Chapter 2: Underworld God Heart Method

At such a moment, given Lu Fan's past personality, he shouldn't have stayed for even a second.

Yet at this moment, he stopped as if possessed, without the slightest hesitation. He turned around immediately, as if impatient, longing for her to keep him.

"It seems it's the influence of that youth's residual thoughts on me again!" Lu Fan shook his head helplessly.

"Forget it! I, Lu Fan, by chance, have my soul attached to your corpse. Everything about you should have been linked to me. I will accept all your obsessions and settle them for you!"

Lu Fan thought this in his heart, but his expression was a bit awkward. His cold words just now had "revealed his true colors."

This scene fell into Wang Wu's eyes, and she couldn't help but feel cold.

She seemed to recall the trouble this person had caused her in the past—not fighting back when hit, not scolding back when cursed, pestering her like a piece of dog-skin plaster, annoying everyone.

Thinking of this, her face became even colder, like ten thousand years of ice, chilling to the bone.

"Lu Fan, I advise you to give up the idea of revenge as soon as possible. Although Liu Yang is also a waste, he is far from what you are now."

By the end of her words, Wang Wu had returned to her usual cold and arrogant self, just as she was to any man at Tianyuan Academy.

"Hmph! A gentleman who doesn't take revenge is not a gentleman. Liu Yang didn't just intend to make things difficult for me this time; he wanted me dead. He wasn't the one who struck, but I will settle the account with him together."

Lu Fan snorted coldly. What kind of person was he in his past life? He sensed Wang Wu's mood.

"This is a war between men. Women and children should stay away! I, Lu Fan, have my own sense of proportion; you don't need to worry!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he waved his hand, stepped over the threshold, and left the room. It was as if he were bidding farewell to the past and stepping into a new world.

Wang Wu was shocked by Ye Fei's words, her eyes brightening, but she became even more suspicious. She only felt that today's Lu Fan was incredibly strange, as if he had completely changed into a different person.

She didn't think too much, just snorted coldly, her face turning cold again, but there was still doubt in her heart: how could this Lu Fan know about runes?

With a thought, she walked slowly to the table and observed.

The runes Lu Fan had drawn casually were smooth and elegant, just like the inscriptions carved by those Art Refining masters in the Rune Tower.

At first glance, they even had more momentum. But looking closely, they were just empty shells with no power. Even so, compared to her attainments, they were still more brilliant.

In Wang Wu's bright eyes, there was a slight waver; it wouldn't hurt to try.

With a thought, her slender hand flipped, pointing into the air, and the strength of a Tendon Refining Realm Martial Master suddenly erupted.

With a stroke in the air, she picked up a clear stream from the water bowl and began to draw runes directly on the table.

Mind and body united, slender hands turning and moving...

In a moment, more than a dozen delicate runes appeared, with both momentum and rhyme, connected from beginning to end.

The rune array composed of the few runes in front of her flickered with light, condensing without dissipating. It was real; she, Wang Wu, was already a First-Tier Rune Master, having stepped into the threshold of an Art Refiner.

"What he said was true? How could he..."

The doubt in Wang Wu's eyes deepened. At this moment, she remembered Ye Fei's various oddities and hurriedly chased out of the room, but where was Ye Fei's shadow?

Lu Fan didn't know about Wang Wu's strangeness after he left, and he didn't care about these things.

Just following the residual divine sense in his mind, half an hour later, he returned to "his" residence.

This residence was a dormitory that every student at Tianyuan Academy could be assigned to. It was very ordinary, not looking like the residence of a noble child, but it was tidy.

Lu Fan naturally had no objections, so he locked the door and began to check his body.

After only a dozen breaths, Lu Fan could no longer hold back, his face filled with anger.

"Lu Fan falling into such a state is not a problem of aptitude at all; it is clearly someone deliberately making trouble, delaying his Martial Dao path.

This aptitude might be mediocre, but as long as there is guidance from a Third or Fifth-Tier Martial Artist, and with so many spirit herbs nourishing the body, how could his cultivation be like this?"

"It seems this Lu Family has something strange. A Patriarch's youngest son being treated like this is clearly done on purpose to cut off his Martial Dao path."

