The process of recognizing the master begins.

"I don't believe that I, Fang Chen, will die here!" The reason why Fang Chen spoke with such unwavering confidence and determination was that he knew that the time left for him was already limited. If he could endure this today, then his sword cultivation in the future would definitely progress rapidly. If he retreated, then for a sword cultivator, what difference would it be from being unable to endure?

Seeing that Fang Chen had made up his mind, Thunder Kid's expression flickered. Several times he wanted to say something but finally held back. Then he said, "Since you've decided, then let's start."

After saying that, Thunder Kid raised his right hand and kept drawing something in the air. As Thunder Kid's fingers moved continuously, the profound energy between heaven and earth kept surging over, gathering into extremely mysterious and strange patterns...

Fang Chen was startled and quickly picked up the Returning Yuan Sword. Although the patterns drawn by Thunder Kid were very different from those on the sword body, they were surprisingly similar. Could it be that Thunder Kid could engrave arrays on weapons?

"Are you really sure?" Thunder Kid looked at Fang Chen seriously. "Once this ancient contract begins, you will have no way back."

Looking at Thunder Kid who was only as tall as his knee, widening his big watery eyes and looking at him seriously, Fang Chen couldn't help but find it a little ridiculous. Then he raised his hand and touched his nose. After that, he still said seriously, "Let's start."

Hearing this, Thunder Kid extended his right index finger and gently tapped his own forehead. Then a very tiny wisp of purple qi appeared on his fingertip. "Quick! Drip your essence blood on it."

Seeing this, Fang Chen quickly bit his finger and dropped his essence blood on the purple qi on Thunder Kid's fingertip.

In an instant, the essence blood merged into the purple qi. Fang Chen looked closely and found that that extremely tiny wisp of purple qi was actually a countless times smaller version of Thunder Kid!

When the purple qi and the essence blood merged, Thunder Kid's body shook. Then he tremblingly put the purple qi into the already prepared ancient contract.

The purple qi flashed and disappeared. The ancient contract suddenly began to shrink until it became a black dot. Then with a whoosh, it flew towards Fang Chen and in an instant disappeared into his forehead.

Fang Chen's body trembled. He immediately sensed that in his sea of consciousness, there was a purplish-red miniature Thunder Kid. Sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, between each breath, there was faintly the same residual power as the Dao heart.

At this moment, a sticky profound energy of heaven and earth rushed towards him. Desperately surging into Fang Chen's body. In just the blink of an eye, countless tiny blood beads began to seep out on Fang Chen's skin surface...

Although the spirit of the weapon was extremely worried in his heart, there was still a calm expression on his face. While Thunder Kid clenched his fists tightly. His body couldn't stop trembling. There was a faint mist in his eyes.

But this was just the beginning. In just a few breaths, Fang Chen had already turned into a bloody man. The intense pain made him tremble uncontrollably. His sweat mixed with blood gradually connected into countless blood lines and slowly gathered at his feet.

The profound energy of heaven and earth became more and more sticky. The pool of blood gathered at his feet grew larger and larger. Fang Chen's body began to split open. Under the violent destruction of the endless profound energy of heaven and earth, the meridians that had been strengthened by the Golden Jade Mushroom and purple qi also began to crack...

The Dao heart beat powerfully, constantly trying to repair Fang Chen's injuries. Unfortunately, the speed of repair was far slower than the speed of destruction. Even so, the repair never stopped.

"Damn!" These two words almost popped out from between Fang Chen's teeth. The profound energy of heaven and earth continuously destroyed his body while the Dao heart kept repairing. This repeated pain. If it were someone else, they would probably have despaired and committed suicide long ago!

Even after being tempered by the Nine Reincarnation Array. Even though Fang Chen's endurance had already exceeded that of ordinary people countless times. But under this kind of pain and torture that was like being continuously stabbed by countless needles from all directions, he was now on the verge of collapse...

The profound energy of heaven and earth seemed endless. Not only did the speed of surging into Fang Chen's body become faster, but it also became more violent. Fang Chen gritted his teeth tightly. His bloody face was extremely ferocious. Despite this, he had never regretted it!

Wei Lan... Compared to you, what are these hardships I endure...

As if enraged by Fang Chen's distraction at this time, the profound energy of heaven and earth suddenly paused. Then it was like a raging flood, crazily surging towards Fang Chen.

"Bang!" Finally, under such violent destruction, Fang Chen's body suddenly exploded and instantly turned into a blood mist!

"Old thing! Are you satisfied now?! Fang Chen is dead! He's dead!" Thunder Kid stared blankly at the blood mist in front of him. In an instant, tears streamed down like rain. Choking with sobs, he roared. If only he had told him everything at the beginning, maybe none of this would have happened. It's me... It's me who killed him...

"Idiot! At a time like this, why don't you come and help!"

The voice of the spirit of the weapon suddenly rang out, full of exhaustion. Thunder Kid was startled. In the blood mist, the spirit of the weapon was desperately protecting Fang Chen's Dao heart. But under the impact of this endless profound energy of heaven and earth, the originally not fully recovered spirit of the weapon now looked even more illusory. As if it would disperse with the wind at any moment.

"What are you still standing there for? Come and help quickly!" The spirit of the weapon roared with difficulty.

"Ah... Oh, okay." After responding, Thunder Kid quickly raised his hands and quickly sketched two extremely mysterious and strange patterns in the air. After a moment, he pushed with his hands in vain. The two arrays flew towards the blood mist and the spirit of the weapon respectively.

In an instant, the profound energy of heaven and earth seemed to find an outlet. Quickly surging towards the two arrays. Then, two dazzling white lights soared into the sky. Under the help of the array, the spirit of the weapon finally gradually stabilized.

After just a moment, the array protecting the blood mist instantly collapsed. Thunder Kid's expression changed. Then he quickly raised his hand and sketched another array and pushed it over. But the speed of sketching this array was much slower than before.

Is this... Am I dead? Looking at the twinkling lights around him, Fang Chen was stunned. Isn't this profound energy? It seems that after all, I still couldn't bear it...

Wei Lan, I let you down again... You always say that I am affectionate but I insist on cultivating the heartless sword path. So you would rather throw yourself at my sword. Even at the cost of your own life, you want to awaken my heart. But...

My heart? Right! I hope my Dao heart hasn't been crushed! Thinking of this, Fang Chen murmured, "As long as the Dao heart doesn't die, my body won't perish."

In an instant, as if in response to Fang Chen, a mysterious anger came from somewhere. The profound energy between heaven and earth began to tremble. Then it began to gather towards Fang Chen...