Raed was confused and then remembered.
"... Oh, it's those damn pills. Damn it, where did they go...? Ah, there they are. Why do they look like that? Weren't they black?..."
He found the pills lying quietly beside him, five feet away. However, they were no longer black; they were now a mix of black and a blood-red crimson color.
Looking around, Raed noticed that half a day had passed, and it was nearing evening. The area around him was littered with the remains of beasts completely drained of blood. Clearly, Raed didn't remember what had happened.
"... What is this? Is there a terrifying beast here?..."
Raed was frightened, but then he suddenly remembered the vortices that had appeared on the pills, which had absorbed his strength. He realized his cultivation had fallen back to that of an ordinary human with no training.
His face twisted in frustration. Would he become trash again, looked down upon by everyone? Then he looked at the red color on the three pills, and a look of realization appeared on his face, followed by fear.
"... Damn it, how am I supposed to swallow this..."
Raed kept thinking about it until night came. He returned home, ate with Sarah, and slept, feeling exhausted from having his energy drained.
The next morning, he woke up early and went to the family's back mountain again. Normally, this mountain was full of beasts, and members of the Najjar family didn't enter it except for training.
The mountain belonged to the Najjar family, and no one outside the family dared to enter, not even other humans, because it was filled with beasts. This was Raed's second time there since yesterday, but this time he ventured deeper. He felt that he would cause a disturbance when attempting to open the Heavenly Gate.
After avoiding the beasts and reaching a relatively deep area in the back mountains, he sat in the hollow of a tree. He took out the pills and looked at them with fear, knowing he had to swallow them since he had already lost his cultivation. He swallowed the first pill.
The moment the pill entered his stomach, his body cracked, and the vortices appeared again, drawing his blood toward them. Raed was terrified.
"... Damn it..."
But then, the blue bead, which had replaced his dantian and was actually a ring bead, vibrated. The vortex dissipated, and the pill calmed down, but an imposing energy spread from it.
Not waiting for it to destroy him, Raed activated the Tyrannical Heavenly Emperor Technique, and the imposing energy smoothly flowed to his right hand.
Raed followed the process with his spirit until he found the energy gathering at an imposing red and black gate, covered with patterns similar to those on the pill and of the same color. A massive vortex appeared from the gate, beginning to swallow the energy.
The process took two breaths—one breath for the energy to travel from the Heavenly Bead to the gate's location, and another for the imposing energy to be consumed as if the gate had taken some supplements.
This gate was considered the gateway to open the first Heavenly Palace, called the Palace of Heavenly Sacrifice, which shared its name with the Pill of Heavenly Sacrifice.
No one knew where this gate would lead or where this Heavenly Palace came from, but one thing was certain... the human body is full of mysteries... it is like a small universe!
"Alright... let's continue."