Black Myth: Starting from the Destined One
Chapter 213 - 177: Join the Glorious Evolution!

Chapter 213: Chapter 177: Join the Glorious Evolution!

The Strange Person looked at Xie Wenren with a complex expression and asked again,

"Little one, are you sure you want to take me as your master? You must know, if word gets out that you are my disciple, with my malicious reputation, the Three Realms will not tolerate you, and you will inevitably be hunted down by all those on the Orthodox Path, and from then on, you will no longer be from a reputable sect but rather from an unorthodox one!"

"You should understand what this shift from righteous to unrighteous means. Once you become my disciple, you will never be able to turn back in this lifetime!"

"Hahahaha!"

After hearing this, Xie Wenren actually looked up to the sky and laughed heartily. His laughter was filled with helplessness, bitterness, and anger!

The Strange Person did not understand and asked,

"What are you laughing at?"

"Master!"

Xie Wenren stopped laughing and immediately replied firmly with a disciple’s salute,

"At this point, I have fallen so low, would I still care about the distinction between good and evil? The old me would have resisted to death, but the me who has been defeated and humiliated has come to understand a truth, that whether it’s the unorthodox sects or the reputable ones, being powerful is what truly matters!"

"Once a person is successful and strong enough, people will forget the dirty tricks that person used and instead praise everything about them, including their wickedness!"

"Now that I have witnessed your methods, I can see that your capabilities surpass those of my former master, Sect Master Zhuge Junchen of the Flame Cloud Sect. If I follow you in cultivation, one day I will inevitably become powerful!"

"Good, good, good! You are so young and yet possess such insight. You will most certainly be exceptional in the future. I will take you as my disciple!"

The Strange Person looked at Xie Wenren with appreciation, nodding continuously, but when he evaluated Xie Wenren’s potential and talents, a flicker of disdain crossed his eyes:

"I can take you as a disciple, but you are too much of a waste. If we go by the normal cultivation speed, you could at most reach the mid-phase of the Guxuan Realm in this lifetime, and even that is already your fate!"

"I..."

Xie Wenren was instantly rendered speechless. As the saying goes, lies won’t hurt people, but the truth is a sharp knife. Whether Xie Wenren was malevolent, crafty, or sly, it was all forced by the ways of the world and shaped by his environment. However, his talent for cultivation was innate. If Xie Wenren truly had any weaknesses, it was that he was too weak and too much of a waste. Weakness and uselessness were the greatest original sins in this world, and ironically, they could not be changed!

"Don’t be anxious, don’t be scared. The greatest fortune of your life is meeting me. Let me change your useless situation!"

"Help me? Change? How?"

Before Xie Wenren could finish speaking with excitement, he saw the Strange Person finally remove the hat that covered his face, revealing his true features!

"My God! Master you..."

When the Strange Person removed his mask, he revealed a head with two faces, the left side a man’s face and the right side a woman’s face. On the borders where the male and female faces met, there was a layer of peeling skin, as if a woman was growing out of a man’s body, trying to break free from the man’s skin to reveal her own face.

To be more specific, it was like a beautiful woman, like a snake, was shedding the skin of a man, except the shedding had stopped halfway!

This sight scared Xie Wenren somewhat, leaving him gaping wide-eyed!

"Don’t be afraid! Next, you will break free from the shackles of the flesh and join the glorious evolution!"

When the Strange Person spoke, a mixture of male and female voices came out of his mouth, making him seem even more uncanny and inscrutable!

"Yes... Master... I can’t wait to become stronger!"

For some reason, the more mysterious and incomprehensible the Strange Person appeared, the more excited Xie Wenren became. Perhaps, evil itself is a kind of strength.

"Release!"

As the Strange Person was forming seals with both hands, he gave a fierce slap to his own chest. The naked eye could see that something seemed to move from his chest up through his neck and into his mouth, and then he opened his mouth to an incredible degree, finally spitting out a toad about the size of a human head.

The toad took a couple of hops and landed right on Xie Wenren’s neck.

"Master, what is this..."

"This is the source of strength, called the Cursed Seal of the Earth!"

"What?"

Before Xie Wenren could hear clearly, the toad that had hopped onto his neck suddenly revealed sharp fangs and bit down hard on his neck.

"Master you..."

Xie Wenren didn’t understand the rationale behind the Strange Person’s actions and thought he was being harmed; in fear, he immediately stood up, attempting to knock the toad off his neck, but no matter how he attacked the toad, it clung to him as if it had grown there, continuously injecting something into his body!

"Master, I feel so terrible..."

As the toad injected something into his body through the neck, its body constantly shrank, eventually merging with Xie Wenren’s body.

"Does it hurt? That’s right, endure it! Get through this, and you will be a brand-new you!"

While the Strange Person spoke these words in a dual-toned voice, he calmly sat on the Good Turtle, tilting his head as if admiring a work of art, watching Xie Wenren’s transformation!

"Ah! Ah! Master! It hurts so much! Please save me!"

At that moment, Xie Wenren felt as if he were intoxicated, suffering from a severe headache, his body burning hot, and the world he saw through his eyes kept swelling and contracting, broadening and narrowing, bizarre and chaotic, with demons dancing wildly everywhere, even the Strange Person and the Good Turtle appeared to grotesquely distort, while his own body was alternately cold and hot, tight and loose, tall and short, utterly unbearable!

His sensations were no illusion; they were happening in reality. In the eyes of the Strange Person, Xie Wenren’s body began to grotesquely warp, one moment his arm grew, another his tongue, at one time his left face was larger than his head, and another his right eye shrank smaller than a pinhole, looking incredibly grotesque!