The Undying Immortal System

I stared at the message I had left for myself.

Torture. Were they torturing everyone during the Exam Trials? Was that the true reason we weren’t allowed to remember anything that happened inside? What was the point of it all?

I had to trust that if I had learned the reason for it during the Exam, then I would have at least written something about it. If I didn’t know why it was happening while inside the Trial, what chance did I have of understanding anything after forgetting everything that happened?

Did it matter? I didn’t like the idea of having been tortured, but I had completely forgotten about it. It was like it had never happened. As long as I wasn’t revealing anything important about the nature of my blessing during the process, which again, I think I would have mentioned in my journal, did it matter?

My body was only a shell that was destined to be discarded. I had a hard time caring too much about what happened to it. I was more curious about their reasoning behind these actions. Why would they torture me? If the process were the same for everyone, why were they torturing everyone who went through the Exam? I couldn’t make too much sense of the situation without more information, and the only way I knew to get that was to advance further in the sect.

However, there was one potential hiccup that worried me. I didn’t know that I could do anything about it, and I would almost certainly have to continue down the same path no matter what, but it would be nice to know the dangers I was subjecting myself to.

But how was I supposed to phrase my question?

“System, beyond the normal effects that I should expect, has my soul been altered or marked in any way by the events inside the Exam? I know that the torture described in my journal would have an effect on me, but has my soul been specifically altered or marked in some way beyond what I should reasonably expect from being tortured?”

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