Chapter 1: Dressed as a Sacrifice, the God Awakes
It was cold, especially bone-chillingly cold, like many ice needles piercing into the bones.
The smell was very strong, all of blood, mixed with dirt and rotten things. I breathed it in with every breath, and it was uncomfortable.
Zheng Qiuyu opened his eyes.
What I see before me is not the white ceiling of the hospital, but black, extremely black, as thick as ink, with no end in sight.
She tried to move, but her wrists and ankles touched something cold and hard, and there was a "clattering" sound of metal friction.
She was locked up.
The body was fixed on a large stone platform, and the stone was ice-cold.
She lowered her head and saw clearly with the help of a little faint light that came from nowhere.
She was wearing a complex red robe, embroidered with strange patterns in gold thread. It looked like a wedding gown, but it felt very unlucky, as if it was something worn by a sacrificial offering.
His hands and feet were locked with thick black iron chains, and the other ends of the chains were nailed into the stone platform.
The stone platform is engraved with words, which are twisted and seem to be moving.
Outside the stone platform, in the deeper darkness, there are piles of bones, like mountains, which makes people feel despair just by looking at them.
Where is this? Hell?
Suddenly, many memories that did not belong to her rushed into her brain, causing her great pain and buzzing.
She traveled through the book.
I traveled into a fantasy novel that I had just read, where the men were particularly powerful.
Unfortunately, she wasn't the heroine, nor the supporting actress. Instead, she became cannon fodder, the legitimate daughter of the Zheng family, also named Zheng Qiuyu. The book says that in order to curry favor with the evil god and gain power, the Zheng family sacrificed their legitimate daughter, who possessed a "pure yin body," to the evil god, Zhuohuo, imprisoned in the ancient prison of Guixu.
Today is the day of blood sacrifice.
Her mission is to use her pure yin blood and clean soul to wash away the seal of the divine coffin and wake up the terrifying creature that has been sleeping for ten thousand years.
Then, the waking god would tear her into pieces and eat her as his first snack.
Zheng Qiuyu's heart sank to the bottom.
She subconsciously looked at her wrist.
There was a deep wound, and blood was gurgling out. The blood flowed along the cold skin and into a complex hole in the middle of the stone platform.
The blood was gone, the body became cold, there was no strength, I felt like my consciousness was drifting away, and I was about to die.
No!
She doesn't want to die!
She had just survived a serious illness and hadn't lived a good life yet, how could she die in such a hellish place!
Zheng Qiuyu struggled desperately, but the heavy iron chain clanged loudly as she pulled it, but it was no use.
The chain seemed alive, tightening even more and causing my bones to ache.
Despair, like the darkness here, drowned her.
At this moment, the entire Divine Prison shook violently!
“Boom!”
The earth shook and the mountains began to tremble. The mountain of bones beside the stone platform fell down with a loud noise, as if it was afraid of something.
In front of the stone platform, in the deepest darkness, there were "crackling, crackling" sounds of shattering.
Zheng Qiuyu's blood was all shed.
The hole sucked in the last drop of blood and emitted a strange red light.
An indescribable and terrifying pressure that could crush the soul came from the broken place!
Here we come!
He is waking up!
Zheng Qiuyu was nailed to the stone platform by the pressure, unable to move a finger, his soul was trembling and screaming.
"Bang!"
There was a loud bang, as if the world was created.
In the darkness ahead, there was a huge coffin made of some unknown magical gold, and its lid exploded!
The fragments flew around with divine power, flattening the surrounding mountain of bones.
A figure slowly sat up from the coffin.
It's a man.
Her hair was snow-white, long, and hanging down, very different from the black hair around her.
Her skin is so white and transparent, and her face is so beautiful that it doesn't look like a human. It seems like the best work of God, but a little bit weird.
He opened his eyes, and the entire light of the Guixu Divine Prison seemed to be sucked into his eyes.
Those were a pair of blood-red eyes.
There was no emotion in it, no happiness, no anger, not even the confusion of just waking up.
Only those who see everything as insects and all living beings as dirt are absolutely and eternally indifferent.
He is burning fire.
