A Sword Takes Five Lives, Two Heart Demon Seeds

With the sound came a tall, upright figure, long hair flying in the wind...

The man was simply dressed, practically in rags, yet he carried an unyielding air. His whole person seemed like a longsword, though his hands and feet were bound in chains that clinked crisply against one another as he walked.

Wherever he passed, the paths of those chains left the grass and trees coated in a layer of white frost.

It was precisely that ripple in the man's heart that allowed Qiu Yan to sense a connection to a Heart Demon. He then tried to make contact, only to discover that it was extraordinarily difficult to reach that seed. The tall man's heart seemed covered by iron chains, with scarcely a crack to be found!

More than that, once Qiu Yan's Heart Demon ripple brushed against him, the man's expression changed at once. His fingers curled, and a strand of Sword Qi shot straight out. With a sharp crack, it actually severed that trace of Heart Demon perception in the Void!

"What sharp Sword Qi! It can even cut apart an invisible Heart Demon. That means the thoughts in his heart are as resilient as a sword. Even if the Heart Demon Seed has been passed into his heart, so long as he harbors no weakness, I cannot stir it. Still, the power he wields differs from Divine Power, nor is it true qi in the usual sense. In this Land of the Divine Remains, it is no ordinary thing. At least five hundred years ago, it would have been difficult to achieve. It seems many things have happened here." With that thought, Qiu Yan did not try again. Instead, he lay hidden in the hearts of the Sea-Watch Five Ghosts and gathered strength. He knew that