Perhaps the medicine had taken effect, for her soul was forcibly dragged back into her body.
But what followed was pain throughout her body that no human could endure.
Su Jiu had always felt that she was unafraid of pain. When Sun Dongdong imprisoned her, when she fought the Frostglaze Beast, when she fought Jiao Lin-had any of those encounters not left her body and divine sense grievously wounded?
Yet none of them had hurt as much as this.
The pain pierced her heart and stabbed into her bones. At its utmost extreme, a person truly could not pass out; it only made them ever more lucid.
At that instant, something inexplicably appeared in her mind.
It was an image, a scene of people finding a baby while out gaining experience.
Many of those people were familiar to her, but they looked a little younger than she remembered.
And the person holding that baby was none other than a much younger Madam Su.
A strange conjecture suddenly dawned on Su Jiu.
But before she could make out the scene clearly, it abruptly moved a little further back in time.
It was still that stretch of woods she knew so well. On a night of thunder and rain, lightning struck among the trees from time to time. After a bolt struck a nearby tree, lightning flashed, and a baby appeared beside the tree that had just been struck.
Yet there was not a single person anywhere nearby. The baby seemed to have appeared out of thin air.
The scene seemed about to move further back, but a mysterious force suddenly blocked it. Su Jiu tried to see more clearly, only to find what seemed like a bank of mist ahead. She wanted to part it.
But that strange pain returned to