"Pain! It hurts, hurts, hurts, hurts, hurts, hurts, hurts!"
After the battle, Bai Zhou pulled the Ferocious Long Nail from his right palm.
The pain that reached straight into his soul seemed to erupt all at once along with the nail's removal, making Bai Zhou visibly shudder violently from head to toe, his entire body trembling nonstop as though he were having a seizure.
Even with the [Soothing] character supporting his mind, Bai Zhou had nearly fainted on the spot.
And that was not all.
"Boom!"
A cross suspended somewhere between nothingness and translucence suddenly emerged from the ground. Dim gray light blossomed from it and drew Bai Zhou's body upward, making him look like a sinner bound to the cross!
"Bai Zhou!"
The Gem Witch's heart tightened, and she immediately grabbed her Magic Staff and charged out of the car.
"Don't come over!"
Bai Zhou stopped her with a shout. His face remained calm and expressionless as he answered casually, "I'll be fine in a moment."
Immediately afterward, as though a sinner being judged, Bai Zhou was bound to the cross and trembled all over. Unbearable pain crushed every cell in his body over and over, leaving him shaking ceaselessly upon the cross, fine beads of sweat already covering his composed face.
The boy who had looked so imposing just moments ago now appeared utterly helpless—
Like a pitiful lamb awaiting slaughter.
"Bai Zhou—"
It was the first time the Gem Witch and Fang Xiaoxia had seen Bai Zhou like this. Their hearts clenched painfully, but because of Bai Zhou's words, neither dared approach rashly.
Perhaps what people could least bear to see was a pure and flawless Saintess falling into the mortal world, a high-spirited youth reduced to hardship and desolation, and—
A hero who had just saved