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Chapter 361 – Mole
"What's happening, master?" Aegis asked from his chest.
"I don't know, but I don't have a very good feeling about it," Ning said. "Let me follow and see. If I think something bad is happening, I will step in."
The parade went on for a little while before it reached the mouth of the cave. Finally, it stopped there and the 8 people that were carrying the float put it down.
The old man who was the father of the girl walked up to the cave and shouted, "Lord of the hills, We have come with the yearly tribute. I have brought along my daughter as this year's tribute."
They waited for a while before a booming voice came from inside. "Hmm… okay. Send her in and you guys may leave now," the beast inside said.
The father walked up to the float and opened the door. The girl came out as she wiped her tears away.
"Are you ready my child?" he asked.
"Yes, father," she said.
"Ah, my child," the father said as he held her hand to his forehead. "Forgive this father for not being able to protect you."
"It's okay father," the girl said. " It's time I go in. Tell mother and my brothers I love them."
The girl turned around, with determination in her eyes before fiercely entering the cave with no hesitation.
"Aegis, go and stay with the girl. If she's in danger, protect her," Ning said.
"Yes, master," Aegis said before flying into the cave as a harmless little beetle.
"Let's go back," the father said with tearful eyes that hid fury that only others who lost their daughters knew about.
"Yes," the group of people turned around to leave.
The father walked briskly and went to the group of people at the back. The 5 people at the back that were all wearing black robes and hiding their faces stopped along with everyone.
The old man then went on to slowly whisper his next set of words. "That is where the beast lives, please destroy him if you can. I don't want my daughter's sacrifice to be in vain," the old man said.
"Leave that to us. We will exterminate the beast," the 5 people said.
"Oh," Ning thought. "So it's that sort of situation huh?"
The 20-some people left, leaving only the 5 in their hoods.
"Let's go kill this beast," one of them said, and the others cheered. Ning sent out his divine sense to look at their faces, but they were just normal people with a high cultivation base.
The 5 briskly walked up to the cave and into it. Ning decided to see what it was all about as well.
"Man, if this is the beast I'm looking for, I don't know what sort of answer I can give to the beasts in the statue. Maybe I should just not tell them anything at all," Ning thought.
He walked inside the dark cave but had no problem seeing anything. The walls were all the same looking, with seemingly no distinction from anything else.
"Did the beast make these walls like this?" Ning wondered as he walked around. He walked for nearly 5 minutes before he realized that he was getting nowhere.
"What the hell?" he thought and started running towards where he could feel Aegis was. However, despite that, he couldn't even reach the place.
"Master," Night finally spoke after he was running around for a while.
"What?" Ning asked with slight annoyance in his voice.
"I believe we going in circles. I've seen these walls twice now," Night said.
"Are we?" Ning asked. He immediately spread out his divine sense and realized that the path was in fact a fake one. The path network was a closed loop, except for a single path that led outside.
"Dammit! The real one if hidden behind that wall," Ning said after seeing everything through his divine sense. "They are already confronting each other too."
Ning decided to waste no time and teleported to right outside of the main room where everyone was gathered.
When he reappeared, he walked directly into the room in full view without much care. The beast was already going to start fighting very soon, so it didn't matter to him if they saw him and decided to add him into the conflict.
Ning saw the five men in robes that now had their hoods removed. 3 of them were males, and 2 were females, all with a cultivation base in the mid Nascent realms.
He then looked at the girl that was crouched in the corner, hiding her face from the beast and the other 5 people.
Finally, he saw the beast. The beast was a giant mole about 4 meters tall and 6 meters long. It had incredibly sharp nails on its claws that were attached to rather short limbs.
Compared to the 5 other robed figures, the beast was actually not very stronger than them at all. If the 5 decided to fight the beast, the beast would surely lose.
"Where do you people keep coming from?" the Mole was both annoyed and worried as it had never seen so anyone other than the girl he was sent come in, let alone this many at once.
"Who are you?" one of the men in the group asked Ning.
"I can ask the same to you," Ning said with a smile.
"Doesn't matter. We are here for you anyway," the man turned to the mole.
"But why? Why are you after me?" the mole asked.
"They want to kill you because of what you've been doing all this time," Ning said.
"What I've been doing?" the mole looked at him confused. "But I've been doing nothing but staying in this mountain ever since I got here."
"You made the villagers send out their daughters here every year, didn't you?" Ning asked. "They are taking revenge on what you've done."
"Huh?" the mole asked in full exasperation. "But I don't ask for anything. They give me their daughters on their own."
"Are you saying you didn't threaten them to send their daughters?" Ning asked. "You didn't bring any harm to them?"
"Of course, n—" the beast stopped mid-speech. "Ah, is that why they keep sending their young females."
"What did you do?" Ning asked in full seriousness.
"Well, uh…" the beast turned to the 5 people and said, "Can you tell them it was a mistake. I explained it to them long ago, but it doesn't seem like they understood."
"You see, when I came here and made this home for myself, I accidentally threw out all of the dirt and rocks inside into the village down below. They thought I was destroying their home because I was angry."
"After that, they've been sending me their daughters every year."
"Wait, so you didn't do anything bad to them?" Ning asked.
"NO!" the mole answered, almost dramatically.
'System, is he telling the truth?' Ning asked.
Yes
"Ah, it seems you have no reason to kill him then," Ning said as he turned to the 5 people.
"See? You don't have to kill me. I'm innocent," the Mole shouted.
The man who had spoken earlier spoke once again. "Don't worry, we were never planning to kill you in the first place," he said.
"Oh," the mole said, a little surprised.
"Oh," Ning said as well, clearly not expecting the response.
"Then… you're going to leave now?" the mole asked, almost happily.
"No, we have an objective of our own, and that is to take you away," the man said.
"What? Why? I told you, I don't do anything to the humans below. I've been living a quiet life all this time," the mole said.
"Who cares about some pathetic humans. They can die for all we care. We are only here for you and you alone," the man said.
"Uh… you speak like you hate humans," the mole said.
"Of course we do. Who wouldn't hate them," the man said.
"Um, then do you hate yourself too?" the mole asked.
"No, because we're not humans. Not anymore," the man said with a sinister smile. "We've long since transcended humanity and have grown to be that much stronger. However, we can grow that much more. So, we are going to take you away."
"Well, I wasn't expecting that," Ning said. "Who are you guys exactly?"
"That human talks a lot, go kill him," the man said.
"With pleasure." A girl slowly walked forward with a dagger in her hand and a sinister grin on her face. She licked the edge of the blade and asked, "Tell me, how would you like to die? Fast, slow, full of a thousand cuts or a straight stab to the heart."
"Just kill him," one of the men in the back shouted.
"Tsk. Let me have some fun. Just because I'm with a gloomy bunch doesn't mean I have to be gloomy too," she said. "Right, where was I?"
"Uh, I don't know about you, but I was going to say that you little miss should give up on the idea of hurting me. While I don't like hurting little girls, I'm not so against it that you will definitely be walking away from here with more than just a few broken bones."
