Chapter 16 The Omen of Soul Splitting

The night was thick and dark. In Liuli Workshop, a thick smell of blood hung in the air, and there seemed to be a lingering scent of the corpse poison from those killers. Su Mingli stood quietly in the courtyard, her brows slightly furrowed as she pondered the strangeness of the battle just now.

"What secret is hidden in the gilded bronze statue?" she murmured in a low voice, her fingers unconsciously kneading the silver needle in her sleeve.

Xiao Jingxuan stood beside her, his arms crossed. His sharp eyes looked into the distance through the night, and his expression was obscure. "It's not just the bronze statue. I'm afraid you yourself have already been drawn into this game."

Su Mingli raised her eyes to look at him. She met his bottomless eyes for a moment and said indifferently, "Isn't the Prince of War also a part of this game?"

Xiao Jingxuan smiled, the corners of his lips curling up as he looked at her meaningfully. "But you are more special than me."

Su Mingli was slightly taken aback, and a faint sense of unease welled up in her heart, but she didn't show it. Instead, she just smiled softly. "Your Highness, the Prince of War, flatters me."

At this moment, the owner of Liuli Workshop walked over slowly, holding a yellowed ancient scroll in her hand. She slowly unfurled it.

"This might be able to answer your questions."

The two of them looked at the ancient scroll at the same time. What caught their eyes was a detailed meridian diagram. However, in the center of the diagram, there was a strange dark line outlined, as if it was some kind of unknown meridian hidden within the human body.

Su Mingli's fingertips trembled slightly, and a sense of familiarity rose in her heart.

She had studied something similar in a modern laboratory—a kind of genetic lock that hadn't been fully cracked yet.

She suddenly raised her head and looked at the owner of the workshop. "What does this mean?"

The owner of the workshop let out a sigh, her expression solemn. "The gilded bronze statue is not just an object related to the art of medicine. It's a 'key'."

"A key?" Xiao Jingxuan frowned slightly and asked in a cold voice, "What does it unlock?"

The owner of the workshop slowly shook her head. "There's no way to know. But it has been recorded that the secret of the gilded bronze statue is related to'soul splitting'."

Soul splitting?

Su Mingli was shocked.

She remembered that this word had never appeared in modern medicine, but in the experimental data she hadn't solved yet, there had been occasional speculations similar to this—speculations involving a certain kind of splitting and fusion at the genetic level.

Xiao Jingxuan squinted his eyes. After pondering for a moment, he suddenly said, "If this is related to the mystery of the human body... then the corpse poison of those killers might not just be a means of control, but a failed experiment."

"A failed experiment?" Su Mingli repeated in a low voice, and her thoughts in her mind became clearer and clearer.

Perhaps, her return here was by no means an accident.

And soul splitting was probably not just a legend in the ancient books...

Her fate had already been completely entangled with this unknown game.