The living beings transformed from Emperor Hu's flesh and blood were truly bizarre in every conceivable way, taking all manner of forms. At first, they were creatures in the forms of old gods, but later they gradually changed toward human forms.
There were not many of these old god-like beings, and old gods themselves were mostly humanoid. Their gradual transformation toward human forms was presumably Emperor Hu's experiment!
He was experimenting with how to transform himself into a human!
What astonished Su Yun most were the "humans" transformed from Emperor Hu's flesh and blood!
Most of the people in these paintings did not look human at all. Their appearances were grotesque and strange; they were likely only Emperor Hu's test subjects.
Yet these test subjects made one's hair stand on end, like the creations of a crudely skilled creator who casually stitched human organs together and fashioned life at random. Their eyes varied in size, and however many eyes they had depended on the creator's mood; even the number of heads, hands, and feet was determined by the creator's whim.
But afterward, Emperor Hu gradually became more normal. The people he created looked increasingly human, yet somehow inspired an ever greater, inexplicable dread.
Later still, these people no longer seemed terrifying, because they looked no different from ordinary humans.
Emperor Hu's physical body was simply too enormous. He created tens of thousands of humans for experimentation. Not only that, he was also experimenting with how to cultivate Spiritual Nature within a body.
Su Yun saw all sorts of his strange experiments, most of which ended in failure. The corpses of his incarnations piled up like mountains and were cast into the Oblivion River's tribulation fire to burn.
But later, he found a way to generate Spiritual Nature.
Then Su Yun