The journey to Egaroth had been one filled with discovery, learning, hellish learning, till he well, finally arrived.
Throughout that journey, the one thing Seth had was awareness, though he wasn't in control, he knew what was happening around him, and though at a time he lost his memories of something that had happened there, in the end, he still got them back.
Now it was time for him to make a return journey, and though there were a lot of unplanned surprises in the events before he entered the black portal, that his mind would suddenly go heavy till he near blacked out wasn't something Seth had expected when he entered spinning black mass.
To Seth, he felt like his body seized to exist for a few seconds, leaving just his mind floating in total darkness, and then the next second, he began feeling himself, everything about his body recovering from it where it had left off when he entered the portal.
Before entering the portal Seth had felt like he was in death's embrace, already doomed to its powers, and had still been yet to figure out why he had such feelings.
Now as Seth began recovering a sense of his body, the first of his organs to fall into his body's control were his eyes which he opened to a blind light.
For a second Seth was disoriented, and then the next, feelings of his body quickly returned to him, the feeling of death being prominent, and then the qi in his body quickly coming about and returning to its disobedient ways.
While escaping death was a crucial thing to do, Seth instinctively knew that to escape that death he needed his qi, so the first thing he did to regain control of his body was look within himself and try to forcefully take control of his qi while also looking to find the reason for his qi's abnormal behavior.
Though in the end, Seth failed to regain control of his qi, he did find the cause of his abnormal qi flow, and just as he did, his body was hit with pain.
Pain wasn't something new to Seth, throughout his short time as a cultivator, he had been subjected to pain that would have driven many mad, the pain from his soul being the worst.
Even now the pain Seth felt might not even rank among his top three most painful moments, yet in the end this feeling of pain did what others hadn't.
In a way rather than just his nerves sending him pain signals, his instincts seemed to join in on the fun, Seth feeling both pain and fear.
The feeling of having something within him eating him from inside had Seth losing all sense of reasoning and letting loose.
As his scream of pain reverberated all around, there was only one comprehensible thing in his mind, and it was what was currently the cause or the best reason he could give for the pain he was feeling.
"Qi poisoning"
Though there were a few dissimilarities with was what eating him from within and qi, Seth's pain-filled mind didn't have the luxury of figuring that out.
After doing his best to restrain his body for close to a minute, Seth was soon overwhelmed and then blood.
Seeking relief, Seth dug his fingers into the area where he had been slashed and began ripping it out, tearing out his flesh as he sought to take out the cause of this unbearable pain.
Ignoring the blood that flooded out of him, Seth soon dug a hole into the right side of his body, a sense of relief despite his destroyed body parts filling him as he fell to the ground, slumping into the pool of his own blood.
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As cultivators, the people in the church weren't little girls, so if one had expected them to be screaming and crying, then they needed to be reminded what world they were in.
While Seth raved and crazed, the cultivators on realizing that they couldn't break open the door of the church had turned towards Seth and prepared for battle.
Perhaps if they had known about the situation with the door, their instincts would have sent them charging at Roushi to fight him for the key, but in the end, they hadn't known about it, and by the time they found out, they had regained a level of reasoning, though they would rather battle Roushi than face whoever injured the screaming man a distance from them, no wanted to know Roushi's wrath.
The church was silent as they watched the man scream, rip out his flesh, and then eventually fall to the ground seemingly dead.
The silence lasted for a few seconds until someone finally stuttered.
"Is that what I think it is?"
With the weight of this person's voice, one could imagine how much disbelief he was filled with, yet to his words, there was no comment as everyone stood transfixed.
The scene of a group of people standing and staring at a man's torn-out innards in wonder and greed was enough to give anyone the chills, yet that was what was happening at the moment.
Seth's prone body was completely ignored, the flesh which he had torn out of his body being the focus of the whole church.
"Master Roushi, may we" someone asked in a pleading voice looking up to the master who was at the altar.
"Hmm, you may, but do that at your own risk."
The second Roushi finished talking there were flashes all around as nearly everyone moved to standing about a few steps from Seth's ripped-out flesh, being far away from it to react to any danger but at the same time being close enough to feel and focus their gaze on it.
Most of the cultivators wanted to move closer, but the pressure from the strewn flesh especially some large pieces that possessed a scary aura had them not daring to move closer
With Seth wanting to rid himself of his corrupted flesh, he had thrown the pieces of his flesh a short distance away, this move meaning that his body was left lying to the side while the cultivators surrounded his flesh.
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