"Centrifuge ready! Joint procedure beginning…"
Leilin closed his eyes. Thin black threads shot out from between his brows, connecting to the various instruments throughout the laboratory.
Click! Click!
After a brief flash of light, every instrument in the laboratory powered on, and gauges began displaying numbers and needles.
Through his Spiritual Power threads, Leilin started operating the equipment with pure mental force, conducting a precision dissociation experiment…
Two hours later, Leilin looked at the semi-finished product on the workbench and gave a satisfied nod.
Resting on the surface was a slab of pinkish flesh.
This was the fossil from before — Leilin had fully awakened the life force within it and removed every last trace of the dark-green eyes.
The eyes of the Thousand-Eyed Starfish all contained exceedingly troublesome toxins, so they had to be separated out.
Now the Thousand-Eyed Starfish appeared to have returned to its former state. The tender pink flesh glistened with a watery sheen, as though one could wring water straight from it.
"Mm! Separation procedure was a success. Now for the final step!"
Leilin picked up the remaining half-vial of high-grade vitality reagent from the table — the gray-black potion — and poured every last drop onto the pink flesh.
Sizzle! Sizzle!
The moment the gray-black reagent touched the flesh, thick white steam erupted. Amid the vapor, the pink flesh shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, its surface withering and charring black.
Leilin's expression remained blank as he emptied every drop of reagent, then chanted an ancient incantation!
"Wooooooo…" The incantation was deeply archaic, carrying an aura of primordial vastness — it sounded something like countless conch shells being blown in unison. Waves of blue energy surged outward like ocean tides, enveloping the Thousand-Eyed Starfish flesh on the workbench…
Once the blue light had fully dissipated, all that remained on the surface of the workbench was an object no bigger than a longan fruit.
Its surface was gray, marked with faint muscular textures, looking very much like a piece of poorly preserved salted meat.
A faint scorched smell began steadily spreading from the salted meat.
"Gurgle!"
But after smelling this scent, Lei Lin found himself swallowing involuntarily, a massive wave of craving surging up from the depths of his heart!
"Eat it! Eat it!"
"Hungry! Hungry! Hungry!"
This craving seemed to radiate from every single cell in his body, so immense and impossible to resist, with the area around his heart being the most violent of all.
Lei Lin felt every blood vessel in his body throbbing with excitement, driving him to swallow the flesh on the workbench!
"Heh... heh heh... primal desire, is it? How could something like that control me??"
Lei Lin's eyes turned faintly red, and even his hands began to tremble.
But he did not choose to immediately devour the Thousand-Eye Starfish flesh. Instead, he began using the Chip to run a series of composition and property analyses on the Thousand-Eye Starfish meat, meticulously recording all the data.
The flesh in his hand kept emanating an overwhelming allure throughout the process, but though Lei Lin's body trembled slightly, his expression remained utterly unmoved—stern and cold as a glacier that had stood for a thousand years.
In his previous life, he had already forged an extraordinarily resolute willpower. No matter how fierce or lethal the temptation, he could always maintain inner peace and composure.
"Specific composition of the item has been recorded! Saved under category: Items—Ancient Lifeforms—Thousand-Eye Starfish!" the Chip's feedback came through.
Only once all the data streams had finished did Lei Lin toss the longan-sized piece of flesh into his mouth.
Boom!
It was like a bomb detonating, his entire body going numb with electricity, like a recovering alcoholic who had been sober for years suddenly tasting fine wine again, like a traveler dying of thirst in the desert finally drinking from a sweet, bone-chilling spring!
Lei Lin felt as if his body were gently floating, resting atop a cluster of white clouds, with every cell throughout his body bursting with jubilant elation.
An intensely sweet and delicious sensation kept spreading from Lei Lin's mouth, sliding down along his throat.
The Thousand-Eye Starfish flesh first reached his stomach, where a massive surge of gastric juices flooded upward, digesting the flesh completely in mere seconds.
Streams of warm fluid, like hot spring water, began spreading throughout every part of Lei Lin's body, and his heart in particular greedily absorbed the warm current, like a man on the verge of dying of thirst.
Lei Lin quietly closed his eyes. Right now he felt as though he were naked, drifting gently along the warm current of a great river.
A drop of moisture suddenly slid across his face, carrying an extraordinarily delicious flavor that stimulated his taste buds to their absolute limit, causing tears to flow down his cheeks involuntarily.
Given his physique, which was far beyond that of an ordinary person, achieving such a thing would normally be nearly impossible, but the Thousand-Eye Starfish flesh accomplished it!!!
"This flavor! It's probably addictive!!!" Lei Lin let out a sigh of deep satisfaction.