Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“You pathetic, dirty, cold devil–” Xiao Yao recalled the princess’s lines, stopped halfway through, smiled and then shook his head, “Brother Bai, the relationship between vampire parents and offspring is too complicated, you shouldn’t learn bad things.”
Bai Ju didn’t really understand the relationships between vampire parents and offsprings. To be honest, he didn’t quite understand the lines he heard before. He was just following what they said. Upon hearing that, he asked, “What is the relationship between the parents and offsprings of vampires like?”
Xiao Yao raised his head, and his gaze wandered around and found a few vampires far away in another corner of the lobby. A smile then flashed across his eyes. He coughed lightly and explained quietly: “Brother Bai, you see, the vampire race is different from most of the demons in our China. Strictly speaking, they are not living creatures and have no life characteristics. In theory, they cannot reproduce.”
“So, their inheritance and reproduction rely on the transfer and inheritance of power. By giving the right people the ‘First Embrace’, sucking their blood and then feeding them with their own blood, it is equivalent to establishing a bond of power, which will allow the humans who are embraced to awaken and become vampires. In this way, the two become parent and offspring. The child will inherit his power from his parent and will have an instinctive submission and closeness to his father that cannot be overcome. This is how vampires reproduce.”
Xiao Yao concluded: “So, the relationship between parent and offspring of vampires is not really the relation between parents and children, it’s just a hereditary relationship. However, vampires themselves are rarely willing to give the First Embrace to humans who serve as food; therefore, more than half of the First Embraces occur because the vampire fall in love with a human and wants to be together forever with them. This also leads to many couples among vampires being parent and offspring. While they are in love, they also play roles similar to those of parent and offspring, of dependence and being relied upon, discipline and submission. It can be said that this is a mixed relationship between the two, which is ethically quite confusing.”
Bai Ju pointed his finger at his chin, followed Xiao Yao’s line of sight to look at the vampire staff members in the corner who were taking photos with tourists while holding red wine glasses, and sighed, “It’s not easy for them either. It’s one thing if they can’t find a lover, but if they find a human as a partner, then they will either be separated from each other after a hundred years, or they will go against ethics and stay together forever. There will never be a happy ending.” Unlike him and Xiao Yao, who had many ways to go on together.
Xiao Yao thought about what Bai Ju said, and actually felt that this old dog had provided a very fresh idea: “If you hadn’t said that, I wouldn’t have realized… People have mixed opinions about vampires’ views on love, and few have considered it from their own perspective.”
Bai Ju sighed and put his hand on Xiao Yao’s shoulder: “Yao Yao, I think it’s not unreasonable for them to want to immigrate to China. You see; in the past, when information was blocked, they were confined by their own elegance and reserve, as well as the limitations of their own power, and had been on a downward spiral. Now that they can come into contact with more people and see more magic, they will definitely desire more possibilities.”
Xiao Yao tilted his head and knocked it on Bai Ju’s shoulder: “Well, that’s what you said, but vampires are really not very convenient to be allowed to immigrate… The Chinese warlocks chased them to Turtle Island because the words on those invitations were written in the blood of vampires; if the vampires were stingy and didn’t use blood to write, then they would have no fate, no luck, and no aura, and we couldn’t even track them; we are short of talent in the Chinese warlock community, and we really can’t spare anyone to manage them.”
Bai Ju nodded thoughtfully, then thought of the werewolves who went back to change clothes and frowned worriedly.
If it was just vampires, he had a way to make them practice Taoism and be managed… Vampires were Western demons whose existence was somewhere between zombies and spiritual creatures. Their power source was basically blood, which made them more like the rare living puppets in the past.
Xiao Yao paused for a while, and seeing that Bai Ju didn’t say anything, he poked Bai Ju’s belly: “What’s wrong, any ideas?”
Bai Ju lowered his eyes: “Well… a little bit. I know several methods of cultivating living puppets, which may be more suitable for vampires.”
Xiao Yao became interested when he heard this: “Tell me about it.”
Bai Ju looked at the crowd of tourists around, then took Xiao Yao’s arm and walked out of the castle. Passing by the sofa, he said hello to Jing Xia who was curled up there holding a fox and eating fruit.
After the masquerade began, the main venue of the event moved from outdoors to indoors. Although there were still a few people wandering around and taking pictures outside, it was much emptier than indoors. The night sea breeze blew with a slightly fishy smell of the sea, but it disappeared outside the castle, leaving only a little soft breeze, rolling up the green and ambiguous fragrance of roses.
Vampires and vampire hunters slowly walked hand in hand in the rose garden of Haiyin Castle. Bai Ju was not very sensitive to temperature, but Xiao Yao was a little hot, so he took off his windbreaker and hung it on Bai Ju’s arm.
His shirt was tucked into the waistband of his pants. After Xiao Yao took off the windbreaker, his beautiful waistline now loomed against the background of the clothes. Bai Ju couldn’t help but reach out and hold it and knead it gently. Xiao Yao patted his wrist twice before he calmed down a little.
“Ahem…” Bai Ju put his hand back on Xiao Yao’s shoulder and explained to him about the practice of living puppets: “It’s like this… In the old days, some immortal cultivation sects could make puppets, but puppets couldn’t think after all, and controlling puppets required a lot of ability from the cultivators; so some people tried to make thinking puppets, and also referred to several corpse-driving sects, trying to make blood puppets that are different from flying corpses.”
“Naturally there were more failures than successes during the experiment, but there were also some successes. A successful living puppet is not made from corpses, but from living people who are willing to take risks… A successfully refined blood puppet is no longer a living thing, but it can retain all the memories and cultivation experience of the deceased before his death. It will obey the orders of the master, but it will also have its own combat awareness. The blood in their bodies is circulating and stores their strength.” Bai Ju said, “It’s actually similar to a vampire, but the living puppet can upgrade by absorbing various essences and blood, while vampires can only get basic supplies from the blood they suck, and their level is basically fixed at the moment they become vampires.”
“The biggest difference between them and living puppets is that they have no light source.”
“If the living puppet with the contract object is compared to the moon relying on the sun, then the vampire is a torch burning its own, and when it burns out, there is nothing left.”
“Find them a light source and let them practice with their respective light sources.” Bai Ju twisted his fingers and gently pulled out a small arc of electricity, “Once we can find the right person to form a living puppet contract, then this contract will be the most effective restrictive rule, and no one will have a problem with becoming stronger.”
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