Volume 13, Chapter 812 – Another Heart Fragment

Qi Huang didn’t expect anything worthwhile from this little bumpkin from the lower realms, so she merely glanced over lazily. But the moment her eyes swept past one particular item, her whole body suddenly trembled… and then, she stood reverently at attention.

‘Did I see that right?’

Qi Huang rubbed her eyes hard, trying to make sure she wasn’t hallucinating.

At the same time, Cheng Hongling also noticed that object. A trace of dread crossed her delicate face, because she had a similar item inside her body, one that had tormented her endlessly.

Indeed, it was a shriveled heart fragment. It looked identical to the one inside Cheng Hongling, only slightly larger in size.

“How did you obtain this thing?”

Qi Huang steadied her breath and pointed a slender finger at the heart fragment as she asked.

“You mean this black stone? I stumbled upon it at an antique shop,” Zhao Jian replied with a sigh. “It looked sturdy, so I thought I could use it to make a hidden weapon. But no matter what I tried, I couldn’t melt it. Even the highest temperatures didn’t work.”

“…..”

Qi Huang fell silent, momentarily at a loss for words.

“Can I have this?” Cheng Hongling asked after a brief moment of thought.

“Dear, are you sure you want this thing? The one in your body is like a bone-infesting parasite… you’ve never been able to get rid of it. Isn’t this just asking for trouble?”

Qi Huang quickly sent a mental transmission.

“Precisely because I can’t remove it, I want to get this one. With two, I might be able to figure out its origin.”

Cheng Hongling answered calmly.

“Alright then.”

Qi Huang could only shake her head helplessly.

“Of course you can,” Zhao Jian agreed without hesitation. Then, feeling slightly embarrassed, he added, “To be honest, this thing really isn’t worth anything. If you’d be willing to take all these treasures off my hands, I’d feel better about it.”

“The rest are useless to me.”

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Cheng Hongling shook her head rationally, then picked up the shriveled heart fragment and stored it in her spatial ring.

“Fairy, may I ask… how do I leave this place? I can’t just keep drifting through this void forever, can I?”

Zhao Jian asked. Floating endlessly in this empty starry sky was driving him mad.

“Even if I told you, it’d be pointless. With your level of strength, you couldn’t even reach a single star.”

Cheng Hongling shook her head.

“She’s right. Haven’t you noticed you can’t even move properly?” Qi Huang reminded him.

“Then may I ask, how are you two able to fly?” Zhao Jian asked after a moment’s thought.

“We’re flying using divine sense. Your cultivation is too weak. The gap is far too wide.”

Qi Huang explained.

“Then what should I do? I can’t return to Cangmang Planet, and I can’t just float here waiting to die, can I?”

Zhao Jian fell into despair.

And at that moment, something happened that made things even worse for him.

“Kill!”

Down below, someone among the crowd suddenly leapt out, charging straight toward Zhao Jian’s wife.

Madam Zhao hurriedly retreated. Dozens of Zhao family servants quickly surrounded her to protect her, and both sides began to fight fiercely.

“What are you doing?!”

Zhao Jian roared in fury. He wanted to help, but his body wouldn’t respond.

“Zhao Jian, tell your wife to hand over those immortal pills. Otherwise, this will be the end of the Zhao family.”

A brawny man with a beard and a giant hammer bellowed the threat.

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“Qin Hu, you’ve got some nerve! I, Zhao Jian, have already ascended to immortality, and you dare attack my wife?!”

Zhao Jian glared furiously and cursed.

“Ascended? What use is becoming an immortal? Can you even come back down? Don’t think we don’t know that once someone ascends, they can never return to Cangmang Planet. You’ve basically abandoned your wife and children! Hahaha…”

Qin Hu mocked him as he swung his hammer. No one could withstand a single blow from it.

Qi Huang frowned. Qin Hu’s cultivation was only at the early Spirit Gathering Realm, equivalent to a novice disciple in the cultivation world. And yet, on Cangmang Planet, he was practically invincible.

“Brothers, let’s move too. Otherwise, Qin Hu and the others will take all the pills!”

“Yeah! If immortals can’t return to Cangmang Planet, what do we have to be afraid of?”

“Just one of those pills can prolong life by ten or twenty years. Snag one, and we’re set for life!”

