On the morning of the ninth day, the air inside the prepared chamber had grown heavy, thick with the smell of scorched needles and iron-tasting blood. The first two stages of the surgery—the main meridians stitching and the primary pathways weaving—had been completed by the second day. Step by step, day by day, Su Ming had woven, and Wang Tian had gritted his teeth and endured the agonizing process.
Now, they stood at the precipice of the final, most dangerous stage - the connection of the deepest, hidden sets of the Shattered Sword meridians, expanding the network toward the legendary limit of one hundred and eight paths.
