The Forbidden God System

The Law Of The Jungle

The night wind in the Forbidden Forest carried the stench of blood and the decay of wet leaves piled high on the ground. Marvin moved silently over the roots of massive trees that protruded through the earth. Every breath felt heavy, accompanied by a cold pulse centered along his spine. In the silence of the night, he tried sitting cross-legged beneath the shade of a great tree to regulate the flow of energy within his body.

He closed his eyes, focusing his consciousness inward toward his chest as he circulated spiritual energy through his meridians. Yet nothing happened. The meridian pathways within his body felt hollow and dry. Ordinary meditation, the method commonly used by cultivators to recover their strength, was completely useless for the structure of his new body.

"Damn it," Marvin muttered, opening his eyes, their reddish glow cutting through the darkness. "Meditation won't restore my energy. This Forbidden God Meridian thirsts for blood, and it only responds to pain and life essence from outside."

He rose to his feet, testing the strength of his left leg, which had now fully recovered. The crippling pain was gone, but a constant emptiness remained within his soul. His journey deeper into the forest took him beyond the safe boundary where he had fought before. Thorny branches scraped across his shoulders, but he paid them no attention. The minor pain only caused the cold energy within his Meridian to become slightly more active.

Suddenly, a loud rustling came from the dense bushes to his right. The sound of snapping branches, accompanied by a heavy snort that shook the ground, made Marvin stop in his tracks. He lowered his body, gripping his broken hilt tightly.

Come out, Marvin thought, his eyes fixed sharply on the violently trembling bushes.

From behind the darkness of the tall fern leaves, a massive creature burst out at incredible speed. It was a Bloodfang Boar, a low-level monster renowned for its extraordinary physical defense. Its hide was thick like rusted steel, and a pair of curved, two-foot-long tusks gleamed at the end of its snout, reflecting the moonlight.

The creature charged straight at Marvin, its massive body carrying tremendous weight. Marvin tried to leap aside, but the monster's tail struck him squarely in the side.

"Ugh!" Marvin was sent flying several yards, his back slamming into a large tree trunk and forcing him to cough up fresh blood.

A searing pain immediately spread from his fractured ribs. Before he could even stand, the Bloodfang Boar charged again, driving its sharp tusks straight toward Marvin's chest. In a moment of panic, Marvin raised his arm to block the attack. The steel-like tusk pierced his right arm, tearing through flesh and horrifically shattering bone.

"Argh!" Marvin cried out, his teeth chattering as he endured the unbearable agony.

Fresh blood poured from his wound, soaking the ground and the monster's coarse fur. Marvin felt his consciousness beginning to fade from the rapid blood loss. Yet when the pain reached its peak, the Meridian within his body suddenly reacted violently. An icy cold force surged from his bone marrow, covering the open wound on his arm and instantly stopping the bleeding, replacing it with multiplied physical strength.

Pain... this is its fuel, Marvin thought, a terrifying grin spreading across his bloodstained lips.

He no longer felt afraid. He allowed his body to suffer, using the pain as a trigger to awaken the full potential of his Forbidden God Meridian. When the boar pulled its head back, preparing for a second charge, Marvin did not dodge. Instead, he lunged forward, using his own body as bait.

The monster's tusk tore through his side once again, but Marvin did not care. With his bare hand surging with dense black energy, Marvin leaped onto the boar's back and locked his legs tightly around its neck.

"You think your thick hide can save you?" Marvin whispered directly into the monster's ear, his voice cold.

The boar went berserk, sprinting wildly and crashing into trees in an attempt to shake the weight from its back. Every impact battered Marvin's body, making his bones creak and causing more blood to spill from his mouth. Yet every physical blow Marvin endured only made the energy within his Meridian boil more violently, granting his hands an increasingly deadly grip.

"Die!" Marvin roared with all the strength and hatred still burning in his chest.

He used both hands to forcibly tear through the boar's thick neck hide. Blood sprayed across his face, hot and viscous. Without waiting for the monster to stop struggling, Marvin drove one of the boar's broken tusks into its own neck, allowing his Meridian to drain every last trace of life essence and spiritual energy remaining in his prey's body.

The Bloodfang Boar's body suddenly convulsed. Its massive form shrank rapidly within seconds, its skin withering until nothing remained but bones and dry fur, all the energy within its body completely drained by Marvin's touch.

Marvin fell from the monster's corpse, which had now been reduced to a brittle skeleton. He gasped for breath, kneeling on the wet ground, his entire body covered in both his enemy's blood and his own. The wounds across his body slowly closed, leaving behind dark scars that radiated a terrifying aura.

He slowly rose to his feet, clenched both fists, and felt a new wave of power surging through every fiber of his muscles. His cultivation soared, breaking through its previous limit in the most brutal way possible.

Yet amid the ominous silence that had returned to the forest, the sound of much larger branches rustling suddenly came from beyond the thick fog ahead, reminding him that this battle was far from over.