She woke up with a splitting headache as she looked at the familiar stone room and the hovering flickers of flame. It was so bright in the room, because of that she ends up closing her eyes and laid back to bed to rest and stabilize her existence. 

With just a very tiny bit of soul, she already felt like the heavens were going to rain thunder of tribulations against her. 

'But it was successful for a little bit… If it can be longer… What if I managed to…' She thought to herself in hope but decided not to expect too much. There will be enough time to try again later. First, she needed to recover. 

It was painful trying one's soul fragment as was almost like burning life force. More so especially if it was so far from its owner. However, she did not complain. 

After a while of silence, she opened her eyes and saw that the flames were still there, waiting for her news patiently. 

"Miss how was it? Did you successfully see the outside world? Is the possession successful?" One of the flames which has a male voice asked. His voice was hoa.r.s.e and low as it emits impatient and hopefulness. 

The owner of the voice was a golden flame. It was a soul of a King from the Lion Spirit Beast Tribe, who she most of the time call Uncle Wu Xu. 

It was a dominating and powerful existence before it was trapped. However, after the years, the dominance was now almost non-existent. All was left on the gold flame's will was the desire for freedom, just like everyone else. 

She shook her head in response, "I can't find the first soul fragment. I will try again when I recover… " She replied, half lie and half true. Though feeling guilty for doing so, she managed not to show any hint of it, only letting the expression of disappointment appeared on her face. 

The flickering flames released heavy sighs as if they were living breathing beings. 

Then another male voice that sound so sharp one asked, "Miss… What if you try again? It may be difficult by your vitality will still recover." It was the violet flame that she most of the time,, call Big Brother Jun. 

This Big Brother Jun was a poison expert as claimed by the other flames, but he was so bad at teaching, not to mention dangerous as well. Thus no one allowed him to share her poison secrets, as there was a possibility of her being a guinea pig. 

"Stop it! Do not look at this lightly! Even though the Miss vitality will recover, it may still injure her cultivation in the long run! You all know this!" Someone said, rebuking. The owner for the voice was female, and it was coming from the red flame. She often calls her the red flame soul Sister Xia Chen, who was fire element expert. 

There were eleven different colors of flames in front of her. These tiny flames were souls that were trapped with her in prison. They were also only the beings that she had managed to talk in her whole life. Aside from that, most of the things that she learned were taught by them. 

She knew that the soul flames were all fallen generals and experts that served the father that she had never known. They did not give her name, though, as they felt that they do not have a right to do so. 

All of them always call her Miss. Before, she thought that 'Miss' was her name not until she managed to create the first p.a.w.n that she was able to sent out to the world and learned that it was just a status inside a well off family. 

Though they were in prison, there were occasional tiny cracks, which were as thin as a needle that emits a s.p.a.ce distortion presence. The flames celebrated after they were able to confirm that the distortion presence was the same from dimensional portal energy.

After so many test, and experiments, they managed to make needle-like crack wide enough to fit a fist for a short period of time, before the crack disappears as if it was repaired. After this, they have learned that the s.p.a.ce inside the crack was void but distorted and it could lead to different places. Eventually, they also understood that it was dangerous for any soul flame to get out through it. Aside from that, they were not sure what the backfire would be. 

Nevertheless, it was a tiny hope that they did not want to extinguish despite it taunting them whenever they failed to get freedom through it. 

The soul flames were already experimenting with the cracks way before she realized and learned about its existence. They have managed to test multiple methods, like sending storing silk mantras on items before throwing them in the void. Treasured stones that have their imprints just leave their traces were also sent out to try. 

Years went by without any changes until she successfully created her p.a.w.n for the first time with a mantra that allowed it to return all information to the owner once destroyed. It seemed like she was the only one who could do it. 

They then used it to get out of the crack. Despite it eventually being destroyed, everyone still rejoiced after they learned that these cracks would always lead to random places as if their prison was moving into s.p.a.ce. 

 "We have waited for so many years. What is the difference between waiting for some more? Let the Miss rest for now." Then she heard another flame spoke. 

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