In the book, he destroyed several immortal sects as soon as he appeared, and became an evil god of destruction that changed the color of the sky and the earth.
The burning gaze slowly and calmly fell on Zheng Qiuyu who was lying on the stone platform.
The look in his eyes was as if he was looking at a bug that could be easily crushed to death.
No, not even as good as a bug.
It’s a snack that’s right in front of you.
Zheng Qiuyu felt as if his heart was being grabbed by an invisible hand and he couldn't breathe.
I wanted to scream, but no sound came from my throat. I wanted to beg for mercy, but I knew it was useless against such a being.
Death has never been so clear, so close.
The burning fire moved.
He didn't even stand up, but just sat in the coffin, and slowly raised his hand towards Zheng Qiuyu from a distance.
The hand is very beautiful, with distinct joints and is slender.
It was this hand that gently touched Zheng Qiuyu's eyebrows.
In an instant, Zheng Qiuyu felt that his soul was being torn away from his body by an irresistible force.
My consciousness felt like it was being sucked into a black hole and was about to disappear.
The coldness of death enveloped her.
It's over.
That's all.
At the last moment when her soul was about to be ripped away, a cold, emotionless mechanical voice exploded in her mind without any warning!
"[bite!]"
"[Detected that the host is extremely eager to live, meeting the conditions!]"
"[Word Spirit·Deceiving Heaven System, activated!]"
What?!
Zheng Qiuyu's consciousness, which was about to dissipate, suddenly shook!
system?
My golden finger?
What were you doing earlier? If you were half a second later, I would have been dead!
The mechanical voice ignored her and continued quickly:
"[Newbie Mission: Survive ten minutes under the hand of the God of Burning Fire.]"
Hint: The target god is 'Zhao Huo', who has been imprisoned for ten thousand years and whose soul is severely damaged. His emotions and memories have been stripped away by the laws of heaven. Now he knows nothing and is like a blank sheet of paper.
"[Seize this only chance!]"
Emotional memories being stripped away?
Don't understand anything? Like a blank slate?
These words, like a bolt of lightning, split Zheng Qiuyu's mind into a chaos of fear and despair!
Her heart stopped for a few seconds, then started beating wildly!
The only chance!
The only chance!
She understood!
Although Zhuo Huo is very powerful now, he is like a baby with the power to destroy the world!
He doesn't know what cheating is, he doesn't know what lies are, and he may not even know what "I" is!
A crazy idea popped into her mind.
This is a big gamble!
If you lose the bet, you die immediately.
If you win the bet, you can live!
She had to make up a lie that he couldn't check but that would appeal to his instincts!
A lie that would make him feel that she was "special"!
At this moment, the soul-tearing power of the burning fingertips reached its strongest point, and Zheng Qiuyu felt as if his skull was about to be ripped open!
No time to think!
Right now!
She suppressed the fear that was about to tear her soul apart and used all her acting skills from two lifetimes.
His eyes, which had been wide open with fear, were instantly filled with tears.
In a second, the look in his eyes changed from the fear of dying to ecstasy, grievance, and the extremely complicated emotion of wanting to get it back.
His lips were trembling, as if he had a lot to say but didn't know how to say it.
She looked like a lover who had been lost for ten thousand years and found him.
At the moment when the destructive power from the burning fingertips was about to penetrate her head!
Zheng Qiuyu used up the last bit of his strength, crying out those terrifying words to the beautiful yet cold god in the coffin:
"Husband!"
These two words seem to have magic power.
Time seems to have stopped.
The burning action stopped.
The divine power that could destroy everything at his fingertips stopped steadily an inch in front of Zheng Qiuyu's eyebrows.
Invisible energy blew away, and her hair and torn clothes flew everywhere.
But the fatal attack did not land.
For the first time, a crack appeared in Zhuohuo's bloodshot eyes, which had been as still as stagnant water for thousands of years.
It's not murderous intent, nor is it doubt, but a purer kind of... confusion.
He looked at the mortal woman in front of him, whose face was tearful and extremely excited.
Then, slowly, as if imitating her words, he whispered two words in a dry, unfamiliar voice, like the cracking of ten thousand years of ice:
"...Husband?"
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