"Isn't this really torture?"

"I'm not human, I wouldn't know, but I do know his current actions are worse than any ghost."

"..."

On the second week after the Supernatural Calamity descended, on the plain outside the Human Ancestor Temple.

Zeng Hu and the Emotion Ghost crouched timidly by a dirt pit created by battle.

They watched from a distance as Wu Liang performed surgery on the specially crafted body of the Pioneer, feeling chills down their spines.

This unprecedented soul surgery had already lasted for three hours.

The Pioneer had been screaming for the entire three hours without a moment of pause.

"You'd think that as the leader of the Promised Land, the Pioneer wouldn't scream so miserably from a surgery, right? Is he just being a bit too cowardly?" Zeng Hu asked the Emotion Ghost, puzzled.

The other replied with a hint of terror, "No! Quite the opposite! Three whole hours! The pain of cutting and separating a soul, and he can still scream—that's beyond human capability!"

Being skilled in the spiritual and soul realm, the Emotion Ghost understood just how abnormal this creature called Pioneer truly was.

Don't be fooled by his painful cries into thinking it's a sign of cowardice.

In reality, his screams were like someone whose head was split open yet not only did they survive, but they're also wailing in agony!

A normal person would be near death if even the slightest crack appeared in their soul.

Even the Emotion Ghost, if subjected to soul cutting and separation, would likely fall into an absolute coma, with waking up left entirely to chance.

But during the entire operation, the Pioneer showed no signs of fainting or death; his screams actually proved his absolute awareness!

"Alright, that's enough, how big of a person are you to still be crying for so long? My ears are getting calluses," Wu Liang complained with a frown.

In front of him were two souls that looked identical in appearance and aura.

However, the soul on the right seemed much weaker, its body even slightly translucent.

He was Yin Qiming.

Originally hidden deep within Wu Liang's soul with only a barely detectable trace of presence, he had now transformed into a complete humanoid form, showing just how much soul fragment the Pioneer had lost.

"Wu! Liang! I will... absolutely... tear you to pieces! Scatter your soul!"

The soul within the Pioneer's shell screamed threats through gritted teeth.

Faced with this soul surgery, he was extremely passive because the main body wasn't here, and Wu Liang and Yin Qiming weren't fundamentally harming or cursing his soul.

He was like a delicate down jacket, inadvertently exposing a hole in the back, allowing a small tuft of down feathers—that is, the aura of Yin Qiming hidden within Wu Liang—to be pulled out.

This guy kept pulling out more and more feathers through the exposed hole.

He neither cut the jacket with scissors nor stuffed anything else through the hole.

So, essentially, this surgery wasn't considered an attack.

None of the Pioneer's protective measures were triggered as they couldn't detect any signs of being under attack.

This made the surgery just a simple tug-of-war.

Wu Liang pulled outwards, while the Pioneer pulled inwards.

Originally, they were evenly matched, but because Yin Qiming was also trying to escape, it was like in a tug-of-war when your right hand suddenly stops cooperating and even slaps you.

How could you win under these circumstances?

"Alright, alright, I'll hand you the knife personally when I find your true form," Wu Liang grinned slyly, then pulled harder.

Finally, after a few minutes, the intensity emitted by the left and right souls almost matched.

Under the furious glaring of the Pioneer, Wu Liang yanked him completely from the shell and stuffed Yin Qiming's soul inside.

Amidst all the attention, the shell slowly opened its eyes.

Then, with a trembling sigh, it said, "Six years... a whole six years!"

He suddenly turned his head to gaze at the Pioneer's main soul disappearing into the air, vengefully declaring, "I will also make sure you scatter your soul sooner or later!"

Since the Pioneer's memories awakened before the first Supernatural Calamity, this new world saw Yin Qiming's consciousness imprisoned in the depths of his soul.

That sensation was far more terrifying than spending six years in a real-world prison.

He could perceive everything around him, clearly aware of what his body was doing through all his senses.

But he could not control it with his own mind, having to silently watch as someone who called himself the Pioneer controlled it.

In a way, Yin Qiming's imprisonment was like being a conscious vegetative person, lying in a hospital for six years.

Unable to move while time passed, slowly numbing from pain.

He never wanted to experience it again.

The Pioneer, the culprit behind it all.

Naturally became the one Yin Qiming hated the most, even if this guy was essentially himself.

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