Even, I didn't feel any pain.
Existing on my own, yet as if I didn't exist at all.
It had been a long time.
It seemed that I had just regained a tiny bit of consciousness, as if something on my body had been peeled off.
The first instant was cool, followed by a sense of pain, and then warmth began to spread.
"Show divine power?"
"Manifest divine power?"
"Wake up, manifest divine power?"
Each voice was different, very familiar, overlapping layer upon layer.
"What should I do... The bleeding won't stop..." The voice sounded anxious, with a touch of horror and urgency.
"Mr. Fan, don't panic. You're still bleeding, but that means Divine Power is still alive." Another voice conveyed determination.
"Oh... I know I'm alive. But where's Old Gongye? Why doesn't he come out?"
The voice sounds like Fan Jie's?
The previous voice... came from Huāyíng?
They… are alive?
Yes, they are alive!
At a critical moment, White Immortal Ancestor used his corpse-transforming pill to stop the bleeding. I myself formed a thunderbolt-sealing aperture, which was then broken by him. Only then did the thunder stop, and it did not form the Thunder Pool that Old Gong said it would.
They have emerged from the ground?
Wherever the living Buddha's body lies underground, it must have been arranged by Lama A Gong.
It was the heavenly thunder that destroyed that arrangement!
I tried my best to control my body with my mind, but for some reason, it felt empty and I couldn't control it.
"It's daylight, how could Old Gong come out? Mr. Fan, you're completely panicking." Huāyíng's tone was more resolute.
"What are these things... How can something be growing in the blood? Oh my God..." The tone of concern was filled with more horror and weight.
"Don't touch it! Mom, don't touch it!" Huāyíng appeared to be extremely tense.
There are things growing on my body?
What kind of things?
Consciousness started to become faint again.
This drowsiness is as if there is an additional call in the dark, wanting me to float out.
It seems that if I float away, I will be freed, and it will be comfortable. No being would be able to disturb me or cause any discomfort again.
Just then, a sense of emptiness and solitude began to grow within me.
This emotion is like it has formed countless hands, desperately holding onto everything they can grasp, wanting to keep me from floating away.
The former... is death?
The latter, is life?
The call of dying, and the yearning for life?
"Danzhu Zhenglun Qingjing She... Peng Ju, Peng Qiao, and Peng Zhi must not leave my body... The True Person protects me, and the Jade Maiden assists my form..."
Chanting a spell in my consciousness, the spell's magic is like a spring of clear water flowing in my mind.
However, the consciousness was still rising, and I couldn't grab anything, even though I had tried my best.
"Finished... How is the indentation between my eyebrows cracked... When the indentation between the eyebrows cracks, a person is about to die... Think of something, think of something quickly!" Fan Jie's anxiety seemed to be gradually drifting away from my ears.
I seem to have heard many voices, with some being cries and shouts.
Suddenly, a joyful scream resounded again.
I felt a trace of warmth being continuously infused, and my consciousness seemed to have finally grasped something.
The feeling of warmth is getting stronger, and I can feel more.
I didn't end up falling into unconsciousness in the end.
Maintaining consciousness without darkness.
I understand that this darkness may never allow me to wake up again, leaving me as a floating soul without direction, and humanity, doomed to death.
The feeling of peeling, gets heavier.
A coolness accompanied by a sharp pain, then a warmth that quickly solidifies, as if it's scabbing over.
I didn't know how long it had been, but I started to think again.
The eyes seemed to be blocked by something.
I raised a hand to wipe away.
The pain caused me to let out a painful scream and gasp for breath.
Sound?
Is that my own voice!?
In that instant when I suddenly opened my eyes, everything was surrounded by a sense of haziness, a bloody haziness!
In the haziness, I saw many silhouettes moving around, all of them from Huà family!
I saw Fan Jie's expression of surprise, I saw Huāyíng crying with joy, and I also saw my mother!
My hand was falling down, and I saw... a purple bloodfinch that seemed to be about to fly!
"Don't get near me! Don't touch me!"
I was completely shocked, and it felt like something was blocking my mouth, only allowing me to speak in incoherent words.
Actually, someone was about to get close to me.
Huāyíng blocked them.
And with my shout, they stopped and didn't come any closer.
The object in my mouth is round and smooth, and it's actually... corpse-transforming pill?
Thoughts were too numerous and disordered, but the pain in my body became clearer and more distinct. I felt like a stone full of cracks, ready to explode, shatter, and vanish into thin air at any moment.
Gropingly sitting up, I closed my eyes, and my hands naturally rested on my knees. I began to breathe using the Four Regulations of True Mind concentration technique.
The feeling of a spirit floating out completely disappeared.
I've survived.
I don't know how long it had been, but when I opened my eyes again, I felt a sense of clarity and clarity that permeated my entire body.
Even this eye, happened to see the dawn break through the night sky, then the daybreak, and purple gas first appeared, it was Purple Gas from the East.
What I saw in front of me, there were many people surrounding me, some lying on the ground or sitting with their heads hanging down, drowsy and confused.
These are all from the Huā family.
I clearly saw Huāyíng, her legs bent, holding her knees, and her face looked extremely pale. Her hair was a bit disheveled, and she was sitting not far from me.
My mom was lying next to me, on her side, curled up and sleeping.
Opening my mouth, I spat out the corpse-transforming pill.
The brilliance of the corpse-transforming pill had diminished, but it was not as exaggerated as when the swallow had absorbed the good corpse-transforming pill. It just lacked luster.
My action made Huāyíng realize what I was doing. In that instant when we locked eyes, her eyes were filled with surprise, and there was a trace of luster in her eyes swirling around.
Standing up, I could see her protruding belly.
She wanted to approach me but stopped immediately, looking a bit flustered with worry in her eyes.
My gaze was tender, and then I looked down at my own hand.
Before, I saw the swallow fetus.
At first, when I heard Mom say something was growing in my blood, I was puzzled. But after seeing the swallow fetus, I suddenly understood.
I've eaten a swallow fetus, just like the corpse in that coffin. When a person is about to die, something like a swallow fetus will grow on their body?
A true fetus, and the rest was a false fetus that appeared by absorbing vitality?
At this moment, there are no swallow fetuses on my hand, but I can see many patches of scar tissue, black and hard. Part of the skin is very white and lustrous, like a newborn baby's skin.
Then, I moved.
There was quite a bit of pain as I moved, breaking the scabs from my wounds. However, I didn't pay much attention to this pain. The pain from skin and muscle was far less than the one caused by White Immortal Ancestor using my body to unleash a fury of thunderstorms.
Huāyíng was held in my arms.
Just then, I dared not hold her tightly.
She sobbed softly, her hands clutched tightly onto my arms on either side, and her head wanted to bury itself in my shoulder.
This movement woke up everyone around.
Many Huā family members stared at me, surprised, but they also dared not come close to disturb me.
My mom also woke up, and she trembled as she uttered a prayer for divine protection. She stood up, wrapping her arms around me and Huāyíng. She cried so much that she couldn't speak.
"No harm... It's all right now." I comforted her gently.
