Chapter 14 The First Manifestation of Heartforce

"Hmph." The purple-cloaked commander could sense the alien's growing inner agitation, and he vaguely felt that this was likely the other's final struggle. "It seems he can't hold on much longer."

"Die."

Ji Ning suddenly let out a furious roar.

He no longer conserved his divine power; instead, he frantically channeled it into his palms, pouring it in with all his might. At the same time, he used a secret art to merge the Return to Void primal power within his body into his palms in one breath. At this moment, Ji Ning had only one belief... to unleash his strength to its peak at any cost.

In truth, even with such frenzy, Ji Ning's strength only increased by thirty percent.

"Break!"

Ji Ning's six arms unleashed six sword beams.

Even Ji Ning's calm eyes faintly shimmered with light—the light of life burning in its final moments. All of Ji Ning's mind and spirit converged into his swords.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Simultaneous explosions.

When Ji Ning's six sword fingers thrust out, four of them collided with the four silver whips. With a loud crash, the silver whips were sent flying, while Ji Ning's fingers continued to stab forward.

"What!" The purple-cloaked commander's eyes bulged wide. "How is this possible?"

"Impossible!"

The over a thousand black-cloaked, horned warriors watching from afar also stared in shock. They could all sense that Ji Ning was in his death throes, completely suppressed. How could his attack power suddenly surpass their commander's and defeat his weapon head-on?

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"This... how could this happen?" In the ethereal, empty space of the Water Mansion, the yellow-furred bear, who had been watching the outside, was also stunned.

If anyone knew Ji Ning's strength best, it was probably the yellow-furred bear.

He was well aware of Ji Ning's capabilities. The Ji Ning before had already reached his limit; even if he risked his life, he could at most increase his strength by twenty or thirty percent, still far from matching the purple-cloaked commander. How had he suddenly shattered the opponent's silver whip?

"How could this be?"

"It doesn't make sense."

"It's impossible?" The yellow-furred bear couldn't understand. "This isn't the Three Realms; one can't comprehend the Dao here. So even if the realm of the Dao improved, it wouldn't help his strength. And now he's in the midst of battle, consuming divine power heavily; there's no way he could break through to the seventeenth level of the Crimsonbright Diagram of the Nine Heavens. Besides, he only recently broke through to the sixteenth level."

A breakthrough in divine body? Impossible.

A breakthrough in the realm of the Dao? Useless even if it happened.

The Star Picking Hand was already at the fourth revolution!

"How?" The yellow-furred bear was also baffled.

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Inside the golden ship of the First Army of the Border Army, which was rushing over and was now not far away, the ruling stratum of the First Army was also watching the images displayed on the mirror in midair.

"Eh?"

"Strange."

"What's going on? What tricks does this alien have?"

None of them could understand either.

The general in a golden cloak with a black lining laughed heartily: "Good, the longer he drags it out, the better. We'll be there soon. Haha, it seems we'll have to step in and capture this alien."

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The experts of this Broken Horn World were all baffled, even the yellow-furred bear couldn't understand, and none could fathom the reason.

In the endless darkness.

Three streams of consciousness were colliding and communicating.

"Second Sister, what exactly happened?"

"Big Sister, what's wrong?"

The three Mother Queens had given birth to many children; those they bore were the First Generation! Nearly half of the ruling stratum of the First Army were First Generation. What the First Generation could see and feel, the three Mother Queens could also see and feel. So they too knew the scene of that battle.

The commander of the special action team of the Third Void Ring, 'Benaer', was precisely the child of the second Mother Queen among the three. When Benaer fought Ji Ning, it was as if the second Mother Queen was fighting Ji Ning herself.

"This is..."

"Heartforce?"

"Yes, heartforce, it's heartforce!!!" The powerful consciousness of the second Mother Queen suddenly rippled with excitement. "This human's attack just now contained heartforce!"

"What, heartforce?"

"Heartforce? He has mastered heartforce?"

The first Mother Queen and the third Mother Queen were also excited.

"Yes, I am absolutely certain I didn't sense it wrong. I have even fully descended a strand of my consciousness onto my child Benaer." The second Mother Queen said excitedly, "We fought again, and yes, this human's attacks contain heartforce. His control over heartforce is not yet perfect, appearing quite crude, but I can feel that mysterious and powerful heartforce."

"This is our chance." The Second Mother Queen was extremely excited. "This human race has mastered how to condense heartforce and how to use it! He understands the method of heartforce! This is truly the most supreme power. We can completely obtain from this human how to condense and use heartforce!"

"Yes, we can obtain the method of heartforce."

"Indeed, this is an opportunity."

The other two Mother Queens were also extremely excited.

They had experienced that great catastrophe back then. As survivors, they knew very well that 'heartforce' was truly one of the most supreme powers. Mastering heartforce meant setting foot on the path of a peak powerhouse in the endless chaos! It was a path that could hope to surpass the True Gods and Dao Ancestors!

