A Man's Insanity: A Changing World

Everyone stood silently, looking.

The round-shaped thing was just three feet in size from all sides. It was completely brown and glistening.

After only a little while, everyone saw very fine lines appear on it. Those lines began to move on it slowly.

They looked on as they were protected by many cultivators who waited outside. Many high rank cultivators were positioned outside the mountain as well as the cave to protect it.

Many in this world covet the unique toruses of Mantora Mountain. They enable cultivators to surpass their peers, pushing beyond the limits of their mortal bodies. We cannot afford to be careless in assigning these guards: Mu Kang thought.

Cracks began to develop on that brown sphere. It started from one point and began to spread slowly.

After a while, the sphere broke and from that emerged something. It was about to fall in the spring, but was caught by a cultivator.

Its height was just one and a half feet. It was light brown in color and had a body like a human, however, its appearance was not. It had a horn on the left side of its head.

Its face matched that of a cow.

The nails of its feet were sharp and one inch in size.

After it appeared outside, it hadn't opened its eyes yet.

"Here, when we leave, throw this on the torus and it will wake up." Mu Kang handed a pouch of powder to Jun Haru and left with the others.

Even the ones who stood on the eight spots were left except for Jun Haru.

When the others left. Jun Haru opened the pouch, grabbed a fistful of powder, and threw it at the sleeping torus.

After falling on the torus's body, it was being absorbed.

Only a little time had passed when it slowly opened its eyes and looked around and saw Jun Haru.

"Tor, Tor… Tor," while muttering this, it walked up to Jun Haru.

It had just touched him when it started to fuse with him.

After a little while, both of them fused together.

"What's happening… My whole body strengthened!" He muttered.

His whole body had strengthened along with his bones, veins, skin, and muscles. Even though his strength didn't increase, his body had toughened.

"Not to mention that this torus is just a rank 1 beast…" he muttered.

The others entered and saw only one person standing.

Jun Haru's appearance had changed. His skin was light brown now. A horn appeared on the left side of his head. Both his feet and hands' nails had grown sharp to one inch each. On his forehead appeared a deep brown fine line with a Zic Zac pattern.

On his elbows and knees, brown thin fur appeared.

His pupils had turned brown and thin.

He looked around and felt a profound change in his body. His vision had sharpened, his strength had increased, his speed had improved as well as his body being toughened.

He smiled as he felt strong.

"I think I can even fight rank 5 cultivators with this new form!" He said excitedly.

No wonder brother Yang wanted to win this competition: he muttered.

When Si Yu and Li Na saw Jun Haru smiling, they felt hatred rise deep within their body somewhere like a flicker.

As their bodies had a mysterious connection, they felt it at the same time.

This was supposed to be brother Yang's: this appeared in their mind.

"Congratulations, Jun Haru, you have finally been recognized by this unique torus!" Mu Kang muttered.

…..

Meanwhile,

Yang Zhai just finished absorbing a cultivator's essence and advanced to rank 4 Over-Stage. He had advanced to the rank 4 peak stage yesterday through the use of the Blue Gems he had gotten from the auction. He was inside the inheritance ground right now and was looking at the Storm Bandits' leader.

"So, you are finally willing to give me your Storage Ka. Pull everything out of the ka and I will let you go free." Yang Zhai asked.

He was still standing far away from the bandit leader.

Cultivators cannot be underestimated, I cannot get too close to him. Even though he is helpless and cannot do anything to me, I had better be careful: Was what he thought.

Yang Zhai had already severed the bandit leader's hands and feet. Along with that, he constantly made sure to keep the man in a half-conscious and weak state. He would keep him hungry and thirsty for days and only feed him when he was at his limit. Not just that, he would also use a little of the Red Poison on him as well.

Even when using the Red Poison, he would first show it to the man and then put it on him after a few minutes, making him wait and anticipate the pain he was going to endure. He was trying to break his patience.

Not just that, he was always surrounded by an army of hounds who would, from time to time, sever a piece of flesh out of his body and eat it in front of him. This fear was slowly starting to affect his mind.

However, as I am not always torturing him, and doing it from time to time, he is still sane. I was just trying to break his patience, and it worked, he was looking at the bandit leader with eyes that spoke of nothingness.

The bandit leader tried to activate his storage Ka but failed. His body wasn't in a state to do anything right now. However, after trying hard, he managed to barely activate it.

Many things started to fall on the floor. However, his eyes fell on something.

"Blue Gems?" He ordered a few hounds to bring those to him.

He picked them up and examined them.

"Rank 5 Blue Gems… where did he get so many?"

There were a total of six. All of them were at rank 5.

"If I had gotten these before… at least, I could have saved my essence stones." He muttered, sighing. He didn't know whether it was his good luck or bad luck.

He now had seven rank 5 Blue Gems. There were also rank 4 Blue Gems.

He stored all the items and said this,

"Congratulations, I am a man of my word, I will release you after we reach a village. I don't think you are in a condition to be left in a forest right now."

He left the place and headed toward the second location, the canyon, where he had acquired the inheritance.

As for the bandit leader, he was in a far worse situation to even think properly and only hoped that Yang Zhai would fulfil his promise. It was his last hope. Even though he knew Yang Zhai might not fulfill his promise, he still hoped to live long. After all, what could be even worse? If he was going to die anyway, he tried his best to grab onto his last hope.

Yang Zhai had already advanced to the rank 4 Perfect Stage.

Even after advancing to the rank 4 perfect stage, his arm didn't heal. The damnation snake stayed there. The effects were terrifying, not possible for a rank 4 perfect stage to heal it.

He sat down and began his advancement to rank 5.

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