Looking at the monster core in his hand that was slightly larger than a thumb, Jianchen couldn't help but smile. He said in a low voice, "It really is a Class 2 Monster Core. Looking at the purity of this energy, it's much stronger than the monster cores of the magical beasts in Kargath Academy. It seems like the magical beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range are much stronger than the magical beasts in Kargath Academy. That's not unreasonable."
After putting away the monster core, Jianchen lowered his head to look at his body. Currently, his body had completely turned dark green, but even so, Jianchen's body wasn't injured in the slightest. Because he had been using the special cultivation method recorded in the Azulet Sword Codex to temper his body since he was young, his body was extremely tough. Therefore, although the poison spat out by the poisonous scorpion could make Jianchen feel pain, the poison was unable to invade his body. In addition, Jianchen had deliberately used his Saint Force to counteract the poison's damage to his body. As a result, although Jianchen's body was currently covered in a layer of dark green poison, his body was completely fine apart from feeling a bit of burning pain at the beginning.
Jianchen looked around and listened attentively for a while before muttering, "There shouldn't be any water nearby, so there's no way to clean this thing on my body. Looks like I'll have to take care of it carelessly." Next, Jianchen plucked some leaves from a tree and used them to clean the thin layer of poison on his body. He then took out a new set of clothes from his spatial belt and changed into them. Although it was rare to see human figures in the vast Magical Beast Mountain Range, Jianchen still didn't have the hobby of being naked.
After changing his clothes, Jianchen directly left. He didn't bother with the corpse of the poisonous scorpion lying on the ground. Although the corpse of a magical beast and some of its important parts could be sold for quite a bit of money, this poisonous scorpion was only a Class 2 Magical Beast at most. It wasn't all that valuable. Even if he sold it, he wouldn't be able to get much money. Moreover, Jianchen had quite a lot of purple coins on him, so he didn't care about that little bit of money at all.
Although the magical beasts that grew in the Magical Beast Mountain Range were much more powerful than the ones that grew in Kargath Academy, the number of magical beasts that roamed around here was much less compared to Kargath. After all, although the Magical Beast Mountain Range wasn't the largest in the Tian Yuan Continent, it still occupied an extremely vast area. The magical beasts were scattered throughout the mountain range, so it wasn't impossible to encounter multiple magical beasts in the same place. It was just extremely rare.
Jianchen slowed down his pace for the entire afternoon, carefully venturing deeper into the Magical Beast Mountain Range. Even when night fell, Jianchen only discovered two magical beasts. Aside from the scorpion that he first encountered, which was a Class 2 Magical Beast, the other two were both Class 1 Magical Beasts.
At night, a bright moon hung high in the sky, sprinkling down bright moonlight. However, the Magical Beast Mountain Range was still pitch-black. It was so dark that one couldn't even see one's own fingers. The dense foliage blocked the sky, preventing the weak moonlight from shining in.
In a place where the terrain was relatively flat, a bonfire burned fiercely, constantly flickering in the pitch-black night.
Jianchen sat cross-legged in front of the bonfire, holding a branch in his hand. A large piece of meat was skewered on the branch, and under the constant roasting of the flames, the color of the meat was constantly changing into a golden yellow. Drops of fat were squeezed out of the meat, dripping into the bonfire below with a sizzling sound.
After filling his stomach, Jian Chen took out some medicinal powder with a special smell from his interspatial ring and sprinkled it all around. This medicinal powder was something that every mercenary who entered the Magic Beast Forest had to prepare. When they rested at night, they sprinkled it all around to effectively prevent the majority of poisonous insects and snakes from harming them. Of course, this medicinal powder was only effective against ordinary wild beasts. It had no effect on magic beasts at all.
After sprinkling the powder, Jianchen directly jumped onto a large tree, and sat cross-legged on a relatively flat branch. He then took out another type of white powder with a faint fragrance from his space belt, and casually sprinkled some on his body. This white powder could effectively isolate the scent on his body, and prevent it from leaking out at night and attracting wild beasts. After all, whether it was wild beasts or magical beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, their sense of smell was especially sensitive. Although this powder couldn't completely block out the scent emitted from Jianchen's body, it could at least hide from the smell of ordinary wild beasts.
