Chapter 29: The Second Seven-Day War (Part 1)
The alliance issue was successfully resolved, but before the atmosphere in the room could recover for a few seconds, problems arose.
Beichen's face, which was smiling just now, suddenly turned pale, and her facial features twisted in pain. Even with Yagard supporting her, she still staggered and tightly grasped the wrist of the knight next to her.
"What's the matter, Yasu?"
Seeing that Beichen's expression was not right, Carina took a step forward anxiously, and Rui and Redis at the other end of the room also hurried over.
"It's okay, sorry to bother you all, it's just a drug addiction."
“Drug addiction!?”
Beichen did not answer, as if he had used up all his concentration in order to suppress the damage caused by drug addiction. He suddenly lost the ability to speak, just closed his eyes tightly, bit his lips tightly, and held Yagard's hand tightly, even using so much force that veins were broken.
Hearing the noise, several other people who had stayed in the lounge also rushed out. Heihuo and Sujie were the first to surround Beichen, but their outstretched hands were blocked by Beichen.
"Beichen!"
"Hey, what's wrong? Are you sad?!"
"Don't touch me—the blood-blooming cereus dew is hallucinogenic when it takes effect. Now I can't see anything—"
Beichen panted and murmured with difficulty, and Lingdier widened his eyes in surprise when he heard the word.
"Blood Epiphyllum Dew?! Who was so cruel as to force you to drink this stuff? If you don't drink it, the addiction will be very painful, but after drinking it, you will become a puppet at the mercy of others just to drink more. How many times have you drunk it?"
"once."
It was just a few simple words, but Beichen seemed to have difficulty concentrating. It took him several seconds to barely understand, and then he answered with difficulty.
"Just once... Is this what happens when a drug addiction strikes..."
Lingdi'er's eyes became dim and he lowered his head, as if thinking about something.
And Yagad obviously noticed her expression and sent her a warning glance.
But Lingdiel laughed and shook his hand.
"Don't worry, I'm not thinking of anything bad. Does anyone here know how to curb this addiction?"
"Want to try tranquilizer bullets?"
Xifeng whispered on the side, but Beichen shook his head.
"This won't help me permanently overcome my addiction. I can't live on your tranquilizer bullets forever. My body will eventually develop a resistance to them—whoosh!"
"Just knock him out?" Glen She suggested coldly from the side.
"It's no use. If I don't get rid of the hallucination, I'll start acting like a sleepwalker—damn it, here we go again..."
"Beichen!"
Heihuo, Sujie, and Gu Yinyue all shouted anxiously at the same time. Xiaoping and Yaye stood nearby with grim expressions, observing her expression, while Longyun and Naraka ran to get water and took out the recovery spirit crystal respectively.
“Wow—the hallucinations are getting worse and worse… Haah…”
Beichen curled up and cried softly.
"Anything is fine, who can give me the pain that can cover up these things!"
—Pain?
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. While directly inflicting pain on the body was the best way to inflict pain, doing so every time wasn't a solution, was it? Even with the healing crystals, the body would still collapse.
So, is there a way to inflict pain without causing harm?
Just when everyone was at a loss, Yaye suddenly strode up to Beichen.
"Try using me. Be prepared. The backlash from using the Dark Seed will be so painful it can send you into shock."
Beichen's eyes regained clarity in a few seconds, and then she nodded vigorously.
"good!"
Yaye said no more, just waved his hand, and in the dazzling purple-black miasma, he turned into a huge sickle surrounded by black mist, floating in front of Beichen. Beichen used the last bit of his remaining sanity to grab the black sickle handle!
“Ahhhh!!”
The next moment, a huge, soul-wrenching pain came from the handle of the knife, which almost easily suppressed the presence of drug addiction and allowed the pain to overwhelmingly occupy his mind.
Pain, pain, pain.
The sharp and tingling pain, like being bitten by millions of tiny insects, started from the right hand holding the sickle handle, and spread to the whole body. The brain went blank for a while, and the spinal cord and body trembled violently. The hallucinations brought by drug addiction were cut off, and the vision was obscured by the temporary blindness caused by the severe pain. I only felt a darkening in front of my eyes.
It hurts so much that I can't think.
The pain was so severe that I wanted to faint.
It hurts so much that I need to vent.
Beichen broke away from Yagard with the sickle in hand and staggered back a step. When she looked up, her black pupils turned blood red, and her usual gentle expression was long gone. Her black hair and red eyes gave her a frantic and helpless aura like a witch, and now, bursts of black air surrounded her.
