The Hidden Myth of Ji Dara

The First Obun Leader instantly went to explain the plan to the rest, and after confirming that the now understood what the plan was, he returned to Dara who settle his mind before slowing down his heart rate completely as he fell limp on the First Elder's arms; he had a muscle meridian, thus, controlling his heart rate was a piece of cake…

The First Obun Elder carried Dara and approached a little cave that was located beneath a mountain hidden within the dense jungle, and the moment they got to the entrance and were about to enter;

Sheen! Schweein!

The sound of blades cutting through the air resounded all over the area as the First Obun Elder saw two different glints pointed at his head and neck;

"Who are you?"

"State your intentions for coming here?"

Two expert guards who abruptly appeared beside the First Elder asked as the Obun pointed towards Dara before replying;

"Meat sac for Qi Stones…"

"Eh?"

"Aren't you the leader of the First Obun Troop?" One of the guards asked whilst the First Elder simply nodded;

"Why have you returned alone after all these while?"

"Where are the rest?" One of the experts interrogated but luckily the second guard interrupted;

"Chen, let him go inside, once the Left Elder comes around, he will settle all these matters…"

The guard; Chen, was obviously slightly skeptical about the First Elder, but since it has been proven over the years that Obun's think of nothing else other than the orders they have been given, he decided to reluctantly let the First Elder in;

"Calm down Chen, your nerves are making me nervous… It's just an Obun in the end, stop fussing over it…"

"I know Liu, but something just keeps poking my suspicions about this Obun Leader…"

"Well, the last time I checked, I heard they simply gave them the mission of investigating and finding the initial Obun spies our supervisor had sent out previously…"

"But it was supposed to report back every two weeks and this is basically the second month since he had been sent out…"

"I know Chen, but we can't really do anything either ways, that's why I am telling you to leave that decision to the supervisors…"

"Alright, I hear you Liu… Let's return to our posts…"

The guards conversed before flashing back to their hideouts at a speed barely traceable with the naked eyes…

Hu!

The First Obun Elder released a huge sigh as he continued into the dark cave which was growing brighter and brighter the deeper he moved in, and after walking for about ten meters into this cave, the First Obun Elder finally came into an open area within the mountain…

This place was huge and was almost like a complex…

These Qi Farms were basically caved drilled into the foot of specific and unique mountains, and then a long ten meter tunnel that gets one to the center of the mountain where a 100 square meter area was carved within the mountain, with another 10 meter deep pit, making then entire space about 20 meters in height and 100 square meters in size… 

It was huge and there were many cages within this cave and within each of these cages were several humans who from their physical appearance alone appeared to have been starved for weeks…

There were about twenty cages in here and each of them contained 100 chained humans each;

Both adult and children, and currently, spine tingling screams could be heard from one of these cages which consisted of 10 human soldiers who were forcefully placing a palm sized slab of rock on the chests of the humans within the cage…

The moment this palm sized stone slab touched the body of these humans, a pure bluish white energy was being drawn out of their body and was being absorbed by these stone slabs, whilst the humans became leaner and a shade darker in complexion…

There was even one of these humans who simply sat there unmoving with eyes wide open as they took all of his Peak Qi Sea stage cultivation; he had a lost look in his eyes, and it was one of those look a person who has lost every shred of hope and will to live within them always have…

"Another Obun is about to be born…" One of the human guards who was farming Qi out of these humans smiled towards his partner when he saw this man…

"Hehe, yeah… He should consider this opportunity to serve the Kingdom, an honor bestowed by His Highness…" The other guard sneered…

There were about ten of them within this cave, and they all had Peak Qi Sea stage cultivation, and whilst these human slaves all had Peak Qi Sea stage cultivations just like the human soldiers, they were being bound with a chains made out of Qi Stones which makes it impossible for them to fight back…

This is because once they try to use the cultivation within themselves, the chains glow and absorb whatever QI they have left in them, and this meant that once they rotated their cultivations, it would be absorbed by these chains…

Thus, they were just like peak Qi Sea stage cultivators who can cultivate but can't use their cultivations because of the chains…

The Obuns on the other hand, were humans who, just like the man who had lost all hope earlier; were created by starving humans to their breaking point and on some occasions isolating them for months in a dark pit where all their will to live is broken…

