Jared hesitated for a moment, then reached out with his right hand anyway.
Gwendolyn took his wrist, pressed her thumb against his pulse, and closed her eyes slightly as she examined it for a few quiet moments.
Then she 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, her eyes fixed on the silver needle.
At the tip of the needle, a drop of golden blood slowly welled up.
That blood waspletely 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 her 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 mest time."
Jared said nothing. He only watched her in silence.
Gwendolyn carefully ced that drop of blood into a transparent ss phial. Then she took a second drop from Jared''s fingertip, then a third... only after she had taken seven drops in all did she put the silver needle away.
"Is that enough?" Jared asked.
"Enough." Gwendolyn lined up the seven ss phials across the stone table, her gaze passing over the blood inside them. "For a preliminary look, three drops would have been enough. The rest will be kept forter."
"Later?" Jared looked at her, all at once on guard.
Gwendolyn ignored the look in his eyes.
She picked up the first ss phial and held it in front of her face. A mass of pale golden radiance poured out of her 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
crying 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 ss phial back on the table, formed several hand seals in a blur, and tapped the side of the phial with her fingertips.
Something in the blood inside the phial seemed to wake up.
The violet radiance grew brighter, then denser, until it swallowed the golden radiancepletely.
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 her head up and locked onto Jared, her gaze burning like two mes. "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 answer. She just grabbed the second ss 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 thest ss phial.
She drew in a deep breath and tried to steady herself.
But her clenched fist and the faint shake at her fingertips gave her 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
she were forcing her thoughts into order.
A momentter, she 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 the human race, the power of the beast race the power of the demon race, even the power of us celestials, alle from chaos, but none of them are chaos itself."
She picked up one of the ss 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, threepletely different lights separated out.
"The golden draconic energy. That''s the power of the Golden Dragon Bloodline."
"The ck demonic aura. That''s the power of the demon race."
"And thest 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
In
three
ors be white light.
way those three powers
fused into chaotic force.
>
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
her breath, disbelief in in every word. "The human race, the Draconians, the demon race... three powers, and
they can differentside
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 her eyes, something even
she couldn''t have put into words.
"What exactly are you? Some kind of monster?"