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Chapter 981: From the Heart
Chapter 981: From the Heart
"What did you say?"
Looking at Lyon, who stood before her with a sullen expression, the Red-haired Director fell silent for a moment. Her expression was strained as she spoke, "I was only gone for ten minutes, and while I was taking Little Vernon and the others to rest, you managed to make Serpent Director disappear?"
"Well, not entirely..." Lyon hesitated, feeling a bit guilty as he sensed the Crimson Heart hiding in his heart, refusing to come out. "Serpent Director was sucked into the Crimson Heart and merged into my heart. He's just temporarily unable to come out, but he's still safe. In fact, with the dual enhancement from me and the Crimson Heart, the blood exchange ritual's progress has been accelerated by several times..." He gestured to his hair, "You can see the results for yourself."
The Red-haired Director fell silent. Indeed, Lyon's hair had changed color significantly, with nearly sixty percent of it turning white. She nodded, then couldn't help but ask with a perplexed look, "So, what exactly did you do? How did Serpent Director get swallowed by the Crimson Heart? And why can't you get the Crimson Heart out?"
"Well, I'm not entirely sure either, but I think it's related to the connection between the Crimson Heart and the Crimson Blood," Lyon explained, feeling a bit embarrassed.
"Serpent Director had already completely merged with the Crimson Blood in the past, and the Crimson Blood in the Bureau is mostly extracted from the Crimson Heart. So, theoretically, he and the Crimson Heart are of the same origin and can be considered as one entity."
"To demonstrate to me how to merge with abnormalities stronger than himself, he voluntarily merged with the Crimson Blood in front of me. And I just happened to cast the Serpent Secret Art on the Crimson Heart..."
"So he's considered a part of the Crimson Heart and was merged into your heart along with it?"
"I suppose so..."
The Red-haired Director stood in silence for a moment, then closed her eyes in exasperation. She had a rough idea of what had happened to Serpent Director.
It was simply that Lyon had learned the secret techniques too quickly, and Serpent Director's fatal pride had taken a hit. He had foolishly chosen the most difficult technique to control, intending to give Lyon a hard time.
However, Lyon's talent for secret techniques exceeded Serpent Director's expectations, and he easily subdued the 'teaching tool,' the Crimson Heart, and inadvertently 'merged' the unfortunate Serpent Director along with it.
This was truly... You managed to teach yourself out of existence while teaching a secret technique? Your twisted mind could be your downfall.
"Alright..." The Red-haired Director sighed, accustomed to the unreliability of her old friend. "So, when can you let him out?"
"That's the part I'm not quite clear about either..." Lyon shook his head, also looking helpless. "I've only just learned the Serpent Secret Art a few minutes ago, and I'm not very familiar with this technique... Actually, before you came back, I've already tried several times, but I could only get Serpent Director to speak a few words. This technique, on the other hand, seems impossible to cancel."
Impossible to cancel a secret technique? How could that be? The Red-haired Director furrowed her brows at Lyon's words, then asked in confusion, "The core of the Serpent Secret Art is to synchronize with the abnormality and maintain a state of non-rejection. Once you stop casting the technique, the abnormality you've merged with should naturally reject you and push you out, right?"
"Hmm... I think I understand what happened now..." Lyon blinked after hearing the Red-haired Director's explanation, then spoke with a hint of embarrassment, "The way I merged with the abnormality might be slightly different from the version taught by Serpent Director..."
"?"
"It's just... He treats the abnormality as a deity, and himself as a believer. Through obsession, worship, and devotion, he infects the abnormality. As for my method, it's a bit more violent."
"Violent?"
"To be specific, I'm talking about stabbing with a knife."
"Huh?"
Lyon awkwardly chuckled, and amidst Red-haired Director's slightly bewildered expression, he explained with a hint of embarrassment:
"When Lord Taurus took me to the secret vault, I didn't actually gain the approval of the Crimson Heart. We even got into an argument, and at the time, I was thinking about your situation. Plus, the Crimson Heart's words were so harsh that I couldn't help but take action and stabbed it a few times..."
"A few times?"
"About three hundred stabs, I guess..."
"..."
So, the Crimson Heart didn't reject you; it was just stabbed into a Crimson Sieve by the Crimson Heart, so it dared not reject you, right?
After listening to Lyon's bizarre and equally outrageous operation, Red-haired Director felt a headache coming on. He rubbed his forehead and asked with a pained expression:
"Can't you get Serpent to say a few words? What does Serpent himself say?"
"He says..."
"How did you manage that?!"
Just as Lyon was about to relay the message, Serpent Director's voice suddenly emerged from his heart, filled with shock:
"This is the heart of a Pillar Deity! The Bureau has been trying to destroy it for so many years, yet you managed to kill it fifteen times in just one minute?"
"Well... I didn't really kill it."
Amidst Red-haired Director's astonished gaze, Lyon spoke up:
"Didn't the Bureau defeat the Deadly Realm? I killed the Master of the Dead World a bit too much, so Elder Emma and I each took on half of the Death Domain. We can drag those I've killed into the ultimate end of death... the great lake beneath Eternal Cliff."
Lyon gestured with a wave of his hand and continued his explanation:
"That place represents the most fundamental end, the most essential embodiment of the Death Domain, and its essence is almost identical to the truth of the Pillar Deity... The Crimson Heart refused to yield, and it even cursed at me. I couldn't hold back and dragged it into the lake for a few dips."
"..."
"Alright, let's not worry about how he managed it for now."
Sensing the fear emanating from Lyon's heart, a fear that came from within, Red-haired Director's face turned cold as he demanded:
"You understand Serpent's secret art better than Lyon, and you know when you can come out, right?"
"It's hard to say..."
Lyon's 'heart' quickly bounced a couple of times upon hearing this, and then replied helplessly:
"The stone tablet in the Serpent Palace that records the Abnormal Regeneration secret art only taught me how to unite with the abnormality, not how to separate from it. The main thing is, this thing doesn't need to be taught! Abnormalities don't have time to reject humans, let alone actively seek unity with them."
"Then can you come out?"
"I can... but it's hard to say when exactly."
Serpent Director thought for a moment and replied with uncertainty:
"The Crimson Heart has a certain level of self-awareness. As long as it genuinely despises Shi Shen from the heart, becoming averse to him, rejecting him, and even starting to resist him, this state can be naturally dissolved."
"Then make the Crimson Heart resist!"
"The problem is, it dares not!"
(End of Chapter)
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