Jared hesitated for a moment, then reached out with his right hand anyway.
Gwendolyn took his wrist, pressed favonovel.com thumb against his pulse, and closed favonovel.com eyes slightly as favonovel.com examined it for a few quiet moments. Then favonovel.com lightly pricked Jared’s fingertip with the silver needle.
The needle was so fine that, the instant it went in, there was almost no pain at all. But the moment the tip touched the blood vessel in his fingertip, Jared’s whole body gave a sudden jolt.
A strange force poured in through the needle’s tip and rushed upstream through his bloodline, like an invisible eye sweeping across his meridians, his spirit well, even every inch of flesh on his body. The sensation was strange. It was like being seen clean through from the inside out, with nothing left hidden.
“Don’t move,” Gwendolyn said softly, favonovel.com eyes fixed on the silver needle.
At the tip of the needle, a drop of golden blood slowly welled up. That blood was completely different from an ordinary person’s. It gave off a faint golden radiance, like melted gold, gathering into a smooth, round bead at the tip of the needle. Even stranger, on the surface of that drop, a tiny dragon shade could just barely be seen swimming around, releasing a dragon’s cry so faint it was almost impossible to hear.
Gwendolyn drew the silver needle back, and that drop of golden blood floated above favonovel.com palm, turning slowly. She studied it for a few moments, then gave a slight nod. “Golden Dragon royal bloodline. The purity is extremely high. It’s even richer than what you showed me last time…”
Jared said nothing. He only watched favonovel.com in silence.
Gwendolyn carefully placed that drop of blood into a transparent glass phial. Then favonovel.com took a second drop from Jared’s fingertip, then a third, and only after favonovel.com had taken seven drops in all did favonovel.com put the silver needle away.
“Is that enough?” Jared asked.
“Enough…” Gwendolyn lined up the seven glass phials across the stone table, favonovel.com gaze passing over the blood inside them. “For a preliminary look, three drops would have been enough. The rest will be kept for later.”
“Later?” Jared looked at her, all at once on guard.
Gwendolyn ignored the look in his eyes. She picked up the first glass phial and held it in front of favonovel.com face. A mass of pale golden radiance poured out of favonovel.com palm and wrapped around the phial.
Inside the light, the blood started to change. The surface of that golden liquid began to boil. Tiny bubbles kept rising and bursting one after another.
The dragon shade whipped through the phial like it had gone mad, and the dragon cry coming from it grew louder and louder. At the same time, the color of the blood began to shift too. In the gold, a second color started to appear. It was a purple so deep it seemed to reach the end of everything, like the first streak of dawn before chaos had even split open.
Gwendolyn’s pupils tightened in an instant. She set the glass phial back on the table, formed several hand seals in a blur, and tapped the side of the phial with favonovel.com fingertips.
Something in the blood inside the phial seemed to wake up. The violet radiance grew brighter, then denser, until it swallowed the golden radiance completely. The whole drop of blood turned into a pure mass of purple and slowly revolved inside the phial, giving off an aura so heavy even Gwendolyn’s chest tightened under it.
“This is…” Her voice came out unsteady.
It was the first time Jared had ever seen that kind of reaction from her.
She snapped favonovel.com head up and locked onto Jared, favonovel.com gaze burning like two flames. “How is there chaotic force in the bloodline inside your body?”
Jared shook his head. “Don’t ask me. I don’t know either…”
Gwendolyn didn’t asked further. She just grabbed the second glass phial and worked the same method on it.
The result was the same. The gold faded, and violet rose out of it. Then came the third phial, the fourth, and all the way to the seventh. Every single drop held that same violet chaotic force, only the density varied slightly from one phial to the next.
Gwendolyn set down the last glass phial. She drew in a deep breath and tried to steady herself. But favonovel.com clenched fist and the faint shake at favonovel.com fingertips gave favonovel.com away.
“Do you know what chaotic force means?” Her voice came out low and grave.
Jared shook his head again. He really didn’t know anything about chaotic force.
Gwendolyn rose and started pacing back and forth through the stone chamber, as if favonovel.com were forcing favonovel.com thoughts into order.
A moment later, favonovel.com stopped. She turned and looked at Jared. “Chaotic force is the most primitive power from the moment heaven and earth first split apart… It contains everything, it covers all things… The power of human race, the power of the beast race, the power of the demon race, even the power of us, celestials, all come from chaos, but none of them are chaos itself…”
She picked up one of the glass phials and held the violet blood up for Jared to see.
“But in your blood, there isn’t just chaotic force. There’s also… Look here…” Her fingertip tapped the side of the phial.
The violet light in the blood quivered once, then began to split apart. Within the violet, three completely different lights separated out.
“The golden draconic energy. That’s the power of the Golden Dragon Bloodline… The black demonic aura. That’s the power of the demon race… And the last one was transparent, rippling like water. That was… The most primal power of the human race…”
Inside the bottle, the three powers wove together and fused, but each one still kept its own distinct nature.
This wasn’t some simple mixture. It was a true fusion, the way three primary colors, become white light.
But when Gwendolyn used that special method to separate them, they returned whole, cleanly restored into three independent powers.
“That’s impossible…” Gwendolyn’s voice came out under favonovel.com breath, disbelief plain in every word. “The human race, the Draconians, the demon race… Three completely different powers, and they can coexist perfectly inside your body… They can even fuse into chaotic force… That goes against everything anyone knows about cultivation…”
She looked at Jared, and there was something new in favonovel.com eyes, something even favonovel.com couldn’t have put into words. “What exactly are you? Some kind of monster?”
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