DING—CLICK!
At 02:00:00 AM sharp, inside the underground bedroom of the Golden Heir Palace. The 120-Minute Mandatory Servant Kowtow Timer floating above the [Ancient Bloodline Slave Altar] finally ticked down to zero and vanished in a puff of crimson smoke!
On the black marble floor in front of the extinguished Karmic Blood-Spy Mirror. Golden Heir Gu Wuji and Second Uncle Gu Yin collapsed sideways like two boiled shrimp that had just been taken off a skewer!
For two solid hours—one hundred and twenty agonizing minutes. The ancient butler’s altar had forced both of them to slam their foreheads into the marble floor three times a minute (360 full-strength kowtows!) while fourteen-year-old Gu Nian wrote postcards, ate fruit. Did his morning stretches on the other side of the glass!
“My... my forehead! My kneecaps!”
Second Uncle Gu Yin groaned pitifully, clutching a goose-egg swelling the size of a turnip on his brow as he tried to straighten his cramped legs.
Beside him, however, twenty-two-year-old Golden Heir Gu Wuji didn’t even care about his bleeding forehead or his shattered kneecap armor.
Because inside Gu Wuji’s chest and limbs, the Ten Stolen Branch-Family Bloodlines, The Flame-Emperor Bloodline, The Frost-Wolf Bloodline, The Star-Roc Bloodline, The Thunder-Ape Bloodline. Six others, that had been awakened by Gu Nian’s 10x Reflected True-Founder Authority were still rampaging through his meridians like ten furious wild beasts!
