Retracting his thoughts, Ning Fan's gaze was unpredictable.

Looking at the back of the woman in purple, there is a faint inexplicable meaning

"Luo Xiao has repeatedly reminded me that Luo Xuan, the young master of the Luo family, has a bad personality, and must not offend her, and has the qualifications to agree on the number of tomb guards of my Luo family."

Ning Fan had already known the information about the tomb before, and he had also purchased a lot of information about the bell sacrifice from the Shang Pavilion. Although there was no confidential information, it was enough for Ning Fan to understand the meaning of the word 'sacrifice'.

The Divine Void Pavilion in the Dongming Star Domain, every once in a long time, a bell festival will be held on the Void Star.

Before the bell festival, a tomb will be held on the Kamikong Star.

At the time of the tomb comparison, the many forces that make up the Shenxu Pavilion will each select tomb guards to participate in the big competition.

And only forces above level 7 are qualified to send tomb guards to participate in this grand event.

Tomb keepers who participate in the tomb competition can get different rewards according to the different rankings obtained by the big competition.

If you finish in the top 50, you will also receive a different number of Void Orders.

If you can get the top ten results, you can not only get the Void Order, but you can even get the Divine Void Pavilion Seal, and get a cup of Yuan Shen Wine from the subsequent bell sacrifice.

The Order of Nothingness is the proof to enter the last three layers of the Divine Tomb, and it is also the key to obtaining opportunities from the last three layers.

As for Genshin wine, it is a great nourishing thing.

If it is a life immortal monk in the realm of human Xuan and ghost Xuan, take a cup and retreat for a hundred years, there is a great chance that his cultivation will skyrocket to a small realm!

It is true immortals such as Duzhen, Shekong, and Broken Thoughts to take Yuanshen wine, which can also make cultivation a great progress.

Even the immortal venerables, immortal kings, and immortal emperors above the ages can also get great benefits from the Yuanshen wine.

Because of the preservation of the original god wine, the bell festival has won the attention of countless old monsters in the eastern sky.

The tomb ratio has also attracted much attention because of rewards such as Genshin wine and void order.

"The bell sacrifice is a list of sacrifices drawn up by the various forces of the Divine Void, and finally one person is selected from the list to be sacrificed to the Zhentian Bell. After the sacrifice falls, the primordial god will turn into immortal wine. It is for some of the strong to drink. At the time of the sacrifice, all the cultivators participating in the sacrifice have the opportunity to break through a great secret left by the Eastern Heavenly Ancestor Emperor in the Zhentian Bell."

"The Shenxu Pavilion has been inherited for many years, and the bell festival has been held countless times, but no one can break through the secret of the Zhentian bell Now, the bell festival is simply a grand ceremony of 'killing sacrifices, and the immortals sharing wine', nothing more."

"The woman that Sen Luo loved was once a sacrifice, and was sacrificed to Zhentian Zhong by the Divine Void Strong. Have you been eaten by the immortals?"

"Ah Ci's name is also in the list of sacrifices in the Divine Void Pavilion?"

From the tomb comparison, Ning Fan once again thought of the relevant information of the Zhong Festival, and there was a faint anger in his eyes, silent, but blazing and terrifying.

On the bright side, the little demon girl is a revered god and void young master.

Secretly, the name of the little demon girl was on the list of sacrifices in the Divine Void Pavilion, and she was careless. Then they may be chosen as a sacrifice and die.

Fortunately, Sen Luo destroyed the Zhentian Bell, so that the bell festival that Shenxu Pavilion had painstakingly prepared had to be canceled.

Ning Fan doesn't have to worry for the time being. The little demon girl may have been reduced to a sacrifice and divided among the immortals.

It's just that from the moment he completely understood the identity of the little demon maiden's sacrifice, Ning Fan couldn't have any good feelings about the Divine Void Pavilion anymore.

"In the killing hall, of course, they are also cold-blooded and ruthless, fighting each other. But that kind of killing, after all, is still in line with the concept of 'strong survival and weak death' in the cultivation realm. There, killing is for grinding. It is to allow each disciple to exercise a strong survival ability from fighting each other. Although the means are extreme, the murderer may not be happy, but he is helpless, he just has to kill, that's all. And the Shenxu Pavilion they held a bell festival, and the immortals were complacent because they ate other people's primordial gods, and they took killing as fun."