"Hahaha, you're funny, human," she said. "It's a shame you have to die now."
The remaining 4 people decided to go on the beast. Ning looked at the situation and sighed. "What sort of idiots did I come up against?" he thought.
"Night, Blue, go help him," he said.
"Yes, Master."
Chapter 362 – Hybrids
"Hehehe, don't run away okay? We are just going to have a little bit of fun," the girl said with a maniacal smile on her face.
"Come on, you don't have to do this, you know? You're just going to get hurt," Ning said.
"No. No backing out now," the girl said and immediately launched forward. She suddenly changed the way she held her dagger to reverse grip and slashed at Ning's right biceps.
Ning put a single finger forward and stopped the blade before it touched him. He was so strong that the dagger slipped away from the girl's hands and fell on the floor.
The girl had wide eyes when he looked down at the dagger that had a finger wide dent on the blade.
"How did you do that?" she asked.
"I told you, you won't win against me," Ning said.
"We'll see about that," the girl as she opened her robes and pulled out two more daggers. This time, instead of coming up to Ning, she stayed away and resorted to throwing away the daggers instead.
Still, that was no problem for Ning. All he did was move a little and the daggers flew past him without touching him.
Ning smiled and started walking in closer. "Don't be so smug yet," the girl said and opened her robes fully, showing the hundreds of daggers that were tucked away all over the insides of her robes.
"Oh my god, you really do love dagger don't you," Ning said when he saw that.
A flurry of blades flew towards Ning with no way to dodge at all. So, he did what anyone that wouldn't take any damage would do and stayed still.
"Tsk," the girl clicked her tongue when she saw that. "You are pretty strong for a human. I have no choice but to do this then," she said.
"Why do you keep saying that you're not a human? You clearly are one," Ning said.
"Heh, can a human do this?" the girl said opened her mouth again to lick the blade in her hands. Only now, her tongue was different from the normal tongue she was using beforehand. Now, it was purple in color and was forked at the front, as if it were a snake's tongue.
As she licked the blade, a green liquid dripped down from her mouth and was smeared all over the dagger with her tongue.
"What the hell?" Ning thought. The girl then looked up to him and he could see her eyes had changed as well. There were slits in her eyes, instead of normal pupils, resembling those of a snake as well.
'What's going on? She's not in Spirit Transformation realm, so she isn't a beast for sure, but those eyes… and that tongue,' Ning thought.
"What are you? You said you were human, but have since transcended humanity, right? What did you d—"
Ning stopped speaking as a realization hit him. "Fuck, it's you guys," he said with slight annoyance.
He moved incredibly quickly and grabbed the dagger from the girl's hand. The girl couldn't do anything to stop him. She couldn't even see him, so she was very surprised when he was next to her, with her blade in her hand.
"Don't mind what I'm about to do," he said and grabbed the girl's hand and slashed at the wrist. Blood started spilling onto the ground uncontrollably and the girl cried in pain.
It seemed that whatever poison or venom she had put on her dagger hurt her as well. Ning put his arm forward and caught a bit of the falling blood.
He looked at the blood closely and sighed. "I knew it. It's you copycats, again. Who exactly are you?" Ning asked.
"Let go of me," she shouted.
"Answer me," Ning said.
"Help me, you idiots. Don't just stan—"
The words stopped in the girl's mouth when she saw them all incapacitated on the floor. "How…?"
"I shouldn't be wasting time like this," Ning thought and put his hand on the girl's head.
Supreme Domination.
He activated the skill and within seconds dominated the girl to do whatever he said.
"Master," the girl said, her usual maniac-like face nowhere to be seen.
"Alright, now tell me. Who are you?" Ning asked.
"I am Ursna, master," she said.
"No, I mean— whatever. Who are you, people? Who do you work for?" Ning asked.
"We call ourselves the Hybrids. We are groups of humans that have injected ourselves with the blood of the beasts and have gained their bloodline. As for who we work for, we work for our boss," the girl said.
"What is the objective of your group?" Ning asked.
"To become stronger," the girl said.
"I see," Ning said as he looked at the blood in his other hand. The girl's hands had already healed on their own, showing the effectiveness of her new body.
"System, how many different bloods are here?" Ning asked.
There are 2 primary sources of blood that make 45% and 47% respectively. The remaining 7% consists of 98 different types of blood
"And the 2 primary sources are?" Ning asked.
Human and Tri-Headed Hydra
"I see," he thought. He then looked at the girl and said, "Wait here, I have some more questions for you later."
"Yes, master," the girl said obediently.
Ning walked towards the mole where Night and Blue were in their full size. The mole was looking at them with fear and amazement in his eyes.
"Senior, Who… who are you?" the beast asked Night and Blue instead of Ning.
"We are here to take you back to your home," Ning said.
"My… home?" the mole asked with confusion before his eyes widened with pure happiness. "You can take me back to my home?"
"Yes," Ning said. "You must've suffered quite a bit, not being able to return back to your home."
"Yes," the mole said. "Are we going back now?"
"Anytime you want," Ning said.
"Wait a minute then.. Let me do something about this girl," the mole said.
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Chapter 363 – Taking The Mole Away
The mole walked towards the girl that was hiding at the corner of the room, trembling in fear. When she heard the mole walking towards her, she started screaming in terror.
"Don't come here, you monster. I will rather kill myself than let you have me," the girl shouted.
"Ah, I see you are that type of girl," the mole said. "Little lady, I am not going to do anything to you."
"I won't fall for your cheap tricks, you monster," she shouted. "The other girls might have been gullible, but I'm not one of them."
"I didn't do anything to the other girls either," the mole said.
"You can't deceive me. If you did nothing to them, then where are they? Not a single one of them returned back to the village," the girl said.
"Uhh… they're not here," the mole said.
Ning looked around curiously and even sent out his divine sense as far as he could, but he saw not a single sign of any humans living in the mountain.
"Where are the girls, mole," Ning asked with concerns.
"Well, uh… you see. The girls weren't wanted by their family, so i—"
"So you killed them," the girl said with hatred on her face. However, the hatred soon turned into shock and despair, "No, you ate them, didn't you? are you going to eat me too?"
"What? Stop putting words in my mouth. I did nothing of that sort," the mole said. "I wouldn't eat humans even if I wanted to, I hear you people taste weird."
"Then what did you do?" Ning asked.
"Well, since they weren't wanted by their own family, so I sent them away to the outside world where they could have a life," the mole said. "That door. If you go through that door, you will go through a very long tunnel that will end up outside of the mountain range."
"I take them to the outside world and hand them to a friend I made there," the Mole said. "He handles the rest of the stuff in exchange for a few ores I mine in here."
Ning check the tunnel and it indeed was what the mole said it was.
"You liar. What family wouldn't want their daughter back?" the girl asked with disgust.