"This is our chance, but we must not act rashly." The First Mother Queen collided her thoughts with the other two. "The method of heartforce is certainly a top-tier secret art not passed down outside the Three Realms. This human youth must have an extraordinary background to have learned such an art. But he must have sworn an oath not to pass it on... If we force him, there might be self-destruction measures in his soul."

"Actually, the simplest method is to bewitch him. But he is a Divine Demon Body Refiner among humans, with a soul and divine body perfectly integrated and most stable. Moreover, since he has cultivated the method of heartforce, his heartforce must be extremely powerful. To bewitch him... I think it will be very difficult."

"We have to try anyway."

The temptation of heartforce was too great!

Heartforce...

It was a kind of ethereal power, unlike divine power, elemental power, or magical power that could be seen with the naked eye. Yet 'heartforce' was extremely powerful, with a very high threshold for entry. Back then, Ji Ning had reached a high level of enlightenment on Mount Fangcun, but it still took him over three years of arduous archery practice to barely enter the gate of heartforce.

But the power of heartforce was immense. The ancient great god Houyi, relying on his powerful heartforce, became the number one divine archer in the Three Realms, and even Dao Ancestors and True Gods had fallen by his hand.

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Ji Ning was also stunned. His sword finger strike had actually suppressed the whip of that purple-cloak commander?

"This is? Heartforce?" Others might have to guess, but Ji Ning knew very well that in his most frenzied strike just now, without any distracting thoughts, all his power converged... and his heartforce had unconsciously permeated it.

How to use heartforce? This had always been a mystery.

In the Three Realms, there was a very detailed method for using heartforce in archery, created and summarized by the great god Houyi! It was because Houyi had created such a systematic method of using heartforce that the status of some terrifying divine archers in the Three Realms had rapidly risen. However, there was still no systematic method for using heartforce with other weapons.

How to attach heartforce to a sword?

A saber?

A spear?

A staff?

How could heartforce be attached to these weapons to greatly increase their power? Since it worked with arrows, logically it should work with other weapons as well. But in the 'heartforce' domain, the highest achievement in the Three Realms belonged to the great god Houyi. Houyi had the highest achievement in archery and had a systematic method of use. As for other weapons? Perhaps some great powers had discovered some methods of use, but these were crude, not systematic methods usable by everyone.

"I actually used heartforce on my finger to execute sword techniques?" Ji Ning was extremely astonished.

An ordinary arrow had average power.

But once heartforce was attached, it immediately became the enemy's nightmare! The power underwent a terrifying leap.

"But it seems only a very small part of my heartforce actually took effect just now." Ji Ning was very clear about this, because that small part of heartforce had been consumed, while the rest was not consumed! As someone who had reached the third level 'Dominator', Ji Ning's heartforce was very powerful. Even a small part had increased the power of his sword technique by a notch, even suppressing his opponent.

"Alien, you still have tricks? Let's see how strong you really are!" The purple-cloak commander let out a loud shout and swung another whip. At this moment, the Second Mother Queen's will had descended upon this commander.

"Go."

Ji Ning extended a hand.

His finger thrust out!

Heartforce was again attached to his finger. Following the previous feeling, a small part of the heartforce he released indeed completely merged with his finger.

"Bang." The finger, hundreds of zhang long, collided with the whip!

The whip was sent flying again.

"Yes, this is the feeling." Ji Ning had already vaguely discovered the trick, but it was far inferior to the method of using heartforce in the 'Houyi Archery Art'. In Houyi's archery art, one could fully integrate heartforce into the arrow. A full-powered arrow would probably consume ten to twenty percent of one's heartforce, and with full power, a few arrows would exhaust it.

But using the sword finger, it would probably take a thousand uses to exhaust it.

Clearly, his trick was very shallow and could not compare to the heartforce method of the 'Houyi Archery Art'. But that was a heartforce method for archery. Ji Ning could only refer to the archery heartforce method and try to make his sword finger stronger.

"Hm?" Ji Ning suddenly noticed that the distant purple-cloak commander had stopped.

Rumble~~~

A powerful wave spread out. Ji Ning saw at a glance that in the distant void, countless ten-thousand-li-long ships were flying over, densely packed, nearly endless.

"How many warships?" Ji Ning trembled.

The cabin doors of these large ships opened, and countless horned warriors flew out. Among the countless horned warriors were also black-cloak warriors! Just one glance showed that those Pug horned warriors... probably numbered in the millions. And from the golden ship at the forefront of the many ships, purple-cloak warriors flew out one after another. Finally, a terrifying existence walked out, wearing a golden cloak with black lining, whose aura alone made Ji Ning feel despair.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" ...

Suddenly, streams of will descended.

The three Mother Queens, with hundreds of wills, descended respectively upon that general and the many purple-cloak warriors.

"Don't act rashly yet." The Mother Queen's voice rang in the general's mind.

"Yes, Mother Queen." The general responded inwardly.

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"Big Bear, what's happening outside? Has the young master's divine power still not been exhausted? I think we should make a move." The black-armored seductive woman 'Snow Scorpion' in the water mansion spoke.

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