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Chapter 371 Using Tai Sui as a Bed? Catching Tai Sui!
After entering the cave, Chen Xin felt like he was being watched.

The emergence of this sense of being watched also confirmed some of his guesses.

Previously, Chen Xin had already obtained the surrounding environment of the location of the Ghost Heart Ancestor from the Ghost Heart Pulse Master's memories. In theory, he could have simply placed a talisman to track down the location.

But when he tried to send the nine suns there, he found it was useless.

There are only two situations in which a delivery cannot be made: either the location of the target is unknown, or the location of the target has changed.

After reviewing the memories of the Ghost Heart Pulse Master, Chen Xin discovered several subtle differences in the memory scenes.

The environment around the space where the Ghost Heart Ancestor was located was generally the same, but in the several scenes in the Ghost Heart Pulse Master's memory, the number of 'caves' around the space he was in would change.

Therefore, it can be concluded that the situation of Ghost Heart Ancestor should belong to the second type.

Previously, Chen Xin thought that the Ghost Heart Ancestor could move freely, but now, after sensing the prying eyes around him, he had other guesses.

Perhaps this cave is alive!
Ignoring the feeling of being spied on, Chen Xin continued walking inside, a flash of golden light passing over his body.

As they went deeper, the tissues on the surrounding cave walls became thicker and pulsated faster.

As they reached a certain intersection, Chen Xin's expression shifted, and he suddenly took a large step back.

Just as he stepped back, a large amount of net-like mucus suddenly shot out from the tumor formed by the intertwining blood vessels on the ground in front of him.

The slime was supposed to spray out from under Chen Xin's feet and trap him, but instead it missed.

Watching the slime fall and be collected, Chen Xin thought for a moment and decided not to personally experience the situation of the Ghost Heart Ancestor's lair anymore.

Immediately, he stepped into the first level of the Netherworld and began to walk through the caves within it.

Chen Xin's sudden disappearance seemed to have caught the cave off guard. Immediately afterward, Chen Xin saw the entire cave begin to 'move'.

Driven by those pulsating blood vessels, the entrance to the cave not far ahead suddenly shifted.

What was originally a single passage split in the middle and then connected with another passage that appeared. This change seemed to be happening throughout the entire cavern.

"So that's how it is."

Chen Xin suddenly realized.

No wonder when the cloth dog was caught by the cave wall, the crow was sent to scout the way but could never reach the end. It turns out this wasn't a ghost wall, but a physical maze!

"A maze? I haven't played one in a long time."

Chen Xin smiled and walked deeper into the cave.

After half an hour.

Chen Xin looked at the gloomy sky outside the cave and remained silent for a long time.

Sure enough, being in a maze is a completely different level of difficulty compared to playing paper mazes.

No longer dwelling on it, Chen Xin summoned the Nine Suns and threw them out of the Netherworld.

Standing at the cave entrance, Jiuri took a deep breath that lasted for five minutes.

After it was over, Chen Xin once again brought Jiuri into the Netherworld.

Without saying much, Jiu Ri entered the Netherworld and began running along the underground cave.

With that last breath, Jiu Ri had already sniffed out the path leading to the Ghost Heart Ancestor throughout the entire cave.

It was as if the route to the destination had been drawn on paper in advance, and what Jiuri had to do now was to enter the Netherworld and rush towards the location of the Ghost Heart Ancestor along the path he had just memorized.

Once inside the Netherworld, the cave cannot sense anyone entering, so it will not change its location on its own.

Under these conditions, it took Jiuri ten minutes to rush into a spacious underground space.

The moment Chen Xin arrived on the 9th, he instantly went from the cave entrance to the depths of the cave.

A man and a dog, just staring at the space in front of them.

The space was quite large, and both the ground and the cave walls were covered with those blood-red veins. The veins here were thicker and pulsating faster than those in other places.

Even more striking are the enormous tumors, some as tall as half a person, that bulge at the intersections of the veins.

Densely packed, all of them.

A rough count revealed there were at least several hundred!
Chen Xin also learned what these tumors were from the memories of the Ghost Heart Pulse Master.

The process of joining the Ghost Heart lineage is very simple: the newcomer is blindfolded and taken to the place where the Ghost Heart Ancestor is, and then inserted into those tumors to complete the heart transplant ceremony.

Successfully, they broke through the tumor and became a member of the Ghost Heart.

Those that fail are digested by the tumor and become nourishment for the Ghost Heart Ancestor.

It's fair to say this is the lair of the Ghost Heart Ancestor, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it the Ghost Heart lineage's 'armory'.

Besides these tumors and veins, in the middle of the space, there is a platform with a diameter of five meters, and on the platform is the Ghost Heart Ancestor.

And the starting point of those veins is precisely where the Ghost Heart Ancestor is located.

