It was larger than a human heart—maybe the size of a small lon, with a dark blue-gray coloration and visible ventricles that still seed to pulse slightly despite the creature being dead.
The surface glistened with residual moisture, and faint traces of Astra energy emanated from it in slow waves.
Levi placed the tablet flat on the floor next to the Abyssal Eel heart. Then, speaking clearly both aloud and ntally to ensure the command registered properly: "Absolute Refinent Tablet, activate Quality Perfection ability. Target: Abyssal Eel Heart. Enhance quality grade to maximum possible level."
For a mont, nothing happened.
The tablet sat motionless on the floor, looking exactly like an ordinary piece of carved stone. The beast heart beside it continued its faint pulsing, unchanged.
Then the tablet began to glow.
Faint at first—just a subtle luminescence emanating from the gray stone's surface—but rapidly intensifying. Within seconds, the entire tablet was radiating brilliant white light that filled the training chamber, casting sharp shadows against the walls.
The tablet lifted off the floor.
It rose slowly, hovering about three feet in the air, rotating clockwise with increasing speed. Faster and faster until it beca a blur of spinning stone and light, creating a low humming sound that resonated in Levi's bones.
Then sothing erged from the spinning tablet.
A thread. Impossibly thin, barely visible even with the bright light surrounding it. The thread was gray—the exact sa color as the tablet itself—and it moved with purpose, extending outward like a living thing seeking its target.
The thread touched the Abyssal Eel heart.
The mont contact was made, the thread began wrapping around the heart with incredible speed. Around and around, layer upon layer, moving so fast that Levi could barely track individual rotations. More threads erged from the spinning tablet, joining the first, all of them weaving together into an intricate cocoon that completely enveloped the beast heart.
Within thirty seconds, the heart was completely hidden beneath a thick shell of gray thread. The cocoon pulsed with the sa rhythm as the heart inside, creating a visual pattern that was almost hypnotic—expand, contract, expand, contract.
The tablet's rotation began to slow.
Gradually, steadily, the spinning decreased until the tablet was barely moving. Then it stopped entirely and fell to the floor with a soft thud, its glow extinguished. It looked completely ordinary again, as if nothing extraordinary had just occurred.
But the cocoon…
The cocoon had started beating.
Not the gentle pulse that the original heart had maintained. This was sothing else entirely. Heavy. Powerful. Each beat was like a war drum being struck by a giant, creating a rhythmic THUMP… THUMP… THUMP that Levi could feel in his chest.
The sound filled the training chamber, overwhelming everything else. The walls vibrated slightly with each beat. The air itself seed to compress and expand in rhythm with the pulsing cocoon.
THUMP.
The pressure in the room increased noticeably. Levi felt it pressing against his skin, pushing into his ears, making his lungs work harder to draw breath.
THUMP.
His face began to flush red. The oppressive weight of whatever was happening inside that cocoon was affecting him physically, triggering his body's stress responses. His heart rate increased, trying to match the rhythm of the beats. His blood pressure spiked.
THUMP.
This was dangerous. Levi could feel himself losing stability, his consciousness wavering under the relentless pressure emanating from the transforming heart. His vision began to blur at the edges. His breathing beca shallow and rapid.
He needed to calm down. Needed to center himself before the pressure overwheld him completely.
Levi's hand moved to the pendant hanging around his neck—the calming artifact he'd obtained months ago that helped stabilize emotions and ntal state during extre stress. He gripped it tightly, channeling a small amount of Astra energy into it.
Imdiately, a wave of cool clarity washed over his mind. The panic receded. His racing thoughts slowed to manageable levels. The pendant's formation arrays activated, creating a subtle protective barrier around his consciousness that insulated him from the worst of the pressure.
At the sa ti, the Gladine stone beneath him responded to his distress. The stone's natural properties—its ability to stabilize Astra energy and enhance ditation—kicked into effect. Levi felt grounded, anchored, his cultivation base settling into a steady rhythm that resisted the chaotic influence of the transforming heart.
THUMP.
With the pendant and stone working together to protect him, Levi was able to maintain his composure. His breathing steadied. His heart rate normalized. His vision cleared.
THUMP.
