“Creak.”
The sound of bones breaking echoed by her ear.
The pain of blood vessels and muscles being torn from her body appeared at the same time.
How could this be…
Su Yun stared blankly at the gaping, closing maw.
Darkness.
Damp.
Sickly sweet,
Death…
“No…”
A voice as light as drifting snow echoed in her mouth.
Next came a sudden feeling of weightlessness.
Suffocation, pressure.
Then, the agony of being corroded by gastric acid.
“No!”
Never!!
Su Yun’s eyes snapped wide open.
What appeared before her were undigested severed limbs and fragments of armor.
Yet none of this frightened her; those amber-yellow eyes of hers now shone with an unprecedented brilliance.
She endured the pain of corrosion and groped about in the gastric acid.
Before long, a still-intact fragment emerged in her hand.
She crawled over to the stomach wall, gripped the shard with both hands, and slashed hard.
Nothing happened.
There was a layer of mucus on the stomach wall; Su Yun simply couldn’t cut through it.
At the same time, the feeling of suffocation grew even stronger.
She drilled, hacked, smashed.
Every method she could use, she tried.
“Ugh…”
Su Yun collapsed to her knees in agony and exhaustion.
She still didn’t want to give up, wanted to keep trying, but her body simply couldn’t move anymore.
Is it going to end here?
I don’t want that…
I don’t want it!
How could I die here!
“Gulp.”
The metal shard scraped across the membrane but finally slipped into the liquid as Su Yun lost all her strength.
Her eyelids grew heavier and heavier.
She was clearly gasping for breath, yet still felt dizzy and faint.
Every part of her body sent pain signals of being corroded.
But the sensation was growing weaker, unable to keep her awake.
Don’t…
“Drip.”
A drop of blood slid from the corner of her mouth.
Su Yun had bitten through her own lip.
The sharp pain woke her up a little.
Then, she grabbed another shard and repeated her previous actions.
I don’t want to die…
Splash!
Su Yun collapsed from exhaustion again and fell right into the gastric acid.
It was as if the stomach wanted to digest her even more.
The gastric fluid increased.
She struggled to crawl up and continued chiseling at the gastric membrane, over and over again.
When she ran out of metal shards, she used her hands.
When the acid covered her head, she forgot to breathe.
Like a relentless machine, she did everything she could to find a thread of hope for herself.
Until her vision went black and her strength was utterly spent.
Yet her body kept digging by sheer instinct.
In a daze, she heard a soft question.
[Why do you cling to life so stubbornly?]
[Is it just to see the beautiful world?]
[But haven’t you always lived in misery?]
“…..”
She was obviously unconscious, yet Su Yun felt clearer than ever.
Right, she had lived to experience beauty.
But up till now, she hadn’t seen much beauty at all.
Suffering.
Nothing but suffering.
Then, what did she live for…
The answer was simple.
Because she wanted to live.
So, I will live.
I will live until the world is destroyed.
Live until everything is reduced to dust.
Live until a new world slowly appears…
I want to live forever!
Su Yun saw herself clearly.
She had never lived for the sake of beauty.
She simply wanted to live. That was all.
Just like life itself.
Its birth isn’t a necessity.
It’s just that, life happened to be born.
So countless living beings came into existence.
As for evolution, mutual plundering later on…
Its essence was still just to “survive.”
To live, for the sake of living.
[Then, live on.]
[Until the day you give up.]
Su Yun seemed to hear a soft chuckle.
Not mocking.
But a laugh of great satisfaction.
Then, an unimaginably pure surge of life force erupted within her body.
Exhaustion, suffocation, pain.
All vanished without a trace in an instant.
Su Yun became aware of her own body.
She had never felt like this before.
Every single cell in her body seemed to obey her will completely.
At the same time, in her mind’s spiritual palace, the patterns of the Law of Life began to grow and spread like vines, coming alive.
Their completeness far surpassed Lin Mohua’s simplified Law of Life patterns.
Su Yun clenched her fist and focused her mind.
A sturdy bone fist-blade appeared on her hand.
At first, it was still corroded.
But as Su Yun’s spiritual power grew stronger, the bone blade gradually ignored the corrosion of the stomach acid.
Su Yun assumed a stance, her muscles swelling.
Her petite body was somewhat distorted by the sudden bulging of her muscles.
Her originally small, tangerine-sized fists grew as large as trash cans.
For some reason, a move’s name popped into her mind.
Charging Fist!
Wait, no—Demolition Fist!
“Still not over?”
“Looks like someone’s still struggling.”
“What’s the use?”
….
“Hiss….” Mo Qingqing, who had almost fallen asleep, was awakened by a surge of unrest.
She sensed a sudden influx of life force in her body.
“A glimpse of the Law? Strange, normally laws without a Master are just dead things.” Lin Mo looked on curiously at Mo Qingqing.
“Not my business.” Mo Qingqing yawned and sat up.
She was currently sharing Su Yun’s abilities.
This mutation clearly came from Su Yun.
“Maybe… it’s alive?” Lin Mo mused.
That’s why the Law of Life is so hard to grasp.
Because those unrecognized by it can only brute-force their way through.
“But how can a law be alive?”
“Po!”
Suddenly, a thunderous blast interrupted her train of thought.
It sounded just like a gigantic balloon bursting.
The giant crocodile that swallowed Su Yun had a huge hole blasted through its belly.
A bizarre figure, covered in hard bone, tore through the giant crocodile and leapt out.
Osteogenic armor!
The crocodile’s corpse turned into two balls of light that flew toward the remaining giant crocodiles.
Yet, two enormous bone claws caught them and instantly refined them.
Behind Su Yun, that fluffy, bushy tail also refined the two life force orbs, transforming into a two-meter-long bone tail.
The arena fell silent.
Then, an eruption of cheers.
Aside from brute-force slaying and instant four-kill, a third solution appeared.
Instant Refinement!
Su Yun’s tail plunged into the ground like a spring, launching her directly in front of a giant crocodile.
Crash!
The huge Melon Crocodile was instantly smashed into a bloody mist; its life force orb was also seized and digested by Su Yun in a flash.
The remaining crocodiles looked around in terror, trying to escape.
Su Yun looked at them and seemed to see her former self.
A subtle feeling welled up in her heart.
As expected, this world is like this.
Only the strong can survive.
She sprang in front of another giant crocodile, her hands shrinking, muscles tensing, stance shifting.
Wing Chun.
“Bang bang bang…”
A flurry of thunderous blasts echoed through the arena.
Su Yun vented all the grievances she’d ever suffered.
The giant crocodile was long reduced to mush, but she refused to stop, hammering away until the ground itself caved in and she finally came to a halt, sunken deep in the pit.