Chen Xin looked at the platform and felt that its shape was a bit peculiar.

It looks a bit like... Ganoderma lucidum?
This Ghost Heart Ancestor is quite witty; he even decorated his bed to resemble a lingzhi mushroom.

Chen Xin walked forward and circled the heart once.

What Chen Xin couldn't understand was that Ghost Heart Ancestor was, after all, a member of the Ghost Slave Organization, so why did he only have a heart left now?
What about people?

What about the physical body?
Chen Xin was unable to find it, nor could he obtain any relevant information from the memories of the Ghost Heart Pulse Master.

This was how the Ghost Heart Clan Master first met the Ghost Heart Ancestor.

Ignoring all that, Chen Xin reached out and grasped the normal-sized heart from the darkness.

Feeling its pulsating power, Chen Xin unleashed his Netherworld Power, his hand instantly piercing through space and grasping the heart in the cave.

At the same time, a phantom image of the wrathful Vajra appeared on Chen Xin's arm.

The moment the phantom appeared, it merged into Chen Xin's arm, turning his arm gold.

This is the power of the seventh edition of the exercise, which refines the wrathful Vajra body into the body.

The sixth version of the exercise only requires 10,000 merits to reach the top, but the seventh version requires 100,000.

That is, after the announcement of the Candle Night Stone Town, Chen Xin quickly obtained 300,000 Yin Virtue Points, which is why he was willing to upgrade the Strengthening Exercise to the seventh version.

The seventh edition of the exercise is indeed worth 100,000 merits. Chen Xin once tried to catch a blood-disaster-level worm in the crossroads of Sanshan Village and was sucked into his body by the worm.

But thanks to the protection of the Vajra's fierce body, Chen Xin was completely unharmed.

In the end, it was the blood-disaster-level worm that couldn't stand the heat from Chen Xin's blood and qi and spat Chen Xin out.

After that, Chen Xin went to Huang Ying and asked Huang Ying to control the mother and child corpses to attack him.

The result was that the long, straight black fingernails of the mother and child demons were broken off, and three holes were pierced in the golden skin on Chen Xin's arm, but those three holes were quickly repaired.

From this, Chen Xin also determined what stage the seventh version of the exercise was at... Black Abyss!
At least in terms of defensive capabilities, it has reached the Abyss level.

This is why Chen Xin dared to go down into the underground cave alone without using his illusion body.

So when he grabbed the heart, Chen Xin subconsciously thought he could rip it off the veins.

After all, once the Vajra of Wrath was incorporated into his body, his power became inhuman.

But even under these circumstances, Chen Xin's tug only lifted the heart five centimeters off the table!
"Huh?" As Chen Xin asked in surprise, his heart swelled up rapidly, like a pufferfish that had been stimulated.

And the surrounding giant tumors also changed.

Heads and limbs sprouted from the tumors, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into monsters covered in slime and veins.

These monsters all had the same face and roared at the black mist formed by Chen Xin's hand.

Seeing that he still couldn't separate the heart from the clumps of tissue, and with the monsters already charging over, Chen Xin shook his head and gave up on the struggle against his heart.

The space in the palm of his hand was opened, and the heart was placed inside. Then, Chen Xin closed the entrance to the space.

laugh!
It sounds like the sound of scissors cutting something.

Chen Xin used the power of the "gate" of the Pot Heaven Space to directly sever the vascular tissues attached to the heart.

With his arm retracted, Chen Xin looked at the monsters that had suddenly stiffened and turned into puddles of liquid, and smiled.

The seventh edition of the physical exercise may only have the power of the Black Abyss, but the Pot Heaven Space is something of the same level as the Turbid World God.

Unless the tissues attached to the heart possess defensive capabilities comparable to those of a god in the mortal world, there is nothing that the entrance to the Pot Heaven space cannot be severed.

Whether the God of the Chaotic World can break through remains to be seen.

Just as Chen Xin was about to leave with the patriarch of the Ghost Heart lineage, he discovered that the surrounding situation had changed again.

Without the Ghost Heart Ancestor, those veins stopped pulsating and even began to shrink and wither.

It was under these circumstances that Chen Xin discovered that the platform where the Ghost Heart Ancestor had been was cracked!
Cracks appeared in the shriveled flesh and blood tissue that covered the platform. Then, the platform seemed to wriggle, shaking off the remnants of the blood and blood tissue attached to it.

Then, Chen Xin saw a nearly transparent, grayish, turbid gelatinous substance with a diameter of one meter in the center.

The thing trembled slightly and then disappeared right under Chen Xin's nose.

After a long pause, Chen Xin finally came to his senses.

"That was... a fleshy Ganoderma lucidum, a Tai Sui?"

Chen Xin recalled an explanation he had seen when he was cramming on folk customs.

