Can I Really Change Things? (ON HOLD)

Chapter 42

Powerful, yet at the same time, weak. That's what TaiFeng thought about herself. All this limitless energy coursing through her veins, and yet she had no control over her fate. It slowly ate away at her until she couldn't take it anymore.

At first, it started as a warm tingling feeling, as she heard her once quiet heartbeat start back up again. But the pleasure soon turned into pain.

It started to burn like her insides were on fire, and her lungs were filling up with acid. At the same time, she could hear a sort of crunching sound in her ears. Soon she realized that she was hearing her bones being fused back together at an unnatural speed. Her limbs felt like they were about to melt

The entire time it had felt like divine punishment. As her screams grew louder and louder, so did her power. It was a terrible trade, but one she was willing to take.

In this world, the general rule was only the strong and smart survived. And recently, TaiFeng hadn't been too smart in her decisions.

The black tendrils of pure resentful energy made their way into her body, piercing their way into her like a needle into a pin cushion.

The mere sight of it was enough to make anyone disgusted with horror.

She was in that state for five hours.

For five whole hours, her once lifeless body had been mercilessly put back together, and pumped full of spiritual energy.

When she woke up, all she saw around her were the desolate Burial Mounds.

When she tried to move, her limbs were pretty much numb but she got up and started walking.

The noises were so loud it made her want to cry, and cry she did.

She excused herself just this once and wept until she couldn't.

At times like this, she just wanted to be alone wrapped up in a blanket next to a warm fireplace.

But there was no warmth here.

As she dragged herself further and further along, she saw that whenever she touched the resentful energy, it was like she had absorbed it.

She could feel the power that it held and it made her feel slightly giddy whenever a whip of resentful energy came her way.

It filled her up and made her feel a little less broken, for the time being at least.

But when she reached the edge of the mounds, she was soon back to suffering.

She was trapped.

"Wei Ying, oh Wei Ying." She miserably sighed.

"It looks like instead of changing your fate, I simply claimed it as my own."

Realizing what this meant she looked up to the black winter sky, eyes filled with pain and newfound understanding.

The first few days were filled with torment. Every waking hour, she would use all her energy to try and breakthrough. Relentlessly, she would pound on the barrier for hours and hours until she just passed out right where she stood.

In terms of eating, all there was were dead leaves and the occasional crow, which she did not hesitate to hunt down and catch.

Since she no longer carried TongQing, she could no longer understand animals, which made it a lot easier on her conscience, but not on her stomach.

She felt so thin, she could feel her ribs and she had lost weight in her face as well she looked deathly pale along with her dark circles and bloodshot eyes.