Chapter 1874: Chapter 1871: Collection and Pursuit
The storage method of the "Heart Page Remnants" is quite unique.
It is not directly displayed on the surface of the stone platform, nor is it stored in any container, and the remnants themselves are not directly shown.
In front of Han Dong, a huge stone heart is suspended in the air by a structure resembling ’arteries’ made of stone chains.
Thump-thump!
Though made of stone, the intense heartbeat sound from within can be heard clearly.
Each heartbeat triggers a ripple that spreads outward,
and it is this ripple that causes the petrification phenomenon, even Pope and Eugenes need to open a field to resist it.
"Is the Heart Page Remnants inside this stone heart?"
Han Dong did not intentionally resist the petrification process,
even deliberately exposing himself to the influence of the heartbeat, slowly undergoing a petrification reaction,
to be precise, he was trying to adapt to and imitate this petrification feeling using the traits of the Faceless Ones.
When his fingers touched the surface of the heart, Han Dong entirely turned into a stone man, his consciousness immersed once again in the internal world of the "Book of Dead Spirit."
A gigantic corpse lying on the plain, with a massive pit in its left chest area.
A heart that no longer beats is at the deepest point, even appearing grey, seemingly dead for a long time... the blood vessels connected to the heart are all severed, scattered around the pit at will.
Han Dong crawled into the interior along the pit on the surface of the corpse,
reconnecting the severed blood vessels to the heart, while also infusing his primordial blood into it.
Slowly,
this heart that seemed long dead began to gradually regain its red color, showing slight signs of beating.
At the same time, changes occurred in Han Dong’s body, located in the external stone chamber.
On the already petrified body surface, red blood vessels emerged.
The giant stone mountain is reverse-transporting the essence blood, collected and purified over many years by petrifying various foreign creatures, into Han Dong’s body to facilitate subsequent Heart section cultivation.
As the essence blood is reverse-transported, the heartbeat sound from the stone heart grows fainter.
About ten minutes passed.
The stone layer covering Han Dong’s body surface, along with the massive stone heart connected to the center of the stone chamber, disintegrated together.
The heart page remnants sealed within the stone heart drifted down, grabbed by a blood-stained hand.
’The "Book of Dead Spirit-Heart True Text" has been recorded’
When Han Dong opened his eyes again,
a tear of blood slid down his cheek, and both eyes appeared absolutely blood-red... During the contact just now, his body was already filled with essence blood.
Pope’s voice came:
"Nicholas, it’s about time to leave! I can feel weak disturbances from outside, the invaders should be about to reach here."
"Right away, give me a moment."
Even speaking a small sentence, Han Dong’s mouth was overflowing with blood.
He must store all the "essence blood" filled in his body and perform effective preservation treatment, without any loss.
The value of the blood is equivalent to the previous bone fluid, extracted, condensed and purified over a long period while the Heart Page Remnants drifted outside, by petrifying life forms.
Finally, the blood is stored in a biological reservoir provided by the Swollen Doctor, ensuring that it won’t lose freshness for at least one year.
"Done... Pope, can you estimate how long it will take for them to find us here?"
"No more than ten minutes.
Strangely, the scale of this stone mountain is extremely large, with numerous junctions midway, we managed to quickly reach the center only because of your precise sensing of the Dead Spirit Remnants.
For them to also lock onto the correct path, only two possibilities exist.
First, they too have the ability to sense the remnants. This possibility is slim, as you are the only True Disciple of the dead spirit in the entire Demon circle.
Second, they are able to lock onto us by some means of perception.
I’ve carefully cleaned any scent of Eugenes, or traces we left along the way... they must have locked onto one of us."
Han Dong pointed to himself with a face of confusion,
"Hiss? Could it be a side effect of soul amplification? That Yellow Robe guy clearly said that soul amplification is generally not detectable by outsiders, not reliable at all.
Before figuring out their identity, let’s retreat through the secret passage."
Saying so, Han Dong released a large number of crows with a wave of his hand, merging into the dark shadowy corners of the stone chamber; if anyone found their way here, these crows would sync the visual images back to Han Dong.
"Go!"
The three of them left through the secret passage and after less than ten minutes, Han Dong’s expression changed suddenly.
"A total of 137 crows hidden in the black, lost connection with me before they entered the stone chamber due to ’Demon Breaking’ influence.
The opponent is strong and very likely targeting me.
Let’s withdraw first!"
Gag!
A retching sound came from the back of the team.
Eugenes reached into his throat and pulled out two foul-smelling green eyeballs, handing them to his teammates.
"What is this?"
"Eyes I discreetly left in the stone chamber, capturing some viable images before they were destroyed, while I couldn’t determine their level, I at least captured their appearance."
"Well done, Eugenes!"
Ignoring the foul-smelling slime on the surface of the eyeball, Han Dong directly stuffed it into his eye socket, connecting it to his nerve.
The observed footage was only a small segment.
The Stone Door was breached.
An old lady stepping on steel nails and a middle-aged man wearing glasses entered the stone chamber one after another, along with a humanoid entity whose visual appearance was hard to decipher, appearing torn.
The next moment.
A high-velocity bullet, difficult to trace, shot from inside the old lady, directly blasting the eyeball.
"Is it another Out of Control? No wonder they managed to read the special signals of my soul amplification... there are three people following, one of whom can’t be visually parsed, probably stronger than the bank clerk I encountered before.
Pope, can you teleport us back to the Plant Star?
"At this distance, it’s possible.
However... if they have means of tracking us, we must find a way to eliminate them. Otherwise, they’ll keep tracking us, and the information we expose will only increase."
"It’s hard for us to compete against this group of King Level individuals, and having Yellow Robe strike directly might alert them... let’s return to the star first, I have an idea, see if the Yellow Robe King is willing to collaborate.
If possible, we could lure these guys to a secret corner where no one knows, and solve them quietly."
Just as he said this,
Pope was drawing the "Void Formation" to connect with the Plant Star,
Suddenly something flew over.
"Watch out!"
The three were already in a highly concentrated state, effectively dodging.
Han Dong additionally employed a high-level pupil surgery.
The "Real Demon Eye" cooperated with the vortex eye traits that Han Dong once absorbed, directly twisting the space into a black whirlpool.
This caused the mysterious object shot at them to deviate from its trajectory, slowed it substantially, allowing the eye to see what it was.
"A bullet? What the hell is this?"
The first glance revealed a 7.62*39mm metal bullet,
but as the demon eye zoomed in for a detailed examination,
there was actually a gaunt old lady sitting on the bullet’s surface, staring directly at Han Dong and his companions.