After numerous castings, Wang Yao's sense of shame had long since vanished. When faced with pain, he would scream without hesitation, while simultaneously maintaining close attention to the casting process, searching for that fleeting moment of inspiration.
Under the repeated scorching of the flames, the nascent soul gradually began to vaporize. However, the gas that the nascent soul transformed into did not dissipate. On the contrary, the gas gently seeped into Wang Yao's lungs and internal organs, and continued to rise rhythmically with his ghostly cries, eventually settling in his sea of consciousness.
Not only the nascent soul, but also the red thread wrapped around it was burned away and migrated into Wang Yao's sea of consciousness.
This process was extremely agonizing. Although Wang Yao's nascent soul was only the size of a thumb, the burning sensation from the soles of his feet to the top of his head was incredibly long. Often, Wang Yao would howl for a long time, but his nascent soul seemed to remain unchanged. He only felt that the pain was being stretched out infinitely and endlessly.
After finally waiting for the last thread of the nascent soul and the red thread to migrate, without even a moment's rest, Wang Yao's head suddenly swelled up with a "buzz". In the blink of an eye, Wang Yao could see that his cheeks had bulged out and were still expanding rapidly at a visible speed.
His neck swayed as if it could no longer bear the weight of his head and was about to break. However, after several forgings, Wang Yao was no longer flustered. He knew that these were all temporary illusions caused by the forging process, and everything would return to normal once the forging was finished.
Moreover, although this swelling of the head is also painful, it is much less so than the previous casting. The main discomfort is mental, like water being poured into the brain, filling it up and swelling until it is about to burst.
Sure enough, Wang Yao's head stretched bigger and bigger... until finally, with a "pop," it burst open from the inside out, like a watermelon with a firecracker popping inside its belly.
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