"If the person who sacrificed me had nothing to do with me, perhaps I would have ignored this qiē as well. After all, when sacrificing is made, it is almost common in the cultivation realm. However, if one day, the Zhentian Bell is restored, the bell sacrifice is reopened, and Ah Cicha is chosen as a sacrifice to sacrifice, then I am afraid that I will also do crazy things like Sen Luo. ”

"There's just one thing that I'm far inferior to Sen Luo now, and that's cultivation. Sen Luo dared to fight the Eastern Heaven with one person, relying on his superb cultivation. And I'm just a ghost, just a life immortal who has just stepped into the second step is above the life immortal, there are three levels of true immortals such as Duzhen, Shekong, and Broken Thoughts, and there are even immortals in the realm of eternity, immortal kings, and immortal emperors Senluo can fight the twelve emperors alone with the power of one person, and I"

"Now I am the body of a life immortal, and I have stood above ten thousand people, but there are still ten thousand people on my head"

Ning Fan's eyes were deep, and after the woman in purple entered the third layer, she also walked towards the third layer of the teleportation array.

The other half of the ancient inheritance at the bottom of the Divine Tomb, he will work hard to obtain, one qiē, all in order to further improve his cultivation and strength.

There are two ways to obtain the inheritance of the last three layers of the Divine Tomb.

The first is to obtain the help of the Emperor of the Divine Sky and personally open the inheritance for the monks to comprehend.

The second is to obtain the quota of the tomb keeper and start the inheritance by himself with the Order of Nothingness.

He wanted to choose the second option, and the first one was difficult to achieve no matter how he thought about it.

Generally speaking, the seventh-level strength has one or two grave guard places, the eighth-level forces have three to four places, the ninth-level forces have six to eight, and the tenth-level forces are all twelve.

The Luo family has a broken mind, which is a ninth-level force, and this year's tomb ratio has a total of eight places.

Ning Fan had a deep conversation with Luo Xiao that day, and Luo Xiao's words made Ning Fan's heart pound.

Any Luo family guest, as long as he has the status of a Dongming monk and has successfully cultivated the first transformation of the God of War, is eligible to participate in the competition for the place of the Luo family's tomb keeper.

Naturally, the final ownership of the quota requires the mutual consent of the head of the Luo family and the young master before it can be obtained.

"This Luo Xuan and I have almost no intersection, I will not have a bad relationship with her for no reason, and although I promised to leave Xiaoxiao and help her buy lava cores, I only need to buy high-grade ones, and I don't have to get involved in this competition for the best lava cores. This thing is useless to me, for a useless thing, it is not wise to fight with Luo Xuan and the other tomb keepers."

Ning Fan made a decision in his heart, and with the power of the teleportation array, he came to the third floor of the Shang Pavilion.

The third floor is smaller than the second, with only one shop, pù, which houses many rare treasures. Most of them are needed by true immortals.

This third layer has always been only visited by true immortals occasionally.

At the counter, there is only one boy here, who is responsible for reception.

This boy has a broken and false cultivation, his expression is scattered, and he is making calculations indiscriminately.

When he saw Ning Fan walking into the store, his eyes moved.

Fu sensed Ning Fan's mid-stage aura again, shook his head, and muttered,

"Why did the Oni Xuan Monk come to the third layer?"

Muttering to muttering. Seeing Ning Fan approaching, the boy still asked very politely,

"I don't know what my predecessors want to buy when they come here?"

Ning Fan's gaze swept lightly over the treasures in the shop, calm as water.

The Shang Pavilion here is built on the superior Xiuzhen Star, and although there are a lot of heavenly and earthly treasures in the pavilion, there are few that can make him tempted.

After a few moments, he replied, "I want to grade lava cores." Two or two will do. ”

"What's the matter! The senior actually wants to buy a high-grade lava core!"

The boy's complexion changed suddenly, the high-grade lava core is a valuable thing, and in this place, one or two can be sold for four billion Dao crystals.

This precious thing. It's something that many true immortals can't afford.

Immediately, the boy understood that he had lost his eyes.

The white-clothed senior in front of him may not have reached the consistent standard of entering the third layer, but his net worth is not thin.

The boy groaned. Suddenly, he remembered something, and asked Ning Fan again,

"Are you sure you want two or two high-grade lava cores, aren't you here for those one or two top-grade lava cores?"