The beating continued, but now Levi could withstand it. He sat perfectly still on the Gladine stone, one hand gripping the calming pendant, watching the gray cocoon pulse with earth-shaking force.
THUMP.
Then, gradually, the cocoon began to crack.
Hairline fractures appeared across its surface, spreading like a spider web. The gray threads that had wrapped so tightly around the heart were being pushed apart from within, unable to contain whatever transformation had occurred inside.
The cocoon shattered.
It didn't fall apart gradually—it exploded. The gray threads disintegrated into ash, dispersing in all directions like a cloud of dust that hung in the air for a mont before beginning to drift downward.
But before the ash could settle, sothing incredible happened.
The heart—the transford heart that had been hidden inside the cocoon—began absorbing the ash.
Levi watched in fascination as the gray particles were drawn toward the heart like iron filings to a magnet. The ash swirled through the air in visible currents, flowing into the heart's surface and disappearing completely. Within seconds, every trace of the gray thread cocoon had been consud, leaving only the heart floating in the air where the cocoon had been.
The heart descended slowly, settling onto the floor with a soft sound.
Levi stared at it, his eyes wide.
It had changed completely.
The original Abyssal Eel heart had been the size of a small lon—large, bulky, dark blue-gray in color. This new heart was completely different.
It was smaller. Much smaller. Roughly the size of an adult human heart, maybe slightly larger. But despite its reduced dinsions, it radiated power that made the original seem like a cheap imitation.
The color had transford from dull blue-gray to sothing extraordinary. The surface was deep, pristine black—not the matte black of ordinary darkness, but a glossy, almost liquid black that seed to absorb light rather than reflect it. Veins of brilliant purple ran across the surface in intricate patterns, pulsing with inner luminescence that created a srizing visual effect.
And the aura…
The aura emanating from this heart was overwhelming. It pressed against Levi's senses like a physical weight, carrying connotations of vast power, ancient lineage, and sothing that felt almost divine. This wasn't the energy signature of a common beast or even a rare one. This was sothing that existed on a completely different tier of existence.
Levi leaned forward, reaching out with his consciousness to examine the heart more closely.
Imdiately, a system notification appeared in his vision:
[Na: Primordial Godblood Void Dragon Heart]
[Grade: Mythic]
[Description: The heart of a pure-blooded Voidgod Dragon. This creature existed at the apex of dinsional beast hierarchy, possessing both Void affinity and Divine bloodline. Hearts of this grade are considered priceless artifacts. Integration with this heart will fundantally transform the practitioner's existence, granting access to Void manipulation abilities and Divine-tier bloodline benefits. WARNING: Integration difficulty is extre. Might have less than 10% survival rate when attempting to integrate Mythic-grade hearts.]
Levi read the notification three tis, his mind struggling to process what had just happened.
Mythic grade.
He'd purchased a Common-grade Abyssal Eel heart for millions of credits—sothing unremarkable and ordinary that would have created an equally unremarkable Fiend Warrior.
And the Absolute Refinent Tablet had transford it into a Mythic-grade Primordial Godblood Void Dragon heart.
The quality enhancent ability had worked. Not just worked, but exceeded every possible expectation. The tablet had taken a bottom-tier heart and evolved it all the way to the absolute peak of what beast hearts could be.
Levi sat back, his expression unreadable but his mind racing.
This changed everything.
A Voidgod Dragon heart. A Divine-tier bloodline. Integration with this would give him access to Void manipulation—one of the rarest and most powerful Astra affinities that existed. Space-ti manipulation, dinsional travel, the ability to literally erase things from existence by consigning them to the Void.
But the warning in the description was equally important: less than 10% survival rate.
Levi was Peak Genetic Soldier. One full major realm below Fiend General. By all logical calculations, attempting to integrate this heart would kill him. Ordinary peak super soldier body simply wasn't strong enough to withstand the transformation that a Mythic-grade heart would trigger.
But Levi was different, his physique was about 10 tis stronger than ordinary people. If other have 10 percent survival rate, he would definitely have 70 or maybe even 80.
Levi looked at the heart again, feeling its overwhelming presence. Then he looked at the information for his [Primordial God Slaughtering] technique—the cultivation thod he'd obtained that was specifically designed for absorbing and utilizing divine-tier energies.
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