No! I Can't Give Up!

Just as they were trying to find Lin Xia, the next second, they were all swept away by a giant wave and completely separated!

I don't know how much time passed!

When Lin Xia finally opened her eyes, the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud had completely lost its light...

Cold.

The pervasive coldness, like countless poisoned steel needles, pierced deep into the marrow, stirring the soul.

Lin Xia's consciousness was forcibly pried open by something sharper in this frigid cold that could freeze even the soul.

It wasn't an awakening; it was being Sheer Force dragged out of the Abyss of darkness by excruciating pain.

"Uh... ha..."

A broken, gasping sound rolled from his throat, even his groans were filled with tearing pain.

He couldn't feel his limbs; he only had a terrifying feeling of "swelling," as if something beyond his limits had been Sheer Force stuffed into his body, and every cell was screaming and struggling on the verge of bursting.

That's not swelling of flesh and blood, it's something deeper and more deadly—the meridians!

Every meridian felt as if it were being Sheer Force filled with molten lead, or as if it were being torn apart from the inside by an invisible giant hand. Every faint pulse of blood brought excruciating pain, like being cut by a knife or axe, so painful that his vision went black in waves, and his consciousness was tossed about in the waves of agony.

"Whoosh--!"

A cold, salty liquid, with a violent force, slapped against his face and poured into his mouth, which was instinctively slightly open in pain.

"Cough... cough! Ugh--!"

The feeling of suffocation and the strong, nauseating salty smell instantly woke him up.

Driven by the instinct to survive, he turned sharply to the side, coughing and gagging violently, trying to expel the cold venom that had invaded his lungs.

The salty, astringent taste clung stubbornly to the back of my tongue, and every breath brought a tearing pain to my chest.

This movement of the body was like detonating a powder keg buried deep within the flesh and blood.

Boom!

An indescribable, excruciating pain instantly swept through every nerve ending, causing a frantic wail from fingertips to the tips of hair.

Stars flashed before his eyes, a sweet taste rose in his throat, and with a "whoosh," a large mouthful of thick, eerily dark purple blood spurted onto the damp sand beneath him, spreading an ominous stain on the grayish-white background.

Purple blood?

Lin Xia's blurry vision caught sight of this eerie color, and her heart sank.

He clenched his Bite so tightly that his gums almost bled, using the last of his willpower to fight against the excruciating pain that was almost dragging him back into unconsciousness, struggling to sit up little by little.

Every muscle contraction was accompanied by a terrifying sound as if the meridians in his body were being Sheer Force stretched and twisted, and cold sweat instantly soaked through his tattered clothes.

He gasped for breath, like a fish out of water, each breath carrying a mixture of blood and salty stench.

My vision blurred with pain, and I struggled to focus.

Beneath me lay rough, cold, damp sand, mixed with broken shells and pebbles.

Before him was the ceaseless, gray-blue seawater, tirelessly surging onto the beach and washing over his lower body, which was submerged in the shallow water.

What had just been poured into his mouth was this icy seawater.

In the distance, where the sea meets the sky, there is a chaotic gray-white expanse, with no islands or land in sight, only an endless, suffocating emptiness.

I'm not dead?

This thought, carrying the illusion of surviving a catastrophe, was like a faint ray of light, piercing through the gloom of excruciating pain and despair.

He subconsciously looked down, almost nervously examining his limbs.

The arm is still there, and the fingers can curl slightly, which brings even more intense pain.

My legs felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead, but they were still there. I wasn't missing any arms or legs.

However, this relief lasted only a moment before being replaced by a terrifying sensation within her body, as if countless venomous snakes were frantically gnawing at her meridians.

The excruciating pain didn't come from external injuries, but from within, from the Soul Power that was almost bursting him apart from the inside out!

Lin Xia closed her eyes, enduring the nauseating dizziness, and forced herself to gather a trace of her remaining mental energy to laboriously examine herself.

Upon seeing this, even with his unwavering resolve, his mind was violently shaken.

