Chapter 382

Chen Fan gathered his full attention and slowly walked down the stone stairs.

There were not many stone stairs, and after a few dozen meters, he reached the bottom.

This place was not large, only about a hundred square meters, with bare walls all around, showing no signs of anything magical.

But a jade coffin in the middle made this place look extremely mysterious.

Directly in front of the jade coffin was a two-meter-high stone tablet.

Chen Fan came closer, and the handwriting on it was clearly visible.

This was a tombstone, and on the left side of the tombstone, seven large characters were written downwards—Tomb of God Venerable Jienasi!

On the right side of the tombstone, Jienasi's life story was written.

Chen Fan read it carefully; it was roughly about the contributions Jienasi had made for the Three-Eyed Blue Blood Race.

Chen Fan read it hurriedly, lost interest, and walked toward the jade coffin on the stone platform.

"Could Jienasi's corpse be inside here?"

Chen Fan's chest rose and fell slightly.

He gathered his courage and pushed open the lid of the jade coffin.

Boom! A dazzling beam of light erupted from the jade coffin, and a terrifying aura of death rushed straight at Chen Fan.

Chen Fan instantly switched to his Thunder Form.

The beam of light passed through his body and shot toward the rear, directly piercing a bottomless passage through the stone wall.

"Phew!" Chen Fan let out a long breath, calming the palpitations in his heart.

Fortunately, he had been alert in advance, otherwise, he would not have been able to dodge this fatal killing blow.

"Did Jienasi set up this attack to prevent others from opening his coffin?"

Chen Fan couldn't help but guess.

At this time, the dazzling beam of light dissipated, and everything in the jade coffin was clearly visible.

A corpse lay peacefully inside; his bones showed no signs of decay, as if he had just died not long ago.

"Master, this jade coffin should have preservative properties," the Turtle Spirit Beast said from the side.

Chen Fan nodded slightly and looked at the burial objects in the jade coffin.

It was empty inside, with only a thick booklet used as a pillow under Jienasi's head.

Chen Fan couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but he still pulled out the booklet.

After flipping through it briefly, his eyes suddenly lit up!

This was not a cultivation manual, but Jienasi's research results on the heart of 'Punishment'.

It mentioned that Jienasi had conducted a large number of experiments, wanting to transplant this heart into his own body.

He believed that as long as the transplant was successful, his combat power would skyrocket by more than five times.

He performed a large number of live experiments, but they all ended in failure.

Finally, he saw hope in an Undying Salamander; this Undying Salamander actually survived for a full year after transplanting this heart.

Jienasi believed that the reason this Undying Salamander could live so long was because of its own powerful self-recovery ability.

Therefore, Jienasi believed that to carry this heart, a powerful body recovery ability was the key.

This was also the reason why Chen Fan's eyes lit up.

His Primordial Beginning Thunder Soul happened to have this characteristic.

As long as he switched to his Thunder Form, the injuries he sustained could be instantly recovered.

"Doesn't that mean I can control this heart?" Chen Fan was vaguely excited.

What made Chen Fan even more excited was that Jienasi's theory was not to discard the original heart, but to implant this heart side-by-side on the other side of the chest cavity.

This implanted heart only served an auxiliary role.

In daily life, the original heart would still function.

When facing a life-and-death battle, opening the switch to control the heart of 'Punishment' could instantly erupt with several times the combat power.

After the battle ended, one only needed to turn off this heart and quickly recover the disintegrated flesh and blood.

The purpose of doing this was to not affect daily life while being able to control this heart at the minimum cost.

This was also what Chen Fan valued most; if he were asked to discard his own heart, he would absolutely never agree.

But having two hearts in his body was something he could accept.

Next, Chen Fan continued to read about how to transplant the heart with excitement.

Jienasi's method was very simple: drain more than ninety percent of the blood from this heart, and then forcibly stuff it into the flesh.

Once this heart sensed a flesh-and-blood body, it would slowly grow blood vessels to take root in the host's body.

The rooting process must be artificially intervened to let the grown blood vessels connect to the main artery, otherwise, it would spawn a brand-new blood circulation system on its own.

In that case, the human body would be completely chaotic.

Chen Fan closed the booklet, his heart surging.

For him, this was simply too simple.

"Looking at it this way, it is even more impossible to hand over this heart."

Chen Fan knew very well that this heart would bring a fatal disaster from the Beast Worship Cult, but benefits and risks coexist, and one must take risks when necessary.

Besides, he would not be stupid enough to take the initiative to tell others about the fact that he had implanted the heart of 'Punishment' in his body.

"However, draining more than ninety percent of the internal blood before transplantation will take a very long time."

With the efficiency of that Heart-Devouring Insect, he was afraid it would take three months of not eating or sleeping to possibly achieve it.

Once he thought of this, he already had a plan in his heart.

He intended to let the Black Crow enslave that Heart-Devouring Insect, and for the next three months, let the Black Crow focus on extracting the internal blood.

After putting the booklet away, Chen Fan checked the surroundings carefully again, and after discovering that there were indeed no treasures left, he walked out of the tomb chamber.

Returning to the surface, Chen Fan hesitated for a moment, but still took down the sapphire on the center of the statue's forehead.

When Chen Fan returned to the bottom of the sky pit, the others had all woken up.

Several people had joy on their faces, obviously having improved greatly.

"Let's go, it's time for us to leave," Chen Fan unleashed his thunder energy and was about to soar into the sky.

Aolaixi hesitated to speak, but finally gritted his teeth and said, "Chen Fan, can you hand over the heart of 'Punishment' to me? I will take it to the Earth Core World; it is safer there, and the Beast Worship Cult will find it difficult to attack that place."

This was the excuse he had come up with.

However, he was flatly refused by Chen Fan.

"What are you thinking?" Chen Fan glanced at him coldly, the warning implicit.

"But the high-level officials of the two races agreed beforehand that this heart would be kept by my Earth Core World. If this heart is not brought back, Great Elder Geluote will definitely be angry," Aolaixi was somewhat unwilling to give up, bringing out Geluote to intimidate Chen Fan.

He clearly did not understand Chen Fan; Chen Fan never feared threats.

Meeting difficulties head-on and becoming stronger when facing the strong had always been his path!

"If Geluote has an opinion, he can come and find me!" Chen Fan's voice was cold, but carried powerful confidence.

Everyone looked at Chen Fan, their eyes filled with shock.

One must know that Geluote was a Martial Saint whose strength exceeded Ye Wentian's.

Aolaixi couldn't help but shiver; Chen Fan's confidence strongly impacted his heart.

Having spent this time together, he had to admit that some people were born to be protagonists!

He hurriedly lowered his head and said no more.