threatened.
That kind of black-red mist, just a touch passing over the back of her hand, left a faint blood mark.
With a thud, Zhang Zhenhai finally finished laying the forty-ninth egg, completely exhausted, collapsed to the ground, unable to move.
Due to the egg-laying, her entire body seemed to have shrunk a circle, her belly deflated.
Zhang Rongfang gently embraced her.
"Are you alright?"
Strands of ancestral essence blood continuously seeped into her body through skin contact, nourishing the emptiness within.
"What...what have I given birth to!!?" Zhang Zhenhai finally reacted, staring dumbfounded at the almost entirely hatched human-faced worms in the room, standing for a moment before a trace of despair flashed in her eyes, and she couldn’t help but cover her face and cry.
"It’s alright, they’re all fine, just look a bit strange, but actually have little impact." Zhang Rongfang softly comforted her.
"I..." Zhang Zhenhai, at this point, had her physical depletion replenished, regaining some spirit.
Looking again at these forty-nine human-faced worms, she inexplicably felt that the way they looked at her and Zhang Rongfang with those fawning eyes seemed...seemed a bit cute?
"It’s alright, with me here, everything will be fine," Zhang Rongfang held her softly comforting her.
No matter what these worms are, the root of their birth is definitely not Zhang Zhenhai’s fault.
The blood fairy ancestor’s dao companion gave birth to forty-nine blood fairies!
This news quickly spread throughout Yuan City.
And these human-faced worms, named blood fairies, were all arranged by Zhang Rongfang to be fed separately in forty-nine rooms.
Unexpectedly, he discovered that with the emergence of the blood fairies, the concentration of blood mist and essence blood in the entire Yuan City seemed to have a rising trend.
The method to judge this was very simple.
He himself remained the same, but the concentration of blood mist in the city was at least 2.4 times higher than before.
And this change began from the day the blood fairies were born.
With a slight connection and some calculations, it can be inferred that the two are positively correlated.
After properly settling the blood fairies, Zhang Rongfang no longer soaked in the blood pool daily, but instead watched over the blood fairies carefully observing.
He had accumulated a lot of attributes as the previous bloodline abilities were not fully digested or explored. In this time, he did not continue to enhance life to acquire new talent abilities.
Instead, he constantly collected new abilities self-evolved and created by his subordinate bloodlines.
For example, Emperor Jiang’s terrifying speed. Although due to important factors like state and physical differences, he couldn’t completely replicate Emperor Jiang’s terrifying speed.
However, as the bloodlines continued to evolve and explore, various detailed and extremely creative ability talents were plagiarized by Zhang Rongfang all without exception.
Within the Feather Spirit Court.
This place was specifically left for Zhang Rongfang’s blood fairies to reside and rest.
Zhang Rongfang, a solemn expression on his face, stood outside a blood fairy’s room, observing the human-faced worm inside eating flesh through colorless glass.
In just a few days, the human-faced worm had grown from palm-sized to over three meters long and over half a meter tall.
These blood fairies were tremendously marvelous, speaking as soon as they were born, and now after a few days, their thoughts were no different from ordinary people, very mature.
They evidently inherited his mind reinforcement talent as well.
"Daddy, why do you lock me in here? There are so many moving foods outside. If you let me out to eat freely, I could quickly grow to a complete form!" the human-faced worm complained to Zhang Rongfang after finishing over a hundred pounds of pork.
"Those who only follow instincts are beasts. And beasts are weak, they are hunted." Zhang Rongfang calmly said, "You are not allowed to leave this room until you can control and conceal your instincts."
"But I am hungry..." the blood fairy shouted.
With a rip and tear.
Suddenly, this blood fairy’s body split open from the middle, revealing another layer of fluffy gray-white outer shell beneath.
It struggled out of the worm’s body, its entire form completely transformed.
From appearance, it was a giant gray-white moth over a person tall.
Its face bore many tiny compound eyes, arranged in a special pattern, forming a familiar human face.
That human face resembled Zhang Rongfang and Zhang Zhenhai, but no longer had a childlike appearance, instead resembling a youth.