Making sure no one was around, he gritted his teeth against the throbbing pain and raised his right hand to grasp the iron hook that pierced through his left shoulder.,"I would have been able to ascend in another year or two.",He continued, his voice laced with a thin whine of anguish: “But the old woman insisted on ruining my future. I was buried in that soil with the corpse of Master Cui, smelling its gradual decay and stench. I felt the maggots crawling inside him, the rotten fluids dripping onto me, seeping into my very being. Tell me, do you think I have a blood feud with the old woman”。