Afterwards, they are then forced to cultivate and once they have reached the Peak Qi Sea stage, they are then stripped off their cultivation over and over again, till this pattern of living becomes a norm to them and finally grow mentally redundant…

With all hopes of escape and being rescued dashed, these humans slaves then become mentally unstable and spiral down one of two different paths of reasoning; Some transform into human monsters who are driven by rage to kill and get vengeance;

But before their rage is allowed to fester too deep, they are captured and tortured until they are made to realize that even after becoming human monsters, they still have no hope of breaking free from the nightmare they were now living in…

This finally breaks their will and force them to succumb to the rule and control of the human soldiers within the cave, and as a result become true Obuns…

Others on the other hand, simply become docile, redundant and empty which makes them useless since they can't be used to Farm Qi anymore and are then fed to the Obuns who are known to regain a little bit of their human consciousness whenever they feed on living flesh and blood…

It is the crave to feel these human emotions that keeps the Obuns from living the cave because they are made to believe that the cave is the only source of living flesh and by product, human emotions…

Thus they never want to leave even if the doors were left wide open; this is how dark and sinister this place was…

They capture innocent humans and break their will to continue living, and when they eventually lose their minds and become monsters, they are then tortured even further till the monster in them succumb to the rule of the soldiers controlling the Qi Stone Farms;

It was all forms of crime happening within a single mountain, and there were over 500 of these mountains scattered all over the Dark Lands…

But there were also special cases in terms of this Obuns, and these are the ones who do not spiral down one of the two path of the aforementioned reasoning, but instead spiral down both paths…

An example of these ones are the First and Second Obun Elder;

They are the ones who have control over this nature of theirs and can tune it on or off, but their level of control is determined by how potent the Dark Qi within them are, and in the case of the First Elder, Dara had previously helped him absorb a lot of this Qi and when one adds this to the fact that they have been fed raw meat throughout their stay within the tribe;

It wouldn't be a unthinkable that the First and Second Obun Elders as well as all the Obuns within the tribe could control this monstrous side of them to a certain extent…

They can turn it off when they are within the tribe and turn it on when they are about to battle;

These Obun types were the perfect weapon, and not only does the Tribe have 150 of them who were in the Peak Qi Creation stage, but they also had two Elders who were in the 3 and 4 Star Qi Sea Stages…

Though Dara did not move and his heartrate had been slowed considerably making appear unconscious, he could still hear the screams of these humans and the laughter of the soldiers…

He could also sense the number of people within this cave, as one of the soldiers approached the First Elder;

"Oi, who is that?" The soldier asked as the First Elder acted like a mindless Obun once again;

"Meat sac for Qi Stone…"

"Eh? Hehe… Meng, look at this…"

The soldier called out to his partner who threw the 10 Qi Stones he was carrying into a four-wheeled container which looked like those carts which were used in mineral mines…

"What is it, Kang?" "An Obun has just brought back a meat sac for Qi Stones…"

"That's great… Let's quickly get him to start cultivating so that we can get one or two Qi Stones out of him before the supervisor comes to add him to the roaster…"

Soldier Meng replied with a greedy smile as they both carried Dara off the First Elder with Meng carrying him by the legs and Kang carrying him by the armpit;

"You!"

Kang called the First Elder before looking towards the wheeled container which contained about 100 Tier 1 [Peak Qi Sea stage] Qi Stones;

"Take this container through tunnel 3 and pour all the stones in it with the rest you will find over there…"

He commanded whilst the First Elder continued his acting and began pushing the container through the third tunnel from the left;

"Oh, so he is not an impostor…" Soldier Meng said when he saw the First Elder enter the third tunnel from the right;

"Yeah, and I am starting to like this one…"

"Not only did he bring us an opportunity to get a Qi Stone of our own, he can also accomplish simple tasks, and that would reduce a lot of our workload…" Soldier Kang added;

"Yeah unlike these useless bunch who only know how to eat and kill…"

Soldier Meng added as he looked to the two troops of Obuns placed in two separate cages which were on opposite side to that of the slaves…

Dara kept listening in on the conversation as he enjoyed being carried towards one of the cages; everything so far had been working according to their plan…

"We only have this cage left to farm and we would be done for another six months!" Meng was excited as he secured Dara with the chains…