The corpse opened his eyes and stared at Lü Yun for a long while before his cracked lips finally said, "Little Yun, where is this?"
"This is the Human Tower. I came to save you," Lü Yun said hurriedly.
"Go, leave quickly. If they discover us..." Wrath Heavenly Venerate's gaze sharpened as he hastily said.
"It's fine. The clan elder and the Black Dragon are both dead. There won't be any more danger," Lü Yun interrupted him.
"They're all dead? That's good." Only then did Wrath Heavenly Venerate let out a sigh of relief, lying on the ground as he began to recover from his injuries on his own.
"You take care of him." After reviving Wrath Heavenly Venerate, Xu Zimo returned to the seventeenth floor once more.
The pale-red heart flickered in and out amid the flames. The sound of its beating—"thump, thump, thump"—echoed out, as though life were truly being nurtured within it.
The Blood Lizard Heart took far longer to nurture than Xu Zimo had expected—a full month.
Only then did the heart recover under the tempering of the Divine Dragon Fire, its color beginning to shift from pale red toward blood-red.
It was scarlet all over, as though it were a real heart that had just been plucked out.
Its purple veins and patterns were clearly visible.
Xu Zimo put away the heart, then left the Human Tower with Lü Yun and Wrath Heavenly Venerate.
Along the way, Wrath Heavenly Venerate expressed his gratitude to Xu Zimo.
"I should be leaving too," Xu Zimo said with a smile.
"Brother, are you returning to the human race?" Wrath Heavenly Venerate asked.
"Yes. Want to come along?" Xu Zimo said.
"I'd better not. I want to go see Qing'er. It wouldn't be so bad to stay here in