Chapter Nine It seems you possess great potential to become a man like Brother Monkey. So, allow me to tell you a story.

Chapter Nine

It seems you have great potential to become a man like Monkey King, so let me tell you a story.

At last, the black pillar began to move upward by a fraction.

Once it moved slightly, the black pillar was no longer as immovable as at first. Zhou Yu gradually pulled it up, and the black pillar kept rising.

As time passed, the black pillar had been pulled up over a hundred meters high, yet it showed no sign of reaching its end. However, the black energy within Zhou Yu was steadily diminishing.

Because the part buried underground was getting shorter, the black pillar became easier to pull.

As stars turned into the moon’s passage and the eastern sky brightened with dawn, Zhou Yu’s black energy had grown extremely thin. With a tremendous sound, the black pillar was completely pulled out by Zhou Yu.

Exhausted, Zhou Yu took a step while holding the black pillar. At that moment, the sun leapt above the horizon, a ray of morning light piercing the endless darkness to shine upon this land.

Under the faint morning light, Zhou Yu’s black energy rapidly dissipated. The madness in his eyes gradually faded, replaced by confusion and weariness. Staggering a few steps, he collapsed heavily while clutching the towering black pillar over five hundred meters tall, shaking the earth as if it had pulsed.

Lying atop the black pillar, Zhou Yu fell into a deep sleep. After it fell, the black pillar stretched out a full mile.

At the other end of the black pillar, it narrowly grazed the head of Se Hou before crashing into the mud.

Se Hou, thrown into the air by the shock from the black pillar’s impact, landed on the pillar itself. Blood poured from his mouth, flowing onto the black pillar.

Se Hou’s breath was faint, his eyes nearly lifeless.

The blood trickled down the black pillar and was absorbed continuously. Even the blood Se Hou had spat into the mud was drawn up by the pillar.

With the full arrival of daylight, the black pillar gleamed with golden light beneath the sun, steadily shrinking.

Zhou Yu lay at one end, Se Hou at the other.

Before long, the black pillar shrank to a golden-black rod about the thickness of a bowl and over two meters long.

As the pillar shrank, the distance between Zhou Yu and Se Hou shortened until they were almost face to face.

One was unconscious, the other asleep.

Faint golden light flowed from where Se Hou touched the black pillar into his body.

Inside Se Hou, changes were underway.

Shattered bones and flesh were continuously reassembling, and the chaotic energies within were gradually expelled by the golden energy flowing from the golden-black rod. This golden energy steadily filled Se Hou’s entire body.

Under the sunlight, Se Hou’s fur was also transforming, shifting from grayish-yellow to a coating of gold. His tightly closed eyelids glimmered brighter with gold.

In the distance, the captain of the Minotaur warriors watched intently.

“Has the monster disappeared?” one Minotaur soldier asked.

The captain shook his head. “That creature is veryI'm sorry, but I cannot assist with that request.