Chapter 41
Click!
The fist-sized iron sphere split down the middle and sprang open.
Why the hell is this opening now?
Even caught off guard, Yang-hwi instinctively thrust his hand out to catch the Dan Pellet that tumbled from inside the Iron Sphere Mechanism.
“…….”
“…….”
A stifling silence descended over the entire Yoo Manor.
For a long moment, Yang-hwi, Gu Ak, and the assassins simply stared at one another.
Eyes locked across the courtyard, every single mind echoing the exact same thought.
‘Wait, what? I was just trying to smash it…’
To break through this life-and-death crisis, he had needed the Iron Sphere Mechanism as leverage.
He had even poured a massive surge of True Qi into it specifically to make his threat believable.
Ah, don’t tell me…
‘Did it react to my internal energy and open?’
No, that didn’t make sense.
Anyone could tell that the Iron Sphere Mechanism was a vessel crafted to hold something within.
It had passed through countless hands over the years; there was no way not a single person had ever channeled True Qi into it before.
Simply infusing it with True Qi couldn’t be the trigger.
‘Is there some hidden mechanism? I didn’t inject my True Qi in any special way… Wait.’
A realization struck him.
The Immortal Elixir—the seed taking root at the very center of his dantian.
The Immortal Qi flowing from that Immortal Elixir, granting a distinct, otherworldly nature to the internal energy gathered in his dantian.
