The Human Giant



As Yoze watched the giant hill of fire, his eyes scanned everything, looking for details that might be easily overlooked. At first, he didn't see anything strange except that most of the parasitic seeds had all grown roots and moved toward the ground.

Unfortunately, most of these parasitic seeds could never reach the ground before they were burned to ashes. However, for the few on the bottom of the hill, their roots did enter the ground.

This allowed them to quickly expand and grow, but the immense weight crushing them from above made it impossible to grow normally, with most of them being forced to grow between the cracks of the dead Three-Eyed Crows.

The largest one even had grown to be over five feet tall and more than an inch thick, which was quite impressive. But what truly caught his attention was that his red spiritual energy spotted a weird energy inside the seeds.

"So this is what is causing this smell of intense oil. From the looks of it, it seems to be similar to the aura that Blood Master Steel created when he went berserk." Yoze's face went grim as he remembered the day he fought Blood Master Steel.

Even though the battle was extremely one-sided, when Blood Master Steel went berserk, he was somehow able to break through into the Martial Grandmaster realm. He even created a special red aura that was the fusion of inner vigor and spiritual energy which seemed to have the special property to switch between the state of inner vigor and spiritual energy.

However, when he felt that the aura he was looking at now was a bit different. Not only was it a strange glossy green color, but it seemed to want to enter any creature's body. As if the bodies of the dead Three-Eyed Crows were powerful magnetic, every time the glossy green aura was exposed to the air, it flew into the body of a burning dead crow.

"Even though my red spiritual energy is somewhat burning this aura, its resistance is extremely high. Not only that, but I can't devour it as I could with ordinary spiritual energy." Yoze's eyes twitched as he turned to the dark cloud of Three-Eyed Crows.

If it wasn't confirmed before that an anomaly caused this strange accident, then Yoze was now certain. He had only ever encountered this type of aura from the anomaly that implanted a Blood Heart in Blood Master Steel.

The only plausible solution would be if there was a demon who practiced martial arts to get inner vigor and combined it with its spiritual energy. Not only was that less likely to be the case, but it would also be much more difficult for him to deal with at his current strength.

A demon capable of combining two different types of energies must be powerful and knowledgeable in both inner vigor and spiritual energy. That wasn't an existence that he could defeat without making much more progress in his martial arts and his ability to control his spiritual energy.

Since there was no way for him to kill the existence that created this strange green aura, Yoze settled on first dealing with the current dark cloud feeding into the fire. With every dead crow, the fire would burn a little bright and for a little longer, but from the number of crows still that haven't died, this fire would not end until the sun rose.

"You can be my first test subject." 

With few options left to deal with the glossy green aura, he turned to simply making sure that all the crows would not accidentally fly out of this region so that all the ones he couldn't use as test subjects would fall into the fire.

After grabbing the first Three-Eyed Crow, Yoze suppressed its spiritual energy to lower to ensure it didn't resist his examination. He then took a closer look at the seeds causing this mayhem and was surprised to see that they were simple oak tree seeds.

Besides the glossy green aura inside them and the fact that they were quickly growing roots into the Three-Eyed Crow's body, there was nothing special about the seeds. After examining how far the roots had grown into the crow's body, Yoze shook his head as he noticed that the roots were dug too deep into the crow's brain and body to remove without killing them instantly.

"What a shame," Yoze sighed before lightly tapping the Three-Eyed Crow's body and using the Beast Human body cultivation method.

After twenty minutes, Yoze was satisfied to see that the Three-Eyed Crow that he could hold with two hands had grown so large that it was more than six feet tall. With this massive size and strength increase, it could easily fly with a human on its back.

After reaching a level four bond with the Three-Eyed Crow, Yoze was surprised to find that the crow could survive this long with the help of the Beast Human body cultivation method. Even though it was still slowly dying, it would take much longer for the seed to kill it completely.

"Good job, It might be possible for me to remove the stubborn seed from your body if we can reach a sufficiently high level with the Bloody Beast Clone body cultivation method."

"Are you willing to try it out?" Yoze asked.

Even though the Three-Eyed Crow had only recently had her intelligence increased, she knew what Yoze meant. The difficulty in practicing the Bloody Beast Clone body cultivation method was much higher than the Beast Human body cultivation method.

And just as mentioned in the name is the body cultivation method; practicing this method was very bloody as it would require both Yoze and her to drench themselves with each other's blood. With her current state, it would be hard for her to endure having a large amount of her blood drained out of her body multiple times in a row.

However, she was still willing to try it since she wanted to keep getting stronger. And since she already had nothing to lose except for dying slightly quicker, she didn't mind being Yoze's test subject.