Outside the door, the two stood shoulder to shoulder without speaking, their tightly pressed lips betraying the anxiety in their hearts.
Inside, Su Yu took out the test tube containing the Mangekyō Sharingan and handed it to Ye Linglong.
"Sect Master Ye, let's begin."
"All right."
Ye Linglong accepted the test tube, set her medical case beside the bed, and opened it. Inside, an assortment of silver needles and bottles stood in neat rows.
Her fingertips stirred, and a pale green barrier instantly rose around the room, shutting out every sound from outside.
Su Yu lay down on the bed and took a deep breath, his gaze resolute.
Before Ye Linglong could act, he raised his hand and dug his fingertips straight into his own eye sockets.
With a soft squelch, excruciating pain swept through his body like a surging tide, making him convulse violently.
Cold sweat instantly covered his forehead, and only by clenching his teeth did he keep a cry of pain from escaping his lips.
Blood streamed between his fingers, staining the hair at his temples red. The sight was horrifying.
Ye Linglong's brows drew sharply together. Though shocked by his ruthlessness, she wasted no time and quickly took out a piece of clean cotton cloth.
"Bear with it."
Her voice was steady, but her movements were swift as she pressed the medicated cotton against his bleeding eye sockets.
She carefully picked up the Mangekyō Sharingan soaking in the test tube. The eerie patterns on the pupils seemed to shift faintly in the light. Holding her breath in concentration, she aligned them with Su Yu's eye sockets and gently placed them inside.
As the Mangekyō Sharingan entered Su Yu's eye sockets, his Sage Body spontaneously began to emit a pale blue-green glow.
The severed nerve fibers around