Fresh red blood was collected through the jade needle into the jade box. After roughly three drops had gathered, Eunuch Shen said:
"You may stop."
He put away the jade box and closed its lid, then returned to Commander Fu Qiwen's side and respectfully presented it with both hands.
Fu Qiwen gave a slight nod, accepted the jade box one-handed, and examined it.
In an instant, Yu Jin and Sun Changyu abruptly lifted their heads, both of them jolted to the core.
They only felt the heaven and earth's true qi throughout the entire hall suddenly boil over at that moment.
Centered on Fu Qiwen, an invisible vortex seemed to soar into the sky, rapidly drawing in and devouring the surrounding heaven and earth's true qi.
Even the true qi within their meridians and dantians began to stir restlessly, as though it might be drawn away and dissipate at any moment.
Both men's faces changed drastically. They hurriedly circulated their cultivation methods to stabilize the true qi within their bodies.
At the same time, the wind and rain above the entire hall abruptly ceased.
The continuously gathering heaven and earth's true qi seemed like an invisible giant hand, parting the torrential curtain of rain falling from the sky and sending the howling wind circling around the Heavenly Brocade Guard Headquarters instead.
Within the hall, the jade box in Fu Qiwen's palm glimmered with emerald light as it spun at a speed too swift for the naked eye to follow, its rotation seemingly breaking the sound barrier.
Yet even so, the jade box—its true form invisible, leaving behind only streaks of afterimages—remained imprisoned in Fu Qiwen's hand, never shifting even half an inch from beginning to end.
Could this be... a human centrifuge?
Li Musheng stared unblinkingly at Fu Qiwen, the