The carp landed back in her hands. Although there was no water nearby, it was unaffected. Moreover... the karma on the carp's body had clearly diminished quite a bit.
Seeing that the carp's pain had lessened somewhat, Fu Hua carefully placed it into the small pond before her.
"Tomorrow, we'll continue."
Leaving those words behind, Fu Hua turned and left.
As the carp watched Fu Hua depart from the pond, a very human-like confusion and a hint of gratitude appeared in her eyes.
Chapter 9: Hong Meiling
Pain... darkness, as though her soul had fallen into the legendary Avici Hell, suffering tortures as agonizing as those of the eighteen levels of hell.
The excruciating pain of her soul being torn apart assaulted the carp's nerves, making it impossible for her even to faint. Apart from that horrifying, intense pain, endless darkness was constantly eroding her.
Her final attempt... had failed!
As a carp, from the moment she gained true consciousness and intelligence, she had been accompanied by pain she had been born with.
The carp... or rather, Hong Meiling.
Hong Meiling... that was her name.
...She did not know when she had first developed intelligence, but it had already been some years.
Unlike other carp, she carried a terrifying negative power within her... This power had existed ever since the first time she stopped having only seven seconds of memory like an ordinary fish.
It seemed that the karma she had been born with brought her endless pain, turning her originally auspicious red color into an ominous ink-black.
Those righteous cultivators immediately branded her as a demon that harmed others, all because of the karma on her body.
Generally speaking, only slaughter gods like Bai Qi, who had killed tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people...