Chapter Thirty-One: Aftermath

  After a moment, a group of mercenaries and adventurers, without even half a point of resistance, were slaughtered by Huo Hai. Huo Hai's body was covered in fresh blood, his eyes red, like a wild beast.

  "Ho Hai, Ho Hai, wake up quickly, you'll become a madman if you continue like this. Wake up quickly!" Just as Ho Hai finished killing all the enemies, Ji Mu finally came to his senses, shouting and running over.

  Huò Hǎi turned his head, the killing intent in his eyes made Jì Mù's heart turn cold. Even his body stiffened for a moment, but he still walked to Huò Hǎi's side. Gently pulling on Huò Hǎi's hand, he slowly said: "Huò Hǎi, this isn't the real you, quickly wake up, if it goes on like this, it will be irreparable." A hint of concern flashed in Jì Mù's eyes.

  Huo Hai's heart began to fluctuate for some reason. Originally, when he saw Ji Mu, his instincts made him want to take action. However, it seemed that this person couldn't be killed. So Huo Hai stopped in his tracks until he was pulled back.

  Now, feeling the mood of Ji Mu, looking at Ji Mu's expression that was about to cry. The red color in Huo Hai's eyes gradually faded away, and the original color slowly came out. The killing intent on his body also decreased unknowingly.

  "I, what's wrong with me, why is this happening, ugh..." Huo Hai finally came to. The memories from just now were still vivid, and he hadn't forgotten them. But Huo Hai himself didn't know why he couldn't control himself and did such things. These people, just a moment ago, were all killed by him. There were even several who were personally extinguished by his own hands.

  If it weren't for the last-minute intervention, Huo Hai might have run in the direction of the other teams by now. Looking back, he had actually killed someone with his own hands. Despite having adapted to many things, Huo Hai still felt uncomfortable.

  He leaned against an old man and vomited directly. Ji Mu felt relieved, Huo Hai finally recovered. Vomit, it's good to vomit. Ji Mu walked forward, carefully patting Huo Hai's back, making him more comfortable.

  After a long time, Huo Hai finally vomited out the last bit of food in his stomach. For several days, he hadn't had a proper meal and everything he ate would be vomited out. This time after vomiting, Huo Hai felt wave after wave of weakness in his body. It wasn't just physical weakness, but more so mental weakness. Just what was wrong with him? Why did he get so excited just now?

  "Ji Mu, do you know what just happened to me? I, I didn't even want to kill them all." Just thinking about the scene from earlier made Huo Hai's heart start trembling. Why was his desire to kill so strong.

  Could it be that this is his true nature after all? Huo Hai's mind began to wander and his face turned even paler.

  Ji Mu knew what was going on with Huo Hai and hastily said, "You don't need to worry, this is a normal situation. If you were taken out by your family to kill people when you were young, you wouldn't have this feeling. Children are the most adaptable. You've probably forgotten, so it's your first time killing someone, and killing so many at that, it's normal to be like this."

  Huo Hai nodded, he knew that this was the killing syndrome. This symptom had long been familiar to the masses on Earth, especially those soldiers who had been on the battlefield for many years. After returning to normal society, only a few could adapt.

  It's just this killing syndrome, having just killed a large number of people, and it was even the bloody kind. This symptom is quite normal. But why can't I control myself? Is the killing syndrome really that severe?

  Ji Mu didn't see the look on Huo Hai's face, and continued to say: "You are currently in the Spiritual Blood Realm. The Spiritual Blood Realm refines all the blood in your body, making it easy for external objects to affect and boil your internal blood. At this time, if you kill too much, it is also easy to become bloodthirsty. You just had two situations overlap, so that's why you became like that. This isn't the real you."

  This situation is really rare to see. Who isn't very young, starts to come into contact with killing. Even if they haven't killed a person, they've killed poultry or livestock, or have seen dead people. Little kids adaptability is very strong, growing up will still feel very natural.

  Besides, ordinary people also know that when they reach the Spiritual Blood Realm, they should be careful not to engage in excessive and casual slaughter, lest it affect their original heart. However, Hao Hai just so happens to be an amnesiac, and he has forgotten all these things from before.

  This time, no one noticed, and even Ji Mu didn't think of it, so it became like this. Fortunately, there aren't too many people here, otherwise, Huo Hai would have continued his slaughter for a while, and who knows, maybe he really wouldn't be able to extricate himself.

  There were many people like that in the past, who became murderers or had their personalities twisted because of such situations. Even if they could recover later, they would become extremely bloodthirsty. For some reason, Ji Mu didn't want Huo Hai to become a killer, she wanted to guide him well and absolutely wouldn't allow such a thing to happen to him.