"Well, why are you asking me? You are the ones that keep sending them. I thought you had a surplus and didn't want any. Who would've known that you were doing it out of fear for me," the mole said.
"I don't believe you," the girl said.
"It doesn't matter if you believe him or not," Ning said. "Truth is, I am taking him away. From today on, there won't be a beast in your mountain range, and you can happily live with your family."
"Go tell your parents that there is a path here that can lead to the outer world. Your village will be happy to hear that," Ning said.
"I—"
"Good job on being brave for your family, but don't ever do anything so stupid again. You have a single life and make sure to live it to the best you can. Now go," Ning said.
The girl still didn't move as she side-eyed the mole, afraid that he might do something.
Ning sighed and said, "Aegis, can you take the girl back to the village below?"
"Yes, master," a voice came from the girl's back, scaring her. Aegis immediately showed up in full size once again and picked the girl up in a princess carry, he loved doing that.
After that, he flew out of the room and went away.
"It will take a little bit for Aegis to return, do you have anything else left to do?" Ning asked.
"No," the mole said. "Nothing here is worth anything compared to returning home. I can leave at any moment."
"Good," Ning said and looked back at the 4 men on the ground. "Now, what should we do about them?" he wondered.
"Uhh… why don't we just kill them, master?" Blue asked.
"Yeah, that would be the best idea, but I'm not really sure if they are bad people or not. I don't want to kill people who aren't doing anything bad," Ning said.
"Whatever," Ning said as he brought out a pill from his storage and crushed it before sprinkling it all over their faces. "I will figure it out later. They will be unconscious for at least a week now and will likely forget what happened here today."
"So, you will leave them like that?" the Mole asked.
"Kind of," he said. "Ursna!"
"Yes, master," the girl came up to him.
"We will be leaving for a while. Look after them for me until then," Ning said. "If I'm not back by the time they wake up, tell them this mole defeated you all and left. After that, act like nothing ever happened and go on with your life. I will find you afterward."
"Yes, master," Ursna said.
Aegis returned not a minute later and told them how much the girl screamed on their way down.
"They haven't seen beasts before so they are quite scared of anything," Ning said. "After they join with the outside world, they will learn a bit more and stop fearing that which they don't understand."
"I hope they do," the mole said.
"Right, let's leave."
Ning grabbed all of them and teleported out of the mountain directly above the tomb in the middle of the desert.
"Oh, we're back," the mole cried out in surprise. "How did you bring us here so suddenly?"
"Doesn't matter, let's go," he said.
"You know how to enter?" the mole asked.
"Of course, why else would I bring you without knowing that?" Ning asked with a chuckle.
They went into the tomb and people that were there fled once more. Ning felt quite bad that he was disrupting business every time he had to come in or go out.
He shook his head and went on to open the seal once more.. After that, they all entered into it.
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Chapter 364 – The Hybrid's Hideout
After talking with the statues, Ning went and sent his beasts back to their new home.
"I assume you will want to stay here, right? Have fun. I will come to visit sometimes," Ning said.
"Thank you, master," the 3 of them said.
"Alright, I will go now," Ning said and left the place.
"Thank you, human, for bringing yet another descendant of ours," the beasts said.
"It's fine," Ning said. "By the way, I have brought in what? 50-some beasts by now, do you have a number on how many are out there?" he asked.
"A number? I'm not really sure," one of the beasts said.
"It should be around 150 or maybe 200? Not that many have left, but there have been quite a few," another one of the beasts said.
'200 huh? I wonder how many survived,' Ning thought.
"Alright, I will leave now," he said and left the cave. He flew up to the exit seal once more and was teleported again.
He got out of the tomb and reappeared in the Southern Continent. He grumbled about the teleporting experience for a few seconds and got back to the task at hand.
"Right, back to the mountain," he thought and teleported once again. He returned back to the room inside the mountain range and looked around.
There was no one in the room, not Ursna, or any of the other 4 people, so he sent out his divine sense.
"Oh, there she is," Ning thought when he finally found her and walked over to a somewhat hard-to-find room.
Ursna quickly turned around with a dagger in her hand ready to fight. "Who's th— Oh master, you're back," she said and put down her dagger after seeing Ning walk into the room.
"Why are you here? Did the people come already?" Ning asked.
"Yes, they came a few hours ago," she said. "But they haven't been coming up after they left."
"It will take them a while to truly believe that the monster is gone. The threat will keep them away for quite a while still before they truly believe that the monster is gone," Ning said.
"Anyway, forget about that, I have some questions for you," Ning said.
"Please ask, master," Ursna said.
"How did you acquire the bloodline of a Tri-headed Hydra?" Ning asked.
"I don't know, master," she said. "I went through a process, where our leader made us unconscious and did something to us. I only know that when I woke up, we were no longer human. Although, I think it has something to do with injecting the blood of the beast onto us."
"You are not sure though, right? That's a shame," Ning said. "Then can you tell me what you were planning to do with the mole once you caught him?"
"Oh, we bring him back to the hideout and there the physicians draw out blood from the beasts. That blood will be used to make us strong, I think," she said.
"So, what you're saying is you go out hunting for beasts so you can get their blood to become stronger?" Ning asked.
"Yes," she said.
Ning's face turned a little cold. This was torture that they were doing and that meant they weren't a good person in the least.
"Do the beasts die?" he asked, fully expecting an answer.
"Yes," she said, proving his hypothesis.
"I see, you people aren't good, are you? Tell me then, why didn't you want to kill the mole? Don't you just want his blood?" Ning asked.
"We do," the girl said. "I've suggested it many times, but we always get the same answer. They say we aren't as good as the physician in this sort of stuff since they need to be delicate to not dirty the blood, or whatever that means."
Ning stopped speaking for a few seconds. "What sort of beasts do you go after?" Ning asked. "I assume only the ones that have bloodlines of the legendary beasts, right?"
"Yes," Ursna said. "Our leader tells us where the beasts are and we just go looking for it."
Ning took a deep breath, trying to calm his anger, and asked, "How many people do you have in total?"
"There are about a few hundred Hybrids. We haven't reached a thousand though," she said.
"And how many beasts have you collected by now?" Ning asked.
"About 50 I think. This should've been 52nd or 53rd," she said.
"And after drawing out all the blood, they can't survive at all, right?" Ning asked.
"Yes," she said. "Well, they were at first trying to keep the beasts alive and draw out as much blood as they could by just keeping them there, but lately they have been drawing all of the blood and killing them."
"I see," Ning said. "One last question. What do you do to humans that you encounter during the missions to get back the beasts?"
"We do what we feel is needed, master," the girl said. "If the beasts are in the wild, we don't interact with humans at all. But if they are in a city, or sect, or family, we will go so far as to massacre them all just so we can get the beasts. We make it look like a normal attack though."
Ning sighed after hearing all of this. "I should've known after you tried to kill me," he said. "Well, I have one final order for you."
"What is it master?" the girl asked.
"Kill them all, and then kill yourself."
