The sound of breathing was very close.

So close.

Lin Yi's eyes were filled with fire.

The blazing flames penetrated the entire corridor, illuminating the entire corridor.

However, at a glance, there was nothing.

"illusion?"

Lin Yi frowned and glanced at the fire-heated corridor behind him.

The sound of breathing also gradually disappeared.

Follow the corridor all the way to the end and once again come to the empty cave inside Jingnan Mountain.

In the dried-up Four Spirits Blood Pool, you can still see the corpses of spirit beasts that died in it in the past. However, the blood pool that was previously filled with the Four Spirits' Blood has completely dried up now.

Looking around, there is only an empty stone room.

Lin Yi walked a few steps forward and arrived in front of the throne.

The emperor's puppet that used to sit there is now gone.

"He went somewhere."

Lin Yi frowned and was about to check around when he suddenly heard faint breathing.

There was also the sound of water dripping on the ground.

Lin Yi suddenly raised his head and looked at the position above the stone chamber. There, it was shrouded in darkness and no light could be revealed.

Lin Yi twisted a fire dragon with one hand, and the fire dragon rose into the sky, illuminating the darkness.

What fell in front of Lin Yi's eyes was a man whose body was shriveled up.

The man was hung from the ceiling by a stone hook.

What dripped to the ground was blood from his body.

"Who left you hanging here?"

Lin Yi waved his hand and used his strength to cut off the stone hook and let the man down.

Although the blood in his body had been drained and his face was completely sunken, from the outline, it could be vaguely seen that this man was the emperor's puppet from before.

"She's coming back..."

The emperor's puppet's eyes were dull and confused, and he murmured endlessly: "She didn't lie to me..."

"She's coming back."

His voice was weak, and there was no trace of fear on his face.

"Who is she that you are talking about?"

Lin Yi patted his face and gave him a ray of spiritual energy.

However, when the spiritual energy entered his body, it was like a mud cow entering the sea, without any effect.

Lin Yi investigated a little and suddenly realized that the heart of the emperor's puppet in front of him had been empty for some time!

"She asked you to wait here and raise her here in order to use your blood and body to nourish that heart!"

"There is no reason for you to live until now, but you managed to survive for thousands or even ten thousand years!"

"You've had your heart replaced!"

Lin Yi suddenly thought of something.

A formation was arranged in this area of ​​Jingnan Mountain. The purpose of the formation was to lure souls into reincarnation!

However, this emperor's puppet, plus the four-spirit blood pool.

This existence is completely unnecessary!

"No wonder, no wonder you were placed here. Who took your heart?"

Lin Yi always felt that there was some conspiracy behind all this.

When he came here before, Lin Yi didn't pay much attention to him. Now that he saw him again, it was already too late.

The energy and blood in the emperor's puppet have almost dissipated.

It’s hard to save a fairy.

And the sequelae brought about by this method of nourishing the heart with the blood body are really tragic.

"She's back...she's about to...come back."

The emperor's puppet's withered face was full of longing, and he was still muttering to himself.

His gaze kept looking in one direction and never moved.

Lin also followed his gaze.

It is a wall in a stone chamber.

The fire dragon moved in time, completely illuminating the stone wall.

Under the firelight, Lin Yi saw a pair of eyes carved on the stone wall.

The cold eyes were isolated on the stone wall. Although it was just a painting, those eyes seemed to be spiritual, giving people an extremely cold feeling.

The emperor puppet stretched out his hand weakly, as if wanting to touch the eyes on the stone wall.

But in the end, the energy was exhausted.

"Although he is a puppet, he really has the appearance of an emperor."

"This person not only nourishes that heart with your blood and body, but also nourishes that heart with the destiny of your ancestors and yourself!"

"What the hell is the heart of that thing? Now that it has been taken away, where has it gone?"

Lin Yi said to himself, watching with his own eyes the emperor's puppet in front of him, his body turned into powder and disappeared from his sight.

It's as if it never existed.

Until his death, he never waited for the woman he wanted to wait for.

You may have already waited.

It's just that when that woman came, her purpose was the heart in his body.

Lin Yi stood there for a long time.

He thought of the magic finger again.

I tried to communicate with Zhao Liuli in the Soul Sacrifice Scroll, but there was no response from Zhao Liuli.

"Liu Li, what do you know?"

Lin Yi took a deep breath and did not stay at this place for any longer.

Come a step late.

No matter how much we stop, it will be in vain.

Leaving Jingnan Mountain, Lin Nan heard the inexplicable sound of breathing in the corridor.

I just searched the corridor for a while, but in the end found nothing.

After leaving Jingnan Mountain, Lin Yi tried to call Wang Dihao.

Judging from Wang Dihao's ability to obtain the Devil's Finger, he might be able to learn something.

But the phone call came through.

No one heard.

Wang Dihao once again seemed to have disappeared from the world.

The Spring Festival is approaching.

Lin Yi put these things aside for the time being.

I went back to Bai Nan first.

Chen Linyan had also taken a vacation, but she didn't come to Bai Nan and went back to Jingzhou directly.

It was only after Lin Yi came back that Lu Shu planned to leave for Jingzhou to celebrate the New Year with Chen Qiangshan.

"Xiao Yi, this time I heard that you are planning to go to Puhai to celebrate the New Year, so I will go back to Jingzhou first."

"After the Chinese New Year, remember to come and play with Lin Yan when you have time."

"Also, I know you have your own affairs and career outside now, but when you go out, you must be careful and keep an open mind."

"Oh, by the way, this is a red envelope for you."

Lu Shu gave instructions while taking out the red envelope he had prepared and forced it into Lin Yi's hand.

"Aunt Lu, there's no need for me to celebrate the new year."
To be continued...