Gu Complete, Soldiers Complete

Fang Shu emerged from the quiet room and immediately summoned the servants from the yin and yang gu pits.

After a round of selection, two people were brought before him.

These two were not unfamiliar servants. They came from the Solitary Gu Hall and were his fellow disciples from the foot of the mountain, though they had not entered the hall in the same batch as him.

They happened to be one old and one young, one man and one woman.

The older one was forty-five, yet his face was weathered enough that one could have taken him for sixty or seventy.

The woman, meanwhile, was still in the bloom of youth, not yet twenty-five or twenty-six. She had happened to come up the mountain only this year. Fang Shu had met her once at the foot of the mountain some days ago, but had paid her no particular notice.

Upon meeting Fang Shu, the two immediately knelt in salute. "Greetings, Immortal Elder!"

Fang Shu did not let their knees touch the ground. With a spell, he supported them from afar and said, "We are all our own people. No need for such ceremony."

After pondering for a moment, he spoke.

"I summoned you here this time to test a method on human bodies. Have you two truly prepared yourselves?"

The two servants exchanged a glance. Neither saw any sign of coercion or regret on the other's face.

The woman answered first. "Since it is Senior Brother Fang testing the method, what have I to fear?"

"Me too," the man answered dully afterward.

Fang Shu smiled faintly upon hearing this and reassured them, "Well said. Since Fang is the one acting, and since I selected the two of you, I naturally have some confidence. Even if it fails, it will