Crack-crack-crack—!!! Something inside me was breaking. Like a vessel shattering, the creaking and clinking rang and buried itself in my ears. “Gggh…!!” It engulfed me. My vision turned stark white. Everything was white—and blazingly, insanely hot. As the heat rose and rose, as if my whole body would burn— ‘This is…’ —inside, I felt only emptiness. My once-full dantian emptied...
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