"It hurts! It hurts!"
Li Xiaoya felt excruciating pain all over. It seemed he had first slammed hard into something, and then his head had become muddled and heavy. Forget moving a finger-even thinking left him utterly exhausted. Everything before his eyes was pitch-black, and he could see nothing. Then he heard two voices saying something... From their voices, they seemed to belong to two beings of a speaking race, and they did not sound very old...
But Li Xiaoya understood absolutely nothing they said. It seemed to be a language he had never heard before... Still, he was not particularly worried. Even a ferocious wild beast could never bite through his physical body, with its formidable defenses forged through body tempering. His body was as tough as a True Immortal Spirit Treasure...
After the two creatures he provisionally considered "people" argued for a while...
They seemed to reach an agreement...
Then Li Xiaoya felt himself being lifted from somewhere. Yet the only sensation anywhere in his body was pain. Ever since he began practicing the body tempering technique, he had not suffered pain like this in a very long time. It felt as though every inch of muscle and every strand of his meridians were convulsing. The pain kept him from seeing anything clearly. Through his blurred vision, he could just make out something that seemed to be two humans' feet, apparently clad in armor...
But!
Li Xiaoya felt unbearable pain throughout his body as the two people lifted him, apparently slinging him over their shoulders, and raced toward some destination...
Amid the jolting and shaking.
Li Xiaoya's eyes rolled back most ungracefully from the pain, and he passed out...
Li Xiaoya felt dazed and utterly weak. Yet his physical body was enormously powerful, after all, and the effects