God Of Slaughter - Chapter 4

Guinea Pig

Tall trees formed a huge umbrella above a small river, beside which was a dragon drinking water, carrying several bags.

Ten strong, tall warriors were dining and having dirty talks near the dragon. Behind the dragon, a group of malnourished men were crouching and having a coarse meal. They were all wearing chains, their eyes dim.

In a sedan on the dragon, a poker-faced thin old man was sitting motionlessly. He was wearing a black robe embroidered with five white cauldrons on the chest. He kept staring at the warriors and chained men. Every warrior was frightened and turned silent once the old man looked upon him viciously.

“Are you done? Then move your ass and walk!” Mo Yanyu showed up from the bush with a rigid face, lifting Shi Yan up in her hand.

Those warriors wrapped their unfinished meal and were embarrassed: ”Yeah done. We are done.”

Mo Yanyu went up to the old man and showed a smile unwillingly: ”Master Karu, have you finished your meal?”

The old man nodded coldly and murmured: “Miss Mo, it would still take 3 months to go to The Merchant Union. But we have only 16 medicine slaves left here. I’m afraid we wouldn’t make it...”

“Do not worry, Master. We will catch more medicine slaves for you.” Mo Yanyu threw Shi Yan onto the ground and laughed: ”Look, a new slave!”

“Hmm.” Karu nodded as he examined Shi Yan with his evil eyes. “Too skinny! He wouldn’t even survive a week!” He frowned.

“Yes I know. But, he has Profound Qi in him...”Mo Yanyu explained.

“He is a warrior?” Apparently Karu was interested, his eyes lit.

“Definitely!” Mo Yanyu confirmed.
“That would be good.” Karu smirked. He continued to fix his eyes on Shi Yan. After quite a while, he nodded slowly: “Very good. Miss Mo, feed him. I want him to be strong first. A severely injured warrior cannot bear what I am going to do. It would be a total waste if he died through the course of my medicine when he is still too weak.”

“Do not worry, Master.” Mo Yanyu wore her rigid face and scolded: “Johnson! What are you doing there! Shackle this man as soon as possible!”

“Yes, ma'am!” This bald fat man appeared to be 6.6 feet tall. He took out a new set of shackles from the bags on the dragon and swiftly shackled Shi Yan’s hands and feet brutally.

This giant wore a heavy armor. His robust muscles looked extremely energetic. That heavy dark armor on him seemed as light like a feather and didn’t affect him whatsoever while he was moving.

“Johnson, take care of him! And always keep an eye on him!” Mo Yanyu glanced Shi Yan with hatred, and rushed to the head of their caravan, not bothering to waste one more second on him.

“I can handle it, Miss! I’m the best at it!” The bald man chuckled cunningly and reassured her punching his chest.

Shi Yan observed silently despite hurting all over his body.

He knew it be useless to say anything at the moment. In this dog-eat-dog world, morals was the last thing one should believe in. He would only be a skeleton and receive no pity if he didn’t adapt to this world soon.

As the Profound Qi flowed slowly within him for a while, Shi Yuan felt less pain. However, the newly added shackles were like a mountain on his exposed feeble body, making every step much harder.

“Bang!”

Shi Yan suddenly got lashed by a whip, which was so fast and powerful that his back was cracked open and ached badly. He turned around to see the big man Johnson smirking with a whip in his hand.

“Damn medicine slave! Move faster! Or do you want one more lash, huh?” He laughed with an evil smirk on his face.

Shi Yan gazed at him for seconds and didn’t reply. He staggered towards the medicine slave in front of him, before Johnson could lift his whip again. Every step consumed a lot of energy.

After Shi Yan moved forward, Johnson’s smirk disappeared and was replaced by a weird expression..

Along the way, many stumbled slaves had been “ taken care of” by big Johnson, who is famed for his brutality. Two slaves were even beaten to death by him before Karu could test his medicine on them. All medicine slaves looked at him either with fear or deep hatred.

But this man didn’t show a slightest fear or hatred. There was only incredible silence, cold and solemn.

