Everyone stood openmouthed, unable to close their mouths for a long time.
Yang Yong himself was also dumbstruck by what he saw.
That wasn't right.
Those materials were all inanimate.
The body forged by the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace should have been a Curio with no living properties.
Even if the City Lord's soul could enter it, that would only turn her into some kind of Curio...
It absolutely couldn't bring someone back to life.
Yet that thing was still glowing.
Brighter and brighter.
Anyone who did not know better would have thought a great dragon lay dormant there.
That dragon's heart was beating, thump, thump.
With each dull beat, the metal sphere at the heart of the City Lord's soul began to rotate slowly.
A silver light flowed out of the metal sphere.
Everyone's eyes widened at once.
That was...
Flowing metal.
Mercury?
No.
Mercury was the only metal that could flow, but the thing before them was definitely not mercury.
The liquid was pure silver, eerily silver.
As though granted life, it writhed slowly to some ancient rhythm.
Yang Yong had refined it with his own hands, yet even he was bewildered now.
Utterly bewildered.
Not just him. Everyone was bewildered.
They could only watch as the City Lord's soul controlled the liquid metal, making it crawl over her entire body like snakes.
At first...
The sight was exceedingly eerie.
Strands of silver metal flowed over her entire body like living things, tracing eerie patterns across the surface of her skin.
Those patterns did not look like products of human civilization, but rather the circuitry of some alien technology.
Precise and cold, with a suffocating beauty of order.
Then...
The metal began to solidify.
Crack, crack.
As though something were growing anew beneath her skin.
A humanoid figure composed