"Ding~"
The metal doors slowly opened, revealing all manner of equipment inside. Xu Cheng stepped into the Laboratory and surveyed the columns of thick blood on either side and several dissected corpses, clicking his tongue in amazement.
Several of them were elderly ten-thousand-year soul beasts that Di Tian had sent over not long ago. With little time left to live, they had their blood drawn and observed by Elder Cheng for a while before he administered an anesthetic and dissected them outright.
It counted as a contribution to the Soul Beast Clan's future.
After all, unlike Shrek, the Sun Moon Empire did not have abundant soul beast resources, much less the luxury of maintaining a separate Soul Beast Pavilion. The soul beasts Elder Cheng had studied before had only ranged from a hundred to a thousand years old.
It was not that ten-thousand-year ones could not be captured, but that they were difficult to control once captured. Researching artificial soul rings required studying not only how soul rings came into being at the instant of death, but also the soul beasts while they were alive...
With Di Tian's order, and with so little time left for these few anyway, they all obediently submitted to Elder Cheng's experiments.
"Teacher."
Only after Elder Cheng stopped working and wiped the sweat from his forehead did Xu Cheng approach.
"You're back?" Elder Cheng rolled his shoulders, a smile on his face. "This young body really can take a beating. In the past, how could a little injection of energy liquid have kept me going through half a month of all-nighters?"
Energy liquid was made by mixing several medicinal pills together, its main effects being to refresh the mind and keep one alert.
"You still need to take care of yourself..." Though he knew his