With someone leading the charge, a crowd of ill-intentioned onlookers surged forward to join the attack on the Zhao family.

Though Zhao Jian’s servants were well-trained, they were soon overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Wounds and casualties followed quickly.

“Stop! All of you, stop! If any of you dare harm my wife, I, Zhao Jian, will never forgive you!”

Zhao Jian awkwardly wriggled toward the spatial rift like a caterpillar.

“Haha, just a helpless rage! I’ve already decided, we’re taking those pills and your wife. She’ll fetch a nice price in a brothel.”

Qin Hu laughed wildly.

“Big talk for a worm. Did you forget we’re still here?”

Qi Huang finally spoke, her tone sharp. This entire mess had been sparked by those pills, there was no way she could just sit by and watch.

“What does it matter? You’re immortals, right? You can’t descend to the mortal realm.”

Qin Hu remained smug.

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“Yeah, come down here if you’ve got the guts! Let’s see if Grandpa here doesn’t make you my concubine!”

“Hehe, great idea! I’ve never tasted an immortal woman before.”

“Better yet, make them sing and dance every night, pop out baby after baby. With immortal bloodlines, those kids would surely be dragons among men.”

A group of followers jeered along, utterly unaware of their impending doom.

“Courting death!”

Qi Huang sneered. With a single thought, a tiny sliver of her divine sense split off into countless transparent threads, descending through the spatial rift like fine wire and piercing through the mortals below.

Shhhhhh…

The threads rained down. Though hair-thin, they carried lethal force—each one deadlier than a crossbow bolt.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM…!

Anyone struck by the divine sense threads exploded on contact. Craters bloomed across the ground beneath them.

In mere moments, all those who had attacked the Zhao family were annihilated. And because people on Cangmang Planet couldn’t perceive divine sense, they didn’t even know what had happened.

“Heavens! I didn’t even see her make a move. Is this the power of an immortal?”

“Didn’t expect immortals could attack mortals too. Thank goodness I didn’t let greed get the better of me, or I’d be seeing my ancestors right now!”

“Anyone have their portraits? I’ll pay a fortune. From now on, the Ma family worships these two fairies!”

“Forget later, kneel down and give thanks now!”

Faces around the battlefield turned pale with fear. Many fell to their knees on the spot.

“Thank you, fairies!”

Zhao Jian exhaled in relief and kowtowed again.

“Thank you for saving us, immortals!”

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The Zhao family below also knelt in gratitude.

“Listen well. These pills were a gift to the Zhao family from this immortal… anyone who dares to steal them will meet the same end.”

Qi Huang warned coldly.

“That’s enough, let’s go. No point wasting time here.”

Cheng Hongling reminded her.

But Qi Huang looked hesitant. After a moment, she said, “No, we can’t just leave.”

“Why not?”

Cheng Hongling asked, puzzled.

“Think about it. Sure, we can go to the Immortal Realm, but it’s extremely dangerous. That’s why we’ve had to look for other worlds for resources. The problem is, we currently have no way of reaching those other worlds. Our only option is to wait for someone to ascend and open a spatial passage for us.”

Qi Huang first laid out their current situation. Then she continued, “Now someone has finally appeared, this Zhao Jian. He’s managed to open a passage to Cangmang Planet for us. Why would we throw away this juicy opportunity? You have to understand, we’re not just talking about one planet, but the entire lower world that Cangmang Planet belongs to.”

“I see now. Just because Cangmang Planet has no resources doesn’t mean the rest of its world is the same.”

Cheng Hongling suddenly understood.

“Exactly. The world that contains Cangmang Planet is like an untapped treasure map, we’ve barely scratched the surface. It’s definitely worth exploring further.”

Qi Huang affirmed.

“Then what do you plan to do? Our physical bodies can’t enter this low-grade world, and we don’t even know how its celestial bodies are distributed. If it’s as vast as the cultivation realm, we still wouldn’t be able to search it properly.”

Cheng Hongling asked after thinking a bit.

“No matter what, we need to keep this spatial rift open. We’ll figure out the rest later. But if it closes, getting back to that lower world will become almost impossible.”

As she spoke, strands of Qi Huang’s hair extended outward, slicing into the spatial rift to maintain it.