Final Development and Reshaping

The so-called Berserker Headhunter power is a physical strength that corresponds to the void-like magic of the spirit. It originates from extreme emotions—such as bloodlust, irritability, rage, or excitement—and manifests as a reinforced state of the body. Humans and High Elves refer to this as rage.

Tian Sang could not grasp the study of magic, so he began to invest himself in the research of Berserker Headhunter power. He had consumed some berserker potions, but the dosage was insufficient to turn him into a Berserker Hunter.

The Trolls capable of becoming Berserker Hunter are all seasoned, robust hunters. They possess enough reason and physical constitution to ensure they can master the Berserker Headhunter power when the ritual potion takes effect.

After undergoing the ritual, those Berserker Headhunter will experience body aches and fall into a deep sleep. Upon waking, they feel invigorated; only this symptom signifies a successful ritual. If symptoms like dizziness, nausea, or even vomiting occur, it means the Berserker Headhunter power has not been mastered.

Tian Sang carefully studied the series of reinforcement processes for the Berserker Hunter and, combined with his own experience with the berserker potions, realized that the so-called Berserker Headhunter power is likely the use of the endocrine system to modify the body and highlight its potential.

The human body has countless secretory glands. These glands produce bodily fluids injected into the body. Those that can flow out of the body through channels are called exocrine glands, including gastric glands, salivary glands, and so on. Compared to exocrine glands that can flow out of the body, endocrine glands are fluids injected directly into the blood, including the adrenal glands, thyroid, and so on.

Those internal and external secretory hormones play a regulatory role in various parts of the human body, affecting a person's physiology and psychology, and even influencing genes to a certain extent. Those born with dwarfism or gigantism have issues with their body's endocrine system.

Possessing the Berserker Headhunter power means controlling the body's endocrine system. Just like human adrenaline, this endocrine hormone can provide the energy required for bodily activity, causing a person's breathing to accelerate, heart rate and blood flow to increase, and stimulating the body's potential.

To put it bluntly, the berserker potion is actually a stimulant that causes a surge in adrenaline. Then, through a shamanic ritual, the Troll hunters memorize the state of the adrenaline surge so they can autonomously trigger their potential and become a Berserker Headhunter.

When a Troll hunter first experiences an excessive amount of adrenaline, their body aches and they fall into a deep sleep. Waking up feeling invigorated means the body has accepted and adapted to the excess adrenaline. If they experience dizziness, nausea, or vomiting, it means the body failed to adapt to the drug or even suffered an adverse reaction.

Relying on his half-baked biological knowledge, Tian Sang analyzed the Berserker Hunter ritual. Although he was unsure if he was correct, he would know once he tested it.

Counting on the fact that he had already consumed berserker potions, Tian Sang cautiously increased his intake of the berserker potion, spacing each dose five days apart.

Soon, Tian Sang's hypothesis was confirmed. The incremental consumption of the berserker potion helped his body undergo reinforcement, but this reinforcement only reached a certain level, followed by a surging sense of power in his psyche.

After consuming the berserker potion three times, the surging sense of power in Tian Sang began to grow more intense, and he felt the impulse to increase the dosage and frequency to obtain infinite power.

Tian Sang had two vastly different lives to reflect upon and compare; his mind remained remarkably rational. Upon keenly catching his own impulses, he immediately guessed that he was likely "high" on the drug, so he chose to stop using it and destroyed the existing finished potions and medicinal materials to prevent himself from losing control.

Power is infinite, but Tian Sang did not believe he could directly level up just by popping pills. If one could level up that way, why would Grommash Hellscream have to die? He could just hack Mannoroth to death, drink his blood and flesh, and march all the way to kill Sargeras—wouldn't that be perfect?

After destroying the potions, Tian Sang felt his spirit surging with excitement, hoping to research even stronger potions. However, when faced with various drugs, he had no ideas, and his mind was filled with chaotic thoughts.

After ruining three pots of potions, Tian Sang forced himself to shift his attention away from the concoctions and instead threw himself into physical training: running, weightlifting, swimming, and learning the use of bows, javelins, axes, and daggers, following hunters into the deep mountains to hunt.

In the wild, Tian Sang chased birds and beasts through the jungle, learned various survival skills from the hunters, observed the traces in the forest, and discerned the movements of his prey. He began to focus naturally, and the mental excitement began to recede, replaced by a vast and open horizon.

At night, under the bright starry sky, Tian Sang left his Troll companions in the camp beneath the trees. With a clear mind, he felt the heartbeat within his powerful body and pondered his next step in cultivation: having obtained power and adapted to it, the next step should be controlling it.

Tian Sang looked at the white moon amidst the stars, his imagination running wild. Now that the mental excitement had faded, the brute strength in his body remained. This brute strength should be controlled and applied more effectively—to be able to lift heavy weights as if they were light, to send someone flying ten meters away with a light punch. Yes, that would be "hidden force," but the problem was, how does one practice hidden force?

Is it the Three-Body Stance, or the inch-power punch? These two are the most common in novels and should be the easiest to understand. But understanding is one thing; what is the gathering of internal energy, or the exertion of force from the bone tips? What are they really like?

His mind was a mess. Tian Sang closed his eyes slightly, first emptying his head, then beginning to think carefully again. However, when he opened his eyes, he no longer had the thought of pondering this, because his gaze was drawn to the red light soaring into the sky on the other side of the distant ridge.

"Barhan." Tian Sang looked at the red light soaring into the sky on the other side of the mountain and couldn't help but call out. Barhan, an elderly Troll headhunter—although he was old, his rich hunting experience had made him the head of the hunting team.

"Do you see what that is?" Tian Sang pointed at the red light on the other side of the mountain to the old Troll who had approached the tree. The old Troll Barhan was a lean Troll with white hair and a white beard. Facing his finger, he nimbly climbed to the high part of the tree, squinting his eyes to look at the light on the other side of the mountain. He was first startled, and then his face changed drastically.

"The light of fire. That is the direction of the forest."

"The forest is on fire!" Tian Sang looked at the red light soaring into the sky in the distance, blinked his eyes, and then a flash of inspiration suddenly struck his mind.

"Is that the Eversong Woods, the forest snatched away by the Quel'dorei?" Tian Sang stared at Barhan. That was the firelight of the Eversong Woods being ignited by the Orcs. Damn, how much jail time do those Orcs want to serve?

"It is the forest snatched away by the Pale Ones. Could it be that the Horde has won?" Barhan stood on the tree branch, looking at the firelight in the distance. After thinking for a moment with his eyes lowered, he was somewhat uncertain. The strategic goal of the alliance between the Trolls and the Orcs was to drive away the Pale Ones and snatch back the forest. The Orcs set fire to the forest to achieve this goal, but why didn't Zul'jin or Kal'ma stop this behavior? If they burn the forest down, what is the point of them taking it back?

"I haven't received any news sent back by the teacher." Tian Sang shook his head. If the Eversong Woods were truly ignited, then I fear the time for the Horde's defeat is not far off.

"We must rush back to Zul'Aman after dawn." Barhan looked at the head-shaking Tian Sang, gazed at the red light soaring into the sky in the distance, and made his decision. Night is the time when animals are active and hunting; even the strongest hunter would not want to walk in these mountains and forests filled with slaughter.