Time goes back to the morning… while Yang Ze was still pacing around in his room, an entirely different scene was playing inside the ruins.

"...." Cang Yue, who was bound by chains, had a look of defiance upon her face as she looked at the middle-aged woman in front of her. She was expecting a lot of torture and pain, but to her surprise, the middle-aged woman didn't do any of it. On the contrary, she merely touched her forehead.

Cang Yue didn't feel anything amiss after the woman tapped on her forehead. making her unable to understand just what was going on.

And just when Cang Yue was wondering what she was trying to do, she saw the middle-aged woman open her eyes, and in that instant, for the first time in god knows how many years, Cang Yue felt a true sense of fear. Something that she had forgotten a long time ago.

"UUuuuu…" Cang Yue wanted to ask her what she wanted to do, but with the iron chain blocking her mouth, only her muffled voice came out.

The middle-aged woman knew exactly what Cang Yue was trying to say. In response, she just let out a soft chuckle before speaking in a calm voice.

"Since you don't want to cooperate, I can only do things my way."

"A pity…" She couldn't help but click her tongue in annoyance.

"Doing so will damage the Nine Yin Physique, but I don't have any other option."

"I can only heal the damaged physique slowly in the future."

It wasn't clear whether she was talking to Cang Yue or to herself. Clicking her tongue in pity, she slowly walked in front of Cang Yue and once again slowly patted on her forehead and unlike before, this time Cang Yue clearly felt her consciousness blurring as everything around her turned dark.

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"Wake up."

Cang Yue didn't know how long she had been unconscious for. It was a rough voice that woke her up.

"Where…" Looking around in confusion, the first thing that greeted her was the weary and rough face of a middle-aged, frail woman looking at her with a complicated expression.

"Where am I?" Cang Yue couldn't recall anything. She tried her best to remember what was going on, but was terrified to know that her memories were missing.

She didn't know who she was or where she was. The only thing she knew was that her name was Cang Yue.

"Did you hit your head too hard?" The middle-aged, frail woman couldn't help but let out a sigh filled with pity as she reached out to gently touch Cang Yue's forehead, and in that instant, Cang Yue felt a cooling sensation in her mind as her fear and anxiety disappeared, and she slowly began to recall her memories.

Her name was Cang Yue, and she was a fifteen-year-old girl living in the Floating Cloud Village. Although the village wasn't big, everyone in it lived in harmony and peace. She had a loving family, two sisters, a stern mother and an easy-going father who loved them. The current condition of their family was pretty good, with no lack of food or clothing.

"What happened?" Now that she was finally beginning to regain her memories, Cang Yue couldn't help but ask her mother.

"I told you not to rush into the forest to collect the herbs, but you never listened to me. Now look at what has happened." The more her mother talked, the angrier she got.

"The herbs…" Cang Yue muttered as she immediately nodded in response. "That's right. I was out there to gather herbs and then… and then…"

In that moment, Cang Yue felt a splitting headache as if her head was going to burst open. But the next moment, her mother gently rubbed her forehead, and with that, a cool sensation overwhelmed her mind, easing all the discomfort as she easily recalled what happened.

"And then I was chased by a demonic wolf." The moment she uttered those words, Cang Yue immediately jumped up in fright as she tightly grabbed her mother's wrist while shouting in urgency.

"We need to tell everyone… There are demonic beasts roaming in the vicinity of the village."

"We need to get out of here."

The more Cang Yue spoke, the faster her voice got. By the time she reached the end of her sentence, she was almost screaming.

"What are you even talking about?" The middle-aged woman couldn't help but shake her head. How could there be demonic beasts here?

"Looks like you really did hurt your head. Just get some sleep." Shaking her head, she turned around, about to head out of the room, but before she could leave, Cang Yue tightly gripped her wrist, unwilling to let her go.

"No, listen to me… There are…" Before Cang Yue could even finish her sentence, an earth-shattering roar enveloped the entire room.

AAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWOOOOOOOOO

In that instant, both Cang Yue and the middle-aged woman's bodies stiffened as their eyes were filled with terror.

