Pain... darkness, as though her soul had fallen into the legendary Avici Hell, suffering the tortures of the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
The agonizing pain of her soul being torn apart stimulated the carp's nerves, making it impossible for her even to faint. Beyond that terrifying, intense pain, endless darkness was constantly eroding her.
Her final attempt... had failed!
As a carp, ever since she had gained true consciousness and intelligence, she had been accompanied by inborn pain.
The carp... or rather, Hong Meiling.
Hong Meiling... was her name.
...She did not know when she had first gained intelligence, but it had been several years by now.
Unlike other carp, she carried a terrifying negative power within her... This power had existed since the first time she ceased to be like a fish with only seven seconds of memory.
It seemed to be inborn karma, bringing her endless pain and turning the red that should have symbolized good fortune into an ominous ink-black.
Those righteous cultivators had immediately branded her a monster that harmed people, all because of the karma clinging to her.
Generally speaking, only slaughter gods like Bai Qi, who had killed tens or hundreds of thousands of people... or great demons who had committed every kind of atrocity and massacred countless living beings, would be burdened by such terrifying karma.
But... she had clearly done nothing, yet the karma on her was even more terrifying than that of those demon kings and slaughter gods.
As a result, after taking human form, every time she appeared before righteous cultivators, everyone wanted to beat her to death. Whenever they encountered her... those cultivators would hunt her down!
If not for her considerable strength and skill at escaping...
In truth, she felt deeply wronged. She had done nothing. This terrifying