C34 - Killing Time - Itself

Yin Kai sorted through the other two methods. "Ring Interlaying Method" was the lower level version of the previous art.

The other, the "Pill Vein Enlargement Method" was as it said. By adding a special capping, the cap could seep into the pill, enlarging the veins, before pushing itself out.

The downside of this method was that the timing had to be absolutely perfect, or else it could backfire and instead ruin the pill.

After memorizing the techniques, their required spirit plants and usage, Yin Kai began to read the "Soul Suppressing Confundity Technique."

'This art is not used as a way to control a person, but rather as a way to control a large number of people.'

'By using the Soul Sapping Chrysanthemum in conjunction with the Deepflame Portabella, it is possible to adjust the soul while covering one's traces permanently.'

'This method, plainly put, allows one to place a cap upon a pill that covers it from the unseen eye, and makes the pill unre-creatable.'

'Additionally, once a pill made with this method is ingested, one can steal a soulbrand and send it to the creator of the pill.'

'Even better, the soulbrand is covered up by the miasma of the plants. As such, the person will never know that they are being controlled, and others will be unable to find any traces within the soul-controlled being.'

'This is my pinnacle technique, and the one that caused me to run far away from the known realms, and ended in my being jailed in an inheritance to give my secrets to another.'

'This technique requires utter secrecy, and a person that understands the rules of spycraft. Without such knowledge, the holder of this technique will fly far too close to the sun and die in the dark miasma of the webs they have spun.'

'Beware the use of this technique until you control literally everyone and everything, the beasts, plants, shrooms, people from the highest to the lowest, and all the foreign races besides.'

"All men will wish for this technique to be destroyed; and yet, all men will desire this technique for their own."

'Besides, Dao is merciless; it can always find someone to end your path.'

'As the creator of this technique, I, Poison Alchemy Emperor Gu Chen, pass on my writings to the one fated to hold them.'

Yin Kai was stunned thoughtless. 'I can't wait to use THIS…'

Yin Kai continued to spend his time memorizing the techniques. Soon, it had been a total of 13 months inside the enclosed space.

As Yin Kai rolled the final scroll, he felt ridiculous. 'Now I don't have anything to do!!'

He spent the next few days with the vermillion bird. Eventually he got tired of calling her the Vermillion Bird, and began to call her Huo Caihong.

The poor bird finally had her name.

As Yin Kai played with Huo Caihong, he began to teach her some pretty cool tricks. She could now balance 8 scrolls on her beak, whistle the "Allegiance Mantra of the Undying Alliance," look cool riding on a spare sword that Yin Kai floated around his life space and more.

He taught her to sit, jump, dance, dance upside down on a bo staff, swing on strings, and more. After a while he just decided to start teaching her more songs.

She learned the national theme of the Pirates of the Sunset Sea, the music in the play 'Qi User in Boar-Pimple Academy,' some songs from the play 'Pei Re Si and the Olive Peons,' music from the play, 'Stellar Spanning Battles,' and more.

By the end, little Caihong knew ALL of them by heart, and her whistling was on point.

At this time he had been stuck for 14 months and another half.

It was around this time that he began to start feeling extremely irritable. He initially thought it was because he was stuck in a cage, but then he realized it was most likely something more.

Jumping out of his life ring, he began to asses everything in his body. With a mental gasp, he began to realize… His body felt as if it was on fire.

Fire was all well and good, heck, his true name was Huo. But feeling the fire was a different matter all together.

With little other choice, he decided to take it as a MAN.

Bracing eveey inch of his body, he went into full berserker mode.

"Give. Me. MOOOORREE!!" He screamed into the void with his thoughts alone.

As his wordless screams echoed through his mind, his flesh ripped and recombined, becoming an entirely new lifeform in the process.

"Not my dick!!!" He screamed at whoever was controlling the process, to no avail.