Black Owl felt as if there were thousands of sharp knives constantly stabbing and stabbing inside his sea of breath.
This feeling was familiar to him.
He had experienced such pain before, so much so that he often woke up in the middle of the night from nightmares.
He thought he would never experience these things again in his life, nor did he want to.
"I can't!" Black Owl could no longer care about pretense or pride. His eyes were filled with fear and pleading as he looked at Ji Fengyao: "Little Yao'er, let me out quickly. I can't, I can't do it!"
"Black Owl, hold on, don't give up halfway, otherwise your life will only end here." Ji Fengyao quickly reached out and pressed his shoulder, pushing him back into the bathtub.
"So what if I stop here? What does it matter if I live or die? I don't care." Hei Xiao gripped Ji Fengyao's hand tightly, his eyes filled with pain and the darkness and despair of an endless abyss. "Why should someone like me live? But even if I have to die, I want to die happily, so I don't have to suffer this torment anymore."
"Believe me, as long as you get through this, not only will you not die, but you will also have a wider world and a future. Everything you want will come to you one by one in the long years to come. As long as you endure this pain, everything will be alright. Believe me, Black Owl, believe me." Ji Fengyao pressed down on his shoulder with all her might, but her voice was extremely gentle.
As Black Hawk met her clear eyes, the humiliating images flashed through his mind.
His beautiful peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly, their red light alternating within. The shrill cries and muffled sobs around him were all replaced by a burst of wild laughter, and he looked like he was about to succumb to demonic possession again.
What kind of terrible torment did he endure, otherwise how could he not even survive a single medicinal bath!
Ji Fengyao was shocked. She continued to press his shoulder with one hand, while her other hand swiftly drew out silver needles and inserted them into various acupoints on his head to help him stabilize his mind. At the same time, she channeled the last bit of spiritual power in her body and tried to awaken him with a mind-awakening technique: "Black Owl, calm your mind and do as I say. Embrace your primordial energy, return all things to their breath, and let your breath flow into the sea..."
Black Owl struggled as he gazed at Ji Fengyao's dignified and otherworldly appearance, trying hard to clear his mind.
Outside the ship, in the depths of the river, thick fog still lingered.
Suddenly, a clear and melodious flute melody drifted in. The music was tender and beautiful, like a gentle spring rain, falling softly into people's hearts and minds, calming their spirits and inspiring them to do good.
With the sound of the flute, along with Ji Fengyao's mind-awakening technique and acupuncture, Hei Xiao gradually calmed down and slowly closed his eyes.
The immense pain continued to tear at the Black God's mind, but at this moment, he could hear mostly the sound of a flute and a little of Ji Fengyao's clear and pleasant voice. In his mind, he would often recall how Shang Xiye had risked his life to protect him time and time again over the years in order to persuade him.
I still remember that not long after Consort Lian left, Shang Xiye was seven years old.
He was eight years old at the time, and when he returned home, he found that all the people who had adopted him had just been murdered.
Amidst the torrential rain and a pool of blood, corpses littered the ground. Feeling utterly hopeless, he pierced his own left chest with a sword, seeking death.
Unable to find her mother, Shang Xiye came out of the palace crying to look for him. Enduring the pain of losing her mother, she dragged him out of the pile of corpses while crying, and carried him on her back in the pouring rain to find a doctor.
Rain and blood drenched young Shang Xiye from head to toe. He cried until his eyes were red but he didn’t make a sound.
He just kept repeating, "Xiao Chen, from now on you will be my only family in this world. If you die, there is no point in me living alone."
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