Supreme Devil Lord: I Can Refine All Energy-Chapter 59: Excruciating Pain

According to the <Hundred Tempering Body Refinement Technique>, he first needed to inject, eat, or absorb the stimulant into his body. Once it was in his body, he needed to circulate it throughout his body according to the instructions.

Therefore, after telling the system to remind when five hours were up, he closed his eyes and willed some of the refined energy to appear in his first spirit vein. Once it appeared, he carefully started circulating it through his spirit veins.

Initially, he felt comfortable all over, but soon, the comfort morphed into discomfort and then excruciating pain. He was feeling as though he was being stabbed by thousands of sharp needles.

’Argh!’

He barely managed to stop himself from grunting out loud. At the same time, he frowned because when he was cultivating, he hadn’t felt any pain. In fact, he had felt pleasure. At that time, he wasn’t doing anything different, just the pathways of energy circulation were a little different.

Only when he was opening his spirit veins did he feel pain, but that was because he was forcefully clearing the blocked veins, and thus the resulting pain was understandable. But now... he couldn’t understand it.

Then he thought of something else.

’If I’m feeling this bad when the tempering has yet to properly begin...’ His heart trembled at the thought.

Just half an hour later, when when the Hundred Tempering Body Refinement Technique started diffusing the spirit energy out of his spirit veins and into his blood, bones, muscles, organs, etc, he found out just how much pain he had to endure.

’Arrghh!’ He cried out in his mind as his veins bulged and face flushed red while his breathing started to become disorderly.

Feeling he was being overwhelmed by the pain, he clenched his jaws as hard as he could, not wanting to make any sound, and hurriedly started controlling his breathing while not forgetting to continuously will the system to send a bit more refined energy in his first spirit veins that he used to replenish the energy that was being used in tempering.

Despite him trying his best, it was still very difficult because along with the stabbing pain, which he was barely able to endure, he was now feeling as though someone was ruthlessly hammering him, amplifying the pain so much that his consciousness was starting to waver. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

At this moment, he really wanted to stop, to give up so this pain would go away, but...

’No! I... I can’t give up. I need to become strong. I need to save little Riya and Mom. I need to give them a good life. Then I also need to go find my real mother. I can’t give up here just because of some... pain. Arghh!’

His tightly clenched jaws had started bleeding, filling his mouth with the taste of iron, but he didn’t even feel it. Similarly, his hands were tightly clenched into fists, his nails digging into his palm, cutting the skin, and causing the blood, albeit little, to flow.

...

Rosalie’s eyelids gently trembled, and she slowly opened her eyes. Feeling groggy, she started stretching her body when she suddenly winced in pain.

Si!

She furrowed her brows when she realized she was feeling pain between her legs and on her hips. She appeared confused for a moment. Then as her consciousness grew clear, she remembered why she was feeling the pain and her face turned red and hot in shame.

Remembering something, she hastily looked beside her and then around the room. At first she sighed in relief seeing Eric wasn’t here and thus didn’t see her embarrassed face, but then she grew worried.

’He... did he leave?’ She thought, but just then she heard the sound of someone breathing heavily in the living room. She immediately realized it was Eric. But to confirm, she pushed her tired but refreshed body off the bed and, with difficulty, stood on her feet that she still wasn’t able to feel properly and walked toward the door before peeking out.

Her heart relaxed when she saw he was sitting cross-legged, cultivating. But then she frowned because not only was he covered in the similar black gunk as yesterday, he seemed to be in a lot of pain given how much he was trembling, not to mention his breathing was erratic.

’Is this how everyone cultivates? Or is he doing something else that’s causing him so much pain?’ She thought before trudging over to the bathroom.

’He didn’t clean himself before starting to cultivate.’ She thought when she saw that the water was unused.

Though she could see the floor was a little damp, she thought he must have taken some water to wash his face maybe. She then took a towel, wet it with water, and walked out. She wanted to clean his face like before so he could breathe properly, but when she looked closely at him, she frowned.

She could tell he was barely able to continue cultivating given how much pain he was in. So, if she started wiping his face, she might distract him, and all the efforts he put in, the pain he suffered, might be for naught.

’I... I shouldn’t disturb him. If he really wanted my help, he would’ve told me beforehand.’ She told herself before walking back to the bathroom and taking a bath. After half an hour, she was done.

Limping, she walked out, looked at him before going to her room to get dressed.

A while later, she was lying on the bed, looking at the ceiling in a daze. Maybe it was because there was no love left between her and Luke, and it could be said she was starting to hate him; she didn’t feel too bad about his death.

True, when he died in front of her, she had felt sad a little because no matter how he was, he was her son, but after a while, she had recovered, and after the pounding Eric gave her, she didn’t have any trace of sadness left for Luke in her heart.

’I... Am I too heartless?’ She thought, feeling miserable inside. The next moment, she shook her head, ’No. I’m not heartless. He was. He didn’t hesitate to sell off his sister and was going to sell me too.’