F-class thief? Sorry, I can steal anything.

Chapter 404 The Holy Lord Borrows a Knife?

"They are all sealed hearts."

After Bai Zhi finished speaking, no one responded in the channel.

Chen Yifan stood in front of the broken black monument, his right hand still clutching the sixth source core.

The source core is not as volatile as before.

It's jumping.

a bit.

a bit.

The first five also jumped.

The six pulses overlapped, causing the space around the ring to tremble continuously.

Chen Yifan looked down at his right arm.

The wound that had been torn open by the lingering resentment hadn't closed yet, and blood was dripping down the back of my hand.

The blood dripped into the air and was caught by the gray-white patterns overflowing from the source core.

The next second, he was sent back to the edge of the wound.

The grayish-white lines swam along the skin and flesh, then stopped at the bone crevice.

Bai Zhi's voice transmission connected again, but the static was very loud.

"Chen Yifan, don't move."

"Six source cores are receiving your physical data."

Shenhou immediately got angry.

"What are you going to do?"

"This thing even requires real-name authentication?"

Bai Zhi ignored him and spoke faster and faster.

"I pieced together the fragments of the first three inscriptions, the old patterns on the flagpole of the East China Sea Navy, the armor plates from the Southern Frontier, and the fragments of the Polar Martial Monument."

"The conclusion is outrageous."

Chen Yifan put the sixth source core into the ring space.

"speak."

Bai Zhi paused for half a second.

"The twelve main altars were not originally called the Holy Altars."

"It's called the Twelve Heart Wells."

The channel became even quieter.

Bai Zhi continued reading.

"At the end of the previous era, when the World Engine was harvested for the first time."

"Twelve martial arts masters cut out their hearts and pressed them into twelve old wells."

"What they sealed with their hearts might not be a stargate."

"It's a crack that existed even earlier beneath the world's engine."

The sound effect of Shenhou cursing was stuck in his throat.

Two seconds later, he managed to squeeze out a sentence.

"So, what we just dismantled... was all the heart of our ancestors?"

No one laughed.

On the front lines of the battle in the sky, only the clash of weapons and the roars of the outsiders remained.

Chen Yifan squatted down and picked up a piece of the tombstone.

Most of the characters on the back of the stele have been broken off, leaving only a few old characters that are still legible.

[Calm the well with your heart.]

[The sky must not be allowed to open.]

He ran his fingertip across the words, without applying any pressure.

Bai Zhi lowered her voice.

"The Holy Church transformed the Twelve Heart Wells into the Main Altar, using dark green pollution to entangle the source cores and forcibly extract the power to seal the wells."

"By dismantling the outer altar, you are essentially taking them from the hands of the Church."

"But every time you take a source core, you will also awaken some of the old well's permissions."

"So what the Holy Lord just said is half true."

Chen Yifan looked up.

Which half?

"You are indeed awakening twelve old wells."

The knocking continued from Bai Zhi's side.

"But it didn't mention the other half."

"It is not afraid of the old well waking up."

"It's afraid the old well will recognize people."

Shenhou immediately took over.

"Whom do you recognize?"

The sound of the rat came from beside the base of the array.

"Who else could it be?"

Shenhou paused for a moment, then gasped.

"Depend on."

"Chen Yifan, you've really become a locksmith?"

Chen Yifan did not reply to him.

He looked at the cracked black monument.

Just now, the black stele ruled that those outside the boundary were not allowed to enter the well.

But in the end, they gave four more words.

Entry into the well is temporarily permitted.

These four words are more valuable than any nonsense spoken by the Holy Lord.

Outside the crack, the Holy Lord finally spoke.

"Chen Yifan".

Its voice didn't carry a laugh this time.

"You can still stop now."

Shenhou got excited as soon as he heard that.

"Oh, so the headless dog has changed his tune?"

"Weren't you putting on quite a show just now? What, now you don't want him to take it apart?"

The Holy Lord ignored Shenhou.