"RUN." Cang Yue shouted at the top of her lungs, but because of her injuries, she couldn't even move.

Her mother immediately rushed out of the room, but after a few moments, came back with a pale face.

"It's over." She kept on muttering to herself as she hurriedly grabbed a bunch of quilts, wrapping them around Cang Yue's body, completely hiding her in them.

"Stay here and don't make a sound."

Gently kissing Cang Yue's forehead, the middle-aged woman rushed out of the house.

Cang Yue, on the other hand, couldn't believe what was happening. From her childhood, she has lived in this small village happily. But now… Her immature mind couldn't seem to comprehend just how the demonic beasts could attack their village.

She wanted to scream and shout for her mother, but her mother's last words made her unable to. She could only keep her mouth shut as she looked from the little gap through quilts at the outside world, but other than her room, there wasn't anything else to see.

Though she could constantly hear screams filled with terror. She could hear the mournful cries, the painful wails and the wicked laughter from the outside world. She didn't know what was going on anymore.

The screams and rampant laughter lasted for a long period of time before everything went silent.

Cang Yue could only pray in her heart for the safety of her mother, father and two sisters. If not for her weak and injured body, she would have rushed out to take a look.

But thinking about how her mother told her to stay put, she could only shed worried tears in silence.

Unfortunately for Cang Yue, even this short-lived peace ended when a giant demonic wolf that was almost three meters in length and two meters in height came inside the room, with its nose pointed upwards as if sniffing for any remaining living beings.

"...." Looking at the terrifying beast, whose teeth had traces of human flesh, and whose fur was dyed red, Cang Yue almost screamed in terror, and even though she managed to control herself, the small disturbance caused by her managed to attract the wolf's attention, who immediately rushed towards her, intending to tear her apart.

"NOOOO." Cang Yue could only watch helplessly as the wolf rushed towards her with its gaping maw. She could feel the foul breath on her face, the fishy smell from its body and the smell of blood that almost made her throw up. But all she could do was watch helplessly as the wolf's figure got closer and closer, its sharp teeth almost touching her face.

And just when she thought it was all over, a cold shout stopped the wolf in its tracks and pulled Cang Yue out from the jaws of death.

"Leave her."

Turing her head with great difficulty, Cang Yue finally saw the owner of the voice, who was an enchanting woman leisurely sitting above a giant wolf.

"Tha…" Cang Yue's first instinct was to thank her for saving her life, but before she could even thank her, the woman's next words made her blood turn cold.

"Let's take her with us. We still need some form of entertainment."

Before Cang Yue could understand what was going on, she was grabbed by an invisible force and lifted like a rag doll as she was brought outside the house.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH"

The moment Cang Yue was pulled out of the house, the scene outside made her scream in terror.

The entire village was in ruins, with blood flowing like a river.

As far as she could see, there were torn bodies of humans. Intestines, livers, kidneys… all kinds of internal organs were scattered around. And if those weren't enough, there were even human limbs scattered across the dirt road of the village, as if making a path forward.

"Uncle…" Looking at the head of the amiable next-door uncle who always made her laugh, lying on the ground with his eyes wide open in terror, she couldn't help but call out softly.

But that wasn't the only head she saw.

At the moment, she was lifted up in the air and from there, could clearly see the torn heads scattered across the village.

There was the village chief who was cleaved from the middle, separating her body into two equal parts. Then there was the gentle scholar next door who taught the children of the village for free. Her eyes, which were usually filled with smiles and gentleness, were now filled with fear and shock.

She even saw the gentle brother next door and her friends, whose corpses littered the ground.

By now, her eyes were filled with tears as scenes from the past flashed before her eyes. The smiles and laughter that she once shared… the love and care she received… everything was gone in the blink of an eye.

Cang Yue's eyes darted around with fear and trepidation, searching for the familiar faces of her family, yet at the same time not wanting to see them.

Thankfully, no matter where she looked, she didn't see her mother, father or sister amongst the dead. This ignited her little heart with hope.

"Let's take her." The enchanting woman on top of the wolf merely laughed in response as she carried Cang Yue away from the village.

