"This image is Earth Vault City. These are the laws and profound mysteries of the Heart of the Earth Palace!" Lu Xiaotian suddenly realized what the anomaly that had appeared in his mind meant.
The phantom image had many damaged areas. They were very likely places where the Heart of the Earth Palace had been eroded by external forces.
As this surge of vitality flowed into him, Lu Xiaotian felt that he had formed some kind of mysterious connection with the Heart of the Earth Palace. He could sense that after suffering a devastating blow, it had fallen silent for an unknown number of years. All this time, Earth Vault City had simply continued to function through its own inertia.
At least on the surface, the Heart of the Earth Palace's silence had left Earth Vault City vulnerable. Outsiders had poured in, and the city's very foundations were close to being shaken.
All these years, no one had been able to communicate with the Heart of the Earth Palace—not the lion-headed, centipede-bodied monster, nor any of the Huayan. Yet Lu Xiaotian, an outsider, had managed it. It was not simply because he had also placed an Earthflame crystal core inside his body that the Heart of the Earth Palace had treated him differently. Rather, Lu Xiaotian had been able to let its laws and profound mysteries enter his body while it lay dormant, where they combined with the Earthflame crystal core inside him. This gave the laws and profound mysteries contained within the Heart of the Earth Palace a new vessel.
The only difference between Lu Xiaotian and the Huayan and the lion-headed, centipede-bodied monster before him was that they did not have a Green Fruit Barrier inside them. They could not channel the dead, gray aura that invaded their