Ning stood up and left. He could faintly hear words that sounded like 'yes, master', but he didn't care much for it.
We walked out of the mountain range with rage in his eyes. "System, how many beasts have escaped the seal until now?" he asked.
212
"And how many have fallen victim to these hybrids?" Ning asked.
145
Ning's eyes widened. He didn't expect the girl to be so incorrect about her assumption. 'She must've joined late then, or the leader keeps stuff from them,' he thought.
"Let's go stop these people from killing any more beasts," Ning said.
He asked the system for the location of the hideout and disappeared. When he reappeared, he was in the northern section of the central continent.
He looked down at the massive forest that extended past the normal forest that surrounded the sun empire.
"So they stay here, huh? I guess that makes sense given how they seem to have gotten their hands on so many beasts. Only the central continent would have so many," Ning thought.
He then flew down to the ground and sent out his divine sense to check on the hideout. "Oh, there's a cave here," he thought and started walking.
Ning activated his skill to find signs of the beasts and all he could sense was a gigantic pulse coming from around here somewhere.
"It's like there are many beasts in there at once and the sense is all jumbled together," Ning thought.
He continued walking and came upon the opening to the cave where two people were keeping watch.
"Who's there?" they shouted the moment they heard him come.
Ning wasn't trying to be sneaky either. He was quite angry about what was happening and walked up to them in full view.
One of the guards was a man with claws for hands and had furs growing from all over his body, and the other person was a girl with a tail behind her and two wings sprouting from her back.
"So they have taken in the blood as well, huh?" Ning thought. Ning did not bother asking the system if they were innocent or not. Someone being part of something this horrendous could not possibly be innocent at all.
Ning pulled out his black spear without any notice and slashed it towards the man. The man tried to block it with his arms, but before he knew about it, his arms were on the ground, with blood gushing through the cut.
"AAAHHH!" the man shouted for just a fraction of a second before his scream was cut short from his head being cut off.
"Is your leader here?" Ning asked the girl who was on the ground, scared for her life.
"Y-y-yes," she barely answered.
"Good," Ning said and slashed her head off before she realized as well. He then walked into the cave with blood dripping from his spear.
On the initial steps of the cave, it looked just that, a normal cave. However, the further he went, the more lived in the cave became.
There were barrels and boxes all over the cave on the deeper end. A few people came running his way after they had heard the shout from the front.
The people who saw him were confused at first. They didn't see anything familiar about him and stopped to look at him. However, when they saw the bloody spear, they immediately recognized an enemy in him.
Ning was a little surprised when he saw them as well. These people were all different from each other, and every single one of them had some sort of body part augmented to look like that of a beast.
"Intruder, who are you?" they shouted at him.
"Where are you keeping the beats? I'm here to save them. If I can take your leader's head in the process, that would be better," Ning said.
"What? What do you want with the beast?" someone asked.
"I'm here to save them from you," Ning said. "So will you tell me where your leader is?"
"No way. Guys, he's here to mess with us. Kill him," someone shouted.
"Arrgghhh!" people shouted as they charged towards Ning with all of their beast skills they had acquired from the blood transfusion.
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Chapter 365 – The Red Crystal
A bolt of lightning flew past Ning and hit the ground behind him. A wave of fire spread everywhere in front of him and hit him. Roots appeared from the ground, wrapping him and constricting him to that place.
Spears of water flew at him, as well as thorns that seemed to have poison in them. Scythes of wind hit him, intending to cut him as well.
Similarly, dozens of attacks flew at him from the people that were all enhanced due to the blood of the beasts.
"These are all skills of beasts, aren't they?" Ning wondered. Based on the attacks and the different body structures the people in the cave had, Ning could tell that all of them had multiple different beast bloodlines in them.
'Just how did it come to be like this?' he wondered. He casually broke through all the restrictions he was put under from the different attacks and walked forward.
"Stop!" the people started shouting at him, but Ning didn't stop at all. He kept walking forwards.
The ones that had acquired superior strength from their bloodline rushed at Ning to stop him physically. However, that too didn't work.
Ning casually caught any physical attacks that flew in his direction and crushed it, whether it be weapons and projectiles, or even hands and fists.
He then started slashing with his spear everywhere, slicing out anything that stood in his path.
One after another, the many hybrids that were in the cave started dwindling in number as they were killed in both body and soul.
A river of blood flowed in the pathway as torn-up corpses were scattered everywhere. The ones that were still alive were shocked and scared when they saw this.
"Moster!" they cried out.
"Why are you killing us?" they asked.
However, Ning wasn't in the mood to ask questions. He sent out a few more attacks and killed the people there.
He then flew across the air, not stepping on the blood anywhere. The thick scent of the blood was nauseating, but he had been through quite a few of these such that it didn't phase him anymore.
He came across more people who attacked him the moment they realized he was an intruder. He followed the path with more people in it and eventually reached a place that looked like a big hall that lead to a much different room.
The hall was fully absent with most of the people already dead before he even arrived here.
He looked at the empty hall that only had a single thing in it. There was a small blood fountain at the center of the hall with a single blood crystal about 2 meters tall in it.
The fountain of blood was all sprayed directly into this crystal from where the blood pooled up at the fountain that would be thrown back at the crystal again.
"What the hell is that?" Ning wondered. "System, can you explain?"
The system didn't answer for a few seconds, confusing Ning since it always answered the moment he asked the questions. However, it did answer after a few seconds of pause.
That crystal is an anomaly that should not exist in this place. The crystal was not created naturally and does not obey the rules of this universe. It is something that is truly hated by both the Creator and the system
if you can, please destroy it
Ning was confused for a second. "What is it though? What's its purpose?" he asked.
The crystal was created from nothing and works as a transfer point where one can store or send whatever is given to it. In this case, being the blood.
"Store or send blood? Are you saying these guys ar—"
"Who are you?" someone shouted at him, interrupting his thought process.
"Dammit," Ning said softly and looked at the newcomer. The person who had just arrived was wearing something that didn't match anyone else he had seen before in the cave.
'That looks like a uniform of the sort,' he thought.
"Who are you?" Ning asked in return as well.
"I'm one of the physicians," the man said. "Now tell me who are you?"
"A physician huh? Let's see what exactly your job is then," Ning said and walked forward.
"Stop, and answer me," the physician demanded, but Ning ignored him. The physician went on defensive, but against Ning, he couldn't do anything.
Ning grabbed the physician and immediately used Supreme Domination.
"How may I be of assistance, master?" the physician asked.
"You said you are a physician, right? What exactly is your job here?" Ning asked.
"I am in charge of preparing candidates so that we can slowly take them through the process of changing them from humans to a beast-human hybrid so that they can have more power as they desire.
"Do you know how you guys gather new candidates?" Ning asked.
"I'm not sure on the exact process, but we look for people who are down on their luck and need the extra strength, or people who want revenge and will do anything to acquire it. There are also power-hungry fools who will give their humanity to become strong," the physician said.
