49: Refining Heart Tower

Half a month later, Chu Tianyang emerged from the Refining Heart Tower.

However, he wasn't in a good state; he seemed crazed, his expression somewhat deranged!

"Old Ancestor, are you alright?"

The Chu Family surrounding the Refining Heart Tower asked anxiously.

Is this Refining Heart Tower really that terrifying?

It actually refined the Old Ancestor into this state!

Looking at the numerous Chu Family members before him, Chu Tianyang glanced at the Refining Heart Tower again, and tears uncontrollably streamed down his face.

So, everything he experienced before was fake!

It was an illusion used to temper people!

"Old Ancestor, what's wrong with you?"

Chu Jingyue and others who rushed over upon hearing the news asked in a hurry.

Why was the Old Ancestor crying?

"Terrifying, the Refining Heart Tower is truly too terrifying!"

Chu Tianyang took a deep breath.

He sat down to rest for a long time before the madness on his face gradually subsided.

But his words directly made many people who were preparing to enter the Refining Heart Tower hesitate. If even the Martial Emperor Old Ancestor said it was terrifying, wouldn't entering be a dead end for them?

"Old Ancestor, what exactly did you experience in there?"

Chu Hongtu asked cautiously.

"I returned to the night before the Ma Family annihilated us!"

Chu Tianyang said in a deep voice.

At that time, he was forced to enter the Nine Heavens Mountain Range to seek an Opportunity, while the Ma Family was constantly pressuring him to appear.

They even threatened to kill a Chu Family member every day he didn't show up.

Chu Tianyang knew very well that if he appeared, all Chu Family members would immediately be killed, so he continued to search for an Opportunity in the Nine Heavens Mountain Range.

But constantly hearing news of Family members dying drove him to near madness, yet unexpectedly, when he was at his most broken, he really did find a Legacy.

It was a Demonic Technique, a Cultivation Technique that devoured the Qi and blood of living beings.

"At that time, I treated it as a treasure and immediately began to Cultivate it impatiently!"

"In the Nine Heavens Mountain Range, I used the flesh and blood of Yao Beasts as essence and began to grow madly!"

"But that was a Demonic Technique after all. It gradually affected my mind, making me bloodthirsty, even only knowing slaughter and forgetting my original intention of entering the Nine Heavens Mountain Range!"

"When I awoke, all of my Family members had been completely slaughtered by the Ma Family. I went mad; slaughter filled my heart, and I directly killed everyone in the Ma Family, not even sparing the tens of thousands of people in the entire Qingyang Town!"

"From then on, I truly stepped into the abyss. I was like an emotionless Puppet, slaughtering one city after another. Cities with hundreds of millions of people were merely resources for improving my cultivation in my eyes!"

"I became the public enemy of the entire world, until later, a girl came before me, claiming to be a survivor of our Chu family from back then!"

"But my heart was completely unmoved, so I raised my hand and killed her!"

"Her blood splattered on my face, and I felt that it was indeed my Chu family Bloodline. At that moment, it awakened a trace of my conscience, and I seemed to remember the purpose of entering the Nine Heavens Mountain Range back then!"

"Finally, I committed suicide!"

"......"

Everyone looked at the Old Ancestor.

This is what the Old Ancestor experienced in the Refining Heart Tower?

How could it be so terrifying?

"Demonic Techniques cannot be Cultivated. That thing truly affects one's mind!"

"And I was too eager for quick success at the time, which led to me directly becoming a Puppet of the Demonic Technique and forgetting my original intention!"

Chu Tianyang sighed.

At that time, he was blinded by hatred, eager for revenge, which eventually led him to become bloodthirsty and a public enemy of the entire world.

"Old Ancestor? Do you still remember the Demonic Technique Cultivation Technique?"

Chu Hongxiao asked.

"It was just a fleeting dream! Naturally, I can't remember!"

Chu Tianyang shook his head.

His mental tempering this time could be said to have failed miserably.

"Hahaha! So exhilarating!"

Just then, a roar came from the Refining Heart Tower, and Chu Zhan emerged, looking excited.

His Spirit Rank High Grade Great Strength Vajra Physique had actually evolved into a King Rank High Grade Vajra Battle Physique after consuming the rewarded Constitution Evolution Pill!

Chu Zhan never expected such a harvest inside, but at the time, the voice of the Beast God came out, telling him to keep this harvest a secret!

Undoubtedly, this was the work of the Beast God, and besides the Beast God, no one else had this capability!

"Chu Zhan? How did you come out so quickly?"

Chu Jingyue was surprised; Chu Zhan had only been in for half a month!

"I don't know what happened, I just came out!"

"Then you received a reward?"

Chu Jingyue asked in surprise.

Chu Zhan nodded: "I received an enormous reward!"

He said to Chu Xiuran, who was nearby: "Haha, Xiuran, this time I want to compete with you again!"

"No problem!"

Chu Xiuran nodded.

"Wait, you two can compete later. Chu Zhan, what happened to you inside?"

Several Elders eagerly asked.

"I returned to the day I was tied to the pillar of shame, but that night, under the desperate protection of the Family members, a few of us younger generation escaped!"

"From that moment, I swore that I would not only take revenge but also revitalize the Chu family again!"

"However, I was very clear about my current strength, so I chose to endure and bravely led the surviving Family members to Yan Yang City!"

"Eventually, I found a Legacy at a street stall there and began to Cultivate again. Although my Aptitude wasn't good, for revenge and to revitalize the Chu family, I gritted my teeth and Cultivated desperately!"

"Even so, it took me over a hundred years to Cultivate to Third-Order Martial Warrior, which was as slow as a snail, and by this time, the enemy Ma Family had already become a massive six-star Family!"

"And the Family, which had finally regained vitality after a hundred years, was once again massacred by the Ma Family. In the end, at the cost of losing an arm, I once again led some of the Family members to break out of the encirclement and escape into the Nine Heavens Mountain Range!"

"Perhaps heaven took pity on me; there, I finally obtained a Body Refining Cultivation Technique suitable for me, and from then on, I began to rise!"

"In three years, I Broke Through to Martial Sect; ten years later, I Broke Through to Martial King; a hundred years later, I Broke Through to Martial Emperor; five hundred years later, I achieved Martial Venerable, and finally, I had the ability to seek revenge!"

"I not only annihilated the Ma Family but also expanded the Chu family into an eight-tier Family. Finally, tens of thousands of years later, my lifespan came to an end because I couldn't Breakthrough to Martial Emperor!"

Chu Zhan sighed with emotion.

That feeling was like a dream, yet very real!

Especially the feeling of his heart almost collapsing when the Family was annihilated twice, it felt as if it had truly happened!

"So the difference between you and the Old Ancestor is that you held onto your original intention. Even though you encountered so many hardships in between, you never gave up. Your goal was always revenge and strengthening the Family!"

"As for the Old Ancestor, he failed because he couldn't resist the temptation of the Demonic Technique. After Cultivating the Demonic Technique, his mind was further deluded, and he forgot his original intention!"

Chu Jingyue analyzed.

From these two cases, it can be judged that once one enters the Refining Heart Tower, there will be various hardships, and it is very likely that these hardships will cause a certain psychological shadow in the real world.

If one can stick to their original heart, they can pass the test of the Refining Heart Tower, but if one gets lost within it, they will ultimately fail!