"There's really such a good treasure in the world? How come I've never heard of it?"
"Nonsense. If it didn't have such a hard shell protecting it, do you think a treasure this good could have lasted until now?" Chen Ming rolled his eyes.
To be honest, the Douluo world itself had an unclear and tangled connection with the martial arts world from Tang San's previous life.
It was said that the Yearning Heartbroken Red was a peerless immortal flower grown by someone related to the Goddess of Flowers, watered and raised with their own blood.
Considering that Tang San's previous martial arts world was not simple either, and might truly have gods and immortals, it was not impossible for the Yearning Heartbroken Red to be related to a god.
But even if there really was a god, the love between that god and a human should have happened in Tang San's original martial arts world.
A flower as specific as the Yearning Heartbroken Red should not have directly appeared in the Douluo world.
Yet the Douluo world did have the Yearning Heartbroken Red.
And many herbs in the two worlds overlapped greatly. Tang San could rely on the records in the Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record to identify the immortal herbs and divine medicines inside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
There were even three great treasure lands recorded in the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record: the Dragon Tomb, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and the Yin Yang Love Querying Valley.
By logic, all three of these places should have been special areas unique to the history of the Douluo world. Yet Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record from his previous life contained records of all three.
No, seriously, brother. It made sense if the medicinal effects of the immortal herbs were the same.
But how did a fantasy martial arts world have records of Douluo-exclusive places like the Dragon Cemetery, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and the Yin Yang Love Querying Valley?
Could it be that in that world, a group of dragons and a Dragon God also fell, the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings died, and a Goddess of Love also perished?
Chen Ming paid extra attention to and guarded against certain existences that had special positions in the original story.
For example, the Yearning Heartbroken Red.
Chen Ming had always kept this thing tightly hidden. Even when he occasionally studied it, he could not figure out what power or law was hidden inside.
Although destroying the seed of a heavenly treasure was a very immoral thing to do, Chen Ming had already made up his mind. If Xiao Wu could not activate this Yearning Heartbroken Red, then he would use his left claw to completely destroy its seed.
Xiao Wu imagined the people she missed in her heart. Then she struck her own chest with a palm and spat out a mouthful of blood onto the black stone. But the black stone only trembled faintly a few times before becoming silent again. After that, it showed no reaction at all.
"Who were you thinking of?" Chen Ming asked.
"I was thinking of my father, my mother, Da Ming, and Er Ming… My meaning is, Da Ming and Er Ming aren't two dogs my family raised. They're my two little brothers. The two of them…" Xiao Wu did not know how to explain it.
In the end, she simply stopped explaining and looked at the black stone with an unhappy gaze.
"Why can't my love for my family be recognized by this stone?" Xiao Wu spoke unhappily. She felt her love was very sincere.
"Maybe this stone is obsessed with romance. Your love is pure, but it's not on the same track as it." Chen Ming casually tossed Xiao Wu a pill for treating internal injuries.
Xiao Wu swallowed the pill and let it dissolve, feeling the bruise she had just caused herself begin to heal.
Looking at the black stone, Xiao Wu showed an angry expression.
"Romantic obsession is truly the worst thing."
"You don't understand — in the Douluo world, romantic love is a fundamental rule of the universe. Though I'll grant you that being a slave to romance is indeed quite insufferable..."
Chen Ming looked at the black stone, now silent once more, and his left hand transformed directly into the Golden Claw. He drove all five fingers straight into the black stone.
Even with the Yearning Heartbroken Red's seed encased within this special rock — a rock that could withstand virtually every conventional method of attack — the Golden Claw that Chen Ming had forged through his fusion with the Life Gold was clearly not among what could be called conventional methods.
The sharp claws pierced through the rock and stabbed into the hidden seed of the Yearning Heartbroken Red. As the power to draw out life origin and energy activated, the immortal herb's seed let out a mournful cry, and a large amount of energy and life force surged toward Chen Ming.
The Yearning Heartbroken Red did not gain its power through growth. It had already stored up its strength from the start. It was only hiding in the form of a seed and had not activated yet.
The life force hidden inside the Yearning Heartbroken Red was fierce and powerful, even surpassing the Blue Silver Emperor leg bone. It was equal to about 1.5 to 1.6 Blue Silver Emperors. Aside from life force, a special energy also washed through Chen Ming's body, making his meridians tougher, his blood richer with vitality, and his spirit clearer.
Chen Ming's appearance clearly had not changed much, but Xiao Wu felt that he had suddenly become much more handsome. He seemed especially moving all at once, as if they had been very, very close friends long ago. As if she had secretly loved Chen Ming for a long time and simply had not realized it all these years…
No, weren't we already good friends for many years? Could I really have a crush on him?
Xiao Wu shook her head, trying to shake that strange feeling out of her mind. But the more she looked at Chen Ming, the more she felt a burning feeling in her heart.
As the energy was drained to the very end, Chen Ming keenly sensed a trace of disharmonious energy inside the Yearning Heartbroken Red's seed. It was a special aura of extremely high quality, carrying killing intent and a domineering force.
That aura was hidden in the deepest part of the seed. It tried to flow into Chen Ming's body along with the energy, but it was directly blocked by Chen Ming's Golden Claw. Under the control of Chen Ming's spiritual power, it was forcefully sealed inside the Spirit Bone made from Life Gold and gradually began to be worn down and refined.
The quality of that power was extremely high, even higher than the quality of Qian Daoliu's Spirit Power as a Limit Douluo.
It was a power that was, in the truest sense, infinitely close to divine power. Rather than saying it had not reached divine power, it was more accurate to say this power had fallen from the level of divine power, so it was limited to a state that was infinitely close to godhood, yet not truly divine.
If this power were a little stronger, or if it were true divine power, Chen Ming would have had a very hard time refining it. But at this level, it happened to be something Chen Ming could bear.
The power of Life Gold surged, and that trace of energy was slowly broken down, turning into pure energy that nourished Chen Ming's left arm bone.
Chen Ming could feel that the age of his left arm bone had increased by around twenty to thirty thousand years, and the destructive power of his Golden Claw ability seemed to have risen another level.
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