Chapter 721: 689. Flashback
In the world of flowing oily colors, a girl's pleated skirt danced among the streams of colors,
her long legs in black silk stockings stepping on little leather shoes, her body flickering as if losing frames, with a twisted smile on her lips.
"Xia Feng...."
The girl's murmuring voice was eerie and chilling, her style bizarre.
Clearly, there was no trace of Spiritual Pressure emanating from the girl, yet it gave Xia Feng a sense of despair, as if being oppressed by a Holy Realm master to the point of immobility.
And when Xia Feng finally managed to restart his stagnant thoughts, the eerily smiling girl was already standing before him, her face so exquisite it seemed slightly fake, with pitch-black eyes that twisted into the shape of a colorful Holy Grail as they rotated within her sockets.
Simultaneously, the chaotic oily streams of light in this painted world seemed to find a center and crazily converged towards Xia Feng's head.
Xia Feng's contracted black pupil instantly turned red, and his eye sockets also became red, his face contorting in agony.
"This is the Emotion Domain formed by the [Epic Divine Relic · Seven Emotions Holy Grail], once you enter this Emotion Domain, you'll lose your sanity and fall into madness under the piling up of various extreme emotions."
A thought from Yue Hongli flashed through Xia Feng's mind, "If ultimately you're completely crushed by negative emotions like humiliation, pain, and despair, causing a collapse of your self-awareness, master, your soul will be sealed into the Grail, and all contracts on your body will dissipate."
"The Seven Emotions Holy Grail has always been held by my main personality. This girl is most likely sent by the main personality, intending to capture and seal you, while dissolving the contract between you and me, allowing the main personality to easily devour and merge with me!"
The mental exchange was just an instant, Xia Feng was somewhat surprised, initially thinking they were from the Black Moon Church, but unexpectedly it was the Golden Sparrow?
There's no denying, the Black Moon Court is indeed bustling today, Burning Heaven, Golden Sparrow, the attacking Mysterious Army, a rare gathering of three forces in Black Moon.
But now is not the time to think about these things, Xia Feng soon felt an intense tightness and contraction in his heart, like it was clenched hard by a large hand, various emotions of sourness, pain, shame, and despair surged inexplicably, directly to the brain!
His already chaotic consciousness was instantly filled with these negative emotions, thoughts of suicide, and giving up resistance quietly surfaced, his black pupil became lifeless.
Xia Feng could clearly feel his situation, sensing that the surrounding colorful light was gradually permeating his body, merging with his soul, forming one strange snake-like seal after another.
But even knowing these things, he didn't want to stop them, he just watched calmly as his soul was eroded, filled, and sealed by emotions.
Watching the Guihua Seal on his soul being gradually covered and erased by the Emotion Power.
"Master, the Seven Emotions Holy Grail also has the ability to store emotions, all these foreign emotions originate from the Seven Emotions Holy Grail, there's only one way to resist, and that is for you to produce the corresponding extreme emotions yourself, use pain to fight pain, despair to fight despair!"
The oily colorful light circled around Xia Feng, continuously swirling. His black pupils were lifeless, his neck tilted back quietly suspended in the air, Yue Hongli's urgent voice sounded by his ear, but he remained unmoved.
Mrs. An quietly watched the man in front of her, her lips curling into a sinister smile full of malice, gripping the man's neck, the colorful light from the Holy Grail in her eyes grew brighter, illuminating Xia Feng's face.
Living is so tiring, give up resistance, just like this... one negative thought after another bounced out in Xia Feng's mind, unable to lift even a hint of resistance.
But indeed, having been a Spirit Master for more than a year, running away every day, it didn't seem to mean much. It might as well be sealed and imprisoned by the Seven Emotions Holy Grail, and have a good sleep.
After all, it is truly tiring....
"Mr. Xia..." yet at this moment, a familiar cool voice called out from the Abyss of the Memory Sea, faintly, increasingly clear—
"Mr. Xia...."
"Mr. Xia, I like you." The complex emotions contained in the cool low voice seemed to possess supreme power, suddenly jolting Xia Feng's blurry consciousness, his mind became clear!
The Seven Emotions Holy Grail needs emotions to counteract, which is also the only way to break the situation! Upon awakening, Xia Feng did not hesitate, quickly letting his memories and emotions immerse into his childhood period.
Back to that rainy night before meeting Gong Changyi, he had just been beaten half to death by a gang of hooligans, curled up in a cold alley corner, feeling lost and helpless, nurturing death's will.
That night was the eve of him stepping from darkness into light, and also one of the most desperate and helpless moments in his life....
The memory scene of the rain-draped alley faded, Heavenly Thunder rolled, a woman in a black dress stood in front of him, pierced through the heart by a transparent light cone, blood spilling from her lips as she fell weakly into his arms,
with a weak, ear-subbing whisper of helplessness, "Mr. Xia, I'm tired, can you hold me..."
Like being there in person, back to the day when Miss Mu was about to die, endless despair, and pain instantly surged in his heart, his upturned face visibly reddening, blue veins bulging on his forehead, lifeless black pupils twisting and trembling, his eye sockets ferociously reddening.
"Buzz——!!"
The oily colorful light burst open centered on his brow! The bizarre girl's figure was scattered by this sudden outburst of light, disappearing without a trace.
Using pain to fight pain, despair to fight despair, these two negative emotions from the Seven Emotions Holy Grail were reluctantly resisted by Xia Feng, the light returned to his lifeless black pupils.
But cold sweat trickled from his forehead, his brows furrowed tightly, as he looked around, he found himself still trapped in this Oil Painting World, not successfully escaping.
He could sense, this Emotion World was filled with a dozen or so negative emotions, among them, emotions of 'shame', 'humiliation', and 'embarrassment', these kinds of [Shame] emotions were the most abundant and also the foundation supporting this world.
To escape, merely resisting 'pain' and 'despair' was far from enough.
He also had to conjure up extreme [Shame] within his heart.
But—
Shame, or embarrassment.... it seemed he indeed didn't have any humiliating moments in his life, except the other day in the safe house—
sandwiched vigorously by two Miss Mu who locked him in a hard position, he was humiliated fiercely for several hours, his body convulsing uncontrollably like a fish on a chopping board, grunting like a woman in between the ears of the two Miss Mus, trying hard to resist, yet couldn't help himself...
Although he would prefer not to recall this extraordinary past, for the sake of escaping, he couldn't care less, Xia Feng immersed his consciousness into the memory scene and emotions at the time.
In this Emotion Domain, imagination was magnified dozens of times, as if experiencing it in person, his thin lips trembled, hands pulled back by an invisible force, his amazed, trembling body arching high, black pupils shrinking once again into stars.
"Fear is the root of all things, only after possessing fear, can all things continuously evolve in this river of billions of years of time."
The ethereal voice by his ear loftily above, like an illusory celestial sound from the horizon, "Heh~ Mr. Xia, do you feel fear~?"
The surging shame forced into his brain, Xia Feng gritted his back teeth, silently feeling, while once again furrowing his brows and glancing around.
Yet he found that the surrounding scenes of the Oil Painting World actually remained unmoved.
It seemed, far from enough...