Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
A faint chill surrounded Yunxuan when she walked into the quiet and dark cave. The passage was silent. Not a single sound could be heard.
Suddenly, a powerful force sucked her in like a vacuum.
She found herself in the middle of two energies. One side was red, and the other side was black.
Yunxuan’s left side seemed to have been placed in a furnace. A strong force and heat continuously flowed into her body. The massive energy immediately rushed to each part of her body. It was as if every cell had been roasted by fire, and due to the assault from the heat, a headache was quickly developing — it felt like a white-hot steel needle had pierced her skull and was digging into her brain.
The right side of her body felt as if it had been pierced by thousands of sharp blades. The pain had reached the point of her body turning numb. Even so, the force and fast-running current continuously flowed into her body through the right side of her body. The strong energy constantly entangled and collided with another massive energy in her body.
Yunxuan felt as if two ferocious little beasts were fighting and colliding in her body. Every bone and blood vessel was suffering from immense pain.
It was painful. Yunxuan’s whole body was experiencing unbearable pain. The sharp pain made her beautiful face distorted, making her look like an unhinged beast.
In truth, she could have actually screamed.
It was just that Yunxuan had already forgotten how to react to pain after years as a mercenary. Every time she was injured, she could only endure it. She had already lost the ability to make a scene out of things long ago.
For many years, she had stayed strong in front of anyone. She never needed other people to feel sympathetic and sorry for her, and no one would feel sympathetic and sorry for her. Since she was a child, she was sold from this “father” to another “mother”. Then, she would be sold from this “mother” to another “father”. She did not know how many times she had been sold and bought. She only knew that she would not be loved wherever she went. When she was ten years old, a man had bought her. He also bought a group of other children.
Only after that day did she first experience the so-called phenomena of family affection and friendship. That blood-stained night had given her two extremely close comrades — Jingcang and Jiawen.
In their eyes, she was not only a comrade, she was also their elder.
She was stubborn. She refused to admit defeat. She was arrogant and proud. Those emotions never permitted her to reveal a trace of weakness that females typically had in front of Jingcang and Jiawen.
To them, Yunxuan was stronger and prouder than a man. They had no chance to make her rely on them.
Nobody knew that all this while, Yunxuan also wanted someone she could rely on, in spite of all her strength. No matter how strong she was, there would be a day the camel’s back broke. But before she found someone who was stronger and prouder than her and could provide her with a shelter where she could be free of worry, she would not break.
She knew precisely what would happen to Jingcang and Jiawen if she broke down.
From the age of ten, Yunxuan had been like a God to them. Over the years, she had practically turned into their faith and God.
Hence, she could imagine it. If she, as their faith, collapsed, Jingcang and Jiawen would not have become top dark mercenaries.
It would have been even more unlikely for them to become the top SWAT-drill sergeants.
Yunxuan thought that it would be fine if she just endured the pain.
However, she was wrong.
She was completely wrong!
There were some forms of pain that even the soul and mind could not bear.
People said that the ten fingers were connected to the heart. If someone broke each of her fingers section by section, she could grit her teeth and face it calmly.
But the pain in the soul and mind far exceeded the pain in the body.
At this moment, she felt that her world was going to be overturned.
Her soul, mind, and even consciousness were in great pain.
Wrapped by these two energies, Yunxuan flailed about, clutching her head in pain.
She gritted her teeth in pain, and the muscles on her face convulsed and twitched. She felt her soul being dragged out, every inch being exposed to the fire and seared alive. She felt a towering flame enveloping her body completely and repeatedly, but it always left her somewhat conscious. It let her know that she was still alive, but it was an experience worse than death. She experienced this cruelest and most unbearable form of torture with a clear mind.
Her consciousness still persisted, and her pain receptors were magnified by a thousandfold!
Yunxuan clenched her fists. Her fingers had long since dug into her palms, drawing blood.
She tore off a piece of cloth from her clothes and bit it fiercely. She was afraid that she would not stand it and bite her tongue to end her life.
She could not collapse. Although she wanted to give in and pass out, she knew that she might not wake up anymore if that happened. There would be no trace of her left.
She did not even die in the battle against sixty-four people, so how could she collapse now?
She could not collapse because of her brothers and relatives in this life.
She could not collapse because of her comrades and confidants in her previous life.
‘Pull through it!’
This was the only thought in her mind.
This torture lasted for two hours before the pain subsided by the barest hint. The two energies that were constantly rejecting each other in her body slowly became gentler.
Yunxuan felt the energy concentrated in her abdomen slowly transferring to her whole body. It infiltrated every vein and nourished every inch of her skin. At that moment, she seemed to have been reborn.
‘It hurts so much!’ Yunxuan thought.
She tried to move her fingers but found herself completely powerless.
Every muscle in her body seemed to have turned into cotton. Except for the energy to gasp, she had no energy to spare elsewhere.
Suddenly, a wave of dizziness passed over her. Her consciousness cleared. She saw a dark tower surrounded by bloody-red flames slowly appearing in her consciousness.
She approached it, but she did not feel the scorching heat of the flames. Instead, a soothing warmth spread over her body. It gave her extreme comfort. It was so comfortable that even her soul wanted to sing in happiness.
She could feel every vein and bone of her being surrounded by this flame. It was as if she had been reborn.