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Xiao Ping's voice echoed through the bloody, dark void as he challenged the entity and hurled numerous insults at it.
The wave of energy that had been pulling Xiao Ping's body inward, inflicting immense pain and shattering every bone in his body, suddenly came to a halt. Everything stopped now.
Even Xiao Ping's bones were completely repaired, no longer causing him any pain. All the agony he had felt moments ago vanished as his bones returned to their intact state.
But he quickly shifted his attention to the entity he had never seen and shouted loudly: "Where are you,you fool? Come out of your hiding place now!"
Instead of thanking the entity for relieving his torment, Xiao Ping uttered rude words. But he knew that insults were the only thing that worked with this entity. When he had spoken to it respectfully before, what was the result? More torture, preventing him from passing out so he could suffer even more.
"Hehehehe... I like you, you tiny human." The entity laughed with a demonic chuckle before speaking again in a surprised tone: "It seems you are an ungrateful human,aren't you? I stopped the pain you were suffering, yet you didn't even thank me."
"Hahahaha! Are you joking with me? You, this foolish entity, were torturing me, and after you stopped, you want me to thank you?!" Xiao Ping laughed as he adjusted his naked body and stood naturally, though he still floated in the bloody, dark space.
"I've realized now that you really are a foolish entity!" Given that this entity had tortured Xiao Ping unjustly,there was no respect in his words—he called it a fool or an idiot.
"Now, how about you come out of your hiding place and face me instead of talking nonsense and laughing like a madman from behind the darkness!"
"Kekekekeke... Human, why do you want to meet me face to face? I can torture you all while remaining hidden." Upon hearing Xiao Ping's insistence on meeting in person, the entity could only laugh in its demonic way.
Hearing the words of this mysterious entity, Xiao Ping could only smile.
He smiled because he saw that the wound in his heart had healed completely, as if it had never existed or never been injured. In that moment, he understood what the entity had been trying to do all along, though he still didn't understand why it had tortured him.
"Are you trying to play tricks on me? I know you weren't trying to kill me or enjoy my suffering—you were trying to heal my wounds." This time, when Xiao Ping spoke, all the resentment and hatred were gone, replaced by a broad, bright smile. But he soon shouted: "You perverted entity!If you don't want to come out, at least give me back my clothes!" Xiao Ping covered the area below his stomach with his hands.But he wondered to himself: Would the wounds in the world where the cabin existed also heal?
"Hehehehe... Why would you think I was healing you? What would I gain from healing you!" Seeing that Xiao Ping's angry attitude had changed, the fun in the entity's voice vanished, replaced by an angry tone, hoping to make Xiao Ping angry again. So, it did not return Xiao Ping's clothes, just to provoke him.
"Hmm, it seems this entity is just trying to provoke me... but why?" This question echoed in Xiao Ping's mind, so he tried to remain calm to see what the entity would say to him.
"Hey! Can you hear me, human?!" The entity tried to anger Xiao Ping with many words, but Xiao Ping remained calm and unshaken.
Seeing this, the entity lost all the amusement it had been enjoying and returned the white long-sleeved shirt and black pants to Xiao Ping.
"Finally! My clothes are back, and I'm no longer naked!" Xiao Ping's tone carried a glimmer of joy and gratitude. All the hatred in his eyes directed at the entity disappeared.
"You know! I find that you have an excellent side, but you should tone down those demonic laughs because they're my specialty!" Xiao Ping did not hide what was on his mind,nor did he feel any shame when he spoke everything so frankly to the entity.
And since the wound in his heart had been healed by the entity's supernatural powers, his body also recovered from the effects of hunger and exhaustion.
His skin returned to its natural fair tone after being pale, and even the dark circles under his green eyes, which had been dull, were now bright and had disappeared.
Although he didn't know that his pale skin tone had returned to normal and his dull eyes had become brighter, he felt the change in his body's health.
"Did you just say 'excellent side'? Hehehe... You human boy, you know nothing about me, but I know everything about you." When Xiao Ping heard the entity's statement and saw it smile,the entity sighed and laughed before making the bloody, dark void tremble.
"What's happen—" Xiao Ping felt the trembling and the change in the atmosphere again and tried to speak, but he soon stopped uttering anything.
Although he was floating, he felt the shaking as if he were on the ground during an earthquake.
But no, it was stronger than any earthquake Xiao Ping had ever felt on Earth. Perhaps even the strongest earthquake in his world was nothing compared to what he was feeling now.
The bloody energy disappeared, replaced only by utter darkness around him. He couldn't see anything—it was worse than bright light; at least he could see his body then, but now he couldn't see anything at all.
"Dammit, entity! What do you mean you know everything about me?!" Xiao Ping shouted into the pitch-black darkness at the top of his lungs.
"At least give me some light so I can see myself! Hey, entity!" Xiao Ping could only continue shouting because he received no response from the entity.
But at that moment, he felt his body rising high as he floated, and suddenly a light appeared to his right. So, Xiao Ping instinctively turned toward the source of the light.
But he was shocked by what he saw: a giant star floating near him, radiating bright sky-blue light as it moved and tumbled before Xiao Ping's eyes.
But he felt danger because stars, like the sun—no, even larger—emit burning heat many times stronger than the sun. So, he thought he would be roasted under its intense heat.
Yet, there was no sign of his body being roasted.
He sighed in relief, but at that moment, another star of the same color and size lit up to his left, performing the same movements as the first star.
Xiao Ping looked around again and saw another star appear, and the process repeated over and over again.
The lights of millions of celestial stars reflected in Xiao Ping's bright green eyes, resembling beautiful reflections in a lens. Then,planets began to appear one after another, and Xiao Ping couldn't believe his eyes.
Xiao Ping remembered something important: stars and planets exist only in space. This meant he was in outer space.
Xiao Ping was stunned by this thought and wished it weren't true, but unfortunately, it was. He was in outer space.
But he thought: there's no oxygen in space, yet he was breathing normally without any problems.
He felt that the entity he had been mocking was incredibly powerful—miraculously so—for its ability to transport him from that strange world to space. It must be supernaturally powerful to control everything.
In this space, for example, it made him able to breathe in space and approach stars without burning, as if it were natural.
Xiao Ping tried to call out to it one last time, but he suddenly felt as though the stars and planets began moving away from him at high speed.
They started moving like vertical lights flying through the vast, dark space.
Xiao Ping tried to process what was happening, but suddenly, black lines and bloody chaos appeared beneath him, gathering and forming into a giant arm larger than all the stars he had seen.
Then, it began to take shape, forming a figure composed of darkness with some bloody lines. They weren't hairs but a transparent material.
A giant mask was formed, with two large eyes behind it that held nothing.
A mouth also formed below the mask, lacking lips—just an opening.
Seeing that enormous hand below his body, Xiao Ping instinctively looked up before saying: "What in the hell are you?!" His green eyes were disbelief at what they saw.
Seeing the shocked and incredulous expression on Xiao Ping's face, the mask laughed, sending out waves of energy that destroyed everything in front of it, shattering stars and planets far away from him.
It smiled a terrifying smile before saying to the ant floating above its hand: "I am the Eternal Sacrifice...and you, you are me."