Wei Wuxian was thrown into the dungeons and shackles were tied to his feet and hands. This is the prison of Cloud Recess, where resentful corpses and malicious objects are imprisoned, until they are purified from the negative energies, that lurk and rampage inside these inanimate objects. Since corpses are devoid of life, they too are considered as inanimate beings.

His whole body was throbbing with pain due to the onerous heaviness of the iron shackles. The bone crushing of the heavy iron tangles felt like vexed grasp of a demon.

The darkness of the room engulfed not only his body and mind but also his heart. It was not only darkness but a blanket of grief that was wrenching him slowly.

The once bright sunflower is now withering, as the Sunlight has denied to bathe him.

The pain, agony, anguish, all the miseries slowly started burning him from flesh to flesh and from bone to bone.

He started replaying everything that has been occurring like the scenes of a nightmarish dream, in his jaded mind - in quest of assimilating this confounding life.

Everything seems like a nightmare.

'So they have been suspecting me from the beginning, and the juniors being tied was nothing but a trap for me. They knew that Jin Ling has the bell through which I can detect whether he is in danger or not, and as he was captured, the bell which I have rung, and without any further thought, I went to save them. This was all done so that I don't suspect anything, and Lan Zhan was compliant in all these plans '.

' What wrong did I do? How could he believe Jin Guangyao but not me? He did not even listen to me. He knows very nicely that I couldn't attack directly with resentful energy anymore to hurt anyone, but still he believed that I have attacked his brother '.

'Why did he not believe me?? He doesn't love me anymore, does he? ' Wei Wuxian thought and smiled bitterly.

'Did he really love me? ' with this thought, Wei Wuxian felt a sharp pain through his chest, and he started having difficulty in breathing.

Have you ever experienced emotional pain whose intensity is so sharp that you feel physical pain from the anguish?

Footsteps were heard, the door of the dungeon was opened, and a yellow figure appeared before him. Wei Wuxian looked up at the yellow-robed man venomously with gritted teeth.

"Do you think your fierce look affects me? You are not even the Yiling patriarch anymore" Jin Guangyao said with a wry and a dark sky smile. His handsome face and olive eyes were embedded with cruelty and sinister malice.

"Could anything even affect you? you son of whore.You can succeed only through evil plans... A son of a prostitute is after all a son of a whore, cultivation world is not for them" Wei Wuxian verbally attacked with vex.

Jin Guangyao's smile faltered. Gritting his teeth he threw a string of spiritual power at Wei Wuxian.

A sharp pain passed through Wei Wuxian's chest, and he coughed out a mouthful of blood. His head was spinning and he felt like his chest is being ripped apart.

"Mind your words," Jin Guangyao said fiercely.

"You don't even have the eligibility to talk to me. Whores like you rise higher through others' fall, they don't have their own eligibility" Wei Wuxian spat at the man before him.

Jin Guangyao's face was calm and he wore his usual fake smile.

"Where are you getting so much courage from? Do you think anybody will believe you? Jin Guangyao asked with a raised brow and a calm smiling face.

" I will prove the truth before them and show them how bewitching you are," Wei Wuxian said with gritted teeth and determination in his tightened jaws.

"As if you will be in the condition to speak and 'prove yourself " Jin Guangyao intoned.

"Do whatever you want to do. I won't break that easily. You can't kill me now, if you do then you know they will suspect you. You were already there in the list of suspects" Wei Wuxian said and chuckled with venom.

"I will show you what I am capable of doing. I don't need to kill you, you will receive a worse punishment" Evilness was smeared in the smile and eyes of the golden robed man.

Jin Guangyao clasped, and a few cultivators entered the dungeon with whips, canes and long wooden Lan discipline scales.

"Since Master Lan Qiren couldn't behave your unruly behaviour, then let me correct it now," Jin Guangyao said and smirked.

"You can have your way with him, masters, he is all yours. Quench your thirst for revenge. Yiling patriarch is right here under our fist. Did he not harm you all in the past? " Jin Guangyao said to the cultivators who seemed to belong to some minor sects judging from their clothes, and some unknown motifs on their clothes.

"Yes he did and we all shall teach him how painful it is," One of them said and the other agreed with a smirk. Their eyes were burning with spite.

One of the cultivators walked towards Wei Wuxian and hit his back hard with the whip. Wei Wuxian's whole body burned with pain, but he didn't utter a single word. Seeing his indifference, the cultivators got more angry and they started hitting him with the cane and the discipline scale.

Wei Wuxian felt like he was being peeled alive. Every flesh and bone in his body was aching from the torment.They left no place unscarred, except his face and neck.

Though the pain was excruciating, but Wei Wuxian did not utter a single groan of pain. He shut his lips tightly and endured the torture silently.

Seeing him unfazed, Jin Guangyao and the other cultivators were agitated, and they attacked him more.

Wei Wuxian was slowly loosing consciousness. Everything was appearing blurry - he could only see the fading figure of golden robed Jin Guangyao. Blood was gushing from his mouth.

They beat him until they were satisfied, and left him to bleed in the dungeon.

It has been two days since Wei Wuxian has been suffering in the never ending darkness. His whole body was throbbing with unacceptable pain. He could feel a rib or two to be broken, and broken bones in his right hand and left thighs. He couldn't move even a palm - a slight movement, and his whole frame would burn.

No one visited him, not a single ray of warmth entered the dark room. Not even a single bite of food reached his stomach. It's not like that he is going to consume anything in this hideous realm.

He laid like a dead corpse - eyelids heavy, eyeballs stilled, and lips parted a little. His breath was becoming faint with each passing second. The blood from internal bleeding has clogged inside his stomach and lungs. Even breathing in this condition felt like a hindrance. Rusty smell of blood smeared the air of the prison.

Aura of death was slowly slathering the dungeon.

The door of the dungeon creaked open, and a thin thread of life illuminated like a line on his shivering body.

Jin Guangyao entered the dungeon with fluttering of his lavish gold embroidered refined silk robes. Seeing Wei Wuxian in such a hideous condition, he flashed a wry smile.

"Ohh see we have the Yiling patriarch here, lying on the floor like a dead fish" He mocked with a smirk.

Not a single tint of energy was left inside Wei Wuxian to argue with this sly man. He closed his eyes.

"Hmmm not even eligible to argue, I see" Jin Guangyao said while approaching his corpse like body.

Wei Wuxian just stared at the empty wall that appeared tilted in his blurry sight.

"Do you know what is going to happen to you today, you son of servant? " Jin Guangyao asked in a cold yet satisfied voice.

Wei Wuxian didn't utter a single word. He doesn't know what is going to happen and he doesn't want to know. This world has stopped for him six years ago when he had died during the first burial seize.

"Let me show you the hell today. "

Jin Guangyao said and grabbed a handful of Wei Wuxian's hair.

He took out a tailsman and activated it.The dark dungeon was lit by a bright light for a lone moment.

The pain seems like a tide,
Wrenching me from core.
Manumit from this anguish of hell,
Free thy soul from this gore.
This soul is jaded;
The torment gushes through my heart,
From grief, the zing has faded.

- Ananya F.