The Martial Immortal Realm of Ants Fighting Beneath the Steps! Rising State! (Eight Thousand Characters, Two-in-One)

By evening, Huo Yuanhong received a pickup notification. He went to a locker near the research institute and entered the pickup code on his backup phone.

Click!

A locker door sprang open, revealing the corner of a silver-white medicine case.

Huo Yuanhong reached in and took out the case. Opening it for a look, he found exactly what he expected: three doses of serum, protected layer upon layer by cushioning and insulation, along with ice packs.

It had arrived so quickly.

He wondered how these semi-immortal serums obtained through official channels differed from the black-market goods he had used before.

After inspecting it and confirming that no trackers had been installed, Huo Yuanhong placed the medicine case into a bag he had picked up along the way and carried it off.

On the way back, Huo Yuanhong found a private room at a restaurant. He ordered several dishes that needed to be stir-fried fresh and took out one dose of serum, injecting the strange deep-blue liquid into his body.

Then he activated the Eight Veins Vibration Art. Centered around the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, the sinews and bones within his body began to tremble faintly, accelerating his metabolism and further boosting the rate at which he absorbed the medicine beyond the three-hundred-and-sixty-fivefold baseline.

As expected, serum from official channels was different. Its effects were absorbed far more quickly.

A dose of black-market goods leaked onto the dark web took nearly half a day to absorb, even with his Vibration Art speeding things along. Yet this deep-blue serum had been completely absorbed in just half an hour.

By then, all the dishes had arrived.

"Your stir-fried pork kidneys and shredded potatoes in vinegar sauce. Please enjoy."

The server set down the plates, then brought over a bowl of crystal-clear white rice.