Tianming felt nothing but destruction after his lifebound beasts swallowed the 999-aperture manna and merged with his body. But there was something different this time. The tremors and change to the body caused by top-grade ordered manna were definitely accompanied with some pain and destruction. Unlocking the bloodline shackles was a process similar to evolution, a transformation of the entire being enacted by discarding the old and welcoming the new, which inevitably involved pain and suffering.1

The difference was that he could also feel the joy of successful evolution, which overpowered everything else....0