"Ugh..."
After an unknown amount of time, Tang Wulin finally shook off the intense pain and woke up.
The moment he awoke, he felt something soft beneath his head. Opening his eyes, he found himself lying on Huo Yutong's lap.
Huo Yutong gazed at him gently.
"You're awake, Wulin? Do you need something to eat?"
"No."
Tang Wulin did not feel hungry at all right now. If anything, he felt as though the energy inside his body was about to overflow.
He hurriedly got up from Huo Yutong, only to be startled by how light his body felt.
He instinctively inspected his body and was immediately shocked. His heart had actually vanished, replaced by something else.
It was a strange, nine-colored crystal that pulsed powerfully with every breath he took.
With every beat, Tang Wulin could feel an incomparably pure surge of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy erupt from it.
This was...
Tang Wulin's expression immediately turned strange.
He could be considered quite knowledgeable by now. At the very least, he had seen plenty of Soul Cores belonging to Limit Douluos, so he recognized it at a glance. This nine-colored crystal of his was a Soul Core.
But first, why was it nine-colored?
Second, why was it located where his heart should have been?
Humans could condense Soul Cores within their chests, but replacing one's heart with a Soul Core was absolutely unprecedented.
And that was not all. Tang Wulin discovered that his Life Soul Core had also "disappeared."
Only after carefully examining himself with his Spiritual Power did he realize that the Life Soul Core had not truly vanished. It had been absorbed into the nine-colored Soul Core, essentially contained within it.
A Soul Core nested inside another Soul Core? What was this supposed to be?
It was neither