Its message traveled through the gaps in the stargate to the polar ice cap.

"The Twelve Heart Wells are the last seal of the last era on Earth."

"If you take the source core, the seal will inevitably loosen."

"Once the thing at the bottom of the well climbs out, the door you're guarding right now will be a joke."

Chen Yifan put the stone tablet away and brushed the ice chips off his palm.

"If you were really afraid of things coming out of the well, you wouldn't have used them as an energy supply chain."

The Holy Lord stopped.

Outside the crack, the impact of the dark green tide was also slowed down by half a beat.

Chen Yifan continued speaking.

"You said I was awakening the old well for you."

"Then why did you tell me to back away when I touched the black monument?"

Bai Zhi's tapping stopped on the channel.

Shenhou stopped cursing.

The Holy Lord outside the crack did not respond immediately.

The rat's voice was deep.

"It's in disarray."

Shenhou immediately swung his stick and smashed down one of the heretics, roaring through the crack.

"Did you hear me?"

"Headless dog, your lines don't match up!"

The dark green thread at the point where the Holy Lord's neck was severed suddenly swelled up.

Outside the crack, the external tide pressed in again.

The lines on Yin Hu's arms lit up, and he stood at the very front.

Ugly Ox hoisted the bent metal beam onto his shoulder and forced the gap back in half a foot.

Wu Ma, dragging his injured leg, kicked away a self-destructing body that was lunging towards the base.

Shenhou hit and cursed at the same time.

"I'm in a panic!"

"Bai Zhi, remember this: the headless dog will break through your defenses once!"

Bai Zhi didn't have time to pay attention to him.

Her voice quickly switched back to Chen Yifan.

"Chen Yifan, the outer layer of the six source cores still belongs to the Holy Lord's contamination."

"It's not completely disconnected."

"You're carrying them now, with six power lines still attached to your body."

Chen Yifan raised his hand.

The purple-gold ring gleamed softly.

"Then let's break it off."

Bai Zhi immediately reminded him.

"Don't steal the source core!"

"That thing is no longer an ordinary energy organ; it has access to the old well. If you try to steal it by force, you might suffer a backlash."

"I know."

Chen Yifan placed his right hand on the ring.

The theft of all things is activated.

This time, he didn't touch the gray-white source core.

The target was locked onto the dark green patterns on the outer layer of the six source cores.

The Holy Lord uses His teachings to transform the world, attributing the pollution to its source.

It can continue to pump without touching the source core.

Directly removing the source core could also trigger well sealing.

Then just steal from the polluted owner.

The ring got heated.

All six source nuclei vibrated simultaneously.

Below the polar ice valley, six of the twelve heartbeats suddenly intensified.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Chen Yifan's wound on his right arm reopened.

Dark green patterns emerged from the ring's space and wrapped upwards along the wrist.

He grabbed his right wrist with his left hand and forcefully held his arm down.

"Bai Zhi, report your affiliation."

Gardenia jasminoides reacts very quickly.

"The first level is the authority over the Holy Church's altar."

"The second layer is marked by the remnant soul of the Holy Lord."

"The third layer... the third layer is strange; it continues the old harvesting protocol of the world engine!"

Chen Yifan tightened his grip.

"Steal the first floor first."

The ring flashed.

The dark green veins on the outer layer of the six source cores were torn off.

Outside the crack in the sky, a cloud of black mist suddenly exploded from the spot where the Holy Lord's neck was severed.

It let out a low growl.

Shenhou was immediately excited.

"it works!"

"Chen Yifan, keep fleecing!"

Chen Yifan didn't stop.

"The second layer."

Bai Zhi shouted urgently.

"The second layer is connected to the remnant soul of the Holy Lord; it will turn on your soul!"

"Let it bite."

Within Chen Yifan's sea of ​​consciousness, the Purple Gold Pagoda was spinning.

He did not release the pagoda.

Only suppress the defenses deep within the soul.

