Watery city, among dense forests on a certain mountain peak
On the moist and dense green meadow, seven nights lay in deep silence. His face was pale and cold, his lips were blue and dry, his delicate features were now distorted and wrinkled, his body was dripping with sweat, and his clothes were soaked in blood. His young body twitched and trembled from time to time, and he occasionally let out inarticulate moans...
At this moment, Qiye had been engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the nine heavenly pythons of the Great Protector in the spiritual world for three days and three nights.
Due to the current 2x timeline of the Hunyuan Refining Realm in the spiritual world, two days and one night have passed in the outside world. In the spirit world, after three days and three nights of endless all-out fighting, Qiye finally succeeded in defeating the nine heavenly pythons and completely erasing the demon soul mark of the Great Protector from the Huntian Wheel.
but! The joy of victory has not yet had time to emerge.
Deep in the soul, a sharp pain like needles and nails hit him instantly. The initially solidified soul and clear and transparent perception were suddenly enveloped by this menacing pain. There was no way to escape, no way to vent, no way. Whenever you take a breath, like a thousand blades piercing the body, the soul instantly loses contact with the mind in pain and suffocation...
Ahhhhh...!
The severe pain directly woke up the brain that had been sleeping for seven nights. He held his head tightly and rolled to the ground, screaming at the top of his lungs, trying to vent the unbearable pain.
The sudden screams for Qiye resounded through the mountains and fields, hoarse at the top of their lungs. The sound was accompanied by chaotic fluctuations of spiritual power, causing all animals in the mountain range to panic and birds to fly away, as if they were escaping from a catastrophic disaster.
"Ah! It hurts so much!"
On the grass, Qiye kept rolling back and forth, and slammed his head on the ground, trying to numb his sense of touch in the hope that he could pass out. However, even if he hurt himself like this, his consciousness was still not numbed at all. On the contrary, the pain became more and more fierce, like a torrent rolling in endlessly...
Qiye, who is already at the 'First Level of War Level', has a naturally higher level of awareness, and he also has a strong endurance and is not prone to fainting.
However, it was this extremely strong endurance that made Qiye suddenly and clearly taste what it means to be 'unbearable and heartbroken'.
In this kind of cruel suffering in the world, death can be said to be a great luxury and relief. Qiye felt as if his entire brain was penetrated by thousands of steel needles. The countless sources of pain in his mind were as countless as the stars in the galaxy. Every piece of flesh and blood in his body felt like it was about to burst...
Soon, the severe pain in his soul made Qiye's pupils dilate and the corners of his eyes were torn apart.
In the pupils, countless slender blood threads burst one after another, blood soaked the eyes, and the vision was gradually enveloped in a blood-red hideousness. The blood in his eyes slid down his pale, papery cheeks, which was unbearable to look at.
Not only that, as the severe pain and orgasm came, the skin all over Qiye turned red and swelled as if it had been cooked.
Phew! Phew! ...Accompanied by continuous cracking sounds, every piece of red skin that swelled to the limit cracked inch by inch in pain, and blood flew out. The scene was really scary.
The bones all over his body were cracking and shattered, and every bone was cracking and cracking. The painful feeling was simply more miserable than being cut into pieces with a thousand knives or being quartered by five horses. It seemed like it was the worst in the world The heinous massacre was horrifying to hear and frightening to see.
Ah... After a while, Qiye's screams became very hoarse and weak, but he still screamed with all his strength...
The severe pain still did not weaken in the slightest, but he was no longer able to struggle, so he could only collapse on the ground, gritting his teeth, holding on to a weak breath, and endured it without hesitation.
After a long period of screaming, Qiye's mouth was now full of blood, and his throat was coughing up blood uncontrollably. The eyes, ears, mouth, nose and other seven orifices on the face were also bleeding all over the ground, which was extremely miserable.
Such torture, every second made Qiye hate the time for the first time.
Just one hour...
Qiye had been tortured beyond recognition and was too miserable to look at. It can be said that he suffered the most terrible torture in the world. He was cut into pieces so that he looked like a skinned evil ghost in hell.