  "So, what should I do now? In my current state, can't even kill an enemy." Huo Hai's voice was a bit hoarse. Can't kill the enemy, then it's hard to get the score card, can't complete one's own task.

  Huo Jiake didn't have a business system as large and deeply rooted as Ji's, nor did he have many resources to exchange for academy points. Once at the academy, if one couldn't quickly improve their cultivation, it wouldn't be easy to obtain points.

  Thinking of the cards, Huo Hai only now realized that the people he had just killed were being eaten by the Star Gu, and the remaining cards were not few. After all, it was a large team, and there weren't as many cards on his own body. Over the past few days, the cards on these people's bodies also added up to nearly two hundred. Huo Hai endured his discomfort and collected these cards.

  Ji Mu shook his head: "You don't have to worry too much, just remember that in the Spiritual Blood Realm, don't kill excessively, especially not killing people. Come on, let's rest for two days first, and these two days, don't kill casually."

  He nodded, knowing that his current state was a big problem. If he wasn't careful, he might be left with some aftereffects that wouldn't be good. Physical aftereffects could still be treated, but mental ones were another story altogether.

  At this moment, Huo Hai's eyes suddenly turned cold. The killing intent in his body began to surge again, and his eyes started to turn red as he stared at a certain direction in the distance. Ji Mu felt a chill run down her spine and quickly grabbed hold of Huo Hai. Huo Hai's condition was more severe than she had imagined. How could this be? Someone like him, with such a physique, should be extremely rare.

  This kind of person usually ends up becoming either a great good person or an extremely bad one. Ji Mu really didn't want Huo Hai to become a bad egg, although Huo Hai seemed like he was heading in that direction.

  Huò Hǎi himself didn't know that this was the consequence of perfecting his physical body. Perfecting his physical body brought about a perfect foundation, stirring up his own blood and energy, and was also more comprehensive. As a result, after reaching the Blood Refining Realm, his blood boiled over, making it easier for him than others.

  This turmoil, even easily affects one's spirit. If not for Huo Hai's spiritual power being far beyond that of a normal person, perhaps in the recent slaughter, he would have already become lost. But this is also not good, requiring a long time to recover. Without breaking through his cultivation, it's impossible to restore. Huo Hai knew this, as he had cultivated on his own.

  Disciples of a large sect, if they use the perfect foundation-building method to cultivate, will not be allowed to see even a dead person for some time after that, just in case they encounter such a situation. Only after breaking through are they allowed to come out.

  After a long while, Huo Hai closed his eyes and the killing aura began to dissipate. When he opened them again, the red color in his eyes had vanished. Huo Hai knew that his situation was extremely severe. For these two days, no matter what, he absolutely could not kill anyone.

  "There's another group coming this way, let's hurry and leave, I don't want to run into these people." Huo Hai is now completely unable to control his killing aura. Especially when facing people who are hostile towards him, it's very likely that he will charge forward without care and kill them on the spot. Even being sensed by the Gu insect, Huo Hai almost couldn't suppress himself from going to find them.

  If I really saw them, heaven knows if I could still control myself. Huo Hai began to recite the half-familiar Diamond Sutra in his heart, and he didn't know if this thing would work. But reciting it a few more times wouldn't hurt, right?

  "Alright, let's hurry and ignore these people. Once you recover, we'll make sure those guys get what's coming to them." Ji Muo had no good feelings towards the people who made Huo Hai like this.

  Ji Mu didn't even realize that he was acting so differently towards this person he had just met. Ji Mu, who had put all his thoughts on Huo Hai's body, now only cared about Huo Hai's physical condition, and nothing else mattered.

  With the guidance of the Gu insect, Huo Hai quickly found a direction without people, confirmed the direction, and the two quickly left. At this time, it doesn't matter what kind of grudge or courage, just solve your own problems first, otherwise, in the end, no one will have a good outcome. First think about how to delay joining the Imperial City Academy for now.

  Two people rushed along the way, bypassing everyone on the road. Even wild beasts were directly driven away by Ji Mu, rather than letting Huo Hai take action. Huo Hai had already given orders to all the star worms not to attack anyone.

  The corpses on the ground were swallowed up by the star worms, and then followed Ho Haifei again. I don't know how long they walked, but the two of them were already very far away from the encirclement. At this time, the two of them finally let out a sigh of relief.

  "Now, let's find a place to rest for a while, there is a cave over there." Huo Hai took a deep breath, he himself wasn't very tired physically, but mentally, he felt extremely exhausted. Overexcitement would always lead to fatigue. If not careful, it could even hurt one's mental state, which was entirely possible. What Huo Hai needed now was a good rest.