Yang Zhai's arms started to change colors constantly and returned to their original color after a while. After a while, a colorless aura began to enter his arms.
Si Kim sat in his place and the aura did not affect him. However,
"I am unable to detect this aura's true origins, I cannot even sense to which path it belongs. But what is even more strange is that my detection method started to change itself when it touched the aura. Just what exactly is this aura?" Zihao De muttered with confusion.
He did not look away from Yang Zhai and kept his focus on him.
After a while, Yang Zhai's arms completely absorbed the aura that they had released a while ago. Yang Zhai's eyes opened, and he looked at the floor around him. The area of the floor around him had small cracks in it.
The small particles that were moving in Yang Zhai's bones had been absorbed by his bones.
Only a little while had passed when Yang Zhai's mind went blank.
"Change, everything changes. A sapling becomes a tree. A child changes to become an adult. Good changes to become evil, and evil changes to become good. The beginning changes into the end, and the end starts a new beginning. Even fate changes. Time changes, tears dry, desert grows life, nothing is permanent. I am the beginning, and I am the end."
Yang Zhai remembered a man, whose figure couldn't be completely seen. He stood in front of a lake and spoke these words. The man was covered in blood and was holding a sword in his hand. The lake had clear water and everything in it was clearly visible.
The man entered the lake and came out; he was cleaned of blood.
"Why did you do that?" Another man came and asked the first man.
"For freedom."
When the man said this, Yang Zhai's mind returned to normal again.
He took a deep breath and relaxed.
What did I just see? Who was that man?: Yang Zhai thought. He was unable to see the two men clearly. However, he heard everything clearly. He did not know why he suddenly had this memory. He could not tell if what he just saw in his mind was a real experience that he had already experienced or just a created illusion.
After thinking for a while, he kept this incident at the side of his mind and looked at his hands. There was no benefit in thinking of something he could not completely understand.
His whole body felt a little stronger than before. He could also now hold the power of thirteen bulls. His bones had gotten stronger, especially his arm bones. However, he could not tell what had the aura done to his arms as his arms didn't feel strange. The reason his arms' bones were stronger than the other bones was because of the Brown Dacite. It seemed as if the Aurora had not made any improvements to his arms' bones.
"No, there must be something that I am missing. I just need to figure out what it has done." Yang Zhai thought and took the other Kas.
He started to use the other Kas after enslaving them. He first used the Earth Veins Ka, then the Earth Muscle Ka, the Earth Speed Ka, and finally the Earth Bull Ka.
Yang Zhai had taken six Kas from Tai Qi: Earth Bones Ka, Earth Muscle Ka, Earth Veins Ka, the Earth Speed Ka, Earth Bull Ka, and the Earth Burial Ka. The Earth Speed Ka was also a one-time use Ka and could increase his speed. As Yang Zhai's strength increased, his speed also increased, but using the Earth Speed Ka could make his legs more stable and lighter for running, increasing his running speed. It also resulted in increasing his kicking speed. As a result, the impact he can put behind every kick also increased.
This was how when a body cultivator's one part of the body becomes stronger, it benefits other parts as well.
If he could run with more speed, he would be able to place more strength behind his every strike.
Now, his skin, bones, veins, and muscles had gotten stronger. He could now use his full strength without any worries. He could now also hold the strength of 16 bulls.
Right now, he has the strength of 12 bulls. At present, if he activates two orange lines together, his strength would increase to 15 bulls. But, even now, he was unable to activate three orange lines together.
The reason was that activating one orange line would grant him the strength of one bull, activating two orange lines together would grant him the strength of three bulls, and activating three lines together could grant him the strength of nine bulls.
He had the strength of 7 bulls before, but after training two days ago, his strength increased to 8 bulls and his power to hold strength also increased to 10, and using all of the four Kas also granted him a little amount of strength, which increased his strength to 10. And using Earth Bull Ka granted him two bulls' strength.
At present, my body can only hold the strength of 16 bulls. My body already has the strength of 12 bulls, and if I activate three orange lines together, the strength of my body would increase to 21 bulls' strength, exceeding the limit that my body can hold. I can only use it in an emergency and for only a second: Yang Zhai thought.
He currently had five orange lines. Activating all of them together was currently his small goal.
Sigh, even though I have so much strength lying dormant in me, I can't use it. Only if I could activate all five orange lines together, even Tai Qi would have been nothing to me. I would not have to sit idly and plan everything. Forget it; the final round is about to begin in a month. Yang Zhai heaved a sigh and thought.
Yang Zhai then looked at the Earth Burial. It looked like a small dust rock with cracks in it. Yang Zhai picked up the Ka. He had already enslaved the Ka. This Ka was the evolved form of the Dug Worm Ka.
Even though Yang Zhai had the Dug Worm Ka with almost the same effects, he still asked for the Earth Burial Ka. The reason was that it had a longer range than the Dug Worm Ka, and could bury things in the ground without digging pits. It had three abilities, unlike the Dug Worm Ka: the first was to dig, the second was to refill the dug pit, and the third was to bury and pull out the things without digging.
Yang Zhai went out of the room and came into the yard. He saw a small six-inch rock on the ground. He activated the Earth Burial Ka and the rock was absorbed into the ground.
Good, now I only need corpses for the Corpse Collector, and the combination will be completed. Come to think of it, if I had guessed correctly, the Ma clan had used the Blood Demon Ka to bribe me, so why haven't they sent any letter yet to ask me to join their side? Could it be that the letter was intercepted by someone? No, not possible, Ma clan won't make such an amateur mistake and send the letter by a bird. So, why haven't they sent anyone here? Or, could it be that they did not deem it worthy enough after the incident of Cu Gil? Or it can be that the messenger sent was captured by someone: Yang Zhai had his own thoughts.
The Blood Demon Ka was the one he had won from the bet that he had asked Si Yu to place in his fight during the second round of the competition. He had considered that the Ka given by the Ma clan would be useless, but to his surprise, they had given him the Blood Demon Ka.
After considering everything, he had come to the conclusion that the Ma clan was bribing him. However, there was no attempt yet to make him join the Ma clan, which was perplexing.
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