This was because there were many wild beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range besides magical beasts. The reason why they were called wild beasts was because they didn't have magic cores in their bodies, and their strength didn't reach the first rank. It was the same principle as humans who didn't condense a Holy Weapon in their bodies to become Saints.
Although wild beasts weren't very strong, and those who had the courage to enter the Magical Beast Mountain Range could easily hunt them down, no one would want to be disturbed by wild beasts when they were cultivating or sleeping at night. Therefore, almost every mercenary who entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range or wanted to spend the night in the wilderness would prepare some of this powder.
After the safety preparations were completed, Jianchen directly took out a large amount of magic cores from his space belt. Holding a few pieces in each hand, he slowly closed his eyes and began to absorb the energy within the magic cores to cultivate.
The energy within the magic cores leaked out at an extremely terrifying speed, and finally rushed into Jianchen's body through his pores and nostrils. Such a rapid absorption of the energy within the magic cores naturally put some burden on Jianchen's body, causing his pores to swell painfully. He felt as if there wasn't a single part of his body that didn't hurt.
However, this kind of pain was nothing to Jianchen, who had an extremely strong willpower.
The energy within the magic cores carried a wild element, and under Jianchen's crazy absorption of the energy within the magic cores, the wild element within the energy quickly gathered in his body. If not for the fact that Jianchen had been using the energy of heaven and earth to transform his body from a young age, causing his internal organs and meridians to be much stronger than others, just the wild element within the magic cores' energy would have caused serious damage to his body.
As the huge amount of energy within the magic cores was constantly absorbed by Jianchen, the wild element within the energy also gathered in Jianchen's body more and more. However, when the wild element reached a certain level, a suction force suddenly appeared from Jianchen's dantian, pulling the wild element towards his dantian. In the end, it was absorbed by the two spots of light, one purple and one green.
On the Tian Yuan Continent, if a fighter began to cultivate by absorbing the energy within the magic cores, they would first have to remove the wild element hidden within the magic cores, leaving only pure energy for themselves to absorb. During this period of time, just removing the wild element within the energy would take quite a lot of time. Moreover, the wild element within the energy could not be completely removed, leaving behind certain hidden dangers within the body. As a result, although there were many fighters on the Tian Yuan Continent who began to cultivate by absorbing the energy within the magic cores, there was no one who could endure it endlessly. They would have to stop every few days or even a dozen days to completely refine the energy within their bodies in order to prevent any future troubles.
It could be said that Jianchen did not have to worry about absorbing the energy within the magic cores at all. Perhaps it was because of the two spots of light in his dantian, but as soon as the energy within the magic cores entered his body, the wild element hidden within the energy that was intimately connected to the energy would be automatically separated, allowing Jianchen to absorb the energy without any worries. This gave Jianchen an extremely huge advantage in terms of cultivation compared to others.
As the energy within the magic cores was constantly absorbed by Jianchen, Jianchen could clearly feel the ball of Saint Force in his dantian grow at a visible rate. Although it seemed very slow, Jianchen knew very well that this speed was already fast enough compared to others. If he cultivated at this speed, it would not take long for him to break through the Saint realm and reach the Great Saint realm.
The next day, when the sun shone through the dense foliage, Jianchen slowly opened his eyes as he cultivated on a large tree. Afterward, he leapt down from the tree and landed firmly on the ground.
Jianchen moved his body and sensed the Saint Force in his body with his mind. Afterward, he could not help but smile with satisfaction. He could clearly feel that the Saint Force in his body was much stronger than when he had just condensed his Saint Weapon. According to his estimation, his strength had probably reached the level of an intermediate Saint.
Although he was only an intermediate Saint, it had only been less than a month since Jianchen had condensed his Saint Weapon and broken through to the Saint realm. If others knew that Jianchen had used less than a month to reach the level of an intermediate Saint, they would definitely find it hard to believe.
After casually eating something to fill his stomach, Jianchen set off on his journey once more.
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Time quickly passed, and in the blink of an eye, a month had passed. At the base of the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts, a youth dressed in coarse clothing was currently locked in a stalemate with a pitch-black, one-meter tall, three-meter long, leopard-type magical beast.
The young man held a slender, silver-white sword in his hand. His tall figure stood there, but he gave off a sense of steadiness like a mountain. His face was covered in mud and dust, so it was impossible to see his appearance from the surface.
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