You felt that you could now fully control yourself. From here on, you only needed to avoid large-scale contact with human blood, or wait until you condensed Martial Will and could suppress the impulses caused by the Blood Essence Meridian Integration Method before touching it again.
By then, even if you came into contact with human blood, you would surely be able to control yourself and would not absorb too much and lose your lychees.
This cultivation method's side effects were a bit fierce, but you could take it slow.
You stood atop a low hill, eyes closed, sensing nature amid the tranquility. Yet at a certain moment, the atmosphere was suddenly shattered. You looked in one direction, where flames had risen.
That direction was the fishing village where you had lived when you first arrived on this continent... You suddenly recalled something you had been avoiding for the past month: the five people you killed had been sent by the "Monarch" of this vast region.
Because they had activated the Blood Essence Meridian Integration Method, causing you to briefly go berserk and black out, you had tried not to think of them over the past month. Yet because of that, you had overlooked the fishing village's fate.
When you activated your Lightness Skill and rushed to the fishing village at full speed, you did not arrive in time for another timely rescue like in the previous simulation. All you saw were corpses strewn everywhere and blood qi hanging thick in the air.
There were around thirty soldiers. Wearing Bamboo Armor and carrying metal blades or spears, they had already slaughtered the village. Laughing and joking, they used their swords and spears to stab at the corpses.
Some had even strung heads onto their spear shafts. Like performers singing opera