The High Priest Su Yanxing shook his head and said regretfully, "I really don't know the exact principle behind it."
"But this Harvest Ram Horn was passed down from the greatest Founding Emperor of our Beichen Empire."
"He specifically left behind an edict stating that only bloodlines capable of restoring this Harvest Ram Horn sculpture were legitimate Royal Clan bloodlines and qualified to be Heirs."
Xia Chujian gave an unconvinced "Oh" and said, "Then aside from that, do you also conduct Genetic Tests?"
She only believed in science.
Su Yanxing smiled. "Of course."
"That was only the first step."
"Only bloodlines that can restore the Harvest Ram Horn in the first step may proceed to Genetic Testing."
Xia Chujian was relieved.
The first part had been far too strange, but as long as Genetic Testing followed, she could treat the earlier part as the ceremonial flair of some shamanic ritual.
Xia Chujian was very open-minded about it.
In fact, not only her—most of the people in this council chamber were seeing for the first time how the Imperial Family verified bloodlines.
Xia Chujian's doubts were also their doubts.
They simply refrained from asking because of their status.
Now that Xia Chujian had taken the lead and cleared up their confusion, they were relieved as well.
They too felt that Genetic Testing was more reliable...
Su Yanxing smiled at them, then took a Micro Gene Detector from his Briefcase and said, "This is a Gene Detector specially manufactured for the Imperial Family by the Empire's most outstanding Gene Studio."
"It is not sold to the public."
"With this Gene Detector, parentage can be determined in three seconds."
As he spoke, he dripped the blood from the syringe into the Gene Detector.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the results came