This man seemed not to realize his status as a prisoner. Maybe he hadn’t seen the situation clearly.

The solemn eyes gave Johnson an illusion that he was prey.Which made him uncomfortable. But since Shi Yan had obediently marching, Johnson couldn’t find a reason to make a fuss. He swore to himself that he would force Shi Yan to be frightened of him.

Big Johnson enjoyed others’ frightened eyes so much. He sensed an interesting pleasure of being others’ life controller.

In the following days, Shi Yan kept mute and obedient. He obeyed every order that was given by Johnson without any resistance. No change of temper. No interest in anything. Shi Yan was different from the other medicine slaves.

Even Johnson, who was always waiting for a chance to give him a lesson, couldn’t find any excuse to trick him. Shi Yan was unbelievably cooperative. Johnson was confused.

Shi Yan only talked when he asked for food, which was under Master Karu’s permission.

In no time, those warriors found that Shi Yan had a big appetite that he enjoyed the inferior food so much. He ate what seven medicine slave ate as a first meal. And day by day, he ate more and more.

The warriors couldn’t believe their eyes. How could that weak skinny body contain so much food! At the beginning they worried that he couldn’t digest it but it soon turned out to be unnecessary.

It was clear that Shi Yan had not only digested the inferior food, but also grown much stronger with them.

The changes in Shi Yan’s body pleased Master Karu a lot. This cunning old man allowed Shi Yan to eat as much as he wanted.

As Shi Yan grew stronger day by day, Johnson got worried gradually. Every time he saw into Shi Yan’s solemn eyes, Johnson got the premonition that Shi Yan would be a calamity in the future. But still, he couldn’t go against Karu’s order and had to supply Shi Yan with enough food.

Nevertheless, Johnson knew who Master Karu was and what Master Karu would do. Thus he was relieved and hoped Karu would take action soon.

After eating a serving for 12 , Shi Yan put down his hand, licked the last grain of rice of the corner of his mouth, and closed his eyes, neglecting the dumbstruck medicine slaves beside him.

That huge amount of food was soon digested in his body, which was like a bottomless pit. And it was also like an accurate machine which transformed the food into nutrition ,supplying his blood, bones, tendons, muscles, his inner organs, and strengthened his weak body secretly.

The injury on his chest recovered long ago. It took only one and half day and didn’t leave a scar. He was a different man, he thought to himself.

Only Shi Yan knew precisely what had happened to his own body in such short time. He could sense the transformations in himself every second!

When the nutrition from the food strengthened his body, the weak Profound Qi inside him had also risen by a level during its circulation day and night.

Shi Yan could feel a great strength now and the heavy shackles didn’t weigh him down anymore!

As he concentrated, he could tell the Qi was flowing from his Dantian，up to the Governor Vessel and down the Reception Vessel, and then balanced the water and fire in the heart and kidney. After it finish a Small Circulation, his Profound Qi grew stronger.

With a little knowledge of Qigong, Shi Yan knew the difference between Small Circle and Big Circulation. Small Circulation only included the Governor and the Reception Vessels, while Big Circulation contained twelve Channels and other six vessels.

Since there were only two vessels --the Governor and the Reception Vessels-- open among his twelve Channels and eight vessels, he could merely do a Small Circulation. From the other Shi Yan’s memory, he got that only warriors of Elementary level could open all the channels and vessels to conduct the Big Circulation.

Shi Yan carried on, for he believed as long as the Profound Qi residing in him was strong enough, he could open his Channels and Vessels sooner or later!

“One more death! Two slaves have died of the medicine tests in just 6 days!”
“I saw that! That guy had already grown weak before he died. Terrible! Hideous!”
“It’s better to commit suicide than die that way! We will die that way too! No hope in sight!”
“No suicide, no! Our family wouldn’t get one blue crystal coin if we committed suicide! Alas! Endure it...We will be free if we survive half a year, and get some money. We must take it until we meet our wives and kids!”

Hearing this, all the medicine slaves went silent. They decided not to commit suicide and made up their mind to carry on.