"Hey! Yaye, stop messing around!!"
"I know—tsk, if you can't hold on any longer, just let go, idiot!"
But for some reason, people would reflexively retract their hands and dodge when encountering something that would cause them pain. But now, Beichen was holding Yaye's sickle handle tightly and refused to let go. It seemed that her strong desire to get rid of the drug addiction made her body begin to masochistically crave the pain.
"Hey! Xiang Beichen! Did you hear me? If you can't handle it, let go!!"
She didn't know how many times he roared before Yaye's voice reached her ears. She supported herself on the ground with the handle of the sickle and shook her head vigorously as if she had just sobered up.
She seemed to have gotten used to the pain of Yaye's backlash, and her drug addiction had slowly faded away.
But she still didn't let go immediately.
Because the huge pain that just surged into her body was accompanied by a fleeting sense of "something" - the pain lasted for so long, and this "something" had flashed vaguely several times, but unfortunately, she was unable to capture it because she was unconscious.
It's just that she subconsciously felt that this "something" should be very important.
It seems like a warm yet heartbreaking picture.
It seemed like a gentle yet infuriating statement.
It seems like a beautiful yet sad memory.
These fleeting blurry things, mixed with the blood-red pain, merged into her body - no, perhaps these things were the source of this pain.
Yaye said that this was the "backlash" of the Fallen Dark Race - in other words, this pain was the Fallen Dark Race expressing their rejection and resistance to humans.
Well, this backlash and rejection is probably related to why the Dark Seed fell into darkness.
Thinking that this might touch upon Yaye's past, which he least wanted to be touched, Beichen came to his senses and, panting, let go of Yaye's sickle handle.
Yaye turned back into human form in the black light, and then quickly caught her exhausted body.
"You idiot, do you want to die in pain?"
Yaye growled in annoyance, then pinched her face and shook it, like an elder scolding a child.
"It hurts, but it's effective." Beichen smiled weakly at Yaye, then nodded to the people around him. "Don't worry, everyone, it's okay."
"That's impressive," Carina exclaimed in admiration. "I've never seen anyone with more than one riel of Darkseed. You got a full three, right?"
"Y-Really?"
Beichen felt a little embarrassed by Jialina's admiring look, and scratched his nose with a dry laugh.
"Maybe I get used to the pain after a while."
"How can you get used to pain..."
Galina rolled her eyes in surprise and amusement, then took out a small bottle from Luo Hou's storage space and handed it to Beichen, ignoring King Sazam's countless glares.
"You're already low on energy, and you'll be exhausted after all this. Here, this is some good stuff! It's a healing potion made from hundreds of healing spirit crystals. Drink it and you'll be full of energy."
Beichen was about to refuse, but Jialina opened the bottle cap directly, and Yaye beside her immediately cooperated and restrained her hands, so this bottle of extremely precious refining potion was poured into her stomach.
Seeing this, Lingdier scratched his hair in some distress.
"Tsk, Lord Carina, you're so cunning. Why are you acting like such a good sister? You make me feel like I'm vicious if I don't say anything."
"Even if the master says something, he can't avoid the vicious facts."
Xuanming complained in a very low voice behind her, but was immediately interrupted by Lingdi's hateful "Shut up" - then she took out a spirit crystal the size of a fingernail from Xuanming's storage space.
"promise!"
She reluctantly slammed it into Beichen's hands.
"I'm not impressed by your ability to overcome your drug addiction, nor am I surprised you've been able to hold onto the Dark Seed for so long. I'm just giving it to you out of pity for your difficult fate. It's a detoxifying spirit crystal. Keeping it nearby can slowly draw out toxins from your body. It's incredibly precious, and even I only have a few. You must keep it well!"
"The master's tsundere act is totally unbelievable..."
Xuanming continued to complain quietly in the corner, but because no one heard him, he looked a little funny and a little helpless as he spoke.
Beichen looked at the spirit crystal and nodded seriously without being polite.
"Then I'll take it. I really need it. Thank you, Ringdir. I will repay you."
"It's so annoying! I'm not helping you for anything in return. Isn't the bribe Hayat already enough?"
Ling Dier snorted, turned around and walked back to Xuanming.
"Brother, it seems like we've been robbed of our spotlight."
"Just think of them as just trying to get close to each other. It's okay, there will always be opportunities for one-on-one contact."