And the reason why he suffered this sudden and unexplained severe pain was entirely due to the "gift" of the black demonic flames.
As the supreme 'devouring flame', the black demonic flame will not only devour beneficial elements such as other people's strong spiritual power, skill cultivation, and innate character, but it will also devour all the pain, resentment, and evil thoughts that others have encountered in their lives. Wait for these hazardous elements.
A spiritual practitioner has experienced all the pain in his life for dozens or hundreds of years:
It can be as big as the soul being devoured and the soul is scattered, or as small as the muscles and bones being damaged and the limbs being torn apart. There are all kinds of pain... It can be said that there are thousands or even tens of thousands of pains of varying degrees. These sufferings experienced by others have not completely disappeared, but have been forgotten in the memory.
However, after these sufferings are swallowed into the body of the devourer by the black demon flames, they will affect the devourer itself exactly as they are: in other words, if others have suffered 12 points of pain, the devourer will also suffer 12 points of pain.
This is: the evil of devouring!
This is also the drawback that the Devourer will suffer when using the Black Demonic Flame. While taking away the beneficial elements from others, he also has to bear the harmful elements from others. It cannot be escaped, let alone eliminated. Therefore, if the black demonic flame swallows a more powerful force, it will surely suffer more pain.
It is worth mentioning that:
The Devourer can inherit and absorb 100% of the spiritual power devoured by the black demonic flames. But for the 'higher degree of intangible beneficial elements' such as the skill cultivation, talent, luck, and mental lifespan swallowed by the black demon flames, the inheritance share depends on the compatibility between the devourer and the black demon flames.
To put it simply: the higher the degree of compatibility, the more inheritance and less waste!
On the other hand, there is no need to consider any factors regarding the harmful elements swallowed up by the black demonic flames. The Devourer will definitely carry it 100% intact!
This is exactly where the black devil flame, as the supreme devouring flame, is domineering!
At this moment, the reason why Qiye suffered such a huge painful attack was because of the pain caused by the black demonic flames that swallowed Yanahei, Hanqi and Langbei before.
Due to the loss of his soul before Qiye, his subconscious soul has been in a state of chaos, hazy and unopened, and he is unable to feel the huge pain that has been suppressed and paralyzed deep in his soul.
The more important point is that the real owner of the black magic flame was the Great Protector. To the demons, the pain of human beings is even more minor than a mosquito bite and is not worth mentioning at all.
And among this, there is also hidden the evil intention of the Great Protector: trying to swallow more people's pain, attack Qiye's soul in one go, cut off its connection, and completely control Qiye's body.
But God's calculations are worse than those of people. Unexpectedly, a murder caused the two to fight to the death. After the Great Protector died completely, Qiye inherited the original fire of the Black Demon Flame. The pain that had been suppressed by the Great Protector erupted briefly and violently like a volcano. Without any warning, Qiye was caught off guard and ate it. Big loss.
For the Great Protector, this was an unconscious pain, but for Qiye, it was a complete natural disaster and the end of the world.
All three people's lives, hundreds of years of pain, were all superimposed on Qiye's small body in just one hour. Like the devil's revenge, it was overwhelming, overwhelming his body and mind in an instant.
After the pain faded away as quickly as a storm, the green grass was completely soaked with blood, and Qiye's short and immature body was no longer human-like. It feels more like a mass of bloody corpses. Occasionally, from the slightly twitching body, you can still tell that there is still a glimmer of life left.
The blood on his face has covered the young man's original delicate face. At this moment, his facial features are unclear and his breath is dying. The hanging breath seemed to be about to fall to the ground completely.
In the spirit world, Qiye's soul was also tortured by pain and fell into coma. The spirit body had become very transparent, thin, and dangerously weak, as if it was like a wisp of green smoke that could be blown out by a breeze.
After a full hour of hellish torture, Qiye was completely exhausted and passed out...
The dying vitality is getting weaker and weaker with this fainting on the verge of death.
However, at this moment: the Hunyuan Refining Realm, which is integrated with the spiritual world, quietly started to operate...
