Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

His body suddenly arched upwards from the excruciating pain! The laceration on his left shoulder, lodged in the crevice, was ripped apart by the sheer force! From the wound, deep enough to reveal the bone, dark purple blood splattered with icy water fragments! Pain! Pure, physical, nerve-tearing pain! More direct than the burning of a high fever! Sharper than the piercing pain of icy water!

The severe pain was like a red-hot iron, burning the core of his consciousness that was on the verge of collapse!

The pair of eyes, covered in bloodshot and ice crystals, suddenly opened! The pupils shrank to the size of needles in the intense pain!

The vision cleared briefly.

The murky icy water, the bleak sunlight filtering through the cave entrance half-blocked by charred corpses, the jagged outlines of strange rocks deep within the cracks in the stone wall...

And there was also the heavy, blunt object that hit his ankle, which was rusty and looked like a half-broken spear head!

Instinct! The instinct to survive overwhelmed all the chaos! The only left hand that could move!

His five fingers, like twitching iron hooks, frantically groped in the icy water! He wasn't trying to touch his aching ankle! Instead, relying on his body's memory of the heavy impact, he clawed hard at the deep crack in the rocks at the bottom of the water—where the blunt object had rolled!

My fingertips touched the cold, rough metal, slippery with the mud at the bottom of the water!

He held on tightly! Using all the remaining strength in his body, fueled by the excruciating pain, he suddenly pulled the heavy, blunt object in front of him!

It wasn't a weapon! It was a heavy, iron structure, half rusted to the point of being unrecognizable. One end was broken off and sharp as a fang!

The other end had a twisted, rusted hole that was barely big enough for five fingers to fit in!

What's the use?! Chang Baishan's chaotic mind was blank! Only severe pain and cold were tearing at him crazily! He subconsciously hugged the cold, muddy and heavy iron block tightly in his arms!

It was like a drowning man clinging to a last piece of driftwood! The cold touch penetrated the wet, tattered clothes, harshly irritating the skin on his chest and abdomen! The sharp fracture even cut his arm as he struggled!

Brings new, subtle but clear pain!

Pain! Constant pain!

This pain became the only anchor he could hold onto at this moment! The stinging pain in his throat from the fragments of the sublingual bone box, the dull ache of his fractured ankle, the sharp pain of his torn shoulders and back, the physical stimulation from the cold iron... All of this pain combined, like countless red-hot steel needles, forcibly nailing his scattered consciousness to this broken body!

He huddled in the cold crevice, his body trembling violently, each breath accompanied by a rumbling sound like a broken bellows and a spurt of blood. But his eyes were fixed on the cave entrance half-blocked by corpses above, a chaotic, painful, yet unextinguished murderous light burning deep in his pupils!

The blazing hell, deep in the oil cellar.

The excruciating pain of the Black Falcon Iron Feather's icy shaft piercing her calf was like a key to the door of hell! It instantly opened the gates to Liu Yueli's nerves, paralyzed by the heat and toxins!

"Ah!" The howl that had been blocked in the depths of her throat by the thick smoke finally broke free! With the hoarseness of being burned by the flames and the indescribable tearing feeling! Her body bounced violently among the wreckage of the burning barrel like a live fish being electrocuted! The arrow shaft nailed to her leg bone shook violently with the movement! The sharp pain of the arrowhead scraping against her periosteum made her eyes go black, and she almost fainted again!

But the next second!

A chill! An extremely cold and bitter mixture of rancid oil, pus, and blood surged up from the depths of the throat! Like frozen venom, it poured fiercely over the throat and upper esophagus that were about to be burned by the high temperature!

Deep in her throat was the frozen ice of a river of corpses, frozen for millennia! Through her calves was the hellish fire of incineration, burning flesh and blood! Two diametrically opposed, yet both capable of instantly destroying life, clashed with a bang on the central axis of her body!

This unimaginable conflict of senses was like two violent currents exploding through her nerve center, which was on the verge of collapse! It instantly pushed her chaotic consciousness to the brink of a strange and terrifying lucidity!

She saw it!

That short black arrow that had pierced her calf! The black falcon feathers at the tail of the arrow gleamed with a cold metallic luster under the dancing firelight! The arrow shaft was stained with a certain turquoise and sticky venom that was rapidly spreading with her blood!

The smell of that venom... carries a familiar, sickening, sweet smell of corruption!

It's a paralyzing toxin extracted from the glands of the rot-armored worm! Shadow Guards use it to harden their arrows and slow down their prey!

Paralysis toxin? !

This thought was like lightning that split the thick fog!

She suddenly lowered her head and looked at her right shoulder!

The area that Zhao Tiezhu had forcibly "sealed" with the foulest ointment and corpse-poison pus! The purple-black swollen center was covered in the foul black mixture, and the edges were covered with coagulated dark purple blood and charred flesh!

But beneath that filth! Those lines of toxic nail rot that had been spreading like mad, like deadly black snakes! Under the intense conflict between the toxin and the fiery oil paste, they unexpectedly entered a strange state of stagnation!

The color became deeper and darker, like solidified blood! But the tendency to spread... was forcibly curbed!

Is it a coincidence? Or...

That arrow shot by the Shadow Guard, laced with the paralyzing poison of the Corrupted Armor Netherworm! The poison flowed through her calf with her blood, creating an unknown conflict with the complex toxins remaining in her body, suppressed by the Red Blood Pill and then detonated by the Frost Heart Pear!

It even created some kind of...neutralization with the filthy mixture that was forcibly "blocked" on her shoulder?!

There is no time to think! Pain and fire are the only realities!

She struggled, desperately grabbing at the remains of the burning barrel with her left hand, the one hand that could still move! Trying to prop herself up! Her fingertips touched the scorching charcoal!

Her skin and flesh instantly burned! The severe pain made her whole body convulse!

But she gritted her teeth and used up her last bit of strength to drag her calf, which was pierced by the arrow and was in excruciating pain, towards a corner deeper in the cellar where the flames were weaker.

The direction of the broken arrow stained with Changbai Mountain's blood - rolled over!

Every step felt like stepping on the tip of a red-hot knife! The arrow shaft swung in her leg bone! Blood mixed with turquoise venom gushed from the wound! Flames licked the corners of her clothes and her long, messy hair!

She saw it!

That broken arrow! The tip of the arrowhead was deeply embedded in the charred earth. The dark golden blood congealed on the shaft, illuminated by the firelight, gave off a strange, faint, almost living luster! It was the complex blood that had spewed out of Changbai Mountain, a mixture of the embers of the Red Blood Danyang Fire, the frost poison of the Cold Heart Pear, and even more contaminated by the toxins of the Rot Armor Netherworm!

The desire to live overwhelmed everything! She suddenly threw herself down beside the broken arrow!

Ignoring the scorching ground and scorching flames, her left hand trembled, her skin scorched as she grasped the broken arrow's shaft tightly. The arrowhead was deeply embedded in the mud, and she couldn't pull it out!

But the solidified dark golden blood was right in front of him!

Without hesitation, she lowered her head and bit down hard on the bloody area on the arrow shaft with her teeth!

Click!