But isn't this too easy?

The girl suddenly stared at the Dark Alien Race member kneeling on the ground. In its ferocious eyes, she saw a pair of pupils that still emitted light in the darkness.

They seemed familiar to her.

The girl was startled. This light...

When they first met, that boy's eyes had also shone with light.

It was the first time she had seen such a light—a light in the darkness, faint yet extraordinarily unique.

"You..."

"Are you him?"

The girl unconsciously loosened her grip. "How did you become like this..."

With the relic now in my possession, the Foreign King will no longer be able to lure me into delving deeper into darkness.

Looking at the relic in her hand, the girl seemed to realize something.

"You... Did you bring these to me?"

However, this gigantic Dark Alien Race creature could no longer speak.

The girl took a deep breath and gripped the long saber that had been by her side since childhood. With a fierce slash, she cut downwards from below its head!

Instantly, a huge gash was torn open in the massive husk.

As bone and flesh separated, a young man lay at the center, covered and entangled by countless strands of flesh, as if they were one.

"It really is you..." the girl muttered softly.

No wonder...

Watching the young man gradually close his eyes, that faint light amidst the darkness seemed about to fade away. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

The girl moved her lips but said nothing.

She placed her hand gently over her own chest, her fingers forming a claw, and then she violently tore.

The next second, a glowing orb of flesh was pulled out.

The girl made an incision in the young man's flesh and gently pressed the shining orb of flesh into his body, where it merged with him...

「...」

[Moon God: What is that orb of flesh? Is it a heart? That young man is just a mortal, right? He's already dead, so what use is just giving him a heart... Er, wait, you previously said that this young man came here in search of something called... the Buddha Heart of the Evil Ghost. Don't tell me, this is the Buddha Heart of the Evil Ghost? This girl, is she really the Evil Ghost?]

The Moon Palace Fairy listened intently, but she obviously wasn't a good listener.

She always liked to interject.

Wang Mu didn't respond but continued to recount the events of the past.

「——」

After a long while, the young man gradually woke up.

He felt as though he had walked through the Ghost Gate; upon waking, his body was filled with strength.

"My Power seems... to be recovering?"

The young man was shocked. My Power was destroyed when I arrived here, and for so long, I've seen no improvement. I didn't expect it to start recovering now.

Moreover, a ceaseless energy was emanating from his heart.

The young man closed his eyes to look inward and found that his heart shone like a sun, emanating a faint golden light and transmitting soft, warm energy that spread throughout his body...

"Could this be the legendary Buddha Heart... Who gave this to me..."

The young man was astonished.

He had been searching for this item for a long time but had found few clues. He had been at the Dark Border for some time now but had still found no information related to it.

Unexpectedly, it's now inside me?

"Are you awake?"

Outside the door, the girl's voice, mechanical and gentle, drifted in.

The girl's voice was always so distinctive. It was icy cold, with an unfluctuating tone, as if it wasn't a human speaking, but rather another life form occupying a human body and mimicking human speech.

"I... You..."

"You're a strange one," the girl chided. "Why would you throw yourself in with the Dark Alien Race? I guard this place. You've heard me going out to slay members of the Dark Alien Race every day for so long. Were you thinking of working against me?"

"Not at all..." The young man shook his head. "I just saw that a while ago, your guard was down, you seemed a bit dazed, not quite yourself... You must have been injured by those Foreign Clan members. You went out without resting, so the situation didn't look good..."

"You took me in here," the young man continued, "and I wanted to help you. But here, I can't use any of my Power, nor do I understand those Foreign Clan members, so I couldn't help you even if I wanted to."

"So, you decided to feign allegiance to those Foreign Clan members to understand them?" The girl was silent for a few seconds. "My ancestors have been here for generations. We understand the Foreign Clan thoroughly. Why would I need help from an outsider like you?"

"But... no matter how thoroughly you understand them..." the young man said, "it's still not as clear as becoming one of the Foreign Clan to understand them from the inside, right?"

The girl was silent.

She didn't argue. Faced with the young man's wild idea, she simply shook her head without speaking.

"So, did you understand them thoroughly?"

"Not thoroughly, but I learned a lot..." The young man got up and excitedly recounted everything he had experienced.

After listening, the girl fell silent again.

"I only remember that after I took out the relics, I found something unusual among them. I saw several special relics... they were Evil Artifacts from the Foreign Clan!" the young man said. "The Foreign King deliberately let me steal them... So, I took those Evil Artifacts out... While my consciousness was still somewhat clear, I came to you. I'm not quite sure what happened after that..."

"I thought I was dead."

"You knew that touching the Evil Artifacts would turn you into a member of the Dark Alien Race. Coming here..." The girl closed her eyes and slowly wiped the long saber in her hand. "...you knew you would surely be slain by me, yet you still came?"

"I had no choice," the young man said. "I couldn't communicate with you at that time. Otherwise, I would have brought them directly to you and told you about the Evil Artifacts among the relics. If I had turned back then, all my effort would have been in vain, and you would eventually have run into trouble."

The stone house fell silent.

"Are all humans outside as foolish as you?" the girl suddenly asked.

The young man shook his head and said,