She abruptly sat up in bed, instinctively raising her hands to feel all over her body.
Her neck, arms, waist, abdomen... everywhere her fingertips touched, her skin was smooth, without a single wound.
There were no marks left by chains, nor could she feel the slightest pain from being pierced by the Dragon-Slaying Blade.
"No... no wounds..."
She murmured to herself, her voice dazed with disbelief.
The heart-rending agony she had suffered time after time in the illusion still lingered in her memory.
Yet what her body felt now was utterly real-the soft bedding, the clean clothes she wore, the faint fragrance of plants in the room.
All of it seemed to tell her that the torment she had suffered before had only been an illusion.
Zi JI lowered her head to look at her hands, her fingertips trembling slightly.
She pinched her arm hard, and a distinct pain came.
She looked around. This was an unfamiliar room with simple furnishings.
A few books lay on a nearby table, and the flame of an oil lamp burning in the corner flickered, making the shadows sway gently on the wall.
Su Yu was not in the room.
Zi JI pressed her lips together, a jumble of feelings churning in her heart.
She slowly moved to the edge of the bed, stepped barefoot onto the slightly cool floor, and walked to the window to push it open a crack!
Humiliation!
She, a mighty two-hundred-thousand-year Hell Demon Dragon King, had actually volunteered to submit to a human!
This was nothing short of humiliation!
No, she absolutely could not stay. She had to return to the Star Dou Great Forest right now!
The human world was too dangerous. She never wanted to come out again!
As soon as the thought arose, she moved nimbly,