A private room in the Zhao Auction House.
Lu Nian walked into the room to have a meet with his second uncle Lu Kun, to the outside world uncle and nephew were simply participating in an auction together.
Lu Nian took a seat next to his uncle who began to talk immediately.
" How are the experiments?"
" The information we have is valid, vampire blood can indeed be used to syntehsize a Blood Sarira, but the product I have created is highly unstable as the subjects are all weak, I'll need a Ruler level Vampire to make a few stable copies of the item"
" We've been here before that's impossible at this stage and that's why I spent four billion on that brat Lu Zhangtian, his teammate is the ideal person, capture him alive and turn him into a vampire, there's no other choice right now.
You are in it for the glory, I am in it for the money but neither will happen if we get caught in a war with those demi humans in Shanghai, so forget about that part."
" Fine"
" How's that kid Cao Guang"
" Like you said ideal, of not for the fact that his teacher is Pang Lai and that Lu Zhangtian wants to kill him "
" Now we can't have that can we?" replied Lu Kun as he raised his arm to make a bid.
"I have sent some people to follow the national team, I put a tracker in the Soul Container you brought for him and I'll am leaving now"
" When do you plan on setting things in motion"
" The mangrove forest was a good place to act but the military accompanied the National team, Thar Desert is the next best guess, if they don't go in deep then, Sumer"
Lu Nian left as swiftly as he came as a smile grew upon Lu Kun's face. He wasn't Lu Kun anymore, he was the little red demon created by Kazuaki.
How else would the knowledge to create Blood Sarira would be available to Lu Nian and why wouldn't a Demon experimenter and an actual little Red Demon not be interconnected especially when they had the same surname.
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The Chinese national team had already completed their challenge in New Delhi, the match was closer than the previous one as it ended 3-2 as the national team gained their second badge, they were halfway to Paris in terms of ranking.
They just needed to get badges of two top twenty teams or one top ten team to solidify their place in Paris. But they wouldn't be having another challenge for a long time as they passed through Central, West Asia, Eastern Europe till they reached North Africa and challenged the Egyptian National Hall.
The national team slowly set out on foot towards West India the next morning and their target was the Thar Desert. They needed to travel along its eastern edge and make their way to central Asia.
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A couple of weeks later, the team found themselves at the edge of the desert sands as they traversed the home of the Desert Wyrms, a giant worm type creature with no ears, nose or eyes, they preyed on creatures by thermal imaging and were the top predators in these lands.
The national team ran into a couple of Scorpion Commanders fighting against a Desert Wyrm King, they were quite capable, challenging Monarch level creature while being advanced Commanders.
They quickly readjusted their travel path and made their way further away from the desert and towards the Himalayas.
Their journey across the deserts of Southern and central Asia took more than two months as the group had to constantly avoid various packs and nests of Demons, Cao Guang occasionally picked up Hunter missions involving exploration to continue boosting his Hunter rank.
The team found themselves resting in a hotel in Sumer when two tracking mages flying above them managed to sight the team again, they had been constantly avoiding busy and occupied air spaces while attempting to find the team's whereabouts, luckily for them Cao Guang hadn't given Lu Zhangtian any chance to act during this period.
He had been expecting a subtle attempt at his lif ever since he felt a killing intent from the guy month's ago, when he absorbed the Commander level Soul Remnants.
He had dissolved that into Warrior level soul Essences and combined with previously gained Soul Essences and the two months gains he developed both his Fire and Lightning Nebulas to the fifth tier as well, now half of his Nebulas were at this insane level.
With the boost provided by Lightning Bliss his intermediate spell was far stronger than any First tier Advanced spells boosted by a spirit grade seed.