A black lump about half the size of a palm lay quietly in the wooden box, looking like a large cake of ink. On closer inspection, however, countless fine, dark-gold markings covered its surface. Beneath the lamplight, those golden streaks flickered, brightening and dimming in a breathtaking display.
Chen Mu simply could not connect this thing, neither wood nor stone, with a spore-bearing organism like a fungus, much less with the words "soft liquid." It looked far too different from the pictures he had seen before, but he trusted that Taishu Yong would never deceive him about this.
Taishu Yong knew when to make himself scarce and took the opportunity to say goodbye.
Su Liu Cherou's expression was grave. Before her, two hundred densely packed energy needles darted through the air, weaving a tapestry of light and shadow!
The exercise she was performing was the most difficult one for medical card adepts: multi-line control training! It trained card adepts to perform several operations simultaneously using their perception. Certain difficult procedures, such as cranial surgery, required medical card adepts to possess outstanding multi-line control.
Multi-line control training demanded not only that medical card adepts control several streams of perception at once, but that they do so with extraordinary precision.
Su Liu Cherou was controlling more than two hundred energy needles simultaneously, an astonishing feat! If word got out, countless factions would eagerly seek to recruit this exceptional medical card adept! Yet no one could have imagined that before she met Chen Mu, she had been able to control only thirty-six energy needles!
No one knew when she had begun specifically training this skill. Still less did anyone know for whose sake she had poured all her energy into honing it. Few people even knew about her daily training.
Multi-line control was