"I don't see anything wrong with you. Are you not a hybrid?" Ning asked.
"No, becoming a hybrid poses an extreme risk and the chance of success is very low, so none of the physicians who know this stuff dare to go through the process on their own," the Physician said.
Ning nodded as he got more information. "Why did you come work for these people?" Ning asked.
"The leader promised a large sum of money, so I accepted," the Physician said.
Ning then asked the question that he was burning to know about from the very start. "What exactly is this process? From what I understand, you guys pump the blood of the beasts into these candidates, right? Is that all enough to change them? Or do you do something extra?" he asked.
"We don't pump them with blood at all, master," the physician said.. "At least, not anymore."
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Chapter 366 – Leader
"Oh," Ning said, a little surprised. "Was that girl wrong then? Just how new was she that she got so many things wrong?" he thought.
"What do you do then? Tell me the process by which these hybrids are made?" Ning asked.
"Well, we did first use to pump blood into the volunteers to give them powers, but it usually did not work. What would happen is their body would reject the blood immediately and show the adverse effect to their bodies."
"The changes would happen, but they would also die. I and many of the physicians tried different ways to perfect this stuff," the physician said.
"We tried lowering the dose of the blood, or changing the number of different blood that was put into them, but it didn't work. It showed some improvements, but the death count was still high, being as much as only 1 working out of every 20 candidates," the physician said.
"That many died?" Ning asked in surprise. "And the volunteers still agreed?"
"We never told them. All death was dealt with in secret and the only ones that knew were leaders and us physicians," the physician said.
"So? What happened? What changed?" Ning asked.
"So, we decided to stop infusing blood. Since the beast's blood was fighting the volunteer's blood, we needed to make it so that the volunteer's blood always won in that fight, and that was when our leader came up with the idea."
"Instead of pumping in blood, we used bone marrow. We performed a bone marrow transplant from the beast to the people and immediately started seeing success. The death rate went down from 19 out of 20, to 3 out of 5 in just a few experiments."
"Now, every other bone marrow transfusion we do results in a new hybrid," the physician said.
"Bone marrow? Ursna didn't say anything about it. Do the hybrids not know about it?" Ning asked.
"No," the physician said. "If we tell them, the leader is afraid that they will stop working for him and instead go and try to do it themselves," the physician said.
"What about the beasts? Are any still alive?" Ning asked.
"No," the physician said. "Let me show you, master."
The physician walked into a certain room and Ning followed behind. There were a few other people in that room wearing uniforms similar to the physician.
"What is this?" Ning asked when he saw the horrifying scenery of a giant squirrel hanging on the wall. Not only was the squirrel dead, but it was flayed open as well.
Besides the squirrel was a vulture-like bird that was similarly flayed open. The guts of both of these beasts were on the ground and the physicians were stepping on them to reach the beasts' chest and limbs.
"Who is that?" one physician in the room asked.
"I don't know," another one answered.
"Oi, is that a new candidate?" another one asked. "Why did he come from the front? All newbies are to come from the back."
"No, this is my master," the physician replied.
"What the hell? Your master? Since when do you have a master?" the confused physician asked.
Ning coldly looked at the group of physicians who were drawing out blood from the beasts in a bucket and got angry.
He brought out his spear that he had kept away and slashed at the unassuming physicians. They were much easier to kill than the hybrids, but that was obvious.
Ning attacked killed every single one of the physicians. He then sent out fire towards the two dead beasts and immediately burnt their corpse to ashes. "I hope your next life is better," he prayed softly.
"Oh no, master, the blood," the physician said. "The leader will get mad if we pollute the blood."
"Why would he be angry for polluting blood? Don't you need bone marrow more than blood?" Ning asked.
"Yes, but the leader wants all the blood, and he wants it to be pure. That is why he doesn't want to let the hybrids take care of the beasts on the outside. Partly because he doesn't want to let them know that blood marrow is what we actually need to make new hybrids, and partly because the leader doesn't want the blood they bring to have impurities in it," the hybrid said.
"I see," Ning said. Then he pointed towards the door behind him and asked, "Is he your leader?"
The door burst open and a tall… being walked in. The beastlike human or humanlike beast had long black hair, a face with 8 different eyes, ears in the shape of cats, dragon scales going up through his neck, two fangs pointing out of his upper jaw as two tusks coming out of his lower one.
There were bat wings behind his back, but they also looked like they had feathers in them. There were gills along the side of his neck and his chest looked hairy like that of a chimpanzee.
His hands looked like tiger paws with claws on them and his lower legs looked like the legs of a horse with hooves on them.
He stared at Ning and the physician with blood-red eyes.
"Leader, you're here," the physician said nonchalantly.
"Is this treason?" the leader asked.
"No," the physician was confused. "I am just showing my master around."
"Your… master? That should be me," the leader said. "Did he kill everyone in the cave?"
"Yes, my master did," the physician said.
"And you helped him?" the leader looked at the physician with hints of anger and confusion.
"Well, since you are already here, no need to keep you around," Ning said. "Go and attack him with all you've got. I want to see just how strong he is."
"Yes, master," the physician said and rushed at the leader with no regard for his own life. He brought out a sword and started attacking left and right. However, his strength did not stand up to the strength of a Hybrid with the bloodline of what seemed to be many creatures.
"Not bad," Ning said, looking at the leader. "You are the strongest one I've seen in here.. You do deserve to be the leader."
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Chapter 367 – Transferring Blood
"You killed your subordinate just to test my strength? I have never seen someone so evil and cowardly as you," the leader said in a hoarse voice.
"Oh, that guy wasn't my subordinate or anything. I just met the dude like 5 minutes ago," Ning said.
"But he called you 'master'," the leader asked with a face full of confusion.
"Yeah, I can see where the problem is, but it doesn't matter. Since you are the leader, you should have more answers than these dead guys," Ning said.
The leader didn't say anything and instead looked at the bucket behind Ning and suddenly got angry. "You ruined that bucket of blood, didn't you?" he asked angrily.
"The hell? What do you want to do with that blood? Drink it?" Ning asked. "So what's wrong if it's polluted? You guys use the blood marrow anyway."
"You will die for this," the beast shouted and lunged at Ning.
The leader slashed his sharp claws at him and managed to land his attack, however, instead of making any sort of cuts, his claws instead broke off.
"What?" the leader shouted in surprise.
"You think it's going to be easy to fight me? You hate humans right? They got defeated by me will be quite disgraceful to you," Ning said.
"Don't get ahead of yourself human. Just because you blocked one attack won't mean you will block this one as well," the leader shouted.
Suddenly, a sharp scythe appeared on either of his arms as if he was wielding two tonfa. The scythe seemed to belong to one of the legendary mantises that Ning had learned about.
"You seem to have a hell of a lot more augmentations done to your body than any of the other people I've seen here. Did you start off by experimenting on yourself? You must've been one sick bastard," Ning said.
