Heart-Eroding Martial Path

"Pain?"

Zhang Sanxian's voice was calm and unruffled. "Nothing much."

At those words, the girl's clear eyes suddenly lit up like an explosion, as though she had glimpsed some kind of hope.

"Y-you really aren't afraid?!" Her voice trembled with wild joy.

"Mhm." Zhang Sanxian nodded.

"Th-then, c-can you help me?"

The girl's voice was filled with a cautious plea, like a child who wanted candy but feared being refused. "I-I'm so tired.

"It hurts so much. I want to sleep—sleep forever, and never wake up again."

"Is that so?" Zhang Sanxian frowned. "Then... how should I help you?"

"Take it away! Take all the 'things' inside my body—take all of them away!"

The girl's brainwaves surged violently, carrying a yearning for release. "There's... so, so much pain in there... and so, so much power... I'll give it all to you, all of it!

"This is the only thing I have—the only thing I can give. I'll give it to you, all of it. Please, take it away—take it away and let me... let me sleep forever—"

With the Grand Void Sword Soul's extraordinary senses, Zhang Sanxian abruptly gleaned a vast amount of information from the violently rippling brainwaves of this girl.

Her name was Gu Youlian. Born with an abnormally enormous head, she possessed mental power far beyond that of ordinary people, as well as near-immortal regenerative abilities.

Had nothing unexpected happened, this girl, who could be called heaven's favored child, had been destined to become an unparalleled powerhouse.

Yet from the day she was born, Gu Youlian had been imprisoned deep within this ancient city by her own biological father.

She had endured horrifying torments no ordinary person could bear—whipping, sawing off her hands, needle pricks, kneeling, cutting off her nose, flaying, drilling into her skull, boiling her