The bull keeps kicking and trying to break the sand tentacles, but as the blood keeps gushing out through its neck and ribs, its strength goes with it.

Five minutes later it is finally dead. Leon stops using the formation, and looks at his father in the bleachers with a smile.

Fabious smiles as well, and starts clapping, making all the people in the bleachers clap with him.

Fabious looks at the closed door at one of the edges of the Coliseum, and sees it opening, giving pass to 5 minotaurs woman, carrying a five by five platform, with a formation in it's center.

They put the platform on the ground, near Leon and the bull, and proceed to put the bull inside the formation.

This formation is a copy of the ancient formation that gives this tribe its power. It's a formation to fuse the bloodline of a bull with a human.

It only works on humans and bulls, because of its runes. The other tribes have their own formations that focus on other animal fusions, like tigers, wolves, turtles, birds, and more. This formation is the core of every tribe.

Leon enters the formation, stepping in the space with the rune for humans. And the five women put the bull in the space with the rune for bull.

All five of them position themselves in a star formation, and send their mana inside the formation, making it shine, and consume the bull, not leaving even a single hair. It transforms the bull in a ball of light, floating in place. Leon knows what he has to do, so he extends his arms, and sends a string of mana in the direction of the ball, circling around it and bringing it to his mouth.

After finishing eating the ball of energy, Leon’s body starts to glow, and his muscles, bones, tendons, skin, and organs start to change.

His bone became thicker and bigger, some changing in shape. The biggest change was on his feet and skull.

The bones in his feet extended, making the heel become a kind of second knee. From the fingers came hooves, and some fingers vanished, leaving just two.

The skull’s bones change its shape to resemble a bulls head, with two horns and a big snout.

When Leon finishes growing, he is 2.3 meters tall, with two long horns, growing 25 cm to the sides, then making a curve and pointing 12 cm to the front. his muscles are so big now, and the transformation consumed all his fat, so even the one centimeter tall, black fur, now covering his whole body, isn’t able to hide them.

And the most significant transformation. The core. Leon’s core is now the size of a human’s fist, the biggest core of the non-legendary races.

The legendary races are Dragons, Giants, Leviathans, World Turtles, any race that are born extremely powerful. Their cores are normally giant.

The rest of the races, that are born with a normal amount of power, have a small core, the norm is to be born with the core at the size of a finger, and when adult, it has the size of half a fist.

The Minotaur, as soon as they become minotaurs, already have a core the size of a fist, so when they grow in power, their core becomes massive.

That's a good thing for the minotaurs, because they have more mana, and a better control over it. But it’s also bad because a lot of vile people will never pass a chance to kill a minotaur and collect their core to cultivate with it. It is prohibited by law in every tribe, but lots of people still try killing a minotaur for their core.

Getting down from the bleachers, Fabious takes his fainted son in his back, and walks him to the inn they are staying, ordering a lot of food, already knowing that, when his son wakes up, he will be starving.

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The next morning, after Leon eats like an animal for one hour, his dad takes him to the Cultivation Palace to receive the cultivation manual for Minotaurs.

This is the other main pillar of the Black Bull Tribe, with it a minotaur can cultivate more mana, making their core bigger and denser. The more mana someone has, the stronger he is, and the more it will live.

As they arrive at the Cultivation palace, they are taken to a formation, the clerk asks Leon to put his hand upon it and read an oath out loud.

“I, Leon Wanzel, hereby swear that I will never teach, or by any means let anyone, that is not a true minotaur, to learn about the cultivation manual I will be taught now. If I ever go back on my words, the skies shall smite me down and obliterate my soul.” Leon reads out loud, and as he finishes, he feels a small amount of mana come from the formation and enter his core.

The clerk then takes Leon to a room, with lots of tables and chairs, some minotaurs are in here already, and each one of them has a similar black scroll, but they are not reading the scroll, just holding it and with their eyes closed.

"This is the cultivation manual, just send your mana inside, the scroll will do the rest." The clerk said.

Taking the scroll, Leon sits on a random chair and sends some mana into it.