"What need do I have to experiment? Hmph! Enough talk from you, you will die for what you've done here today," the leader said.
"Can't you say anything else? Because there isn't a way for you to kill me," Ning said.
"We'll see about that," the leader shouted and ran towards him.
Ning sighed and caught the two scythes with his bare hands. The leader was once again shocked to see his attack be stopped like this. There wasn't even a hint of blood coming from Ning's own hands that caught the scythe.
"What the hell are you?" the leader asked. "There is no way a normal human should be able to catch such a sharp scythe with their own hands."
Ning was about to say something when the leader attacked him once more. He launched a fire attack towards Ning that threatened to engulf him fully.
However, that too didn't work on Ning. Ning easily extinguished the fire as if it was nothing.
"No way," the leader said in shock. "Even phoenix fire doesn't do anything to you. Are you a beast in disguise as well?"
"What?" Ning felt that the question was absurd.
"No, that's not it," the leader said as he looked at Ning with a scrutinizing eye. "I see, a Spirit Transformation expert. No wonder they are all dead and even I can't do anything to you."
"Oh," Ning said with a hint of surprise. "You not only know about the spirit transformation realm but could also tell I had broken through to it."
The leader said nothing and started calculating stuff in his head.
"Give up, dude. Everyone in your base is dead, and you will soon follow through as well," Ning said.
"Hmph! Why would I care about my death when I'm so close to achieving what I've always wanted?" the leader said. "As for those that died, good. I wanted to get rid of those failures somehow. They would only harm my army in the long run."
"Your… army?" Ning asked.
"What? You thought you got all of my Hybrids? The ones that succeeded are safely waiting for me to come back," the Leader said.
"So the ones that I fought weren't the ones that succeeded?" Ning asked. "Makes me curious what the ones that succeeded look like."
"You will never see," the leader said. He took two more breaths and sighed. "I was so close. Just a few more beasts and I would've succeeded."
"What are you talking about?" Ning asked.
The leader suddenly glared at Ning. His eyes turned purple and two beautiful butterfly wings popped out from behind him.
The spiral designs in the wings started moving around and a sense of calmness entered Ning's mind. He felt like he could just lie down and rest for a while. There was no need to worry about anything in the world.
This was true bliss.
The moment Ning felt this way, he shook his head and sent away the thoughts. But in the short period of time it took him to do that, the leader had run away.
He had fallen victim to the hallucination technique of a ShadowGod Butterfly.
"Tsk, where did he run off to?" Ning wondered and quickly ran out. He went outside of the room he was in and arrived at the hall he was previously in.
There at the center, the leader stood with his back turned to Ning.
"You didn't run away?" Ning asked curiously.
"My work here is done, so I have no need to run away at all," the leader said. "I would've loved to have the blood of 5 more beasts to cross the threshold, but no matter, I have other ways of doing that."
"What are you ta—"
Suddenly, the blood fountain behind the leader started vibrating as the blood-red crystal at the center of it started shining.
The blood in the fountain started spiraling at it started entering the crystal.
Ning couldn't understand what was happening, but before he could even begin to try to understand, all sorts of changes appeared on the leader's body.
"Since I no longer need to live, let me take you along with me."
The leader's body seemed like it was constantly phasing through multiple different beasts at once.
Sometimes he would have long sabertooth, sometimes he would have tusks. Sometimes he would start popping out wings with feathers on them of multiple colors, while other times he would have bat wings.
Furs grew on his body that changed to scales that changed to furs again. His eyes changed colors constantly, and so did his hair.
Seeing all the different aspects of the beast in the leader truly shocked Ning. 'Just how many different beasts' blood and bone marrow did he acquire?' he wondered.
The leader jumped at Ning with the full intent to kill and die in the process. Ning dodged the attack and punched him back.
The leader was sent far away with a single attack.
Although the changes were surprising, they weren't of many effects against Ning. Ning could easily kill him if he wanted to right now. But he was a little concerned about the crystal behind him.
"What is that crystal? What is it doing?" Ning asked.
"No need to ask. Just kill me," the leader said. He had fully given up on his life, but he was still trying to fight Ning.
"If you want to die then stay put. I will kill you," Ning said.
"No, I will do whatever I can to you here. I don't know how strong you are, so I need to be cautious," the leader said.
"What?" Ning was more confused. The leader constantly changed his intentions in his speech. Sometimes he would say he wanted to die, and sometimes he said he needed to be cautious.
'Does this guy have a mental problem?' Ning wondered.
The leader jumped at Ning once more and attacked him. Fire, water, wind, rocks, lightning, blades, bashes— whatever the leader could do, he did.
It didn't have any effect on Ning, but he was very relentless. Ning started getting tired of it all and decided to end it.
Just as the leader was jumping at him, Ning jumped forward too and punched him directly on the chest.
The leader's chest caved in and a few ribs even poked out of his chest. He smashed on the side of the cave and was stuck there.
Blood started flowing down the cracks on the wall and onto the ground. The leader started wheezing as the air barely stayed in his lungs at all.
"Hehehe," the leader started to laugh in between his wheezing.
"This psycho— why are you laughing?" Ning asked.
"I've remembered your face," the leader said with a crazy smile on his face. "I will be sure to kill you the next time we meet."
"What are you—" Ning stopped speaking as he felt massive vibrations coming from behind him. He turned around to see that the blood in the blood fountain had completely dried up. The red crystal lost all of its colors and was now just a simple white crystal on top of an empty fountain.
"It's done," the leader said with happiness appearing on his face. "It's finally done. After so many years, I have completed my duty."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Ning asked, but the leader was slowly dying. He was on his last breath and either didn't want to talk anymore or couldn't reply anymore.
"Who are you?" Ning asked silently and decided to check. He used the Qi Analysis to check him, but that didn't provide any information.
One interesting piece of information that it did provide was that the leader did not have a name. "That's never happened before," Ning thought and used the Omni-Analysis on him.
The same stuff started appearing at first, but as Ning read more and more, his level of confusion kept on increasing instead of decreasing.
Finally, he saw information that was perhaps the most intriguing of all. "The leader… was a clone?" Ning thought and reread the part just to be safe that he was correct.
"A clone of what? Or wh—" he stopped speaking as the answer popped up in front of him.
Ning's eyes went wide as he finally understood. "He was a clone of Jha'Akim," Ning thought in shock.
"What… what did he do?" Ning thought. He suddenly turned around and looked at the crystal once more. The crystal was something that the system said was unnatural and needed to be destroyed.
"System, tell me. What is the purpose of that crystal?" he asked.
The crystal is used to transfer blood from this point to someplace else
A deep, terrifying feeling appeared inside of Ning. He swallowed his saliva and asked, "Transfer blood from here to where?" he asked, praying that what he thought wasn't right.
