Rebirth as a Willow Tree, building the strongest tribe in all of eternity-Chapter 656 - 468: Mysterious Heart_1

Chapter 656: Chapter 468: Mysterious Heart_1

As the connection grew stronger and more pronounced,

Vaguely,

An unfamiliar figure abruptly appeared before Jiang Hui’s eyes.

The figure stood with their eyes on the horizon, standing alone in their uniqueness.

It was an old man, wearing a patched robe whose white had faded from many a wash. Though hunched over, he possessed an overwhelming aura capable of piercing the heavens and soaring straight into the clouds—a hyperbole of grandiosity.

However, the age and fatigue visible on his face made him appear haggard and weary, as though he hadn’t slept for days. His eyes were bloodshot, and his expression was one of immense fatigue….

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What struck Jiang Hui the most, however, were the old man’s hands.

Under his divine sense, they held not a single callus, and showed no signs of aging. His fingers were long and pale as jade, as though they were immaculately carved from the finest amber agate, softer than even a newborn’s skin.

Surrounding the old man was an unbroken chain of vast, wild mountains.

A biting, frosty wind howled through the snowy landscape, casting an air of desolation and bleakness all around.

In front of him was a fathomless chasm.

The precipice was shrouded in deep darkness, covered by thick, rolling black fog. The fog seemed to devour everything, simulating the gaping mouth of an unknown beast or the boundless, terrifying depths of the ocean. Snowflakes fluttered down ceaselessly, falling into the unseen depths without causing the slightest ripple.

Sometime later,

The old man with his hands clasped behind slowly walked towards the abyss. As he moved forwards, the thick fog in front of him melted away rapidly, like snow under the scorching sun, revealing the scene within the clouds of black fog.

Jiang Hui’s eyebrows furrowed, his gaze shifted and followed the old man’s line of sight. The next moment, his expression dramatically changed.

Because in the depths of that rugged, steep cliff,

There was an enormous, pitch-black heart.

This heart was remarkably massive, so much so that Jiang Hui couldn’t even begin to fathom its true size. Wherever his gaze fell, there was only the black organ.

The grotesque blood vessels and gigantic warty nodules crisscrossed and tangled each other, spreading out like a decaying, irregular mass of flesh in the abyss.

Worst of all, the rotten flesh gave off an unbearably pungent odor. Blood vessels and parts of the meaty lumps were leaking an unknown liquid that corroded the surrounding ancient woods, boulders, and ground….

This strange growth filled the bottom of the cliff and extended into the immeasurably dark forest in the depth, pervading even the narrow crevices between the mountains.

From a distance, the lumps of flesh emitted an ominous dark glow. They continuously pulsed with a deep and rhythmic drone akin to a heartbeat, rippling out in the surrounding air. The falling snowflakes were violently reduced to dust before even getting close.

“Why is it this again?”

Jiang Hui’s brow furrowed as his expression filled with astonishment.

This was the third time he had come across such a bizarre heart.

The first time was when Tu Wa Zi and others had found it in the deep reaches of the Void God Realm. The villagers of Liu Village had already devoured the somewhat small heart, the size of a few tens of meters.

The second time was in an unknown remote area. The heart was significantly larger than the previous one, standing tall like a majestic mountain.

Curious, Jiang Hui had explored it but hadn’t discovered anything extraordinary, probably due to the low level of his surveillance technique at that time.

And now, it was the third time.

The heart was much larger than before, and its appearance had grown even more grotesque and distorted, as though it had undergone some unimaginable mutation. The flesh in certain places was starting to decay and corrupt, making it all the more uncanny…

Jiang Hui was full of questions.

He couldn’t understand why such a scene would suddenly appear before him after his elevation from the Human Path Domain to the Immortal Path Field?! He had never experienced anything like this before.

What does that black heart represent? Why does its shape become weirder and weirder? And who is the elder with hands that look like amber agate?

Could he be the creator of the ultimate divine skill, ‘Things Into Soldiers’?

But what is the relationship between him and the black heart?

For a while, Jiang Hui felt his brain couldn’t accommodate all these questions.

The questions were just too numerous, with too many puzzling points!

He discovered the black heart time and time again, and if he was to say there was nothing behind it, no secrets, he wouldn’t believe it himself!

But based on speculation alone, he couldn’t figure any useful information out. The clues he currently had were just too messy.

Not only were they messy, but they were pitifully few.

“I once used the Surveillance Technique to detect the black heart in the Void God Realm, and the information shown seemed to be ‘Ye Fan’s heart’? Could the black heart really be left by Ye Fan? But what is he leaving this thing for? Moreover, there’s no description of this in the original text!!!”

Feeling the slowly surging chill wind around him, Jiang Hui squinted slightly, getting more and more confused.

But honestly, he didn’t believe that the black heart had any connection with Ye Fan.

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The reasons were very simple, mainly two points.

Firstly, his level of Surveillance Technique wasn’t high at that time, just at the beginner level. The information he was able to detect was very limited. It worked for ordinary things, but if the origin of an item was too profound, it would be replaced by a series of question marks.

He remembered it very clearly. When the name of the item ‘Ye Fan’s heart’ was displayed, there were several huge question marks attached, clearly indicating that it was not a definite answer. As for its accuracy, it was even more questionable.

Secondly, this aspect was not mentioned in the original text.

This was the most important point.

He might not remember the detailed content, but he could recall the general idea.

Aside from him, whether it was Perfect or Covering the Heaven, or even the later Holy Ruins, the actions and trajectories of all characters, the gears of fate, seemed to be controlled by an invisible giant hand.

Based on these two points, Jiang Hui thought the origin of the black heart was definitely worth investigating—it might be hard to imagine, but it certainly had nothing to do with Ye Fan.

Just as he thought, the elder in the pudding green robe suddenly bellowed, then leaped down and rushed towards the abnormal tumour in the Abyss.

“Hum…”

At that moment.

The scene suddenly paused.

Click…

In the next moment, everything in the scene shattered like a mirror, dissipating like passing clouds.

“Congratulations, your ultimate divine skill, ‘Things Into Soldiers’, has reached the mastery level— perfectly fluent, consummate, and at its peak!”

The voice of the Golden Finger rang out, awakening Jiang Hui. It was neither male nor female.

After recalling the scenes and images he had just seen, his face couldn’t help but turn serious.

This upgrade wasn’t as simple as the previous ones—it indeed brought a significant increase in strength, but it also left him with many questions.

He was now unsure whether the rotting heart in the scene had to do with him, or with the elder who seemed to be the creator of the ‘Things Into Soldiers’ divine skill!

There’s a big difference between the two, and the meanings they represent are poles apart.