Within his body, the Soul Power that once flowed orderly like a river is now completely out of control!

They were no longer docile energy, but a violent, viscous torrent radiating a dark blue-purple light!

These torrents, like lava Sheer Force crammed into narrow pipes, forcefully filled every vein, from the smallest tributary to the main channel, leaving no one unscathed!

The walls of the meridians were stretched to be as thin as cicada wings, covered with fine cracks like Spider Web. Every time there was even the slightest surge of Soul Power, it felt like countless red-hot blunt knives were repeatedly scraping and cutting those cracks!

Even more terrifying is that this Soul Power is not his own pure Blue Silver Emperor Soul Power. It is mixed with an extremely domineering, ferocious, and destructive deep-sea will, which is cold, viscous, and heavy like a vast sea—that is the terrifying power left behind by the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King!

It was this foreign, parasitic energy that blocked the flow of his own Soul Power and frantically eroded and destroyed his meridians.

"Hmph..."

Lin Xia gasped, aggravating his injuries, and coughed violently again, dark purple blood oozing from the corner of his mouth. He forced a bitter smile that looked more like a grimace.

What's this?

Instead of being swallowed whole by the Demon Whale King, it was going to be burst apart by the power left inside its body?

The pain of having one's meridians ruptured far surpasses any form of torture.

He could clearly feel that the cracked meridian walls, under the continuous impact of the violent Soul Power, were groaning under the unbearable strain, and could collapse completely at any moment.

Once the main meridian is severed, the torrent of Soul Power will be unrestrained and instantly blast him into a cloud of blood mist!

His only stroke of luck was that his body, protected by the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and aided by the lingering divine power of the Sea God, possessed a resilience far exceeding that of ordinary people, which allowed him to temporarily avoid disintegration in this desperate situation of being attacked from both inside and outside.

But how long can this temporary situation last?

He suddenly remembered the golden light that burst from his brow and the illusory trident before he lost consciousness.

Sea God!

It was the remaining power of the Sea God that frightened away the Demon Whale King at the last moment, and also protected his life!

Otherwise, he would have long since turned to dust and sunk into the deep sea, just like the fragments of those Sea Demons.

"Just being alive... is enough..."

Lin Xia uttered these words with difficulty, her voice hoarse as if sandpaper were being rubbed.

The relief of surviving the ordeal was like a faint Ember, flickering in the boundless pain and despair of the cold wind, yet stubbornly refusing to be extinguished.

As long as you're alive, there's still hope!

However, given the current situation, safety is merely a pipe dream. This unfamiliar beach is fraught with danger.

He could be swept into the sea by the rising tide at any moment, or attract predators from the sea or the shore.

In his current state, even the most ordinary Ten-Year Soul Beast could easily take his life.

This deadly Soul Power within my body must be dealt with immediately!

I must cultivate!

Channeling, or... suppressing!

The thought was both incredibly clear and incredibly difficult to grasp. Every breath brought excruciating pain, and every heartbeat felt like a drumbeat, shaking my very veins to the point of bursting.

To enter a meditative state and cultivate in this condition, guiding the raging, Ferocious Beast- like Soul Power within one's body, is tantamount to dancing on the edge of a knife or walking on the edge of a cliff.

"Breathe..."

Lin Xia tried to take a basic deep breath, attempting to calm her churning blood and intense pain.

However, even the slight expansion of the chest cavity seemed to affect all the meridians in the body that were stretched and torn!

"Ugh--!"

An uncontrollable roar of pain burst forth from deep within his throat. His muscles tensed instantly, cold sweat poured out like a waterfall, and his vision blurred, with stars flashing before his eyes.

The feeling was like countless red-hot steel needles piercing into my internal organs with each breath, and then churning wildly along my meridians!

The dam of willpower cracked instantly under the onslaught of this inhuman pain, and the thought of giving up Wrap it like a venomous snake—it hurt too much, maybe I should just faint...

No! We can't give up!