North of Wushan City, beside the mansion deep in the mountains, the ground beneath a ridge had been leveled into an open space a hundred zhang on each side.
In a single night, simple outposts and barracks had sprung up there. Construction continued over the next several days, until the Life Information Research Institute, equipped with basic infrastructure and standard instruments, was completed. Hong Xu and the others were all transferred there to conduct the relevant collection and research on Li Chen's orders.
Controlling Hu Ze's body, he had already summoned the intelligent demon beasts from every quarter to an audience in the Demon King's name.
Under the Demon King's command, none of the demons dared disobey. They did not even voice the slightest doubt and could only obediently cooperate-with being studied.
That day, in the institute's largest main building, Hong Xu and several of his disciples gathered around a huge tiger with black stripes and white patches, performing a series of procedures.
This should have been a top-tier demon beast whose roars swept through the mountain forests, an apex predator even within the Qi Refining Realm. Yet now its eyes were tightly shut, and it lay rigid as a corpse on a makeshift table nailed together from hardwood planks.
It looked exactly like fish on a chopping block, at the mercy of the butcher's blade.
Hong Xu performed the operation himself, implanting a specially made chip the size of a fingernail into its brain, successfully closing its skull, and administering a little treatment. Two apprentices under him also implanted miniature sensing devices in other parts of the tiger's body, while an assistant drew beast blood from an artery in its foreleg, labeled it, and placed it in a storage box that gave off a cold mist.
Hong Xu glanced