Cang Yue didn't know where she was going or what was happening. She only felt the scene around her change as she found herself in an empty, dark cave with a small bonfire lit up.

She looked around in fear, only to find the familiar figure of her mother, father and sisters tied up in the corner.

"Mom, Dad." Cang Yue immediately tried to rush towards them, hoping to get into the embrace of her mother, but before she could even take a step further, she felt an overwhelming pressure pinning her to the ground. She wanted to struggle, but no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't.

"Awake?" She didn't know when the Enchanting woman arrived beside her as she looked at her with a smile.

"I just thought about an exciting thing to do." With a laugh, she nodded towards the other women who seemed to be waiting for her signal.

In the next instant, the women, like hungry wolves, rushed towards her father before tearing his clothes, leaving him butt naked.

Then, one woman hurriedly pried open his mouth before throwing in a red pill that made her father's entire body turn red hot.

Cang Yue wanted in horror as one woman after another pressed her father on the floor as they began to take turns, riding on his small, pinky-sized penis. Their faces twisted with pleasure as they would constantly slap her father and even leave long, bloody scratches on his body.

One of the women even used a big penis made entirely of jade. She connected its smooth, flat surface to her vagina and then pointed the shaft at her father's anus before thrusting it with all her might.

Cang Yue could hear her father's agonised wails and the unruly laughter of the women around her, as she watched in horror how her father was slowly played to death in a matter of hours.

She tried to rush in to save him, but no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't even move her body. She looked at her mother and sisters for help, but their fate was even more miserable.

Her two younger sisters were directly thrown into the bonfire, their cries filling the entire cave, and her mother… she was slowly being stripped off her own skin.

Cang Yue wanted to close her eyes, but the woman beside her used her hands to keep her eyes open.

With every passing moment, the light in Cang Yue's eyes dimmed as she watched her family members being butchered one after another.

The last painful cry of her mother ended on the morning with the first ray of sunlight.

"Did you enjoy it?" The woman beside her couldn't help but let out a peal of laughter as she rubbed Cang Yue's head, whose eyes had lost all hope in life.

"Boring." Seeing no reaction from Cang Yue, she clicked her tongue in annoyance as she took out a sword, intending to chop off Cang Yue's head, but in that instant, with a sudden distant thunder, time turned still.

Only Cang Yue looked around in confusion with her lifeless eyes as everything around her was frozen in time.

"Do you want revenge?" A soft, amiable sound echoed in her ears.

Cang Yue didn't know what it was, but she immediately nodded in response.

"Do you want to kill all these people who took everything from you?"

Cang Yue once again nodded in response.

"Are you willing to pay the price?"

Cang Yue didn't even hesitate to nod again. Even though she didn't know what price she needed to pay, she was willing to.

"In that case, free your mind… free your heart… let go of everything." The gentle soothing sound kept on echoing in her ears as Cang Yue simply closed her eyes. She wanted revenge… the scream of her father, her mother and her sister was still vivid in her ears.

She could still see the faces of all the villagers with whom she had spent her entire childhood.

Now all of them were gone…

Was there any reason for her to live in this world anymore?

With her eyes closed, Cang Yue stopped thinking.

In that instant, she felt something entering her body… her mind…

It was an extremely uncomfortable feeling at first, and she even wanted to struggle against it instinctively. But when she thought about her family and the village that was massacred for no reason, she gave up her struggle and simply closed her eyes.

Cang Yue felt as if she was slowly beginning to sink in an endless ocean. She wanted to struggle, but didn't. She merely let herself sink further and further.

What was there left in the world for her? What was the need for the living?

Thoughts like these kept on pouring into her head, making her struggle even more feeble.

And just when she was about to lose her consciousness and fall into the darkness forever, an inexplicable figure flashed past her eyes.

It was the figure of a young boy with an otherworldly appearance who was silently sitting on the ground together with her as the two of them looked at the stars.

"Yang Ze.' A name suddenly popped into her mind as Cang Yue's eyes suddenly opened with a brilliant light.

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