The Heart Section Fragment was stored in a highly unusual manner.
It was neither displayed directly on the stone platform nor placed inside any container. The fragment itself was not shown directly either.
Before Han Dong, a massive stone heart was suspended in midair by stone chains resembling arteries.
Thump! Thump!
Though it was made of stone, the powerful heartbeat resonating from within could be heard clearly.
Each beat sent ripples spreading outward.
It was these ripples that caused the petrification phenomenon. Even Pope and Eugenis had to expand their domains to resist it.
"Is the Heart Section Fragment inside this Stone Heart?"
Han Dong did not deliberately resist the petrification process.
He even intentionally exposed himself to the heartbeat, allowing petrification to gradually take hold.
More precisely, he was using the Faceless One's traits to adapt to and mimic this sensation of petrification.
The moment his fingers touched the heart's surface, Han Dong completely transformed into a stone man, and his consciousness once again sank into the inner world of the Book of the Dead.
A gigantic corpse lay across the plains, with a huge cavity carved into its left chest.
A heart that had long ceased beating lay at The Depths of the cavity. It had even turned gray, seemingly dead for a very long time... The blood vessels connected to it had all been severed and were scattered casually around the cavity.
Han Dong crawled into the corpse through the hollow on its surface.
He reconnected each severed blood vessel to the heart while feeding his own source blood into it.
Gradually,
the heart, which appeared to have been dead for ages, slowly regained its color, showing faint signs of beating.
At the same time, Han Dong's body in the outer Stone Chamber began changing as well.