Chapter 70: A Shattered World

  As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Heng immediately manipulated the void flames to pounce on this remnant, believing that in the face of this abnormal flame, any object would be reduced to nothingness.

  Furthermore, Zhang Heng felt that this fragment seemed to contain infinite heavenly essence, but due to the current level of the Void Flame, the speed at which the Silver Flame absorbed it was very slow.

  Under Zhang Heng's gaze, the void flames did not immediately pounce on that mysterious fragment, but instead hesitated and wandered around Zhang Heng.

  "What's wrong?" Zhang Heng looked at the empty flame in surprise, although it couldn't be seen with the naked eye, but since he was currently connected to it mentally, he could easily see the flame.

  The Void Flame flickered beside Zhang Heng, although it seemed eager to pounce on the mysterious fragment before him, but apparently still had some reservations about it.

  Just as Zhang Heng was at a loss for what to do, a voice suddenly came from the mysterious fragment: "If you want to die, let it devour me!"

  "Who is it?" Zhang Heng was shocked, but his gaze quickly fell on this mysterious fragment.

  "Is... is it you who's speaking?" Zhang Heng looked at this mysterious fragment in disbelief.

  "Of course it's me, who else could it be?" The mysterious fragment said with some impatience.

  Zhang Heng looked at the flames with some depression, this mysterious fragment really regarded itself as a "human".

  "What did you just say? Why can't it devour you."

  It's okay, Zhang Heng's mental quality is still good, and he immediately thought of what the mysterious fragment said earlier.

  "The mysterious fragment let out a cold laugh: 'If you let it devour me, it will get indigestion, and you'll be stuffed to death...'"

  Zhang Heng pondered for a moment before asking the fragment: "What exactly are you?"

  Upon hearing this, the mysterious shard said with some anger: "I warn you, I am not a thing..."

  "Alright, I admit you're not a thing, so tell me, what are you?" Zhang Heng suppressed the laughter in his heart and asked with a teasing tone.

  The mysterious fragment let out a loud roar and furiously shouted at Zhang Heng: "You dare to play tricks on me?"

  Zhang Heng remained calm and composed, carefully observing the mysterious fragment for a few moments. He was already certain that this thing's intelligence was not high and should be easily deceived.

  At this thought, Zhang Heng's spirits lifted.

  He coughed slightly and said in a solemn tone, "A broken fragment, what qualifications do you have to be arrogant in front of me? Do you believe that I will let this flame engulf you?"

  The mysterious remnant hesitated for a moment, then sneered: "Although it has the 'Indestructible Mark', after devouring me, it won't disappear, but you will definitely be torn apart."

  Zhang Heng didn't understand what 'undying mark' meant for a moment, but that didn't stop him from comforting this small fragment.

  "Hahaha……" Zhang Heng laughed loudly with a scornful expression: "This Void Flame is controlled by me, I can make it swallow you alone, so I won't be implicated in any way."

  As he said this, Zhang Heng manipulated the void flames to pounce on the remaining fragments, as if he wanted to devour them.

  The void flames seemed to understand Zhang Heng's thoughts as well and cooperated with him by floating towards the mysterious fragments.

  "You... you idiot, don't be doing such a stupid thing, stop it, stop it at once!" the mysterious shard roared.

  Zhang Heng did this to scare the thing, he couldn't control how much essence was transformed when the void flames devoured something, and even more so, he couldn't let the void flames devour a specific object alone.

  Moreover, Zhang Heng had a feeling that there was an exceptionally special relationship between the Void Flame and himself. If he became stronger, the flame would also grow stronger, and if he became weaker, the flame's abilities would be weakened as well. This relationship wasn't simply one of control and being controlled.

  "If you want to stop, then you must tell me your origin." Zhang Heng held the Void Flame with his hand, his palm moving up and down, and the Void Flame jumped happily along with it, like a mischievous child.

  The mysterious fragment fell into a thorough silence, as if it didn't want to have anything to do with Zhang Heng anymore.

  "Play dead?" Zhang Heng sneered, his eyes fixed on the empty flames in his palm. "This leftover will serve as your dinner, you can eat it all by yourself, no need to share with me..."

  The void flames immediately transmitted a strange spiritual fluctuation to Zhang Heng, and then pounced on the mysterious fragments.

  Zhang Heng was slightly stunned, he felt that this void flame seemed to have a certain spirituality.

  "No... I said, stop it quickly!" The mysterious fragment cried out loudly.

  As soon as he heard this, Zhang Heng hadn't spoken yet, and the empty flame stopped "on its own" and floated back to the center of his palm.

