'The Profound Heart enduring hardship never leaves, the Divine Soul first merges with heaven and earth...'

'This Profound Heart, in the vast land of the Three Kingdoms, there is only one!

Only in this place can the Profound Root be refined to reach the Purple Mansion.

If it's an ordinary Profound Heart, that's fine, but if you encounter the Ghost Profound Heart of the Three Kingdoms, you have to first transform yourself into a Ghost Profound Root to break through here.'

'The position of this Profound Heart is extremely precious, perhaps it's only comparable to the legendary Celestial Profound Root; any other attempt at continuous enhancement requires a century of steadfast cultivating at the Profound Root.

Truly it's a case of one radish per hole; in the land of the Three Kingdoms, nurturing a second Purple Mansion Realm is simply impossible.'

'In addition, judging from Zhang Han's tone, simply sitting at the Profound Heart could greatly enhance one's power in the Purple Mansion Realm, which is why he confidently sits by and lets me be here, not fearing I might escape at all.'

For a moment, Song Yan felt truly helpless.

During the Third Layer of Refining Profound, he didn't have Skin-Stripping Ointment, which was still alright. After all, Skin-Stripping Ointment isn't considered rare among higher-level cultivators; even the Puppet Sect can exchange for it, and some underground markets can trade for it.

However, this "Profound Heart" of the Purple Mansion Realm is countless times more elusive than Skin-Stripping Ointment.

Because there is only one Profound Heart.

Only by sitting at the Profound Heart can one surpass the limit of the Crimson Palace to a certain extent, attaining a "Body of Heaven and Earth," thereby "borrowing the heavens and earth to nourish my divine," and thus nurturing a powerful Divine Soul.

For Song Yan to defeat a Purple Mansion Realm expert, he must first find an unoccupied Profound Heart to sit and cultivate on, to break through.

But to sit on the Profound Heart, he must first pull down the Purple Mansion already sitting there.

Isn't this just an endless cycle?

What should he do?

Song Yan suddenly recalled what Grandma Hong and General Gu had said about the "situation of the Purple Mansion Patriarchs of the Fox and Wolf Races." Grandma Hong said she hadn't even seen the patriarch, and General Gu said there is only one patriarch holding the fort, not knowing where the others are.

At this moment, Song Yan completely understood the reason.

One radish per hole; if the patriarchs can't hold their own hole, they have to go outside to find one.

And because the Profound Heart is extremely precious, all existing Purple Mansion Realm have a mutual understanding, which is: never reveal the method of breaking through to the Purple Mansion Realm, never let anyone know about the existence of the Profound Heart.

Thinking of this, Song Yan entered the paper house and sat cross-legged.

He could feel a surveillance.

It was the surveillance from Zhang Han.

Unrestrained, unconcealed!

Yet when he tried to trace it with his Divine Sense, he couldn't find where Zhang Han was at all.

This way, the two of them spent seven days and nights.

Song Yan sat, doing nothing.

Zhang Han watched him, not turning his gaze for one moment.

The patience of both was extraordinary, as if seven days were nothing, even seven months or years passed by without them moving or changing posture.

But Song Yan did gain something.

Because he learned what kind of person Zhang Han was, at least a part of his character: steady.

Whether it was his previous tendency to set up rather than move, or his patience now, both indicate this.

A person who does things steadily never likes to put himself in or possibly in a very passive environment.

So Zhang Han must really hope to hand him over to the Mountain and Sea Demon Race properly to avoid being blamed and causing trouble.

This character is a good thing.

But it's also a bad thing.

The bad part is the lack of decisiveness.

What does it mean to be decisive?

It means once you sense something unusual, you act first without hesitation, instead of waiting, chatting, or sipping tea first.

If he strikes with full force and Zhang Han perceives the crisis, would Zhang Han strike at the first opportunity, even if it meant hurting or killing him?

As of now, Zhang Han wouldn't; he would certainly wait.

If he and Zhang Han stood facing each other with drawn swords, tips pointing at each other, would Zhang Han unhesitatingly press down with his realm, killing him with one strike?

As of now, it's much more likely that Zhang Han would sidestep, attempting to subdue him rather than kill him.

Even if later Zhang Han would deal with him, at that moment... it's very possible he wouldn't.

Why?

Because that is what being steady means.

If Song Yan himself were in the Purple Mansion Realm, facing a Crimson Palace Realm lad already caught in a trap on home turf, would he?

He wouldn't either.

Because he is also steady.

Yet at this moment, he wishes to be unsteady just once, because he no longer has a stable position.

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The sky shifted from cloudy to clear, continuously changing.

At the end of winter, snow fell once more.

Quiet snowflakes fell on the core of the Evil Land, and were soon swept up by the storms of the Evil Land, dancing furiously, swirling mid-air, never touching the ground.

Outside the paper house, the air seemed full of countless snow-white and scarlet spindles, rapidly, tirelessly weaving threads of two colors. The threads were sharp and keen, seemingly able to easily cut through a person's fragile throat.

Yet, the small house had seamlessly merged with the surroundings, quiet as if it were the abode of a hermit deep in the mountains.

Song Yan first operated the "Washing Profound Divine Technique," simultaneously using "800-year-old Soul Drowning Grass" as a cost, conducting "Profound Root Enhancement," yet despite spending a century, he couldn't succeed, not even a trace of success could be seen.

He didn't get discouraged, almost without pause he selected two bottles from his spare Essence Blood.

One bottle was "White Bone Demon Blood."

This blood could allow him to imitate "Gu Huangzi" once, to make an absolute counter-attack.

With the other bottle, he hesitated a long while between "Silver Armored Elephant Blood" and "Wind Profound Crane Blood."

The former made him tougher, able to take more hits; the latter made him faster, more agile.

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