'Hospital body spiritual nourishment', a special function accidentally discovered by Qiye after being injured, can continuously nourish, correct and enhance the body of the cultivator while he is sleeping, comatose or unconscious.
What’s even more surprising is: not long after the ‘Residential Body Spiritual Cultivation’ was running, the Hunyuan Refining Realm began to emit invisible shock ripples outwards in circles. The ripples slowly rippled, flowed through the body, spread over the grass, and drifted away. All over the mountain. Then, in the woods, in the pond, on the grass... every part of the soil, clouds, grass and trees on the entire mountain peak, dots of needle-like firefly light continued to float out, gathering towards Qiye's location.
Then, these bits and pieces of firefly light slowly penetrated into the spiritual world through the torn skin and flesh. And the flesh and blood that comes into contact with the light of these fireflies begins to gradually awaken the power of growth. The blood flowing all over the ground, as if being summoned, strangely flowed upstream, squirmed slowly, and flowed back into Qiye's body.
'Vital Wood Spirit', another special function of the Hunyuan Refining Realm: automatically triggered when the 'Host Body Spiritual Cultivation' cannot repair the injury and restore life. Through the shock wave, it absorbs the vitality of nearby wood spirits to save the cultivator. The condition for its activation is that there is life around it to plunder.
Half of the blood that had been lost continued to flow back, and Qiye's pale and shriveled skin began to appear rosy. Countless slender bloody mouths slowly heal and scab...
After a day and a night of slow nourishment, the physical wounds all over Qiye's body had basically healed. The considerable remaining firefly light was automatically injected into Qiye's body.
Cackling..., there were crisp sounds of bones, and the bones all over his body began to slowly correct their misalignments under the nourishment of the fireflies' light. The countless broken bones continued to close the cracks, and finally connected together flawlessly...
Qiye's distorted appearance is constantly returning to its original appearance. In this way, another day has passed, and Qiye's body has basically completed all bone repairs.
At this moment, most of the energy of the firefly's light still remains. Countless light points penetrated deep into Qiye's body, constantly melting the ice on the wall of the spiritual world caused by the previous battle, burning brightly through the wall, driving away the freezing coldness in the spiritual world. But now, Qiye's soul lies peacefully in the void of the spiritual world, as peacefully as sleeping in an ice palace.
After another day, the frozen spiritual world finally thawed. However, the sleeping soul still failed to wake up. However, after several days and nights of healing, Qiye's aura has become much stronger: a strong and powerful heartbeat, a smooth and smooth breathing, and overall, Qiye's body has fully recovered.
It's another sunny morning...
The breeze is gentle and beautiful, and you can feel the warm caress of the sun on your face. Qiye opened his hazy eyes, with a trace of residual scarlet in them. With a face that was still numb from the disturbance, he slowly struggled to sit up, feeling an unusually comfortable feeling all over his body, feeling confused and at a loss.
"I seem...still alive..." Qiye murmured in disbelief after his head regained consciousness.
Then, I couldn't stop crying. I remembered the apocalyptic pain of hell that day, and a kind of sincere joy of surviving the disaster filled my heart. At that time, Qiye thought that he would definitely die. In fact, if it weren't for the 'vital wood spirit' in the Hunyuan Refining Realm, he would really be dead.
I sat there for a long time and cried with joy. After a long time, Qiye gradually calmed down from the excitement. He checked himself and found that except for losing contact with the soul and all the spiritual power in the spiritual world, there was no serious problem with his body.
Upon further inspection, Qiye felt a lingering dizziness in his mind. Perhaps it was because of the severe trauma that his mind went blank. A sense of drowsiness and depression made my mind become very numb and my body coordination became too slow.
"It's better to leave this place first..." He didn't care about himself too much and glanced around. Qiye was shocked to find that the surroundings were unusually quiet. He couldn't hear a trace of insects or birds. It was so quiet. Moreover, all the surrounding vegetation was dead, and the atmosphere was dark and gloomy. I had a vague feeling of a bad premonition.
He didn’t know how he ended up in this ghost place, and Qiye didn’t know that all of this was caused by him. Pulling himself together and holding up his weak body, Qiye slowly left step by step...
