428: Unspeakable pain

This sudden, violent internal conflict manifested in a terrifying external display!

Bi Yao's body instantly went out of control!

Her lunging posture froze abruptly in mid-air! Her entire body felt as if it were being torn apart from within by two unimaginably massive forces!

The expression on her face shifted wildly; one moment it was ferocious and spiteful, the next it revealed the pain and anxiety belonging to Bi Yao herself, interweaving and overlapping.

It was as if an invisible pair of hands were desperately kneading her face, almost crushing her bones!

The muscles in her right shoulder and arm twitched and spasmed violently at a speed visible to the naked eye!

It was as if countless deadly vipers were writhing madly under the skin of that arm, fighting for control!

Snap! Crack!

Her right shoulder joint abruptly dislocated with a scalp-tingling sound of shifting bones and tearing tendons!

Her entire right arm, in an extremely bizarre and twisted posture, like a marionette controlled by invisible, malicious strings, moved downwards.

It swung out toward where Su Han was—extremely unnaturally, both fast and viciously!

That slender palm, with five fingers curled into a claw, its fingertips bearing a fierceness as if to burn together with jade, was no longer aiming to grab Su Han. Instead, it tore through the air with pinpoint precision, viciously clawing toward that small pool of dark red liquid Su Han was about to touch!

Su Han's fingertips were only an inch away from that blood-like liquid!

He could even feel the scorching, strange sensation radiating from beneath his fingertips, as if it would melt his skin!

But Bi Yao's out-of-control clawing fingertips were faster!

That twisted arm tore through the air, carrying a non-human power driven simultaneously by death and despair!

Hiss—!

A faint, teeth-gritting sound of corrosion rang out!

It wasn't Su Han who touched that dark red liquid!

It was the right hand that Bi Yao had swung down in complete loss of control!

Her three fingertips, like hot oil meeting rolling snow, instantly sank into that pool of dark red liquid, which was as viscous as bloody grease!

The moment of contact was like a red-hot iron pressed suddenly against the most sensitive nerve endings!

"Hiss, hiss, hiss!" A harsh burning sound immediately spread from her fingertips! The dark red liquid seemed to be instantly activated, and a thick, scarlet mist rose up immediately!

Simultaneously, the heart-rending and terrifying screams of the two Souls inside Bi Yao rang out, completely distinct from each other!

"Awoo—!!!"

A shrill, frantic, non-human howl, like billions of fingernails scraping against a metal plate, belonged to the ancient will occupying her body!

The sound contained supreme hatred, extreme destructive impulses, and the endless pain of having the root of one's Soul thrown into a furnace!

It was desperately trying to pull Bi Yao's arm back!

The part of her fingertips in contact with the liquid hissed, emitting even thicker scarlet, corrosive smoke, as if it were not water, but the most potent magma from the Demon Realm!

The skin of Bi Yao's entire arm instantly broke out in large, bizarre, scorched red marks, as if invisible flames were burning beneath her flesh!

Her slender, fair fingers were turning pitch-black, cracked, and withered at a speed visible to the naked eye!

It was as if something invisible was frantically sucking and destroying the fundamental basis that constituted material existence!

"Ah—woo—!"

The other sound was a painful groan belonging to Bi Yao herself—faint yet incredibly tenacious, filled with pain yet carrying a trace of frantic persistence!

Like a drowning person clutching at a final straw, she resisted with all her might against the terrifying force inside her body that was trying to pull her hand back!

Her fingertips continued to desperately push downward, and further downward!

It was as if she wanted to inflict this bone-eroding, heart-burning pain more thoroughly upon the foreign object entrenched deep within her Soul!

Her eyes were sometimes clouded over, and sometimes flashed with a fleeting, clear tearful light!

Su Han seized the opportunity created by this sacrifice!

He almost slammed his face into the ground; blood blurred his vision, but instinct and his last bit of clarity allowed him to precisely capture the location of that liquid!

While Bi Yao's corroded and burned hand was still frantically trembling downward, pressing and splashing more of the dark red liquid from the hollows of the bone joints, and in the tiny window of time hindered by the spasms of Bi Yao's out-of-control arm, Su Han's right hand, with the ferocity of a desperate plunder, suddenly thrust through the gap beneath her arm!

Splat!

His entire right palm, regardless of everything, was slammed fiercely into that small, remaining pool of dark red, bloody filth in Bi Yao's hand, which was constantly overflowing and being evaporated by corrosion!

Indescribable burning pain!

It was like pressing his palm alive into the bottom of a boiling pool of strong acid!

An extreme burning sensation instantly pierced through every nerve ending!

A roar suppressed to the limit erupted from Su Han's throat, like the desperate bellow of a dying beast being dragged into a pot of boiling oil!

The skin of his palm made a terrifying "sizzle" sound the moment it made contact, as if his flesh were being frantically stripped away!

A thicker, more bizarre deep-red mist mixed with pitch-black corrosive vapor rose from the point of contact!

He could clearly "feel" that this liquid, viscous like semi-solid gel, was definitely not water!

(End of Chapter)