Disciples from the House of Grue Hunters would absorb special blood that allowed them to control grues. The result was that they either became gloomy and grim, or they became wild and erratic. Either way, they were always extremely hostile. Sometimes they looked normal on the outside, but on the inside, they were twisted. There were no exceptions. They didn’t get bothered by brutal injuries. The reason was that their coexistence with grues involved endless torment. They had no choice but to transcend physical pain, as they always had to deal with unimaginable suffering and backlash from the grues.

For years, the House of Grue Hunters had struggled with ways to deal with this. And they had experimented with many methods, though none of them were particularly effective. Grues were inherently cruel and vicious, and it was made worse by the influence of the broken face of the god. The only way to lessen the effects was to suppress the grues with a higher cultivation base.

However, the higher your cultivation base, the more terrifying the grues you could control. And few people could resist the temptation to rapidly get stronger by doing that. It was an endless...