Chapter 843: The Heart of Darkness

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A decrepit, shabby manor ten thousand miles Southwest of Ka Fu鈥檚 shop.

Shi Yan鈥檚 group of three sneakily arrived in this place.

As soon as they arrived, the stone gate of the manor silently opened. The yard inside had some withered ancient trees. The ambiance here was tranquil and heavy. There were no energy fluctuations. Some stone buildings were built in the deep place inside the garden.

Shi Yan just walked forward and didn鈥檛 even frown. Ka Tuo and Ka Fu exchanged looks, saying nothing while quietly following Shi Yan.

After they got into the garden, the stone gate closed automatically. The sole stone door of a stone house in the manor opened inaudibly.

Shi Yan鈥檚 group walked in one after another.

The stone house didn鈥檛 have a window. After the three of them walked through the door, it closed. They found themselves emerged in complete darkness. It was so dark that they couldn鈥檛 see their own fingers.

A gloomy light appeared little by little by the stone wall. A black figure was sitting neatly on a platform. She lifted her black veiled hat, exposing her savage scarred face.

At first glance, Ka Tuo and Ka Fu felt their legs shivering. Their faces grimaced shortly.

They knew this face!

The most ruthless woman in the Dark Firmament Divine Nation, the regimental commander of the Bloody Legion who topped the five great feudal vassals in the Raging Flame Star Area. This woman鈥檚 bloody hands had killed so many people.

Any enemy of the Dark Firmament Divine Nation would have paled fearfully facing her. Ka Tuo and Ka Fu weren鈥檛 exceptions.

Shi Yan slightly bent his body, his face faint. "Greetings, Madame Leona. I was wondering what you summoned me for."

Leona sat on the high platform. Her dark green eyes were gloomy, reflecting no mood. She just looked at him and said nothing.

Although she didn鈥檛 say anything, an invisible pressure had pressed down on the other three. They felt annoyed as if they couldn鈥檛 hold their lives in this place. It was much more frightening than facing Barrette and Black Horn.

After a long moment, Leona spoke slowly, "You took the star map from the Purgatory Star?"

Shi Yan was surprised, but he didn鈥檛 deny it. "Yeah, I brought it out."

". . . It was God鈥檚 will," mumbled Leona. She kept silent for a while as though she had immersed in her memory. "Did you know who saved you twice?"

"I do," Shi Yan nodded honestly.

"Do you know why she has saved you?" asked Leona.

Pondering for a while, Shi Yan peeked at Bloody Slaughterer Ka Tuo and Ka Fu. He said uncertainly, "Is it related to my mark?"

"You鈥檙e smart. Your fortune is good too. You鈥檝e found her not long after you鈥檝e arrived in the Heaven Punishment City. Your fate is good. That is why you got the inheritance." Leona nodded, throwing a look at Bloody Slaughterer Ka Tuo. She snarled, "Ka Tuo, show your mark to me."

"What mark?" Ka Tuo was bewildered.

Shi Yan smiled, pointing at his forehead.

Ka Tuo got it. He immediately urged his energy to circulate the Chaotic God Domain. His eyes turned garnet, and the dim mark on his forehead slowly appeared. It showed the five blood clouds.

"Oh right. No wonder why you were able to sense danger and quickly change it to safe situations several times. " Leona鈥檚 eyes brightened up as she muttered.

"Turning danger into safe situations several times?" Bloody Slaughterer Ka Tuo was astounded. After a while, he was stirred up. "Is it... Is it..."

Staying in the Land of God Punishment for years, he had been besieged several times. His soul had almost been destroyed. However, from time to time, his enemies would fail to generate energy randomly as though they had made mistakes in their cultivation. They wouldn鈥檛 be able to release their energy and their only consequence was to be killed by Ka Tuo.

Thanks to those lucky moments, he had harvested a lot and become famous among the pirates. Gradually, he had established his own organization.

Since then, Ka Tuo had doubted the possibility of someone helping him. He couldn鈥檛 have been so lucky. Every time he fell into an inescapable situation, his enemy would make a fatal mistake. He thought that God favored him and didn鈥檛 want him to die yet.

However, listening to Leona, he finally understood.

It was not the Mighty God who had helped him. Somebody else had saved him many times.

"Shi Yan told you to give away ten thousand divine crystals. Wasn鈥檛 that worth it for you? Is your life not worth ten thousand divine crystals?" Leona wore a mocking countenance. "Did you really think that your fate was that good?"

Ka Tuo鈥檚 brawny body shivered as gratitude arose in his heart, his eyes watery. He said dully, "So... she has saved me many times... I鈥檓 so dumb to have not figured it out..."

Ka Tuo gawked. He suddenly realized that something extraordinary had happened to his brother, which he didn鈥檛 know.

Also, he now knew that his brother had almost died many times. Someone had saved his life, which helped him survive and gain today鈥檚 position.

That person was Fei Lan.

"If you didn鈥檛 have the mark and she didn鈥檛 know about your mark, you would have been dead already," said Leona faintly.

"I got it. I finally got it. Thanks for telling me all of this," Ka Tuo was so grateful. He bowed respectfully with tears falling from his eyes.