"It's not. I just need to be on top of it. ”

"That being the case, the senior directly entered the treasury on the fourth floor of the Shang Pavilion, and the chief treasurer of my pavilion was there. More than one billion transactions, all need to be presided over by the big shopkeeper himself, and the seniors can directly buy this thing from the big shopkeeper. However, there is one thing, seniors must pay attention, outside the fourth layer of the warehouse, several seniors competing for the best lava core are fighting at the moment, seniors must be careful, don't get involved in this trouble. ”

With that, the boy took out a formation order and punched a trick at the token, and a golden teleportation array immediately appeared in the shop, leading directly to the treasury on the fourth floor of the Merchant Pavilion.

After doing this qiē, Tong Zifu took out another piece of Yingui, and through Yingui, he seemed to be talking to someone.

After a while, he said respectfully to Ning Fan,

"The junior has informed the big shopkeeper of the senior's intention, and the senior will go to the fourth storeroom. ”

"The fourth storeroom?"

Ning Fan's eyes were slightly surprised, as far as he knew, the first three floors of the Shang Pavilion were generally open to customers, and the fourth floor was a warehouse, which was rarely open to customers.

Is it because someone on the fourth floor is fighting, so that the big shopkeeper of the Merchant Pavilion has no time to clone, so he is given the opportunity to enter the fourth floor of the Merchant Pavilion

Without further ado, Ning Fan stepped into the teleportation array, and the array of light changed, appearing on the fourth floor of the Shang Pavilion.

The fourth layer of this Shang Pavilion was an infinite void, and in the void, two huge islands were floating.

On one of the islands, there is a storehouse of the merchant pavilion here, and outside the door, there is an old man in Mai who is full of sighs sitting on a gold ingot, looking at another island, sighing again and again.

On top of another island, there is a fighting platform, and at this moment, there are two Duzhen monks fighting with all their strength on the platform, and there are more than ten people watching on the side.

Ning Fan borrowed the power of the formation and teleported to the island where the treasury was located.

The moment Ning Fan appeared, the monks around the Doufa Platform all swept their divine thoughts towards Ning Fan, but after realizing that Ning Fan was only in the middle stage of the Ghost Xuan, no one cared.

Only Luo Xuan, who was dressed in purple, frowned, glanced at Ning Fan more, but stopped paying attention to Ning Fan for a moment.

"Hehe, you are the Taoist friend who wants to buy a high-grade lava core? The timing of your coming is a little unfortunate, a high-grade lava core, I'm afraid you can't buy it, the old man can only sell you one or two low-grade lava cores at most."

The old man in Mai, who was sitting on the gold ingot, smiled bitterly at Ning Fan.

This person's name is Shang Long, and he is the chief treasurer of the Tianmu Star Merchant Pavilion, and he has the cultivation of the late Duzhen period.

"Can't buy it?"

Ning Fan's eyes swept over the Sweeping Bucket Table, and then looked at Shang Long, his brows furrowed slightly.

"If you come an hour earlier and want to buy two taels of high-grade lava cores, it is naturally not difficult, but now, hey"

Shang Long raised his finger and pointed at the fighting platform, and said,

"The two people who were fighting on the fighting platform, one of the white-haired young men, had already bought all the mid-grade and high-grade lava cores in our pavilion an hour ago, and they were still competing for the best lava cores here. Since the old man has not yet informed his subordinates about this. But no one told Daoist friends that the lava core had been sold out and there were only one or two grades of lava core, and this person didn't buy it, as if he was disdainful. The old man can only sell these two lower grade lava cores to Daoyou, if you want it, you can trade with the old man, one or two lower grade lava cores, the price is 500 million Dao crystals. ”

After speaking, the old man's eyes were once again attracted by the fighting platform, and he muttered to himself,

"Who is this white-haired young man? Dare to compete with many grave keepers for the best lava core. Although the strength is not weak, and the courage is not small, this person should not be a person from the Dongming Star Domain, or even a monk who often walks around in the Eastern Heavens, his appearance gives me a sense of familiarity, as if I have seen it somewhere, and I can't say it."

Ning Fan's brows furrowed even deeper, he couldn't have imagined that after coming to this fourth layer. I can't even buy two taels of high-grade lava cores.

