Chapter 13 - 13: Trial by Fire(2)

What I wrote here is what I'm currently feeling. I don't feel well so don't expect any chapters for two days. Peace and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Everybody!

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Pain. Extreme unimaginable pain and agony was all Xiao Yan felt as his body slowly burned and roasted till it looked as if it were charcoal.

His entire clothes and equipment had turned to ashes, which had showed his b.a.r.e blackened and crisped red skin, all of his hair was gone and the only thing that was left on Xiao Yan that hadn't melted or burned into ashes was his slowly cracking storage ring.

The feeling of being burned alive was something a nine year old, even with the mind of a seventeen year old, could not handle.

The smell of his flesh being burned and the pain from his body was too much for him causing him to screamed, no, shriek like a banshee.

Fortunately or unfortunately, his screams had turned mute moments ago which made Xiao Yan closed his mouth and concentrated.

He shouldn't even lasted this long and would have already died if it weren't for his Mysterious Heaven Skill unexpectedly breaking through and reaching second tier, when he was using it to heal himself the moment he was being roasted, something that was impossible until he would have his first spirit ring. Tang San was clear that for anyone, without a spirit ring, reaching the second tier would be impossible except if they have great experience and continuous usage in using the skill for years. For Xiao Yan to breakthough to the second tier of the Mysterious Heaven Skill was either a miracle or lady luck is finally noticing him.

Either way, using the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Xiao Yan circulated his spirit power with it to heal his most vital burns. The reason on why he didn't urge the Mysterious Heaven Skill to heal everything from skin to hair was simple, he didn't want to waste too much spirit power.

It's been several hours since he was been like this and it wasn't showing any signs.

With the Mysterious Heaven Skill reached tier 2, it's abilities in increasing the natural regeneration of his body doubled and the required spirit power for it lessened. This is what's keeping him alive.

That was why he couldn't afford to move. For the slightest loss of focus would lead to him stopping the circulation of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and would immediately stopped healing his injuries.

And so, he sat there. Alone and being burned alive for hours. Constantly feeling pain.

Xiao Yan thought:

'W-Why am I doing this? Keeping myself alive I mean. I-I can't handle this... I don't want to experience this... I just want to feel safe and happy... I wasn't prepared for this...'

'I-I can just end it here and now... Even if I were to survive this, stuff like this would continue to happen to me.... The road to being strong and survival is filled with thorns and tribulations that are great pain in the a.s.s.... It's too troublesome and painful to imagine.... I can just...'

Xiao Yan opened his eyes showing completely charred blackened empty eyes.

'Rest....'

"Brother Yan."

"Xiao Yan-gege!"

"Xiao Yan."

"Idiot disciple."

Tang San, Xiao Wu, Grandmaster and pain in the a.s.s old teacher.

His two completely destroyed eyes narrowed and brightened in a unnatural greenish hue, the same colour green that have been gathering and assimilating themselves inside Xiao Yan.

The green flame wisps of spirit power that had been passively swimming around in a lazy manner started to act violent. They converge around like a storm and in the center of that storm was Xiao Yan.

The green flames started rotating around crazily like a tornado. It's already hot temperature seem to raise once more that had caused the surrounding area to started melting like wax.

And at the center of that tornado was Xiao Yan who's charred blackened body started to glow.

The pain and agony of being burned had magnified by ten times and even then, Xiao Yan was unexpectedly calm with his eyes glowing in a unnatural green color like his body. Strangely his Heavy Xuan Ruler by his side, also had been bathed in the green flames as long as him with only it's handle and a thin part of it was left, suddenly glowed and was then incased in a cocoon like manner with it's structure made out of the green flames a few moments later.

Using everything he could control in his body, he forced his mouth to mouth and urged his Mysterious Heaven Skill to heal his vocal chords.

Slowly, and though quiet enough to be a whisper, he said with a dry and rough voice:

"H-Hehe... Y-You bastards... Even when I'm dying you won't leave me be... D-Don't worry, I ain't gonna die today... Cause I ain't dying again as a goddamn v.i.r.g.i.n!"

Xiao Yan's mouth then closed and what lips he had turned into a small smile.

'Wait for me...'

He then closed his eyes and the moment he did, the green flaming tornado surrounding him started to act violent once more and seconds later, he was incased in a ball cocoon of green flames.

Unknown to Xiao Yan, the Green Lotus Core Flame that was once where he last saw it had mysteriously disappeared the moment him and his spirit essence was incased in a ball of green flames.