[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-dragon-of-a-thousand-faces":3,"chapter-the-dragon-of-a-thousand-faces-the-dragon-of-a-thousand-faces-chapter-318":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Dragon of a Thousand Faces",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2269964,4431,"Chapter 318","the-dragon-of-a-thousand-faces-chapter-318",318,"\u003Cp>“Uh, are you sure this is a normal cultivation method?” Saliman looked at Li En, her beautiful face filled with hesitation and unease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Certain.” Li En himself, however, looked perfectly calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t you really need me to call a priest? If it’s some strange curse, the sooner you expel it, the better.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need. It’s truly cultivation—a strange master taught it to me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faced with Saliman’s concern, Li En could only offer soothing words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he himself found the posture peculiar, it seemed this was the only way to approach that Heroic Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What kind of strange master would make an apprentice hang upside down from the ceiling, blindfolded, meditating?” the serpent woman muttered, even though she vaguely guessed it was a Heroic Soul—this head-down cultivation method was just too bizarre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Actually, it should be hung from the city wall; I’ve already cut corners.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Li En hung upside down beneath the ceiling, wearing an eye patch and preparing to seal his ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rope, pulled by gravity, rotated slowly, and he turned like a slab of pork suspended from a hook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait till we eat some spinning roast meat,” Li En forced himself to ignore Saliman’s muttering and the sound of her drooling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to listen to his heartbeat, trying to activate the Heroic Soul’s soul ability—since obtaining it, Li En had never felt how to use it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, it seemed he finally received guidance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Soul Ability—Heartbeat (Diamond Rank): Your heartbeat is the most moving melody in this world.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By rank alone, this was Li En’s highest-tier ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But its effect was practically nonexistent; for days, Li En had been unable to activate it at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Feel your heart beating—uh, thump-thump-thump, it’s loud, but what’s the point?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li En’s soul ability activated; he could sense his heart’s vibrations, even felt he could somewhat control it—but what good was that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to control it slightly, then immediately turned beet red, feeling his veins about to burst.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hastily stopped, his face turning deathly pale, nearly fainting from lack of breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Phew, deadly, deadly!” Li En gasped for air, quickly restoring his heartbeat to normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed this, like breathing, was an instinctive function—you’d better not tamper with it, or you’d either bleed out or die of cardiac arrest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pant… pant… I can’t take it anymore.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After this ordeal, Li En fell straight to the ground; clearly, the cultivation method he’d borrowed had utterly failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat on the floor, rubbing his chest hard, taking several deep breaths, slowly regaining his composure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At least there’s some meaning—now I’ve ruled out one wrong option: this thing can’t be messed with blindly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This soul ability, taken literally, seemed to allow you to make your heart beat according to your will and produce a “drumbeat.” Without a complementary ability, it could only be used for suicide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Guess I’ll have to wait for the next lesson—probably still terrible; our compatibility is practically nonexistent.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In music, Li En had absolutely no talent; learning this inheritance would be extremely difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Li En had indeed obtained what he wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The illusory holy symbol now hung around Li En’s neck, gradually becoming “real.” It seemed this was also an “ Yinzaowu ” crafted by the deity’s mortal vessel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, it differed slightly from his expectations, and Li En dared not use it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The divine corpse isn’t in the Star Realm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Star Realm, a peculiar plane, where time and space were chaotic—without guidance, one would wander endlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to its unique nature, it became a “divine graveyard,” where the corpses of deities fallen into eternal slumber drifted in, awaiting a vanishingly slim chance of awakening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many false-god cults, borrowing even a sliver of true divine power, often borrowed from divine corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hired specialized Star Realm adventurers to seek out those dormant “divine power servers” and use them as “meat-pig servers.”\u003C\u002Fp>",647,"2026-06-19T21:45:42.084Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","cc589323aacc9f7b1a0d4bcf0400c2b0cf462e37339a1d127ca1c829212f0175","the-dragon-of-a-thousand-faces-chapter-319","the-dragon-of-a-thousand-faces-chapter-317",362,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-dragon-of-a-thousand-faces-cover.jpg"]