She found herself slowly sinking, her body melding with the earth beneath her. Despite her cultivation base being at the mere Early Stage of the Core Formation realm, she was ill-equipped to withstand the overwhelming pressure emanating from someone three realms above her.
"You-mast…" she strained to speak, only to be met with searing pain, both external and internal. Xia Wei, the young master, had always struck her as kind and playful. Though she had overstepped boundaries in the past, she had never faced punishment of this magnitude.
Blood surged forth from every pore of her body, an unexpected phenomenon for a cultivator at the Early Stage of Core Formation. Her vision blurred with crimson as her trembling palms perspired beads of sweat, mingling with her internal Qi.
One more step, and she would plunge into a treacherous state of Qi deviation, ultimately culminating in a horrific explosion of blood.
