Chapter 101 | Grade 5 Genesis Bloodline Diamond Rice
The next morning, Dexter woke up before his 5:00 AM alarm.
He stared at the ceiling, debating whether to sleep for another ten minutes until the alarm rang, but he shook his head and chuckled.
’If I sleep again, even the alarm won’t be able to wake me.’
He knew himself too well; if he closed his eyes again, he wouldn’t be getting up until noon.
He stretched and yawned. ’Alright. Today is an exciting day. Lots of things to do.’
He dragged himself out of bed to start his morning routine. However, when he stepped into the bathroom to bath, he found the shower drain completely clogged.
Dexter sighed, pulling on a pair of cleaning gloves. He reached into the drain and pulled out a massive clump of hair with three different colors.
Silver, amber, and dark strands all tangled together.
His expression went completely deadpan. He obviously couldn’t tell the girls not to wash their hair, but the sheer volume of it was ridiculous. He shook his head, packed the hair into a plastic bag, tied it shut, and tossed it into the waste bin.
After cleaning up the bathroom and arranging the rooms, his mind drifted back to the three Bloodline Evolution Stones resting in his storage ring.
He had forgotten about them long enough. It was time to figure out how to give them to the girls.
His eyes lit up.
He could mix the bloodline stones into the food.
As a Great Grandmaster Foodsmith, he had the accumulated knowledge and culinary techniques of masters far beyond his years.
If he could extract the raw essence from the stones and infuse them into a meal, the girls would absorb the bloodlines naturally without ever knowing they had consumed a priceless treasure.
Dexter closed his eyes, sifting rapidly through the vast library of Foodsmith memories embedded in his mind.
He searched for methods of extracting essence from solid spiritual objects, cross-referencing techniques for dissolving mana-dense materials into edible form.
One method surfaced above all others.
His Emperor Void Flame.
The 9th Heavenly Flame possessed unique properties that could gently melt and strip the pure essence from a Bloodline Evolution Stone without destroying or degrading its core properties.
The extracted essence could then be seamlessly blended into a spiritual meal, binding with the ingredients on a molecular level.
’Now, that’s a solid plan.’
Dexter’s grin widened as the full plan crystallized in his mind.
He would use the Diamond Rice, combined with the Heavenly Treasures he still had in storage, and the fresh ingredients he had purchased from the market.
Together, he would formulate a perfect Grade-Five meal. A rice-based dish so refined that the bloodline essence would be completely undetectable, absorbed effortlessly by the girls’ bodies as they ate.
He had considered using the stones on himself. But a Bloodline Evolution Stone could only be used once per person. If he took one, his Ancient Flame Demon Bloodline would advance a single grade, but not game-changing.
More importantly, he only had three stones for three girls. If he took one for himself, one girl would be left out, he didn’t think it would be fair.
Dexter retrieved the three shimmering crystals from his storage ring.
Then summoned a thin, controlled thread of his Emperor Void Flame—a warm white fire flickered gently above his fingertips unlike the violent crimson of his combat flames.
With precision control of a Great Grandmaster Foodsmith, he wrapped the white flames around the first stone.
The crystal began to glow.
Slowly, the outer shell of the stone liquefied, releasing a shimmering, vapor that rose into the air like distilled starlight.
Dexter guided the vapor with his mana, channeling it directly into the pot of cooking Diamond Rice.
The rice grains absorbed the essence instantly, their crystalline structures glowing faintly before returning to normal.
To the naked eye, nothing had changed. But Dexter’s Gastronomy body could sense the transformation as the bloodline essence blended perfectly with the grain.
He repeated the process with the second and third stones, infusing each one into a separate portion of the meal.
Then he added the Heavenly Treasures: thin slices of Origin Sun Fruit, crushed Star Essence threads of Millennium Blood Ginseng and various others.
The Diamond Rice absorbed everything, the grains swelling with concentrated energy.
The kitchen filled with an aroma so rich, that Dexter himself had to suppress the urge to grab a spoon and dig in.
The fragrance wassweet, savory, earthy, and faintly celestial, with a warmth that seemed to seep into the walls themselves.
By 7 o’clock, the meal was complete.
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[Name: Celestial Bloodline Genesis Rice]
[Grade: 5 Arcane Meal]
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[Description:
A legendary rice dish crafted from Diamond Rice and a collection of rare Heavenly Treasures, refined through the Emperor Void Flame. Every crystal-like grain contains perfectly balanced life essence, nourishing the body from the cellular level while awakening its hidden potential.]
[Effects]
• Permanently increases Physical Strength by 20%.
• Greatly enhances the body’s natural healing ability, increasing recovery speed by 300%.
• Removes accumulated toxins and impurities from the body.
• Greatly restores stamina, vitality, and mana.
[Hidden Effect]
• Randomly awakens one compatible bloodline from the sealed Bloodline Essence contained within the meal.
• If the user already possesses a bloodline, there is a chance for it to evolve instead of awakening a new one.
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Over the past few days, Dexter and the girls had fallen into an unspoken morning routine.
He would cook from 5 until 7am. During that time, Lyra and Selene would wake up, go to the bathroom, brush their teeth, bathe, and freshen up on their own.
Once they were done, Dexter would go to their room to help Mira with her morning routine.
Afterward, all four of them would eat breakfast together.
This morning, Dexter had made one small adjustment. He had opened the kitchen window to ventilate the cooking smoke, but he had also closed the door connecting the kitchen to the hallway.
He knew from experience that if Lyra caught even a faint whiff of the Diamond Rice cooking, she would materialize in the kitchen like a hungry ghost, and he wouldn’t be able to finish plating the food.
So the door stayed closed. The window stayed open. And the aroma drifted outside into the morning air instead.
Dexter washed his hands at the kitchen sink, preparing to go to the girls’ room to help Mira.
He dried his hands on a towel and was about to step into the hallway when—
"BANG!"
A loud, violent crash echoed through the house.
Dexter froze.
"CRACK!"
Another one? It was followed by shattering of soemthing.
’What just happened right now?’
His body tensed and he surged forward, rushing toward the girls’ bedroom, but as he reached the hallway, he realized the sound wasn’t coming from the bedroom.
It was coming from the bathroom.
Dexter sprinted to the bathroom door and threw it open.
He was stunned by what he saw.
Mira was sitting in her wheelchair, half-naked.
Her shirt had been removed, leaving her upper body exposed but her spectral arma hovering behind her covered her exposed skin. But that wasn’t what made Dexter stunned.
It was the massive crack on the bathroom wall with chunks of plaster and tile scattered across the wet floor.
Not to mention the toilet had also been shattered, as if someone had gripped it with inhuman force and squeezed.
The shower head had been ripped clean off its mount, the metal pipe bent at an ugly angle.
Dexter stood in the doorway, stunned.