“What does refining me have to do with you escaping from this place? If refining me would make that possible, I would refine myself before you have the chance to!” Overpowering anguish clung tightly to the dead spirit. It was a very foreign, yet very real feeling.

He’d yet to experience pain again after becoming a dead spirit, so while he howled with agony, it was tinged with a few hints of greed and satisfaction.

Pain!

His long lost senses of pain were returned to him. Although this was torment, it was a torment that he enjoyed.

He enjoyed the pain.

Lu Yun sighed as he watched the diminishing spirit. The guy really didn’t know anything, he was just a...