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The Soul That Refused to Die
Author: Amy Precious
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Chapter 18

He didn’t remember falling.

Only the burn.

His soul had been ripped from his body — not torn, not crushed — but rewritten. Unmoored.

Xuan Long blinked into darkness.

The world around him twisted, layered in shadows and screams. He stood on cracked obsidian ground, beneath a blood-red sky filled with orbiting flame sigils and pulsing runes.

His chest throbbed.

The flame inside him… flickered, unstable. His Sovereign Core was damaged.

“Where… is this?”

A voice answered.

“You’ve entered the inner sanctum of the Soul Extraction Array. A prison forged from every essence it has ever devoured.”

Xuan turned. A dozen flaming eyes stared at him from a shifting wall of shadows — some shaped like people, some like beasts, all half-form
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