"Invisible to the eye, yet tangible to the touch, nourishing the body and promoting longevity, it is the spirit that governs the land. All activities such as breaking ground, construction, and burial must avoid incurring the wrath of Tai Sui. Never disturb Tai Sui's presence!"

Previously, Chen Xin had noticed that the platform below the Ghost Heart Ancestor looked somewhat like a Ganoderma lucidum, but he simply assumed that it was a decoration made by the Ghost Heart Ancestor himself.

Who would have thought that the Ghost Heart Ancestor would use the Tai Sui as his bed?
correct!

Chen Xin suddenly thought of something.

This was a dark and gloomy area, but he did not see any other ghosts or spirits besides the Ghost Heart Ancestor, and the Ghost Heart Ancestor was certainly not a native ghost or spirit of this dark and gloomy area.

What is that original ghost/spirit?
Looking back now, it must have been that Tai Sui.

If even the Grand Duke Jupiter could be manipulated by the Ghost Heart Ancestor, it's not impossible that the other lesser ghosts in the area were also manipulated by the fleshy tumors scattered throughout the entire cave.

Thinking this, Chen Xin suddenly became interested.

He immediately took Jiuri back to the cave.

"Nine days, find it!"

There was a hint of excitement in Chen Xin's eyes.

This is the first time I've ever seen a Tai Sui. Is it really as legendary as it is?
Thinking this, Jiuri caught a whiff of the scent and rushed toward a cave.

Nine days later, Chen Xin was led to seven or eight dead ends. Only then did Chen Xin realize that the ability to control the changes in the underground space was not that of the Ghost Heart Ancestor, but that of the Tai Sui!
With this in mind, Chen Xin became even more eager to find that Tai Sui.

He used the same trick again, taking Jiu Ri into the Netherworld and arriving outside the cave, no longer touching the Tai Sui who was like a frightened bird.

After taking a deep breath, Jiu Ri entered the Netherworld once again.

This time, it went smoothly, and the target was found in just five minutes.

After seeing the tissue that had buried its entire body in the soil, with only a small piece resembling a lingzhi mushroom sticking out, Chen Xin was about to open the Pot Heaven Space.

But then he remembered that there was a Ghost Heart Ancestor in his own Pot Heaven Space. If he put it in, wouldn't that Ghost Heart Ancestor control the Tai Sui again?

After thinking for a moment, Chen Xin reached out and grabbed the small Ganoderma lucidum.

A connection to the underworld!

The moment Chen Xin grabbed Tai Sui, he once again unleashed the power of his seventh version of the Body Strengthening Exercise. Unlike the Ghost Heart Ancestor at the Black Abyss level, Tai Sui was pulled out of the ground by Chen Xin before it could even activate its abilities.

Immediately afterwards, it followed Chen Xin's hand and arrived in the Netherworld.

Chen Xin smiled as he watched the Tai Sui wriggling in the netherworld, seemingly trying to burrow into the ground.

"If you could squeeze into that, you wouldn't just be a minor bloodbath."

As soon as Chen Xin finished speaking, he saw the Tai Sui suddenly pause for a moment.

This pause also surprised Chen Xin.

Could it be that it can understand?

Just as Chen Xin was wondering, a cloud of smoke suddenly appeared on Tai Sui's body and rushed straight towards Chen Xin.

Chi chi chi~
A faint sound emanated from Chen Xin's body; it was the sound of the 'smoke' coming into contact with Chen Xin's body.

Upon closer inspection, it was not smoke at all, but countless tiny particles impacting Chen Xin's body. Without exception, they were all burned away by the golden hue on Chen Xin's skin.

Chen Xin ignored this scene and instead looked at the translucent Tai Sui in front of him, which was five meters in diameter.

Or rather, he was staring at that gray mass in the center of the Tai Sui.

After a long silence, Chen Xin addressed Tai Sui, saying, "Ancestor Ghost Heart?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Tai Sui's attack paused for a moment. Although it was weak, Chen Xin still sensed it.

Chen Xin smiled.

"I wondered where the Ghost Heart Ancestor's skin had gone. It turns out he had entered the Tai Sui."

"Heh, quite the scheme. Using the Tai Sui as a bed isn't enough, you also want to possess its body. What, you want to cultivate a usable heart for your master while also trying to survive?"

"Your faith is a bit insincere."

Chen Xin didn't care at all when he saw the meat Ganoderma suddenly turn blood-red.

A flash of white light appeared in his hand, and the Staff of Mourning materialized.

Summon the soul!

In an instant, a hazy gray figure appeared on Tai Sui.

The blood-red color on the Tai Sui gradually faded, and there was no further movement.

"Sir, spare my life!"

A charming female voice came from the gray figure.

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P.S.: I got up early today and am in pretty good shape. I should be able to update again tonight.

(End of this chapter)