In the past, when Xiangyang got into fights, it wasn't just about punches landing; they would even break each other's arm bones and shatter each other's ribs.
[For injuries that could cause an ordinary person to die from excruciating pain, he would only howl with excitement, instead of showing a pained expression like he did just now.]
The sixteen of you exchanged glances, and finally headed together in a certain direction to the next level, where the only living being in this universe resided.
No, she's not the only living being, but she is indeed the only one suffering here.
When you arrived, she was being torn apart by a wild bear in a snowy plain. The bear ripped off her flesh and gnawed away, leaving only bones. But then flesh grew back, and the cycle repeated itself endlessly. How long had this been going on?
[A celestial being swiftly killed a wild bear with a wave of his hand, but as soon as the bear died, wolves from several kilometers away rushed in to attack.]
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of miles away, another wild bear has respawned in an open area, exactly the same as the one you just killed.
"What... is going on here?"
You approached her to ask questions. The woman's injuries had healed in the short time, but she was still trembling violently, clearly indicating that the pain had not subsided along with her injuries.
But she was still able to look up and communicate with you, leaving you in awe of her powerful will.
[You learned a lot from your conversation with her. Her name is Elaine, and she comes from a world called Frosty Day, where frost fills the sky.]
She rose from humble beginnings as a commoner girl to become the supreme empress of that world, known as the Ice Queen, or simply the Empress of Ice.
Then Bai He appeared, announcing everything, wanting to see her fall into some kind of despair.
Ellen chose to rebel.
And then... they were sealed here, to suffer eternal punishment.
You saw the weariness in her eyes; she had long wanted to end it all, but the world wouldn't allow her eternal rest. Death only meant her return.
Her spirit and soul should have collapsed long ago, but the world also wouldn't allow her will to crumble, forcibly maintaining her clear cognition and memories.
She didn't know how long she had been here; perhaps a trillion years, or a hundred trillion years.
[Through the torment of endless years, Elaine has surrendered, admitted defeat, regretted, and sincerely apologized to Baihe.]
Because the will to live truly has its limits. The pride and perseverance a person cultivates over thousands of years may be incredibly strong, and even a thousand years of torment might not be enough to make her yield... but what about billions of years?
That would far surpass everything she had experienced before; the vast memories and the passage of time would completely overwhelm the resilient personality she had cultivated over mere millennia, utterly twisting her!
[Before being able to live or die, all former pride was shattered and destroyed, leaving not a trace.]
She hated the audacious version of herself who had provoked Bai He. The original Ice Queen was dead; only a utterly destroyed and tormented person remained.
Bai He still wouldn't let her go, keeping her imprisoned in this endless purgatory, with each cycle lasting a hundred years. When the time was up, she would be moved to the next level, endlessly experiencing reincarnation within ten thousand layers of space.
Sometimes, for the sake of novelty, he would seal her memories, making her revert to her original state and curse at him... then release her memories to enjoy her breakdown.
Even now, Eileen is indifferent.
Even after the conversation ended, Ellen, her heart ashen, uttered, "Isn't it time?"
You're all confused: "When is it?"
"It's time to reveal the truth. You are his 'saviors,' claiming to have killed my master and now offering to rescue me from this predicament."
"But when you take me away, it's another hell..."
She smiled nonchalantly and said, "I've had this experience tens of thousands of times already, haven't I? I'm not sure if there are any sealed memories from before, or if there will be even more."
After saying this, she suddenly plunged her fingers into her eye sockets, mutilating herself and letting out a piercing scream.
She writhed and raged on the ground in agony, like rotting flesh still possessing a vital nervous system. You tried to stop her, but were stunned by her agonizing screams.
That was neither a human voice nor the voice of a wild beast.
Rather, it was a kind of desperate, meaningless sound emanating from mechanical steel.
This is an endless suffering that lasts for eternity.
You all stared blankly as she died.
Then, in the next moment, she came back to life.
[When she tried to continue self-harming, you stopped her and then took her out of this infernal universe.]
[Eileen: "Is this some new method? I don't recall ever seeing it before."]
"It's true," one of you said.
[It was Chu Xiao who spoke, the one betrayed by his best brother and the woman he loved most, the one mocked by passersby? A Great Emperor reborn? The Chosen One.]
His personality is that of an overbearing, self-centered individual; therefore, he is relatively the least affected by this situation.
[You and the other fourteen immortals have not yet recovered from the miserable and desperate state that Elaine was in earlier.]
If all the despair she had accumulated over billions of years were piled up, it could probably create an emotional life form a thousand times more powerful than the Lord of the Underworld.
Eileen remained utterly despondent, seeing no hope whatsoever.
[As a fellow victim of Bai He, you have considerable respect for Ellen, your "senior" who once fought back against him. Although she suffered a terrible fate and eventually submitted, at least she once fought back against Bai He.]
[This foreseen future continued, and Ellen lived a life of suspicion and delusion in the Primordial Heaven Realm, no longer suffering torment or experiencing irrational pain every single moment.]
But she still didn't believe it all, mistaking all the beauty for the calm before the storm, and believing that all the comfort was merely a prelude to the hell to come, designed to intensify her suffering through the contrast between the past and the future.
[Furthermore, after repeated entries and exits, you have discovered a question regarding the White He Universe.]
[Time flow rate.]
[The time flow in the Baihe Universe is four billion trillion times faster than the Light Dust Source Soup!]
[This is absolutely outrageous!]
[After learning about such an alarming ratio of time flow, you had a wildly imaginative guess.]
"Is it possible that Ellen spent countless eons in that hell, but in reality, she was only in the Light Dust Source Soup for a few hundred years?"
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