Should I get closer to the Heavenly Fire Divine Palace to investigate whether they have a Source Heart?
Lin Yun knew this was playing with fire, yet he could not let any possibility slip by.
What if he skipped the Heavenly Fire Divine Palace and it actually possessed one?
In the end, Lin Yun decided he would not approach too closely, but he would still move nearer and use the Source Tree inside his body to sense.
Two days later, Lin Yun arrived at a spot a hundred li away from the Heavenly Fire Divine Palace.
“At this range, if one exists, I should be able to detect it. It seems the Heavenly Fire Divine Palace does not have one.” Lin Yun let out a sigh of relief.
If the Heavenly Fire Divine Palace did possess a Source Heart, he truly would not know how to obtain it.
“This place is not suitable for lingering. Leave!”
After finishing his probe, Lin Yun swiftly departed the area and continued searching the rest of the Northern Flame Domain.
Fortunately, no danger arose.
…
Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, two and a half years had gone by.
At this moment, Lin Yun was seated upon a huge boulder at a mountain peak, gazing down at the rivers and mountains ahead.
During these two and a half years, he had thoroughly searched the remaining areas of the Northern Flame Domain as well as the last two domains.
Unfortunately, Lin Yun had not discovered another Source Heart.
In the course of these searches, he had encountered ruins appearing several times, with many cultivators vying for the opportunities inside. This happened more than once.
After all, the Ancestral Land was vast and its history immensely long. Opportunities and ruins could surface anywhere at any time.
Lin Yun had tried joining twice, but in the end he found nothing of value to him.
Mainly because his current realm was already quite high, ordinary ruins might spark fierce competition among lower-realm cultivators, yet they held no worth for Lin Yun.
While travelling and investigating, he had also witnessed plenty of fighting and killing, and he had even taken part once himself.
After touring all the domains, Lin Yun could now be considered fairly familiar with the various human territories.
“It looks like the remaining two Source Hearts simply are not within the nine human domains. This is going to be troublesome.” Lin Yun slowly lay back on the boulder and gazed up at the clear blue sky that stretched for thousands of li.
His greatest worry from the beginning had been failing to gather all five Source Hearts within the nine human domains.
Now that worry had become reality.
“Source Hearts really are not so easy to collect,” Lin Yun sighed with emotion.
Yet from another perspective, he had also been lucky. The first two Source Hearts had come to him extremely easily, and the location of the third was already confirmed.
So where might the last two Source Hearts be? Among the elves? The demons? The beastmen? The insect race? Or perhaps within some smaller peripheral races?
Lin Yun had no way of knowing.
But he was certain of one thing: if he left human territory and searched alone among the other races for the remaining two Source Hearts, the danger would be extremely high.
If he did not search the territories of the other races, how would he ever complete the set?
“Right, I still haven’t been to the Ancestral Heart Realm. There might be one there!” Lin Yun’s eyes suddenly lit up, and he flipped to his feet.
Although he had visited the Ancestral Heart Realm before, back then he had not yet possessed the Source Tree in his body, so he could not sense Source Hearts.
The next instant, Lin Yun turned into a streak of light and flew toward the Ancestral Heart Realm!
In his quest for Source Hearts, Lin Yun would naturally not overlook any place, including the Ancestral Heart Realm.
The difficulty of going to the Ancestral Heart Realm was definitely lower than venturing into the territories of the other major races.
Along the way, Lin Yun resolved that if he could find something in the Ancestral Heart Realm, that would naturally be best.
If he still came up empty there, he would not rush off to search the other races.
He made up his mind: should the Ancestral Heart Realm yield nothing, he would temporarily shelve the search for Source Hearts and focus entirely on cultivation, first reaching the Harmony stage, then finding a way to assault the Supreme realm!
Once he stepped into the Supreme realm and possessed sufficient strength, he would resume the search.
After all, upon reaching Supreme, Lin Yun would also be able to open the other box left by the Lord of the Infinite Heavenly Palace, and at that time he would finally learn the full secret of the Source Hearts as well as other mysteries.
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Ancestral Heart Realm.
After arriving, Lin Yun began considering his search route within the realm.
The Ancestral Heart Realm was by no means small. A single Ancestral Heart Realm was as large as two or three domains, and it too was divided among various powers. There were regions where humans mainly operated, as well as regions dominated by several other races.