The two princes of Heyang—no, it should be said that the new king and the duke—complained and comforted each other at the same time.
Beichen was thanking Jialina and Lingdier, while Xiaxue suddenly looked towards the door of the reception room:
"Well, another guest has arrived."
The room suddenly became quiet. Yizhi, who was closest to the door, walked to the front and opened it. Then two figures outside the room slowly walked in.
There are two weapons.
One is a woman with light green hair and honey-colored eyes. She is wearing an exquisite, tight-fitting white dress that outlines a figure that is not very hot but looks exquisite and graceful. The expression on her face is gentle and calm. She looks graceful, decent and extraordinary.
One was a tall and thin man with long black hair and bangs covering his eyes. Although he looked a little thin, for some reason, there seemed to be a dangerous aura surrounding him.
The two warriors seemed a little surprised that there were so many people crowded in the reception room. They were stunned for a moment, and then the woman with light green hair spoke first with a smile.
"Hello everyone, my name is Baiming Staff·Fei Lian·Qi Scar·Quantitative Seed."
As she spoke, she winked at the male warrior beside her.
"Dagger, Noval, August, Yeyueseed."
The dagger named Noval spoke softly. Inexplicably, this soft and chilling voice reminded people of the rustling sound of a snake crawling.
Seeing the puzzled faces of everyone in the room, Fei Lian bowed to them with a gentle smile:
"We are here to see Miss Yaxiu Tuling and Mr. Gu Yinyue—as prizes for the martial arts tournament."
Beichen and Gu Yinyue finally came back to their senses - after so many things happened, they almost forgot that they had made it into the top ten and could get generous prizes.
However, it seems that some people do not completely believe this statement, such as Xiaopeng and Yagard.
Fei Lian continued to speak with a gentle smile.
"However, apart from the first place prize, which is a one-month contract with His Highness Xiaxue, the other nine prize winners will receive lifetime contracts for their war weapons. Furthermore, the weapons will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis."
Fei Lian spoke very cryptically, but everyone still understood.
What she meant was that she and the dagger beside her were actually the last two prizes left by the other seven winners and no one wanted them - they were definitely the two most useless ones.
However, Beichen didn't care too much about this.
"So that's how it is. Then, Yin Yue?"
Meeting Beichen's inquiring gaze, Gu Yinyue just shook his head.
"You are the runner-up, you choose first."
"..." Beichen was silent for a few seconds, "Then you choose. Feilian, Noval, who of you wants to sign with me, and who wants to sign with Yinyue?"
Fei Lian raised her eyebrows and pouted in surprise:
"You want us to choose?"
"Yeah." Beichen didn't give a reason, but nodded firmly. "You choose."
"Then I choose Gu Yinyue."
Noval spoke first in a low voice.
"Ash Tuling's hook has a similar attack range to mine, and his black form also shares some combat characteristics with me."
As he spoke, he walked with completely inaudible steps and floated behind Gu Yinyue. Gu Yinyue looked at him for a few seconds and nodded slightly as a greeting.
Fei Lian smiled and combed her light green hair.
"That's exactly what I want. I'd rather have Yashu Tuling as my contractor."
As she spoke, the beautiful and dignified lady walked up to Beichen.
"I'm a Spirit Crystal Production Staff. Although I don't have any combat power, I've been given the 'proper name' of Baiming, so I'm quite confident in my Spirit Crystal manufacturing abilities. I can't produce any extremely rare Spirit Crystals, but any Spirit Crystal you want that's commercially available, I can make as long as I give me some time."
"That...that's pretty amazing!"
Beichen exclaimed in surprise - strange, with such practical skills, why are the other seven Lingwu Divisions not interested in her?
As if seeing through Beichen's doubts, Feilian shook her head with a slightly self-deprecating smile.
"Because the spirit crystals I can make can all be purchased, naturally it's not a must-have weapon. Anyone with money can naturally buy spirit crystals, so why ask me to spend time to make it again?"
"I see. But I think it's really impressive that you can produce so many different types of spirit crystals. At least this way you don't have to worry about running out of any particular type of spirit crystal and then running out of stock."
Fei Lian looked at Beichen in silence for a few seconds, then curled the corners of her lips and murmured something irrelevant to the question.
"Then I'd appreciate your guidance, Miss Yaxiu Tuling."
Following these words, the alert look on Xiao Peng's face became even more serious.
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