Heartless Child

The **Heartless Child** is the second boss of the Myriad Bone Guild. He is a peak expert very close to reaching the Ninth Heavenly Layer of Grand Prime.

To the Darkstar race, he is known as the **Virtuous Sage of Earth**, one of the two prominent individuals that escaped the **World of the Fallen Beast** using the residual will of the Darkstar Grand Exalt.

## Appearance

He appeared to be a child who only seemed to be eight or nine years old wearing red robes. His face was innocent and naive and his skin was tender. In particular, his round cheeks basically gave people the irresistible urge to pinch them.

However, his gaze was filled with a colour that completely contrasted with his physical age. They were a pair of aged eyes that seemed to have withstood the erosion of time, having grown accustomed to the rise and fall of numerous ages.

## History

**Spoiler warning!** This article significatively builds upon late **plot details** and/or **plot twists** of **Chaotic Sword God**.
### **Escaping the World of the Fallen Beast**

Countless years ago, the Darkstar race once possessed some seniors and sages of great wisdom. In order for our race to break free one day, they used the residual powers left behind by their ancestor to hold the the great ceremony”

Soon after the discovery of the great ceremony, they discovered that once they performed the ceremony and utilised the residual powers of the ancestor, it would momentarily clash with the powers of the Grand Exalt of the Wood Spirits. When this clash occurs, the seal the Grand Exalt of the Wood Spirits placed over the entire race will weaken for an instant.

As a result, the seniors of the Darkstar race chose the two most talented individuals and imbued them with the great fortune of the Darkstar race before utilising their ancestor’s residual power through the ceremony. As such, they finally managed to send out these two seniors in hopes that they could find the way for them to escape to the Saints’ World.

Ever since then, these two seniors became the virtuous sages of our race, as not only is the fortune of our race condensed on them, they also carry all of the hopes of the Darkstar race breaking free on their shoulders, as well as the responsibility to watch over and protect the race one day in the future.

These two virtuous sages were revered as the Virtuous Sage of Heaven and the Virtuous Sage of Earth by later descendants, as they are the future hope of the Darkstar.

### **Rebirth**

After escaping the World of the Fallen Beast, their departure had not been a smooth journey. Instead, it was riddled with danger, where they could die from the slightest carelessness. Even though the Grand Exalt of the Wood Spirits’ power had been weakened by the residual power of the Darkstar Grand Exalt, it did not vanish completely. As a result, when the two of them left this world, the residual power of the Grand Exalt of the Wood Spirits was able to kill them.

As a result, when the two of them reached the Spirits’ World, they were already dead. Fortunately, right when their souls were about to be destroyed, a sliver of their spirit managed to escape, perhaps due to the protection of the Darkstar Grand Exalt. Afterwards, they immediately escaped being killed off by the powers of the Grand Exalt of the Wood Spirit through reincarnation.

Even though the Grand Exalt of the Wood Spirits was already dead, his will still remained, and a few laws of the world he set down when he was still alive continued to exist. As a result, after reincarnating, the residual powers of the Grand Exalt of the Wood Spirits continued to entangle them, making their days numbered with each rebirth and leading to early deaths every single time.

So, although a period of time so long has already passed since they were sent out of the Darkstar World, the two brothers haven’t actually lived for that long.

Finally, after countless rebirths, they finally reached their current life where they completely broke free from the cycle of torture from the Grand Exalt of the Wood Spirits’ residual power. Allowing them to properly cultivate.

### **Dark Secret**

However, under the seemingly-glorious appearance of the Virtuous Sages of Heaven and Earth hides a slave imprint originating from the depths of their bloodlines in their souls. When the two brothers of the Virtuous Sage of Heaven and the Virtuous Sage of Earth were sent out using the special method of the Darkstar race, they planted an irremovable slave imprint in them at the same time, so that they would remain loyal to the Darkstar Emperor.

And even after hundreds and thousands of rebirths, the power of the slave imprint hasn’t weakened at all, as it originates from the power of a Grand Exalt. Even with their heaven-defying cultivations at the Ninth and Eight Heavenly Layer of Grand Prime, they are helpless against the slave imprint. That is unless they can break through to Grand Exalt.

That is why the two brothers decided to resist their fate and duty towards their clansmen so that they would have time to break-free from the shackles of the slave imprint. In order to fulfill these conditions, they sought out Jian Chen, the most talented junior they could ever find under a millennium age to disrupt the great ceremony. So, in actuality, their final objective is not to actually destroy the entire Darkstar race, but just like what the Heartless Child said, just to stop the great ceremony so that Chaotic Primes cannot appear within the Darkstar race. The stronger the Darkstar race becomes, the greater the chance they have of breaking free. Once the Darkstar race actually manages to break out of here, the Virtuous Sages of Heaven and Earth who possess unrivalled power and influence in the Saints’ World will be reduced to mere subjects.

This is why they’re forced to go to such great lengths and have Jian Chen complete certain tasks for them.

## Abilities

The Heartless Child’s comprehension of the ways of the world had already reached a supreme height where he left most other Grand Primes trailing in the dust. For experts like him, even without the Laws of Space, the restraints and obstructions that space could pose to them had already begun to diminish drastically.

Experts at such a level could already neglect spatial distance to a certain degree.

## Trivia

* After undergoing rebirth and existing within the Saints' World, it is plausible to assume that he is currently from the human race, and his past and true life was that of a Darkstar clansmen.
* Although they shoulder the responsibility of freeing their entire race, they also believe that this responsibility cannot rob them of their freedom and rob them of everything they’ve built up in the Saints’ World. That is why they were unwilling to be considered as mere subjects of the Darkstar Emperor. However, Heartless Child asserts that once his elder brother breaks through again and assumes the position of a sovereign of the world, he’ll obviously free their clansmen.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 2432: The Myriad Bone Guild
2. ↑ Chapter 2840: The Origins of the Virtuous Sages
3. ↑ Chapter 2841: The Reason Within
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 2907: Origins of the Mask
5. ↑ Chapter 2906: Seeing Heartless Again