No one understood his labor and effort for many years. From the point of view of an anonymous warrior in the Land of God Punishment, he had suffered so many adversities, which Ka Fu, his blood brother, didn鈥檛 even know about.

Ka Tuo understood that it was not easy for him to have today鈥檚 attainment. He always thanked God for taking care of him that he could survive stubbornly for so many times.

However, until today, he finally knew that he had a pair of eyes watching over him and taking care of him. The feeling of having someone protecting him was something he had never had for his entire life.

All of a sudden, someone woke him up from his perplexed life. Ka Tuo鈥檚 feelings couldn鈥檛 be expressed once with words.

"Do you know why you stayed alive after breaking my battleship? Do you know why I had to protect you when Ao Gu Duo wanted to kill you?" Leona鈥檚 line of sight shifted to Shi Yan.

"I know why" Shi Yan chuckled. "At the moment I saw you use your power Upanishad, I suspected a little of it. Thank you." He bowed to show his gratitude.

"Eh?" Leona was surprised. Her eyebrows twitched. "How come you got it that fast? What did you depend on?"

"I鈥檝e seen your Dark power Upanishad," explained Shi Yan.

Leona鈥檚 eyes brightened, but she didn鈥檛 say anything, waiting for his explanation.

"I met a War Devil in the Grace Mainland. It鈥檚 a black iron puppet. As far as I鈥檝e known, it鈥檚 the dark clone of Lao Luo. I think... your Dark power Upanishad is somehow related to it?" Shi Yan tried to ask for more information.

"Lao Luo?" Leona shook her head. It seemed like she didn鈥檛 know this person. "I鈥檝e never heard about him before. Does he also cultivate Dark power Upanishad?"

"True. The same power," Shi Yan was astounded. "If you don鈥檛 know Lao Luo, how are you able to also comprehend Dark Upanishad? It doesn鈥檛 seem right..."

Then, his mind flickered, releasing the War Devil from the Blood Vein Ring.

It鈥檚 been a long time since his last use of the black puppet. The War Devil鈥檚 power was limited. Even if it used all of the power, it could use the energy of the Peak of Spirit Realm. Compared to Shi Yan at the moment, it was trivial. That鈥檚 why he had forgotten the puppet.

Leona鈥檚 eyes sparkled. Her dark power moved. She landed by the War Devil, her face excited. "The Heart of Darkness. Oh my, this puppet has the Heart of Darkness! I know it. I know the reason!"

While talking, her soul altar spun, releasing a magical suction force.

The Heart of Darkness inlaid on War Devil鈥檚 chest turned into a dark light cluster, flying towards Leona. In just a blink, it disappeared into Leona鈥檚 body as though it had become a part of her.

A gust of dark and wicked aura shot out from Leona. She didn鈥檛 say anything while she sat down, closing her eyes. She seemed to try to fuse the Heart of Darkness, her visage stern.

After the Heart of Darkness detached from the iron puppet, it collapsed grumblingly, turning into fragments on the floor. There was no beam of energy remained.

The War Devil was totally broken.

Leona was excited. She closed her eyes to feel, smiling as she was stirred up.

"Brother, it seems that she鈥檚 taking in the Upanishad Inheritance, just like I did before," said Ka Tuo gingerly.

Shi Yan nodded as he also saw the clues. The Heart of Darkness looked crucial to Leona, a warrior cultivating Dark power Upanishad. It seemed to contain the mysteries of the Inheritance, which was like the star nucleus in his case.

At this moment, Leona was fusing the Heart of Darkness into her body and making it part of her like what Shi Yan had done with the star nucleus. "What鈥檚 going on?" Ka Fu was bewildered. He thought that what happened today was very mysterious and yet exciting. It made him baffled. He started to wonder if all that he鈥檇 seen today was just a dream.

". . . Oh, I don鈥檛 know. You have to ask my senior." Ka Tuo also wanted to know, looking at Shi Yan.

Shi Yan鈥檚 face was odd. He didn鈥檛 understand clearly either. It seems that there was a line that connects everybody together. But Shi Yan couldn鈥檛 explain Ka Tuo and his brother. He hesitated for a while then said, "Don鈥檛 rush. Wait until Madame Leona wakes up, we will ask her."

Ka Tuo and Ka Fu were surprised, but they didn鈥檛 ask more. All then looked at Leona quietly, waiting for her to complete her fusion with the Heart of Darkness.

Gradually, a dim mark enlarged and became clearer on Leona鈥檚 glabella.

Five blood clouds.

It was exactly the same as Ka Tuo鈥檚 mark and the mark on the small shield in Fei Lan鈥檚 shop.

Ka Tuo was shaken, pointing at Leona鈥檚 forehead with fright. "That... that mark..."

"Yes, that mark, I know it." Shi Yan had doubted it before. As soon as he saw the mark on Leona鈥檚 forehead, he confirmed what he was thinking. Shi Yan beamed a smile.

"We all have that mark, right? Brother, do you have that mark, too?" Ka Tuo was astounded, shouting.

"It鈥檚 true. I got one," Shi Yan nodded. "Anyway, your mark appears on your God Body鈥檚 forehead, and my mark is in my God Soul鈥檚 center. This is the only difference."

Ka Tuo was perplexed.