Escape was the most convenient thing to think about.
He just can't only think due to heat. His breathing was hard. He just wanted to be spared this one time.
"Just one this time, if I can make an escape, then I will never be careless or slothy," he was weeping and crying. His nose bleed, and blood oozed from his mouth.
The temperature rose from sixties to nineties to one twenties.
A hundred and twenty degrees.
No more!
His eyes burnt and churned. He wanted to live but was constrained by the fire.
Suddenly, he remembered about his life every time he slacked off. Every time when he lazily swept across the academy. He was an orphan, no background; how dare he loop the same thing to enjoy his life?
The dao is wrong itself. No justice. No regularity.
Can't an orphan live his life?
All his thoughts ran wild in his mind.
But suddenly a voice resounded.
"Do you want to live?"
He looked around, seeing nothing because everywhere was steel burning.
"Answer yes or no."
"Who?" he said, questioning the voice. "I am someone whose identity you don't need to know," he said.
"As long as you don't oblige your life and death. Its same for you."
What do you even mean, this hallucination? He thought. His eyes were dead. His hands were pale and burning.
"Use it. Use the fire. Temper your body."
"Who, wh--o is it why? Do you kee-p calllinng mee?" It was hard to speak in this intense warming feel.
His hands and mouth were burning. His words were left with half of their meaning.
"Tch, I expected more from you," an overseer-type seal embedded his back and forth. His mouth churned, and his forehead bore a mark. Mark of Steel and Sword.
The fire suddenly took the shape of a flexible rod and charged into Luo's body.
Absorbing Technique!
What kind of absorbing technique is this? He thought. His stomach got filled with fire energy.
Body refinement, 2nd stage
Body refinement, 3rd stage!
Body refinement, 4th stage!!
Body refinement, 5th stage!!!
He quickly broke through at an alarming rate. His pale hands got their vitality. His burnt mouth recovered, and his blurred vision removed its blurry attributes.
Vital organs!
They became several times fortified.
Vision!
Increased slightly
Body!
Of a young adult!
Although at his age of 17 years old, his muscle looked like he was a monstrous beast. His height reached upper limits; some more gaining had been earned this time.
"Am I alive?" Luo asked.
"You have exhausted all my remaining energy, yet you ask, Are you okay, brat?" A roar sounded in his ear, and he fell to the ground. It looked like a tiger roaring on the face of a mouse.
"Ehehe," he scratched the sides of his mouth. "Well... asking about it, Who are you?" his gruffy voice resounded in a chamber made out of steel.
"I... I maybe... I don't know who I am."
"Ehe, what kind of mind is that you possess? We aren't playing a typical roleplay," he said again in a gruffy voice.
"Insolent, I am here because I closed my eyes. A soul fragment of my soul is holy damaged."
"Ayo, you mean you are dead. Well, of course, you might be an emperor personality; I didn't know I had such good luck." voice resounded.
Luo stood up and asked, "What should I do, Old Master?"
"You should escape, obviously."
Is this boy mentally ill?
"I thought Master would have a plan for how I can break steel." Said him. "Sad boy, I might have had a bad choice possessing you."
Don't say that, old master. He thought, and after the recovery, he sat and observed his surroundings.
Increased calmness, patience, and justification for one's own identity.
Qin Academy, outer boundaries
Against the walls stood two boys and one girl. They were whispering to each other.
"He must be dead till now."
"Was this worth it to kill a boy, a worthless one at that in the secret chamber?"
"Of course, you might not know, although I have some repuatation in the academy, but still, the academy master wouldn't spare this abandoned son."
The speaker was a young disciple. This speaker was Qin Chang, Elder's son.