"Rather than calling those spirit pills and medicines, it's better to call them poisons, destroying this child's foundation. What a cruel heart!"

Lu Fan was furious. He had the youth's past memories in his mind, and now recalling them carefully, he felt the same.

A youth, even in his childhood, was deliberately tampered with and destroyed by vicious means.

Not to mention his average aptitude, even a genius Martial Cultivator would probably not have achieved much, and might even be in a worse state than now.

Lu Fan shook his head and composed his mood. The Lu Family's affairs could only be discussed later; he should ponder his cultivation technique first!

Various Saint-level and God-level techniques swirled in his mind, but he immediately rejected them; either the cultivation conditions were harsh, or they were not suitable for this body.

"Sigh! One only regrets having too few techniques when it's time to use them. I, Lu Fan, have thousands of methods, but none suitable for my current situation. If I said this out loud, I'd probably be laughed at!"

Just as he was racking his brains, as if trying to empty his past life's memories, a flash of inspiration struck his mind, and he suddenly remembered something.

"Underworld God Heart Method. This technique was obtained from the ancestral mansion of a fallen World Lord back then, but it is the lowest of the Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow grade techniques—the Yellow grade."

"It didn't even have a specific cultivation method. Back then, I thought it was a joke played by some bored person. Now, why not give it a try?"

With this thought, Lu Fan didn't hesitate at all, guarding his heart and mind, and suddenly recalled the "Underworld God Heart Method" in his mind.

"Underworld contemplation, all laws from the heart, observing the wonderful laws of heaven and earth, meeting the mysterious mechanism of the underworld..."

A formula suddenly spilled from Lu Fan's mouth. He just followed his heart and studied this technique, his mind guarding his sea of consciousness, without any other distractions.

His internal organs and True Qi moved on their own, without needing Lu Fan to mobilize them, slowly circulating.

If Lu Fan were awake at this time, he would probably be furious. This technique was clearly the simplest and lowest-level "Blazing Flame Skill," Yellow grade low-rank, not even enough to build a foundation.

Anyone with a choice would never practice this technique. It seems Lu Fan's situation was even worse than he had imagined.

However, a strange thing happened. Once the True Qi was stimulated, it was different from the past.

In the past, it only circulated in a few meridians, orderly.

This time, it was in chaos, as if it had its own will. Whichever meridian path was short, it would take that path, without any rules.

In an instant, the six meridians involved in the "Blazing Flame Skill" had been completely opened. This technique had reached its limit and would not have any more potential.

However, at this moment, there was another change.

The Blazing Flame True Qi suddenly drilled into the seventh meridian, rushing and crashing. Half an hour later, the seventh meridian was opened, and the eighth meridian began again...

Time was quiet, cultivation was silent. In the blink of an eye, the sun and moon rotated, the golden rooster announced the dawn, and Lu Fan woke up leisurely from his cultivation.

"Ah! So comfortable. Cultivating for a day and a night, it's like being an immortal!"

Lu Fan felt comfortable all over. The blood and Qi accumulated from his serious injuries had all dissipated, and his whole body was no longer soft and weak, but full of vitality.

"Eh? Qi and blood are full, transforming blood into essence! This is the mid-stage of the Gathering Essence Realm. I broke through in just one day and night, and even made progress. This is a bit strange!"

"The Blazing Flame True Qi runs through thirteen meridians. This is clearly a sign of a Yellow grade high-rank technique!"

Lu Fan's face was filled with disbelief, and he threw a punch casually.

A pale red flame fist shadow surged out, smashing into the wall, leaving a charred, concave pit the size of a bushel.

It was indeed the mid-stage cultivation of the Gathering Essence Realm, and then a touch of wild joy appeared on his face.

"Hahaha, so this is how the Underworld God Heart Method is practiced."

"This method is for auxiliary use, refining and improving a Martial Artist's technique. A Yellow grade high-rank Blazing Flame Skill—even I had never seen one in my past life!"

"All laws from the heart, so that's it! Then I don't have to worry. It's time to find some herbs to temper my body!" ===== CHAPTER 3 =====