Time passed second by second.
The blazing sun gradually sank westward, and the evening glow on the horizon was ruthlessly swallowed by the night.
The temperature began to plummet. A cold wind from the edge of Sunset Forest howled through the dilapidated little village, carrying a bone-piercing chill.
From broad daylight until the pitch-black night when one could not see their hand before their face, Yu Xiaogang lay unconscious in the cold mud, ignored by all.
It was not until the moon hung high overhead that several unknown wild birds let out mournful cries from a withered tree in the distance.
"Hiss..."
In the rotten mud, the figure swollen into something like a pig's head finally let out an extremely faint, pained groan.
Yu Xiaogang woke up.
But as his consciousness returned, a tidal wave of excruciating pain, enough to drive anyone mad, instantly swept through his entire body!
"It hurts! My bones... My bones have all fallen apart!"
Yu Xiaogang felt as though there was not a single part of his body that did not hurt.
His face was so swollen that he could not even open his eyes, only barely forcing open the tiniest slit.
The pain of his broken nose meant that every breath came with piercing agony, while his mouth was filled with the thick taste of blood and the foul stench of mud.
He tried to move a finger, only to find that his legs and ribs sent waves of heart-rending pain through him.
Broken!
All broken!
That old gatekeeper had actually struck without mercy and broken even his leg bones!
"Who... who am I supposed to reason with over this?!"
Yu Xiaogang lay in the freezing mudwater as tears mixed with blood and slid uncontrollably from the corners of his eyes.
His heart was