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The Ninth Pill
“Please…”“Please…”“I–I’m sorry…”The muffled pleadings barely escaped his cracked lips, trembling with desperation. That was all Duō Yī could produce now ,a pitiful echo trapped within the stone walls of the cavern. His throat was raw, his voice half-gone, but still he begged. For mercy. For death. For something,anything to end the torment.It had been two weeks of what could no longer be called torture. Torture was too clean a word, too human. This was desecration. Flesh flayed, bones split, nerves burnt until even pain itself began to rot. Every breath was a struggle. Every second was a lifetime.Each day began with hope and ended in flayed skin, ruptured meridians, and screams swallowed by the dark. The Gardener’s tests blurred together. needles of bone, cauldrons of acid, pills that seethed like burning stars. From the moment he survived those first two pills the ones that should have killed him his fate had been sealed. The Gardener had turned him into a mere experiment, a puppe
Only One Left
Pain!! Unbridled, merciless pain. It was as if searing hot knives coated in molten lava pierced through every fiber of his being. Every cell screamed in agony, a relentless symphony of torment that threatened to shatter his mind. His body felt like a vessel about to explode, bloated beyond its limits, veins distending painfully under the pressure. The qi inside him roared like a wild beast, surging uncontrollably, desperately seeking an escape.Duō Yī's vision blurred, red haze swallowing everything. His thoughts were a chaotic scramble—if he didn't find a way to release this excess qi soon, he would burst, ending his suffering in a single, final moment of annihilation. The pain was relentless, a white-hot white noise that drowned out reason. Seconds stretched into what felt like days, each moment a torment, each breath a struggle.In the chaos of his mind, a fragment of will flickered remembering an ability he had not used in a while due to scarce resources. A flicker of hope amid t
The Last Ingredient
Pain Hunger Thirst. All that a body could endure had already been endured.Days bled into weeks. Weeks bled into months. Time itself became meaningless inside the furnace’s cavern.Duō Yī had long lost count of how many times the screams rose and faded. How many times the vines twitched to feed. How many faces had gone pale before being dragged away to the cauldron.Hu Lì. Xiǎo Yǔ. gone ,refined. They had been spared the torture of waiting.The old thing had appeared only a few times since then, either to drag more bodies or to test those accursed pills. From the fragments of his ramblings, Duō Yī had pieced together a single name.The Gardener. That was what he called himself.He didn’t grow flowers. He cultivated death.A wet, slurred sound drifted through the stagnant air. “Urrghhh… bwooo… zeerr… yi…”Duō Yī turned his head, slow and heavy, as though his neck were rusted iron. Where Zhāng Wei should have been, there was only… it.A pulsing, abominable lump of meat suspend
Crimson Pills
BANG!!BANG!!BANG!The constant sound of pounding was all that could be heard. pestle against iron,night and day.The air was thick with the stench of boiled flesh and scorched blood. Each impact sent a dull vibration through the cavern walls, followed by the squelch of meat ground to paste and the muffled screams of those still alive within the writhing vines.Days had passed since their capture. Days since Hú Lì had been thrown into the furnace and refined into something unrecognizable. Since then, the old figure had rarely shown himself. He spent most of his time at the furnace’s side, muttering incoherent incantations, performing strange hand signs, and ranting in a feverish ecstasy. The only time he appeared before the captives was to drag another group of mortals to the cauldron’s hungry mouth.Duō Yī, Zhāng Wei, and Xiǎo Yǔ had tried everything to escape. They clawed at the vines, whispered chants under their breath, even tried to forcefully ignite their qi. It was useless. Ea
The Cauldron of Blood
"Ughhhhh"Duō Yī’s eyes fluttered open.Darkness pressed down all around him, thick and suffocating. He tried to move, but something cold and damp constricted his body. He looked down, translucent vines coiled around his arms, chest, and legs, pulsating faintly with ghostly light. Each throb carried a chilling rhythm, like a second heartbeat not his own.He tried to summon his qi.Nothing.It was as if the very air smothered his core, chains pressing against his meridians, sealing his strength shut. Panic surged through him as he tugged against the bindings to no avail.Then the sounds reached him.Low groans. Whimpers. The faint, broken cries of men, women and children. His eyes adjusted to the gloom, and what he saw twisted his stomach.The missing mortals were strung along the cavern walls, suspended in vine-like cocoons. Some still writhed weakly inside, their faces pale as their life drained away. Others were packed into cages of bone and vine, the bars slick with moisture, thei
The Silent Harvest
Zhāng Wei’s eyes snapped open.Something was wrong.The stillness of the palace chambers pressed too heavily, the air carrying faint tremors that prickled against his skin. He sat up swiftly, nudging the others awake.“Ughhhh, what is it now?” Hú Lì groaned, rubbing his face, hair sticking up like a bird’s nest.“Shhhh,” Zhāng Wei hushed, his tone low, sharp. “Do you feel that?”“Feel what?” Xiǎo Yǔ mumbled, still curled up with her blanket, rubbing her eyes.“Qi fluctuations,” Duō Yī answered before Zhāng Wei could. His gaze was fixed on the window, eyes narrowing. “Although faint, it’s unmistakable. Someone’s weaving a spell.”That sobered them instantly.Hú Lì rolled to his feet, snatching up his weapon, a grin twitching at the corner of his mouth though his jaw was tight. “Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go see what bastard thinks he can hide in the shadows.”They slipped into the night.The palace courtyards lay wide and empty, cloaked in mist. Beyond, Jiāng Lí’s streets stre
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