  Huh! This little thing is quite clever! Zhang Heng was very satisfied with this Void Flame's performance.

  "Alright, this is your last chance. If you dare to cheat me, humph." Zhang Heng's mouth curled up with a hint of sinister smile.

  "Hiss" The empty flames fluttered in front of the mysterious fragments with a hungry look.

  "I say... I say, don't let it get close to me." The mysterious shard said in a fearful tone.

  Zhang Heng smiled slyly and stretched out his hand, the flame in mid-air returned to his palm, waiting for the next part of the mysterious fragment.

  After a few breaths, the mysterious fragment sighed faintly: "Actually, I'm not just an ordinary fragment..."

  "Cut the crap and get to the point." Zhang Heng was speechless towards this guy. Of course, you're not an ordinary shard anymore. Can ordinary shards even talk?

  "Alright, I'll say it..." This mysterious fragment might have made Zhang Heng feel powerless, and he hastily said: "I don't know much about my past, but I do know that I was once a part of a world. I still vaguely remember, my former name - Xing Huanjie."

  "What? Another Star Boundary?" Zhang Heng stared at this mysterious fragment, seemingly somewhat disbelieving its words.

  "I'm really not deceiving you, the world I was originally in was shattered into several pieces for some reason, and I am one of them. To be precise, I am a part of that world."

  Zhang Heng fell silent for a moment, constantly thinking in his mind.

  If this mysterious fragment isn't deceiving itself, then it's a part of some world or rather, it's a broken world!

  What kind of concept is a world? Zhang Heng was shocked in his heart.

  Zhang Heng is not even clear about the size of the world he is currently in, but he knows that his three-star domain in the entire Dongyun continent can only be counted as a small piece of sesame, and even in some ancient books, there are records of information about the outer continent.

  Suddenly, Zhang Heng's heart skipped a beat. If he had just let the Void Flame devour this guy earlier? Wouldn't he be able to obtain half of the essence contained in this broken world?!

  In that case, did I directly advance from Variant Ability First Layer to N-level, or was I stuffed to death?

  It seemed that the latter was more likely, and Zhang Heng's cold sweat instantly soaked through his clothes.

  One wrong move and you're done for!

  Taking a deep breath, Zhang Heng asked again: "Are you really a world? How can you prove this?"

  The mysterious fragment fell silent for a moment, then said: "As the saying goes, every flower and blade of grass can be a world. You can use that endless silver flame to refine me. At your current speed, even if you were to refine me here for tens of thousands of years, you would only be able to absorb less than one ten-millionth of my essence."

  Zhang Heng was shocked by these words, damn it, indeed powerful, tens of thousands of years and only absorbed less than one billionth.

  "Alright, I'll believe you for now. Since you're a broken world, tell me, what benefits can you bring to me? Can you take out some of the treasures from your world?"

  Thinking of this, Zhang Heng's eyes lit up. If it were really possible, he would be able to advance his cultivation by leaps and bounds.

  Although it is a broken world, I think that the essence of heaven and earth contained in it must be terrifying to the extreme.

  "That's impossible unless you can find a few more pieces of the fragment." The mysterious fragment's words interrupted Zhang Heng who was in the midst of his daydream.

  "So, where are the other fragments?" Zhang Heng asked involuntarily, thinking that as long as he gathered all the remaining fragments, wouldn't he be able to possess a world's worth of treasures, and then he could refine them however he wanted?

  The mysterious shard hesitated for a moment before saying: "According to the resonance between us, two of the shards are in this world, and one is not within this realm."

  Zhang Heng couldn't help but feel depressed upon hearing this, he hadn't expected that there was still a shard that wasn't in this world.

  Not in this world, then where?

  Zhang Heng didn't even dare think about crossing over to look for the fragments.

  After being depressed for half a day, Zhang Heng picked up this broken piece and trampled it fiercely under his feet N times, only then did he vent the depression in his heart.

  After trampling, Zhang Heng YY said: "Look at how NB I am, the whole world is under my feet..."

  The mysterious fragment kindly reminded: "Not the entire world, but a quarter of the world."

  "Go to hell." Zhang Heng stomped his foot fiercely a few more times, and then manipulated the silver flames to continue burning on these fragments.

  A stream of silver particles was produced in his dantian, and Zhang Heng's heart felt a little more comfortable. Looking at the remaining fragments that were being burned by the silver flames, he said with a relaxed expression: "Tell me, what else can you bring to me?"

  Mysterious Fragment: ……

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  (For doubts about mysterious fragments, you can go to the "Doubt Answer" section of the relevant work)