Without taking a second look at the Doufa platform, Ning Fan said lightly to Shang Long, "Inferior lava core, Ning doesn't want it." Leave. ”

After that, Ning Fan was about to leave with the teleportation array.

I can't buy what I need, and Ning Fan doesn't force it, and he doesn't mean to get involved in the trouble here.

You can't buy it here. It's a big deal to go to the other Xiuzhen Star Merchant Pavilion and buy it again.

Shang Long saw that Ning Fan didn't want to grade the lava core, and sighed slightly, but he didn't say anything. Just smiled apologetically.

Just when Ning Fan was about to leave, the battle platform changed sharply!

On the fighting platform, there were two people who were fighting, one of them was a white-haired young man, and he had a cultivation close to the middle stage of Duzhen.

The other person was shaped like a zombie, surrounded by demonic energy, dressed in black monk's robes, and at the same time, in the early stage of Duzhen, his cultivation was inferior to that of the white-haired youth.

The white-haired young man had been fighting with the zombie man for a long time, and it was difficult to distinguish victory or defeat, and suddenly, the white-haired young man used an extremely strange magical power, extracting the bones of his spine from his body, acting as a white bone whip, and slashing towards the zombie man.

Under this pump, the bones of the zombie man who was immediately pumped were shattered, and then the entire body collapsed, with a bang, and exploded into countless flesh and blood!

Only the Yuan Shen, who was lucky not to die, was obviously merciful to the white-haired young man.

"Qin Hong, you are not Jun's opponent, if you are your eldest brother, there is still a bit to look at!" The white-haired young man looked grim and said disdainfully.

"It's him! 'Bone Immortal Monarch', Jun Changdong, who ranked ninth in the last tomb competition, is said to be very promising in the last big competition, if this person hadn't been plotted in advance, it would have been a great hope to win the top three!"

Under the stage, as soon as they saw the white-haired young man's magical powers, and as soon as they heard the white-haired young man's words, several monks immediately exclaimed in surprise and recognized the identity of the white-haired young man.

"He is not Jun Changdong's deity, I'm afraid he is a clone of a bone that Jun Changdong has recently cultivated, no wonder his appearance is so unfamiliar. Shang Long, the chief shopkeeper of the Shang Pavilion, said with a solemn gaze.

With his cultivation in the later period of Duzhen, when he talked about Jun Changdong, he was quite jealous.

And the zombie man's primordial spirit, after being whipped by the white-haired young man, immediately showed a look of anger after recognizing the identity of the white-haired youth.

"Jun Changdong! It's you again! You dare to destroy my body, my eldest brother will not let you go!"

After saying that, the zombie man's gaze swept viciously towards the entire Doufa platform, and then swept towards Shang Long and Ning Fan.

When he saw Ning Fan, his eyes suddenly lit up,

"Junior, the body lends me to fight, and afterwards Qin will reward you with tens of millions of Dao Crystals as a reward!"

With that, the zombie man's primordial spirit suddenly turned into a little black light and disappeared.

Suddenly, next to the shadow under Ning Fan's feet, a second shadow was strangely born.

And his body, all of a sudden, felt like he was out of control.

As for the second shadow, a grimace suddenly appeared, pointing at Ning Fanyi,

"Junior, don't be afraid, Qin will not treat you physically, let alone give it away! It's just that you are obedient and obedient, and let Qin drive you to have a stick of incense in your flesh, and after that, there are benefits for you! It is not impossible to point you to one or two supernatural powers!"

Qin Hong's words are arrogant, and he has his own qualifications to be arrogant.

He is the tomb keeper of the eighth-level sect of Dongming, the Shadow Binding Sect, and he is the true immortal power in the early stage of the dignified Duzhen.

In his eyes, Ning Fan was just a ghost junior.

To a junior, he thought he was very polite when he spoke.

Ning Fan looked at him, surprised that this person's magical power was weird, and at the same time, he also saw the mystery of this magical power.

With his eyesight after the unity of heaven and man, he could see at a glance that this Qin Hong's supernatural power should be to manipulate the shadow, and then seize the control of other people's physical bodies.

This Qin Hong was only in the early stage of Duzhen, and he was not strong enough for Ning Fan to be unable to contend with.

Ning Fan had never seen this kind of shadow control magic before, so he would fall for Qin Hong's shadow control technique.