The ring got hot again.

This time, the dark green veins weren't so easy to pull out.

The six source cores were pulled by two forces simultaneously.

The gray heartbeat began to become erratic.

Chen Yifan felt a tightness in his chest, and blood welled up in his throat.

He swallowed it back and pulled it outward with his right hand.

"Get out here."

hum!

The six dark green markings were torn off simultaneously.

Outside the crack in the sky, the outline of the Holy Lord's remnant soul suddenly twisted.

The black hole at the severed neck closed briefly, then was forced to open again.

Unable to suppress the backlash, its roar echoed throughout the blockade.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Yin Hu punched through the chest of the high-ranking heretic in front of him.

The ox moved forward half a step by pushing against the gap.

Wu Ma kicked a heretic's corpse into the incineration array, panting and laughing as he cursed.

"Chen Yifan's kick went farther than mine."

Shenhou laughed so hard his throat cracked.

"A headless dog!"

"Was it good?"

"You think you can just randomly connect pipes to your ancestors' heart?"

The Rabbit seized the opportunity and gave the order.

"Push back across the board!"

"Don't give it time to recover!"

Before the blockade layer, the Black Armor Guards and the Zodiac Sequence pressed forward simultaneously.

The outer channel tide was pushed back more than ten meters the first time.

On Chen Yifan's side, the six source cores finally became more stable.

Grayish-white patterns emerged from the ring space and climbed up his right arm.

Bai Zhi immediately issued a warning.

"Chen Yifan, your skeletal data is changing."

Chen Yifan looked down.

The wound on my right arm did not heal; instead, it was stretched open by the grayish-white lines.

pain.

It hurts.

Grayish-white veins drilled into the bone crevices, calibrating segment by segment.

The joints cracked several times in succession.

The data on Bai Zhi's side was jumping around very fast.

"The six source cores did not corrupt you."

"They're marking you."

Shenhou interrupted.

"What mark?"

Bai Zhi's tone was complex.

"Temporary well owner candidate".

Shenhou was silent for a second.

Then he swore.

"Goodness."

"He was a locksmith just a moment ago, and now he's running for property manager?"

Chen Yifan exhaled the breath of blood from his chest.

He didn't laugh.

The twelve remnants of intent that Hei Bei had just struck him were still lingering in his bones.

Those lingering intentions are not techniques.

These are the rules for maintaining the well, left behind by those who gave their lives in the previous era.

The well can awaken.

The source kernel can be retrieved.

But we cannot let the Holy Lord take it.

Chen Yifan raised his hand and pressed the sixth source core completely into the ring space.

Gray and white heartbeats synchronized.

After the six sounds, the six old wells beneath the polar ice cap quieted down.

The other six paths are still jumping.

The Holy Lord's voice came down again.

It's even lower than before.

"You think you can get them back?"

"A being from outside the realm, trying to take the hearts of Earth's ancestors?"

Chen Yifan looked up and responded through the sound transmission array.

"You, a headless, remnant soul, are speaking for them?"

Shenhou immediately delivered the finishing blow.

"Hey, you headless dog, get your head back before you speak for your ancestors!"

The Lord did not fly into a rage.

This time, it slowly smiled instead.

"it is good."

"Continue dismantling."

"Seventh Well, I'll clear the way for you."

An alarm suddenly went off on Bai Zhi's side.

"Chen Yifan, don't believe it!"

"The coordinates of the Seventh Well were just forcibly unlocked. I didn't open them; the Holy Lord pushed them out using his remnant soul's authority!"

Chen Yifan frowned.

"Location."

Bai Zhi's voice was intermittent, clearly disturbed.

"The Seventh Well...is neither on land nor in the sea..."

"It is located within a severed mountain ridge."

Shenhou got anxious.

"Which mountain?"

The sound of rapid equipment calibration came from Bai Zhi's side.

Then she emphasized her words.

"Mountain name... Broken God Ridge".