"Dead? No..That can't be..."
Emery forced the shock down and made himself look more carefully—not just at the body suspended within the tube, but at the series of conduits humming beneath the chamber.
With his deep knowledge of apothecary and the years he had spent working on the Supreme Gene Project, it did not take him long to recognize what he was looking at.
This was a bloodline enhancement conduit.
The corpse itself served as the catalyst, its bloodline continuously extracted and circulated throughout the tube. Only the body of someone possessing an exceptionally pure bloodline could sustain a process of this scale.
The bad news was that the corpse truly belonged to Ronan Faulen, the Serpent Supreme.
Yet something about it immediately struck Emery as odd.
Every cultivator's body retained faint traces of the life essence it had lived. Even after death, aging, and accumulated vitality left behind subtle marks that could not easily be erased.
