Chapter 353: The Heart of Sacrifice
Chapter 353: The Heart of Sacrifice
The next day, led by Ivan, the group set out on the journey to the Spiral Valley.
After entering the more dangerous area, the team became more cautious and moved slower and slower.
As the saying goes, "If you walk on the road at night too often, you will inevitably encounter ghosts." What's more, in a chaotic area like the Jiucai Tiankeng, you may encounter anything at any time and anywhere.
Without any warning, a curvy figure appeared not far to the left of the group.
She stood silently more than three meters above the ground, looking at the few people expressionlessly.
Locke happened to glance over and saw a figure only five or six meters away from him. His heart suddenly jumped and he almost raised his scimitar to chop at it.
At this time, Ivan stared at him seriously, signaling him not to move rashly, and Locke calmed down. However, that figure could not be shaken off his mind.
Apart from that stunning appearance, the other party didn't even have the slightest aura of existence, as if there was nothing.
The other person's eyes were clearly closed, but he felt like he was being stared at, making him feel uneasy.
Such a being is more terrifying than any lord creature encountered before.
They walked this section of the road in unusual silence, not daring to make any unnecessary movements. It took them a long time to complete this difficult journey.
After a while, Locke couldn't help asking: "What was that just now--"
"Thought bodies, consciousness bodies, and the like are similar to the Black Scythe Lord we saw in the Crimson Cloud Realm. As long as we don't mess around, such beings will basically not care about small characters like us."
"I see. That person just now was putting too much pressure on me."
After listening to Ivan's explanation, he finally felt relieved.
In fact, Ivan was also frightened before. This situation was completely beyond his expectations. Fortunately, he was strong enough in heart. He immediately thought of the best response strategy, which was to remain silent and continue normal.
Along the way, except for the somewhat awkward atmosphere, everything went smoothly.
After witnessing the weirdness and terror of the creatures in the tiankeng once again, the team became more cautious. Even Locke stopped making a fuss and focused entirely on being alert to possible dangers around him.
"Take a break."
After walking a distance and finding a relatively safe and open area, Ivan waved his hand and ordered to stop.
He set up a simple defensive formation on the spot and took out the three-color beads he had obtained earlier. The Nine-Colored Tiankeng had risks beyond his expectations, so he felt that he needed to change his strategy and make better preparations.
"Jenny, come here and help me analyze this orb."
"Okay, Wizard Ivan."
Hearing his order, Jenny dropped her guard and moved closer.
The two began to study.
A careful examination will reveal that the earth energy in the beads has a high concentration and purity, and at the same time has a unique gentleness. It is simply a miniature version of a pool of excellent energy particles.
"Although its quality is not as good as the previous Frost Flame Flower, it is also very good. With it, we can easily build an earth energy particle pool." After preliminary exploration, Ivan came to a conclusion.
"It's a bit of a waste to build a particle pool. I can guide it a little, change the energy properties inside, and turn it into a magical item with great lethality." Even Jenny, who has always had high standards, looked at it differently.
"What a pity, I have other uses for him."
"forget it."
Regardless of whether it has other important uses, it is not as important as Ivan's own level three promotion. He wants to use this earth-type three-color bead as bait.
As for how to make bait, it was naturally based on the meditation method "Black Magic Ritual". When deriving the new meditation method, his second goal was to fight against the Blackbeard Lord, going against the effect of the "Blackbeard Movement", and even turning the tables.
In this regard, he borrowed the method of 'Pulling the Sacred Heart'.
The method of pulling the sacred heart is crude and simple, which is to condense and utilize the puppet's heart.
A low-level puppet heart can initially manipulate the mental consciousness of lower creatures, a mid-level puppet heart can control the flesh and blood of medium-level creatures, and a high-level puppet heart has multiple controls, including the mind, body, and spirit, turning it into a complete puppet.
The black magic ritual derived from this was not so cruel and overbearing, and was named "Heart of the Ritual" by him.
As unique means to complement the meditation method, there are significant differences between the Puppet Heart and the Sacrifice Heart.
The Puppet Heart can be condensed continuously and can even be sold, but the Sacrifice Heart can only be condensed at one, and the second one cannot be condensed unless the previous one dissipates.
The Puppet Heart can permanently control a creature, while the Ritual Heart can only control a creature for a limited time.
In terms of effect, the Heart of Sacrifice is certainly not as good as the Heart of Puppet.
But in terms of the risks to practitioners and their own concealment, the Heart of Sacrifice is much better than the Heart of Puppet, and does not need to be nurtured in the spiritual ocean for a long time.
His biggest fears, that someone would take advantage of him, that he would become someone else's puppet, and that his spiritual ocean would be polluted, no longer existed.
"It's decided. I'll use this three-color earth bead as bait. You continue to guard it and don't let anything come to disturb me." After exploring for a while and finding no other problems, Ivan made up his mind.
"Okay, Wizard Ivan." Jenny had no objection.
Time passed little by little. This rest took longer than expected. After more than half a day, Ivan condensed a yellow sacrificial heart, the size of a thumb, with the same properties and aura as the three-color earth bead.
After some more thought, he integrated the heart of the sacrifice into the three-color earth beads.
"Come and take a look. Is there any difference from before?" He stood up and handed the beads to Jenny.
"No difference, no trace at all." Jenny explored for a few seconds and exclaimed softly.
"Tell me the truth." Ivan's face turned a little dark. He was not looking for someone to say good things.
"There is a slight difference, but only those who have carefully examined the bead before can discover it. Otherwise, no one will notice anything unusual. I guarantee it." Jenny said after a moment's hesitation.
"That's more like it." Ivan nodded slightly.
Jenny is extremely sensitive to earth energy. To receive such an evaluation from her, it is enough to prove that the Heart of Sacrifice is well concealed and can be used as bait.
As for other gains, I haven’t figured out what to do with the three-colored beads of thunder yet.
There are deep marks of personal power on those two space rings, and it will take a lot of effort to eliminate them. Ivan is not going to deal with them for the time being. Let's wait until you leave the Nine-Colored Tiankeng.
As for whether he would be tracked down and retaliated by the Thunder Clan, he was not worried at all.
The rules inside the Nine-Colored Sinkhole are chaotic, and it is difficult to track anything by most means. But outside the Nine-Colored Sinkhole, once he leaves, he will return to the wizard's territory. At that time, there is no need to worry about those birdmen of the Thunder Clan.
"Let's go, and continue on our journey."
"okay."
Soon, Ivan removed the protective formation and announced that he would continue to rush to the Spiral Valley.
(End of this chapter)