Chapter 662 - Cultivating Heart Secret Technique (2/2)

“Ah!”

Xue Ying gritted his teeth. Blood began dripping from his mouth, and even from his skin. The pain was on such a level that his entire body was trembling without his will.

However, he was doing his best in trying to stay awake and continue cultivating this secret technique.

The pain was gradually rising.

At some point, Xue Ying had begun to feel as if he was in an endless hell, but then the pain suddenly began to recede. The pain had risen quickly, but it also receded just as fast. Xue Ying let out a sigh of relief before moving back into his initial cross-legged stance. The beads of blood which had been forming on his skin disappeared, and his figure regained its usual cleanliness.

And now that he regained clarity of mind, he could continue cultivating the secret technique, starting the cycle of pain from the beginning…

…

The pain rose to a terrifying stage then fell once again. This cycle repeated itself time after time, although the pain he was feeling would reach a new high with every iteration! Before long, a sense of terror had unknowingly begun to creep up in Xue Ying’s mind, for it seemed like there would be no end to the torture. As he cultivated, he felt as if he had fallen into hell, with the agony becoming only stronger and stronger.

There was no end in sight—it was like a nightmare that would only ever become stronger.

Despite all of this, Xue Ying’s goal remained clear though. He wasn’t afraid nor was he worried. Whenever that feeling of creeping terror and despair appeared, he quickly threw them aside.

Yet some amount of fatigue began to gather.

Putting all his effort into completing a task was bound to eventually lead to some fatigue, and every cycle of pain was designed so that he would have to use all of his focus just to endure it. It all seemed endless. Xue Ying’s heart might be firm, but even he was gradually turning wan and swallow as a sense of lethargy appeared in his mind. The so-called ‘spurt of energy’ from the beginning had waned over time to make place for pure exhaustion.

Xue Ying was becoming tired of having to endure the torture, but he had yet to succeed, so he was forced to continue! Every single boundary of the Cultivating Heart was arduous, and if he were to fail this current one, he would have to repeat the entire thing from the start.

He was naturally not willing to accept such an outcome, so he was trying his best to succeed in a single try. Despite the fatigue welling up in his heart, he persisted.

He was enduring.

Time after time…

It felt endless and eternal.

He felt himself fall into an abyss of despair, but there was still a tough bone in him which didn’t accept failure. This was the so-called ‘no confusion, no worries, no fear, empty state of mind, advancing forward with courage, and heart and mind as one’. The current Xue Ying had already reached the state of heart and mind as one. Even though his soul felt like it was crumbling apart, and he was only cultivating as a numb machine, he still held on.

When he was young, he would cultivate his spear techniques every single day to an extreme. Afterward, he was inflicted with hexing poison and had to hold on up until the very end before he could consume a dose of medicine to relieve the pain. After all, consuming the medicine while disregarding the schedule would shorten his lifespan.

But none of that had ever caused Xue Ying to feel such bitterness.

Endless.

It must be stated that the current state of Xue Ying’s soul was so much stronger than it had been in the past, but he was still in despair. And ‘Despondence’ was merely the first boundary of the Cultivating Heart.

He did not know how long a time had passed, but he began to feel that he was on death’s door. There was a single thought which gave him the ability to keep enduring. His heart was already faint, but he was still able to persist.

“Hong~”

Once an incomparably terrifying pain engulfed his soul and receded just as quickly, Xue Ying was left in a stunned state.

After all, he discovered…

That he had completed the cultivation content of the first boundary of the Cultivation Heart, ‘Despondence’.

‘I managed to endure?’ Xue Ying was rather surprised. Even though he was still tired beyond words, a sense of happiness was growing in his heart, for he had finally escaped that terrifying hell. The smile on Xue Ying’s face was exceptionally exuberant. He attempted to deduce how long had passed since he began his cultivation.

‘What!? Only two days?’ Xue Ying was aghast.

He thought he had been experiencing that endless pain for a very long time, perhaps a million years or ten million years. However, upon succeeding, he found that only two days had passed.

Xue Ying completely loosened up and relaxed for half a year until he was fully recovered.

Only then did he finally begin cultivating the second boundary of the Cultivating Heart—the ‘Heart Arousal’.