“Ugh…
ah!…”
Pain, it’s too painful.
Ye Shu thought he could endure it.
But he had thought too simply.
This feeling was like doing it thirty times a day; he felt like he was about to burst, yet he had to continue.
Even knowing he wouldn’t actually explode, his body was constantly fighting against his will.
As the intense pain washed over him, Ye Shu almost passed out from the agony.
The idea was beautiful, but reality was harsh.
At this moment, he wished he would just explode and get it over with.
But his desire for survival forcefully pulled him back from the brink of unconsciousness.
If he really fainted…
…then once the medicinal power of the iron armor pill wore off, he would explode like a balloon, leaving nothing but fragments.
He wanted to release the pain through screaming, but the iron armor pill made it difficult for him to even make a sound.
Amidst this pain, he still had to maintain the spiritual power circulation.
Despite understanding Ye Shu’s intentions, Danxia’s eyes couldn’t help but show worry.
How many billions of years has the Cultivation World existed?
How could no one have thought of this method before?
It’s just that without exception…
they either couldn’t withstand the powerful medicinal strength and exploded, or their Dantian was stretched so full of cracks by the Spiritual Qi that even if they succeeded, they could never progress further.
But what Danxia could think of, Ye Shu could think of as well.
Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump—
Following a series of piercing sounds, points of light like stars suddenly lit up all over Ye Shu’s body.
Due to the “Circumference of Heavenly Stars.”
Ye Shu’s Cultivate process was different from others.
To maximize the power of the Cultivation Technique, the first step was to open his acupoints, which were the key to his future Realm Breakthroughs.
But opening the acupoints was far too slow under normal circumstances.
Because no matter how grand the “Circumference of Heavenly Stars” was, Spiritual Qi always had to start from the Dantian.
In other words, he had to first guide the Spiritual Qi to the Dantian, then guide the Spiritual Qi within the Dantian to slowly open the acupoints.
Normally, he couldn’t speed it up even if he wanted to.
First, the Spiritual Pressure was insufficient to break through directly.
Furthermore, forcing a Breakthrough would definitely cause irreversible damage to the Meridians and acupoints.
Second, the amount of Spiritual Qi stored in the Dantian each time was insufficient; just to open one Acupoint, he might have to meditate several times and slowly consume several Qi Recovery Pills.
Consequently.
What would be a suicidal act for ordinary people had instead become a shortcut for him to quickly lay the foundation for the Circumference of Heavenly Stars.
As the violent spiritual power coursed through his Meridians.
Ye Shu was like a pressure cooker right now, steam rising from his entire body, as he exerted all his effort to guide the spiritual power.
Crack…
A faint, crisp sound.
It wasn’t loud, yet it was incredibly clear in the silent night.
It was a sound like iron shattering.
Ye Shu’s expression changed abruptly.
He had miscalculated.
He only remembered that the iron armor pill could grant the hardening of the Golden Core Stage, but forgot that the hardening from the iron armor pill was unlike a human Physical Body—it had no resilience to speak of.
And the only outcome of forcibly expanding the Meridians was…
Cracks.
Following the first crack, a fissure appeared on his metal-like hardened skin, followed quickly by a second, a third, a fourth…
Dense cracks spread rapidly.
Violent spiritual power escaped through the cracks, staining his clothes red with the burning blood from Ye Shu’s body.
And the cracks were still worsening, with no sign of stopping.
“I miscalculated…”
He had still overestimated himself and the effectiveness of the iron armor pill.
How could a mere Second-grade Medicinal Pill withstand a force comparable to an internal explosion?
Damage from within versus damage from without.
These were two different concepts!
Crack, crack, crack…
The cracks continued to expand.
Ye Shu could feel that even his face was starting to split open; his vision was blurred by his own blood, and he could even hear his bones groaning under the unbearable burden.
It’s over…
I’m really going to explode…
“Mmm…”
The pungent smell of blood made Xiao Bai on the bed wrinkle her little nose, and she then opened her bleary eyes.
When she saw Ye Shu beside her, covered in blood and riddled with cracks, her pupils constricted, and all traces of sleepiness vanished.
“You, you, you, what happened to you?”
Xiao Bai hurriedly got out of bed and scrambled over to Ye Shu in a panic.
Her large eyes were filled with terror; her small hand reached out to touch him but recoiled, frightened by the crack-covered skin.
Facing death, Ye Shu actually laughed.
“I might be a little bit dead.”
“How could you die?
How, how can you die?”
Xiao Bai was on the verge of tears from anxiety.
Everything was fine before she went to sleep; how could her Child of Destiny be about to croak after she woke up?
This wasn’t how the script was written at all.
“Wait.”
Her eyes suddenly lit up as if she had thought of something.
“It’s okay, Danxia, Danxia can save you.
She’s a Void Refining stage remnant soul; handling your situation would be easy for her.”
Hearing this, Ye Shu wasn’t happy at all.
“You mean to say that right now, I’m about to play myself to death, which counts as suicide.
Danxia only needs to stand by and watch me die with a clear conscience.
She wouldn’t even need to feel guilty because I’m the one who went crazy and got myself killed.”
“Once I’m dead, she can manifest to save Lin Qingxue’s life and then have Lin Qingxue take her back to the Qingxuan Sect.
I believe that in the memories implanted by the System, in the future before her Rebirth, that guy named Su Xiao definitely helped her reshape her body.”
“So…”
Ye Shu said helplessly.
“You want Danxia to give up a hundred percent chance of reshaping her body just to save a guy like me, someone she believes will betray her in the future?”
“But she was clearly helping you just now!”
Xiao Bai retorted.
“Homicide and suicide are two different concepts.”
“Good advice cannot save a ghost determined to die.
If I die by suicide, Danxia won’t have any psychological burden.”
“So you want her to save a bomb-maniac like me?”
Ye Shu chuckled bitterly in his heart.
“Stop making your Brother Ye laugh.”
However, just as he finished speaking.
A pair of illusory hands gently pressed against his back.