Break this technique. It's not hard.

As for the possibility of being taken away by Qin Hong, it is completely zero.

Ning Fan didn't talk nonsense with Qin Hong, but with a shock of mana, he instantly regained control of his body.

Then he lifted his foot and stepped on it, and the demonic fire immediately spread out under his feet, burning towards the second shadow on the ground!

If there are ten thousand ancient monsters here, you can see that the position of Ning Fan's feet is exactly where the rules of the Dao method of this shadow control technique lie!

"The shadow control technique has been broken! How is it possible! This son is obviously just a ghost!"

Qin Hong's face changed, and he didn't say a word. Unraveled the shadow technique, dispersed Ning Fan's second shadow, and avoided the blow of the demonic fire.

His primordial spirit flashed and reappeared on the Doufa platform, looking at Ning Fan with shocked eyes from countless distances.

The monks under the fighting stage also looked towards Ning Fan one after another, each with a different sense of emotion.

"Ghost Xuan Monk can actually break the shadow control technique of the Shadow Binding Sect!

I can't help but be shocked by these people, and the shadow control technique of the Shadow Binding Sect is particularly difficult. It is not a small name in Dongming.

With Qin Hong's cultivation in the early stage of Duzhen to perform this technique, I am afraid that there are few people who can avoid the shackles of this technique in the early stage of Duzhen.

However, Ning Fan, a monk who was only a ghost cultivator, understated Qin Hong's supernatural powers, how could this not surprise everyone.

Luo Xuan's beautiful eyes flashed. looked at Ning Fan again, only this time, there was no arrogance in her eyes, but there was a lot of inquiry.

Shang Long, the chief shopkeeper of the Shang Pavilion. At this moment, his eyes were slightly condensed, he couldn't see the rules, and he couldn't see the subtlety of Ning Fan's kick. But it can be vaguely seen that Ning Fan's step is extremely extraordinary.

That kind of extraordinary, beyond his comprehension

Ning Fan's eyes were slightly cold, and he glanced at Qin Hong.

He didn't like to be plotted by anyone, this Qin Hong was arbitrary, and he used shadow control techniques on him, which violated his taboo.

If it weren't for Qin Hong's lack of malice, but he was just eager to borrow his body to fight, he would definitely not spare Qin Hong.

"Your Excellency, I heard that Your Excellency is here for the lava core?" the white-haired young man suddenly spoke, and said aloud in the direction of Ning Fan.

"Yes and what!"

Ning Fan frowned and looked at the white-haired young man.

He saw an interested look in the eyes of the white-haired young man.

"Take it!"

The white-haired young man suddenly threw out three jade boxes, and the three jade boxes turned into three sharp white lights, which swept towards Ning Fan like a frightened rainbow.

The seals of the three jade boxes have been unsealed, and the aura emanating from them is in order, medium-grade, high-grade, and top-grade lava cores!

Among them, the medium-grade and high-grade lava cores were bought by him before.

And the best lava core was stolen from the great shopkeeper of the Shang Pavilion without him knowing, and no one knows here!

"The best lava core!, how can it be in Jun Changdong's hands!" All the monks here were shocked.

"When did he steal this thing!! Shang Long's heart was the most shocked, and his mind swept towards the storage bag, and his face immediately became extremely ugly.

In vain, he is still a monk in the late stage of Duzhen, and he is the great treasurer of the Shang Pavilion, and he will be stolen by people and gods without knowing it.

Three jade boxes flew towards Ning Fan, and when they were approaching, suddenly, the three jade boxes appeared in white light, like thunder.

The power of this thunder is quite amazing, even a monk in the middle stage of Duzhen may not be able to block the thunder blow on the one hand, and catch the jade box steadily on the other!

Either break the thunder or avoid the lightning, in short, if you want to catch this thunder, it is extremely difficult.

"If you can catch Jun's bone thunder technique, they will belong to you! If you can't take it, avoid it early, otherwise you will either die or be injured!"

The white-haired young man's voice suddenly came into Ning Fan's ears, with a bit of teasing.

Ning Fan's eyes froze, and his mind flickered, but he did not retreat but advanced.

What a good teasing! He took it!

At this moment, his gaze seemed to be able to penetrate the Dao rules of this jade box thunder.