The mana enters the scroll by a set of small runes in the sides, then enters the middle, illuminating thousands of incredibly small runes. After all the runes are lit up, the mana comes back to Leon's core, and together with it is a lot of information.

First it starts by telling the general information.

This planet is called Thousand Forest. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, it was just a rock in space, but an incredibly powerful cultivator decided to make his house here, so he changed the planet to make it hospitable, and collected lots of animals and sentient species to give this planet life.

No one on this planet knows anything about this powerful being, but they know that he is the one who gave them the bloodline fusion formations, to all tribes. And taught the basics of cultivation.

What he told them about cultivation is so basic, that all the tribes need to make their own cultivation manuals from zero. And the one the Black Bull Tribe created is related to perfecting the body to the extreme.

If one cultivated this to the peak, they are almost immortal. Their body is so powerful that they can regrow all their body from a single drop of blood. Their memory became perfect, the muscles much more powerful, the bones harder.

They can lift tons with just one hand. And their souls are so powerful that they develop a divine sense, a type of sixth sense that can reach far away, and let them feel and see as if they were close.

The down side, compared to the cultivation manual of the other tribes, is that they cannot make their mana get out of their body as effectively as the others. So they can't use the same type of techniques, like fire balls, tornados, ice walls, etc. They can only use formations

To cultivate, every minotaur needs to enter a cultivating formation, and give it enough mana, through cores or through an elder, to activate it. The formation will shrink till it touches the external layer of the minotaur's core, and will stay there as long as the minotaur wants.

As the minotaur cultivates mana from the ambient and cores, the formation will clean it from all the impurities and alignments, transforming it into clean pure mana.

The mana from the environment is full of impurities and alignments with the air, rock, water, anything, and this formation will wash it all away, leaving just pure mana to be used on the next level of cultivation.

Then the minotaur needs to Fuse every cell of the body with mana, and carving on it's core the formation of the owner of the body. This process changes the cell, giving it enough power to rebuild the whole body of the minotaur.

Minotaurs that have finished fusing all the cells of their bodies are almost immortal, only if someone can kill all of its cells at once, or kill him over and over till he is powerless, will they truly die.

The formation of the owner of the body needs to be a formation made entirely by the person, and needs to carry all that the person is, all its traits, it's memory, it's body, its negative parts, it needs to be an explanation of the true self of the person.

When you finish fusing all your cells with mana and engraving this formation inside all of them, your soul will fuse with the body, not being a separated entity anymore.

The fusion of the soul with the body is what makes the Back Bull Tribe one of the top three most powerful tribes.

When a minotaur fuses their body with his soul, he won two techniques. The divine sense, and the ability to make clones.

As Leon finishes receiving the information of how to cultivate, he is taken to a room with the formation that will enter his body, to cultivate pure mana.

It’s a big room, with a big formation in the shape of a lotus, with an incredible amount of runes. The ones that Leon can recognise are runes of every type of element, and even some that he doesn’t know, but is sure that it’s also about elements. Those are in the petals of the lotus, as he looks at the core he can’t recognize any rune. He thinks it’s runes of conversion, but it’s only a guess.

Leon walks to the center of the formation and sits on his knees. from the corner, a woman says, “Start to meditate, and open your defenses, don’t try to block the formation as it enters your body.”

He does as said, and enters a meditative state.

From all the nine corners of the formation a minotaur puts three cores into it, and sand their mana inside the formation, activating it.

The formation starts to charge. All its runes lit up in an orderly way.

When the formation is completely charged, it starts to bloom out of the ground, like a true lotus growing up from the 2D world and becoming 3D. It grew into a perfect sphere, connecting the points of the petals, with Leon inside.

The formation then shrinks, gradually entering Leon’s body.

After half an hour, the lotus finally is inside Leon, engraved on his core.

It immediately starts to rotate Leon’s mana, passing it through the runes to clean it, then sending it inside the core again. As the formation does its work, Leon’s mana is cleaned, and the “trash” is expelled by his pores.

After five hours, Leon finally stops cultivating. His mana is down to thirty percent. but it’s the cleanest it can get.