In the transcendent lineage chart compiled by the Safety Committee, transcendent beings who awakened the Red Slumbering Demon ability all required strict supervision...
Because Transcendent Ability could, to a certain extent, influence a transcendent being's temperament.
For example, Mu Qingyang, who had awakened Azure Fire, displayed traits increasingly similar to the positive qualities contained within Azure Fire the more he cultivated. The essence of the Red Slumbering Demon, however, was somewhat dark and sinister. Its wielders often fell into Dream Eaters even at the early stages.
Their rate of mental collapse was extremely high.
But high risk came with high returns... Those who successfully broke free from Dream Eaters could possess formidable Mental Affinity combat power early on. Yet the further they progressed, the stronger the Dream Eaters brought by the Red Slumbering Demon became!
Poison Fiend, ranked nineteenth on the high-risk list, had once been an enforcement officer in a remote region north of the river. Because he could not suppress his increasingly powerful Dream Eaters, he suffered a mental collapse and went berserk during a mission, killing all four of his companions. He was then listed by the Nagano authorities... For a long time, the pursuers had been unable to find any trace of Poison Fiend. In the end, he was captured in Jiuning District, and the person in charge of that operation had been Zhu Wang, who presided over the Nagano Adjudication Court.
By the time of his capture, Poison Fiend had already murdered nearly a hundred innocent sufferers.
It was said that his Sealed Item was a Snuff Bottle, but the Adjudication Court had never found it... The man had been especially tight-lipped. Since he was ultimately to be sent to the Snowy Wasteland for lifelong imprisonment, the Snuff Bottle's whereabouts no longer seemed important.
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