The moment Qin An and the others saw the heart, their eyes widened.
The heart, pieced together from corpses, had an eerie air about it.
Every corpse was wrapped around it, and each twitch of those corpses was a beat of the heart.
Beyond its eerie appearance, the enormous heart carried an obsession so intense it could drive a person mad.
Hatred, fear, hope, despair, and the desperate desire to survive.
All those emotions spread outward. Even from far away, they made the heart tremble with dread.
"What is that thing?" Astonishment deepened in the Pacifying Distant King's eyes. It was as though he had never seen anything so horrifying in his life.
Eunuch Yang's hand tightened slightly inside his sleeve. "That terrifying creature we encountered earlier was pieced together from the corpses outside. This must be its heart."
"Like us, it has organs. It's just that all of its organs were pieced together."
At those words, Qin An and the Pacifying Distant King exchanged a glance, then nodded. That explanation might well be right.
"What do we do next?" the Pacifying Distant King asked, clenching his fists. "We've come this far and found this strange heart made of corpses. What's our next move?"
Qin An said nothing. He merely stared at the strange heart before them.
The Pacifying Distant King and Eunuch Yang immediately noticed his unusual behavior.
They turned to him, confusion in their eyes. "Lord Qin, have you discovered something?"
Qin An pointed at the strange heart. "I suspect it was the source of that voice. Since it led us here, there must be a way to resolve this. We only need to wait patiently."
Earlier, Qin An's instincts had told him there was definitely a way out here. The longing he had sensed from the other