At this moment, Ning Fan's Taisu Lei Xing in the center of his eyebrows secretly urged, but he didn't exert any magical powers, he directly flicked his sleeves, shot like lightning, and reached out to grab the three jade boxes.

He, as the descendant of Taisu Thunder Emperor Thunder, is not afraid of this bone thunder!

"Capture the thunder empty-handed!" The white-haired young man's gaze suddenly shook, and when he looked at Ning Fan again, he was already a little more solemn.

The three jade boxes fell steadily in Ning Fan's hands, and the sizzling bone thunder couldn't hurt Ning Fan in the slightest!

"Farewell!"

Ning Fan waved his hand, wiped away the thunder of the three jade boxes, accepted the jade boxes, took a deep look at the white-haired youth, and then turned around and stepped into the teleportation array that returned to the third layer.

Because of the golden light, his mana was depleted, and until this moment, he had only recovered a little. After two shots, some of the mana that had been restored had been exhausted, and there was no intention of leaving it behind.

"If this person participates in the tomb competition, he will be the fierce enemy of this year!" In the eyes of the white-haired young man, Huo Di ignited the flames of war, and among the many tomb guards in the tomb competition, there were no more than five people who could make him show such an expression.

"I can't imagine that there is such a powerful ghost in the world, I don't know which one is stronger or weaker between this person and the person Luo Xiao said."

Luo Xuan, the young master of the Luo family, had shocked eyes, and only came back to his senses after a long time.

By the time she came back to her senses, Ning Fan had already left this place.

She was not without chagrin in her heart, if she hadn't lost her mind, I was afraid that she would have the opportunity to come forward to recruit Ning Fan and win over this person as the guest of the Luo family.

"It's just a missed opportunity, the person in Luo Xiao's mouth may not be inferior to this person," Luo Xuan comforted herself

Outside the Shang Pavilion, Li Xiaoxiao was holding three jade boxes in his hands, as well as the 10 billion Dao Crystal Storage Bag intact, and his jaw was about to fall to the ground in surprise.

"Eleven taels of medium-grade lava cores, seven taels of high-grade lava cores, one or two top-grade lava cores are so many, how can there be so many!"

"The most important thing is that you bought so many things, and you didn't spend half a piece of Dao Crystal?! This is impossible! I don't believe it, I don't believe it if you kill me!"

"Do you say, you, you, you you to me"

Li Xiaoxiao suddenly stretched out his slender jade finger and pointed at the bridge of Ning Fan's nose, blushing with shame.

With her IQ, she could only come up with one possibility, that is, Ning Fan was lying.

She didn't believe that Ning Fan bought so many things without spending a penny.

Combined, the value of these things is close to 100 billion Dao Crystals

The possibility she could think of was that Ning Fan spent hundreds of billions of Dao Crystals to buy all the lava cores in order to please her, but lied that she didn't spend any money, just to let her take it with peace of mind and a clear conscience.

"In order to help me repair the 'Heaven Swallowing Thread', he did not hesitate to spend hundreds of billions to buy so many lava cores"

"In order to prevent me from using my heart, he lied that these lava cores were taken for nothing, and no money was spent"

"Why is he so good to me, I used to rob him every day, is he, really, like me!!!!"

"And he's too rich! That's a lava core worth hundreds of billions of crystals, and he didn't feel sorry for me when he gave it to me!"

"He's just a love saint!"

The little girl's mind is full of meat and vegetables at the moment, and her little face is red all the way to the root of her ears.

The bad things of Ning Fan, who used to be talked about day and night in his heart, have all become good now.

Thinking of his previous oppression of Ning Fan and his repeated robbery, he regretted it and blamed himself.

"Your face is not quite right, can you accompany me to Shenbing Lake?" Ning Fan looked at Li Xiaoxiao with strange eyes.

"Yes! Brother Qingsheng, Xiaoxiao will take you to Shenbing Lake!

As soon as Xiaoxiao swore an oath, he immediately shook his body and turned into a half-black, half-white feather demon body, signaling that Ning Fan could ride up.

Ning Fan stood in place with black lines on his head.

When did he become a saint in love, what kind of nickname is this?

He can get any title in his life, but this title is basically not related to him, and he deserves it

What kind of love saint is he, what strange thing is he thinking about in his little head?

"Weird" Ning Fan once again gave such an evaluation to Lixiaoxiao in his heart. (To be continued......)