For two full seconds, twenty-five-year-old Chosen One Dr. Chen Ao stared at his own reflection in the bronze alchemy mirror.
He looked at the hundred slimy, four-inch black tails wiggling happily between his teeth.
Then he looked down into his three-hundred-pound bronze cauldron, where the remaining 9,900 starving Blood-Leech Soul-Parasites. Having already devoured his six-winged crimson Mother-Gu Queen as an appetizer in three bites. Were now leaping out of the soup pot like a swarm of affectionate black flying fish to reunite with the creator whose soul-blood they smelled right in front of them!
“Mama! Mama’s blood is right here! Eat Mama!”
Because all ten thousand Blood-Leeches had been bred in Dr. Chen Ao’s personal soul-blood vat, their primitive insect brains recognized Dr. Chen Ao’s meridian aura as their beloved home nest!
“Aaaaaagh—get away from me!! Ptooey! Ptooey!!”
Dr. Chen Ao let out a shriek so high-pitched it cracked three crystal medicine bottles on his shelf.
Dropping his golden soup ladle, the proud “Reincarnated Immortal Doctor” completely forgot how to clasp his hands behind his back or tilt his chin at forty-five degrees. He clawed wildly at his own tongue with both hands, trying to spit out the hundred worms sliding down his gullet.