The Crystal is being used to overcome space to transfer blood from the fountain to a being called Jha'Akim
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Chapter 368 – Hurrying Back To The Tomb
Jha'Akim, just before he entered the Spirit Transformation realm separated part of his body and used its regeneration capabilities to create another clone. He did it so that in case he ever died during his breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation realm, he could still have something to take revenge for him.
However, he never needed that clone and it stayed in its infant form for a long time. But, when Jha'Akim was imprisoned, he seemed to have needed more blood for himself. So, just before he was put behind the Primordial holy Jade, he sent a message to his infant self to do one thing for him.
That was to kill as many high-level beasts for him and feed it to the crystal, the same crystal the clone was grown in.
The clone took an extremely long time to mature without the care of anyone and didn't come out of the crystal for almost ten thousand years. The crystal seemed to be linked to Jha'Akim himself, so until he died, the crystal would remain standing.
When the clone finally got out, he started cultivating to get as strong as he could. He started forming an army for his real self and experimented with humans and beasts to make hybrids like his real self.
And he succeeded. He managed to find a way to create human-beast hybrids that were the same as he was.
The next task the leader needed to do was bring the crystal as much high-level beast blood as he could. Even that he had succeeded to some level.
In the end, the leader had died, but he died after accomplishing everything he had set out to do.
That was what Ning learned after using Omni-Analysis on the leader.
"Shit! I thought he was some sort of copycat, but it turns out he was a clone," Ning said angrily after a little while it took him to read through all of the information.
The leader had died and the crystal had stopped working. Everyone in the cave was dead, and an eerie silence took over.
"Dammit, what is going on? What was the purpose of feeding blood to Jha'Akim? Did he grow stronger?" Ning wondered.
"I need to hurry there," he thought. But before he left, he decided to destroy the crystal since that was what the system requested of him.
The crystal was quite tough, but it wasn't tough enough to be unbreakable against someone with the physical strength of a Spirit Transformation realm cultivator.
Once Ning was done destroying the crystal, he took one last look at the entire cave with his divine sense to make sure he did not miss any beasts or hybrids.
It turned out that there were a few more beasts hanging from the wall in some other room, so Ning took care of them as well.
Finally, he teleported out of the cave and into the Sun empire and went to the tomb once more.
There was a small hint of fear in his heart as he slowly drifted down to the tomb. He was expecting something to wrong with the place already, but it seemed that everything was fine.
"Am I on time?" Ning wondered and went into the tomb with a lot of people still visiting in and out. There didn't seem to be any disturbances so he was a little relieved.
People were used to leaving when he came, so the guards had already cleared people away. Ning set the formation once more and opened the seal to enter.
He reached the bottom of the drop and quickly ran over to the open hall. But when he reached there, his eyes went wide in shock and fear.
He could see the coffin wide open and nothing inside of it. On either side of the coffin were broken stones as if the statues had been torn apart.
"No!" he thought and quickly ran forward to check it more carefully.
"Shit! He must've run away already," Ning thought and looked around at the scene of the massacre. There were blood and bones coming out of many of the stones.
It seemed that the first thing Jha'Akim did when he got out of the coffin was killed the ones that kept him imprisoned.
"Dammit," Ning shouted. Then he suddenly remembered, "my beasts!" he thought and ran towards the door.
However, instead of entering, he slammed against the door and made numerous cracks on it.
"What?" Ning thought in confusion. There should have been a portal here, but the portal was now missing.
"Did Jha'Akim destroy this?" Ning thought. "Shit, is he already inside?"
Ning started to get worried; he didn't know what to do now and was incredibly worried about his 3 beasts. "Can I teleport to where Night is?" he wondered. He would have to try to find out.
He closed his eyes and tried to teleport to them, but he was unable to. "Dammit, I need to know where they are if I want to teleport there," Ning thought.
"System, give me the exact location of Night," he asked.
The location is 8 kilometers due southwest from here
"8 kilometers… let's see," Ning thought and spread out his divine sense so that it expanded as far as he could.
"Got it," he thought and teleported. When he reappeared, he was in the sky above the forest inside the secret realm.
He immediately looked down for any signs of fighting and noticed a large number of beasts gathering at a certain location.
"Is that it?" he thought and slowly flew down.
The beasts quickly noticed him and all got into fighting stances. However, they stopped when they saw how it was.
"Master," Night called out to him.
"What's happening?" Ning asked. "Is Jha'Akim here?"
"Human, you're here," a voice called out to him from beyond the group of beasts. Ning looked at the center of them all and noticed a red dragon-like lizard with half of its right arm missing and blood pouring from its sunken left eye.
His already scrawny physique made him look even worse with all of this wound on him.
"Are you… the drake from the statue?" Ning asked.
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Chapter 369 – The Man In A White Robe
"Yes, that is me," the drake said.
"What about the others? I saw many broken statues in the cave. Did Jha'Akim do that?' he asked.
"Yes," the drake said. "We couldn't stop him at all. He suddenly gained a massive boost in strength and physically pushed open the coffin before proceeding to slaughter us all."
"He was so strong that the only thing we could do what stay there and die to him. He started smashing our statues one by one, but it seemed that he didn't know about this secret realm. So, to save them, I jumped into the portal and closed it off from this side," the drake said.
"In fact, I am surprised you even made it here somehow. Is it because of this teleportation skill these children say you have?" the drake asked.
"Yes," Ning said. "But let's not talk about that right now. I will go and find him," Ning said. "Hopefully, he's not too strong."
"No, don't!" the drake said. "That bastard is much stronger than he ever was. I don't think you can fight him at all."
"Don't worry, I'm strong too. But, I will be careful," Ning said.
"No, you will just throw away your life," the drake said. "Oh god, if only we could cultivate to the Spirit Transformation realm as well. We wouldn't have to worry about this monster coming out of nowhere."
The drake's lament reminded Ning of something he had been curious about but always forgot to think about.
'The reason they can't breakthrough to a higher realm is because of a wound, right?' he thought. 'System, do you know what wound these guys are talking about?'
Yes
'Well, what is it?' he asked.
The system gave an answer that surprised Ning on a level he hadn't expected before. He thought about it for a bit and asked, "is there anything I can do about it?"
The system gave him another answer where the main process of healing the so called 'wound' was to sacrifise himself.
"Yeah, I'm not doing that," Ning said. "Let's think of this later. I need to find out where this Jha'Akim guy is at."
"I will go now," Ning said to the beasts.
"Master, we want to come help as well," Night and the others asked.
"No, it's too dangerous. I don't know exactly how strong this guy is. He's been biding his time for years, so he should be way stronger than he was when he was put into the coffin."
"I don't want anything to happen to you guys," Ning said.
"No, master. We want to help. Even if it's not directly fighting, there should be other ways to help," Blue said.
Ning was about to refuse once more when he thought of something. 'That bastard has people working for him, doesn't he? If Jha'Akim himself is too strong, then I might not be able to take care of all of them myself,' he concluded.
"Alright, come. Let's go," Ning said.
"Yes, Master," the beasts said as they happily jumped into his beast space.
