Terminal Cycle

When Chen Mu woke up from the darkness, eighteen strangers were lying next to him. Above the head are glowing ancient symbols, surrounded by closed stone doors, and the air is filled with the smell of rust and decay. He didn't know where this place was. But he quickly understood one thing - here, kill monsters, or become monsters. Bone wolves, soul-eating beetles, sickle claws, two-headed snakes, basilisks, corpse mountain giants... Countless monsters poured out from behind the stone door. Every time he kills one, his body will become stronger. First-level awakeners, second-level survivors, and third-level hunters, their realms are rising step by step. But the price of becoming stronger is the "alienation point" - a curse that quietly accumulates in the body. If the foundation is unstable, the alienation point will go out of control, twisting the cultivator into a mindless monster. Like the things he was slaughtering. Chen Mu thought he was just desperately trying to survive. But the ancient symbols on the wall told him: This trial ground has been run countless times. Before him, countless testers had come, killed, broken through, been alienated, and died. And he is already standing here for the seventh time. He died the first six times. Every time he died, he left behind a fragment, a memory, and an incarnation of the alienation point that was stripped away—a self-aware skeleton that had been waiting for him in the depths of the ruins for hundreds of years. Every time he is reborn, his memory is cleared, but his body remembers it. His heart was sealed in the dome, beating at the same frequency as the core of the trial field. Someone painted a mural of his battle hundreds of years ago. Someone carved on the wall misleading