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Yao Mun was able to sense the two leaders' cultivations in an instant.

'One at the 1st level of the soul formation realm, and another at the 4th.' He thought to himself.

Without hesitation, his left leg disappeared and his sword flickered, severing the head of the 1st level soul formation cultivator before he could react.

The last remaining leader saw this and jumped backwards, attempting to get out of Yao Mun's attacking range.

Yao Mun flipped his sword and held it like a throwing spear, before his right leg disappeared and the sword was launched at the remaining leader.

The leader, who was the strongest of the three, saw a shadow and hurriedly moved to the right. Unfortunately, he was too slow.

The sword managed to hit his shoulder and completely cut off his arm.

The remaining leader almost fell to the ground from the pain, but managed to stand strong and retreat.

"Hmph." Yao Mun snorted.

He reached out his hand and his sword came flying back to him. He floated as a body with only his right arm, instilling terror into every soldier on the battlefield.

His incredible display of power, along with his horrifying appearance, managed to scare away the soldiers.

They ran away from him in random directions, fleeing like flies.

Yao Mun did not bother with them and looked towards the fleeing leader. He grabbed his sword in a throwing position once again as his left arm suddenly regrew, completely normal. At the same time, Yao Mun's Qi was fully depleted. In the next instant, Yao Mun's left arm turned limp.

Yao Mun gritted his teeth with a pain filled face, and managed to aim on to the fleeing leader again.

He then launched the sword with a power and speed incomparable to before. It was similar to the attack of a 6th level soul formation cultivator.

Without being able to dodge, the fleeing leader was pierced in the back as half of his body crumbled. 

By the time he fell to the ground, he was dead.

Seeing his target fall, Yao Mun too fell to the ground. He sat down and observed his left arm. His arm was purple and unmoving no matter how he tried.

In order to launch the final attack, Yao Mun had sacrificed the left arm of his soul. As the arm became useless, it wouldn't have hurt to also sacrifice the arm, but Yao Mun kept it in order to study the effects of a soul sacrifice.

He also wanted to get used to the pain. If he had sacrificed the arm, he would have felt a dispersed pain throughout his body.

Since he kept the arm, the pain was condensed and was mostly felt in that arm. If he kept doing that, he would gain even more resistance to pain.

After a while, Yao Mun stopped gritting his teeth and only closed his eyes as he tried to tolerate the pain. The pain was like no other. Even being skinned alive over a hot fire was not comparable.

Nowadays, the most famous torturers were those who knew soul damaging techniques since there was no better form of torture.

After a bit longer, Yao Mun decided to stop his pain resistance training and heal his soul's left arm. 

Since he had recovered his Qi, he used the technique that Zhou Fan had given him as a reward from the youth galactic assembly.

After using up all of his Qi, the soul's left arm was 2% healed. The healing of the soul was a very tedious and time consuming process.

Yao Mun spent a few hours recovering his Qi before repeating the process. After a few days, the soul's left arm was halfway healed.

The pain was also much more manageable. Only now did Yao Mun get up. For safety reasons, he decided to relocate underground until he was healed and could display his strength again.

He had long healed the rest of his body. Although others would struggle to regrow a limb, Yao Mun had spent a lot of time taking down fortresses, castles, and base's in order to find healing techniques.

The one he had used to regrow his left arm was a technique made from the combination of hundreds of quick healing techniques.

Using many other combined healing techniques, he was able to regrow his two legs without suffering the side effects of instantly regrowing a limb.

The side effects weren't noticeable on his left arm since his left arm's soul had disappeared causing many side effects that coincidentally coincided with the side effects of the instant healing technique.

Yao Mun's intention for attacking the current fortress, besides the fact that he enjoyed it, was because it was rumored to have the healing technique that Yao Mun was missing.

He would pillage the fortress after he was fully healed due to the likelihood of there being powerful traps.

As Yao Mun stood up, a presence appeared above him. He instantly retrieved his sword and looked up.

Above him was a masked man wearing white robes.

"Do no fear, Yao Mun. I have come with an offer." The masked man said. Only two purple eyes were visible behind the white mask.

"I'm not interested." Yao Mun stated.

"Even if I am offering you one of the three supreme healing techniques of the beast world, as well as a chance to deal a huge blow to the Heavenborns, and as a result, Heaven itself?" The masked man asked.

Yao Mun paid more attention as his interest was grabbed.

"Speak." Yao Mun said.

"You must have heard of the war. In simple terms, I am asking you to join the beast world's side." The masked man spoke.

Yao Mun lowered his head in thought for a moment.

After thinking, he agreed.

"Deal." Yao Mun said.

"Good. Consider this a beginning reward." The masked man said as he threw a book at Yao Mun.

"You came to this fortress for this technique, but it was in a different location. I retrieved it for you. If you truly want to cooperate, I expect to see you at the beast world camp sometime in the next ten years." The masked man spoke as he slowly vanished.

Yao Mun was left in the bloody field as he looked at the book.