However, on this day, Bei Wei came to see Xu Yuehuai again.
"Come with me." With that, Bei Wei headed towards a secluded path.
Xu Yuehuai followed Bei Wei with doubts.
Passing a small pavilion and walking through a bamboo forest, we arrived at a hot spring.
The hot spring was filled with many flower petals of unknown species, and the surrounding area was filled with a strong fragrance.
While Xu Yuehuai was in a daze, Bei Wei grabbed her and pulled her into the hot spring.
The scalding heat of the hot spring hit her face in an instant, and Xu Yuehuai felt as if she were suffocating for a moment.
Her skin felt surprisingly comfortable soaking in the boiling water, as if the temperature wasn't hot enough and she wanted to absorb even more intense heat.
She felt that there must be something wrong with her mind to have such thoughts.
She then bit her tongue, and the pain brought her back to her senses.
After she could clearly see the flowers in front of her, her expression changed drastically, and her pupils dilated in shock!
Because all those flowers were poisonous!
Why did Bei Wei also enter this poisonous spring?
Xu Yuehuai shifted her body, wanting to walk towards the edge of the hot spring.
But suddenly she coughed up a mouthful of blood, which mixed with the hot spring and blended with the flower petals, deepening their color to a redder than blood.
Upon closer inspection, she realized that the flower petals had absorbed her blood!
She had never encountered such an unusual phenomenon before.
These flowers have an extraordinary origin!
Before she could think about it further, Xu Yuehuai suddenly felt that the power within her body was being restrained by a terrifying force. Gradually, it slipped out of her body and merged into the hot spring.
Then, she saw that the power was moving through the hot spring like a snake, eventually winding its way towards Bei Wei and coiling around her body.
Xu Yuehuai was shocked and furious, and looked up to meet Bei Wei's gaze.
"So, you actually wanted to absorb my power. No wonder you didn't want me to die before."
Bei Wei circulated her energy, absorbing all the power into her body. Then, she looked at Xu Yuehuai's weak appearance and a mocking smile appeared on her face.
“Xu Yuehuai, although I said everything was for your benefit, I did not say that this power would remain in your body forever.”
"Everything I do now is for a better tomorrow for this world!"
"What's wrong with us, the people of a higher race, being occupied?"
"We will accelerate the historical process of the indigenous people, enabling them to quickly achieve national unification, and then further advance their level of advancement..."
Bei Wei kept talking about her future unification plans, but Xu Yuehuai only felt that she was indulging in wishful thinking.
Not every place can succeed through rapid change; it depends on whether it is suitable for that place's conditions.
Such a one-sided, sweeping approach, as Bei Wei did, is absolutely unacceptable.
Steam rose from the hot spring, but Xu Yuehuai felt as if a mist had appeared in front of her, and her consciousness once again plunged into darkness.
She felt herself being lifted up and eventually returned to bed.
When Xu Yuehuai regained consciousness, she found herself back in the underground prison, surrounded by cold and hard stone walls.
Her breath was filled with the smell of dampness and mold.
"Hiss! She really didn't leave me anything." After the power within Xu Yuehuai's body disappeared this time, her body was bound by hard chains, and now her whole body felt heavy, making it very difficult to move.
She felt a lingering fear as she recalled everything that happened at the hot spring last night.
I wonder how many more times this will happen.
She didn't want to become nourishment for Bei Wei's growth indefinitely. Losing her freedom and being treated like a furnace for Bei Wei was worse than simply crippling her.
But now that she can't even control her own life or death, what can she still hope for?
She suddenly gave a bitter smile, laughing at her own powerlessness and at how fate knew how to play tricks on her.
But now is not the time for lamentation; no matter how difficult it is, she must persevere.
In the days that followed, everything unfolded exactly as Xu Yuehuai had predicted.
Every morning, she would be forcibly taken to the back mountain by the foreigners, where she would painstakingly dig out various rare stones every day.
The power leaking from the gemstone will reignite the restoration of the gemstone's power within her body.
Whenever her magical powers recovered slightly, Beiwei would come and take her away again.
She saw Beiwei's smile grow increasingly greedy and sinister, and Beiwei's strength grew ever more powerful and terrifying after repeatedly taking her into the hot springs and plundering her power.
Xu Yuehuai has truly become a tool for Beiwei to enhance its strength!
Bei Wei constantly had people deliberately keep her alive, making her suffer and preventing her from being harmed.
This may seem merciful to her, but it is actually a very cruel act. It not only deprives her of her dignity, but also gradually destroys her will and hope.
"Bei Wei! If I ever regain my freedom, I will destroy all your cultivation first." Xu Yuehuai couldn't help but feel a surge of resentment, after all, she had been tortured to the point of being neither human nor ghost these past few days.
Anyone whose body is filled with power one moment and becomes dry the next, would most likely be driven mad by this constant cycle of reversal.
It's truly remarkable that she's still lucid.
On this day, a glimmer of light appeared in the endless darkness; it was a lamp flickering by the narrow window of the dungeon.
Xu Yuehuai leaned closer and vaguely saw a familiar figure walking out from the palace. Both the silhouette and the back view were very similar to the person deeply etched in her memory.
"Is that you, Aze??"
Xu Yuehuai shouted in her heart, feeling both excited and expectant.
But as the other person walked further and further away, it was just passing by.
She was instantly pulled back to reality by reason, realizing that it was just an illusion.
How could Qi Guze possibly be here?
When her hopes were dashed once again, Xu Yuehuai's body suddenly convulsed violently.
A surge of pain erupted from the depths of my heart, surging forth like a tidal wave.
She had to clench her teeth and force herself not to make a sound.
The pain tormented her body and tormented her soul like a raging fire.
Is there no end to these days?
Is she destined to be trapped in this dungeon, spending her life in endless despair and pain?
During the most painful times, Xu Yuehuai's will was very weak, and she had to find the motivation to keep going each time in order to get through it.
When it was broad daylight, she was soaked in sweat, and the pain finally subsided.
But before she could rest, she was taken to the back mountain by the foreigners.
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