Just as the more powerful an individual was in nature, the rarer its numbers, an extraordinary poison as precious as Soul-Severing was difficult even for knights to withstand once they fell victim to it. Yet on the other hand, Soul-Severing's effects were limited in duration. After being poisoned by it, one could not remain forever in that state where consciousness and body were completely separated.
Soul-Severing—when the soul left the body, one lost all control of oneself; but when the soul returned, it was as if one had awakened from a grand dream.
When the effects of Soul-Severing completely faded, Zhang Tie slowly awoke and opened his eyes.
He was in a room. The room seemed to be inside a mountain cavern spanning over a thousand square meters. The cavern was not natural, but man-made, and everything within the room had been carved with great precision. Above, below, and all around were massive bodies of granite. A Myriad-Year Fluorspar Lamp hung from the ceiling, its dim yellow light casting a hazy glow through the cavern.
Some underground plants, the kind cultivated only in sealed chambers to keep the air fresh, had been planted in this subterranean cavern. At the same time, Zhang Tie could faintly hear the muffled surge of waves from outside the cave, indicating that this cavern was likely beneath an island or by the sea...
"Clatter..." Zhang Tie moved his limbs, only to find that his hands and feet were all bound by thick alloy rune chains. The instant he moved, the massive alloy rune chains around his limbs rang out with a clattering sound.
With just one glance downward, Zhang Tie knew that these alloy rune chains had been specially made. As a hidden master-level Rune Refiner, he recognized at once that the metal used to