STILL IN THE DARK

Sweat was matting Alex's forehead as he struggled against the dark hand holding his throat tightly.

His eyes snapped open and he pushed the hand away, hurriedly sitting up.

“Are these the dark memories Luz talked about, that are hiding in my mind which will consume me when I lose guard? I thought I have gone past all those traumas and disappointments, leaving that dark place behind. Why am I remembering those bitches again? Is the dark book so powerful that it can play tricks on someone of my level? Or was it because my cultivation and spiritual sea was destabilized, due to the crack in my cultivation foundation? No! I'm too big for my mind to play tricks on me. What just happened here?” Alex wondered, looking around.

At that moment, he noticed a human skull with a weird pair of eyes. The right eye was green, while the other was red.

The dark smoke was still swirling around the area, slowly receding into a black earthenware pot under the skull.

Alex's mind Immediately got sharper, an