Ning was about to leave when he stopped and reached into his storage bag before taking out a pill. He threw it towards the drake and said, "it will heal you to a certain degree. Use it."
After that, he left. He didn't bother flying to anywhere and directly teleported to the cave with the broken statues.
"May you guys find peace in death," Ning silently prayed for the dead beasts and flew towards the exit seal.
"Most of these beasts were heavily lacking in anything organic. Their blood and muscles were so low that it wouldn't amount to a single beast's if we combined it all. So, Jha'Akim shouldn't have gotten anything out of these dead beasts," Ning thought.
Ning passed through the exit and reappeared inside the tomb.
"There was no commotion here when he exited, so he must've been teleported to either of the other 2 continents," Ning figured.
"The clone said that it was a little early for him, but he would find a way to get stronger, didn't he? Now where exactly would Jha'Akim go to incre— Oh no," Ning said as a sudden realization hit him.
"ELY!" he thought and immediately teleported inside the island that was the Origin. When he reappearead, he could see in the distance two people fighting with each other.
One one side was Ely with her numerous artifacts flying in the air, both going on the offensive and defensive at the same time.
The many artifacts made her very hard to deal with, but even then Ning could see that she had a broken right arm and was incredibly hurt right now.
On the other side was… a human. A normal looking human flew in the air wearing nothing but a simple white robe with fully white hair. The male human didn't seem to be having much trouble fighting Ely at all, and even seemed to be enjoying it.
Ely was standing on a chariot with a spinning disk in front of her that she was continuously throwing at the man.
However, the man was too fast to be hit by anything. He has a smug smirk on his face and he dashed forward once more.
Ely brought out a shield to block his attack, but that wouldn't stop him at all. At the most crucial moment, Ning teleported right behind the shield and stopped the man's attack together.
"Ning, you're back," Ely said with happiness and relief returning back to her face. However, Ning's face did not have any of those emotions.
"Don't be so happy Ely," he said. "This guy is too strong, even for me."
The man stopped and looked at Ning as a face of confusion and question appeared in him.
"Have I seen you somewhere? Your face looks… familiar," the man said.
"Tsk, so you are Jha'Akim, huh? I don't see any beastly features in you," Ning asked.
The man didn't speak and instead kept looking at Ning. Finally he realized where his sense of familiarity came from.
"I see," Jha'Akim said. "It was you who made me come out right when I was ready to breakthrough, aren't you?"
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Chapter 370 – Rage
"I didn't expect you to look like a human," Ning said as he raised his fist and punched back at the man.
Jha'Akim instinctively blocked the punch but was sent flying quite a bit far back.
"Wow," he said. "I was already surprised at how strong the girl was. But I didn't expect you to be stronger. I couldn't really tell your strength through my clone, but it seems you are one of the stronger ones on this planet."
"Are you okay?" Ning asked Ely while still keeping his eyes on Jha'Akim.
"Yes, yes, I'm fine," Ely said. "My left arm is a little hurt, but it's nothing that won't heal on its own."
"Good," Ning said. "We should—"
Jha'Akim suddenly rushed forward from his place and came towards Ning with an open palm. However, as he got closer, his palm turned to that of a tiger's paw and slammed onto Ning.
Ning blocked the attack with his arms, but he was still sent flying back. Ely had to catch him midair to stop him from flying further away.
"Are you alright?" she asked.
"Arghh! His punch hurts," Ning said.
"I know. He hits like a beast. His body also changes to one from time to time," Ely said.
"That's because he is," Ning said. "That's the guy that was supposed to be trapped inside the tomb, but he's out now."
Ely's eyes went wide. "That beast with the powers of other beasts? That's him?" she asked. "Just how strong is he?"
"Very," Ning said softly. "From what I can see, he has a cultivation base of nearly 4th Spirit Transformation realm. That alone would've been fine, but he also seems to have a physical body equivalent to that of 2nd Spirit Transformation realm."
"Can you handle him?" Ely asked.
Ning couldn't help but shake his head in denial. "Overall, he's stronger than me. I don't think he can win against me, but I can forget about winning against him too."
Ely started getting worried. "He's a bad guy right?"
"Even if he wasn't, what he did before coming here is already enough to make him one," Ning said. "All of the beasts that were watching over him except one are dead."
Ely gasped. She remembered seeing those beast statues and talking to them. To think so many of them were dead, just like that."
"What is he? Does he have any weakness? Check it," Ely suggested.
"Not right now. He's stronger than me so the pain I will have to mentally suffer to learn it is not something I can afford to get right now. Let me get you to safety first. After that, it won't matter what happens to me," Ning said.
"Okay, let's go," Ely said.
Ning nodded and disappeared
Jha'Akim who was just looking at him was surprised. He got a little apprehensive and spread out his divine sense once more and checked the entire island, but he couldn't find Ning or Ely no matter what.
However, not even 10 seconds later, Ning returned back to the island. Jha'Akim was surprised when he saw that as well.
"How are you going in and out of this island? Do you know how to leave a mark on it as well?" he asked.
"Leave a mark on it?" Ning was confused. "I'm afraid I don't know what that is, but let's not talk about that. What are your intentions here? You killed so many beasts just get out of imprisonment. So, what is it now that you want to do? Rule over the world? Kill all the remaining beasts?"
"Hmph, what makes you think it's only the beasts I will go after? I will kill every single beast and human on this planet. I have no intentions to rule a bunch of cowards that could do nothing but harm what they couldn't understand," Jha'Akim said.
"The beasts are guilty of how they treated me, but the humans aren't saints either. They not only shunned me away but my father as well, just because I was his son."
"This hatred of mine will only stop when I know that there are no more beasts or men. In the end, the only thing there will be is Hybrids."
"I will turn everyone into a hybrid, be it by force or fear. Once everyone is a hybrid, no one will be a hybrid," Jha'Akim said.
Ning frowned. "You are planning to doom an entire planet just for revenge?" Ning asked.
"When did the planet ever care about me, for me to care about it? The beasts, the humans, are all the same. All they care about is themselves. If they come in contact with anything that is remotely not like them, they start fearing it, even if the thing they fear is a harmless young child."
Jha'Akim's face was starting to shift between shades of red and yellow. Veins started popping up on his forehead from all the anger he was bottling inside.
"Do you know how it feels to be beaten by the humans and beasts every opportunity they get because you are a freak? Do you know how it feels to be shunned by society so much that you can't even live your life properly?"
"Do you know how it feels when the other beasts kill your weak and helpless mother just because she gave birth to you? Do you know how it feels when your father kills himself because he can't handle the stress from being mentally tortured by society?"
"Do you know how it feels to live off of scraps in the forest, unable to get food as a 3-year-old child just because you walk differently from the others?. Do you— never mind, I let my rage show once more," Jha'Akim said as he tried to calm down.
"I wish for not a single other human or beast in this entire world to go through what I have," he said.. "And for that, I will make a world where no one is different from the other."
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