Awakened: The Spirit King!

After Xie Yang ensured that it was dead, he went down the tip and stepped up to its core. A level 1 to level 10 spiritual beast only has a certain chance of having a spirit core in its body, but beasts above level 10 have a 100% chance of having it in their body. The reason behind such a phenomenon was that a beast could not advance to level 11 without condensing all the spiritual energy in its body into a single point. Level one to ten beasts uses the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to nourish their body and grow. In contrast, beasts above that level strengthen their core to increase their spiritual energy capacity, lifespan, and power. For beasts, their spirit cores aren't different than the elixir field of a cultivator.

There was such a crystal inside its body, waiting to be picked up by him.

Xie Yang moved his sword like an expert and dismembered the beast's body into many pieces. He saw a spirit core with 18 lines lying behind its ribcage.

A small line formed between his eyebrows as he narrowed his eyes, which was an action that he usually makes when thinking about something.

There was a long moment of thoughtful silence.

'The lines on a spiritual beast's spirit core represent its level. I am sure that this hasn't changed over the past ten thousand years. And according to the information the mission scroll provided me, the berserk beast racial limitation is level 16. It can't be stronger than that. Yet its core has eighteen lines, which means it's a level 18 beast and two levels above its natural limit! The question is, how did it break its natural limit?! Is there some rare treasure in the golden woodland that helps beasts break their biological limits? I should check the forest for it!'

He thought with an odd mixture of confusion and joy running through his eyes. If there really was a rare treasure in this place and he found it, it would benefit him greatly! If not, he will just return home and report the bewildering situation he had experienced to his father and let him check out what had caused the bear to break through its natural level limitation.

Xie Yang managed to take it down thanks to the talismans. If he hadn't brought them with him to fight it, he would have suffered greatly. He counted himself lucky and decided to be always extra prepared and careful from now on before he cracked open its rib cage and picked up the dark blue sapphire core, put it in his mouth, and swallowed.

As it went down his throat, it turned to eighteen wisps of nourishing energy.

Some of them restored his spiritual power, and the rest of them nourished his elixir field.

He found his spiritual energy capacity increasing at a rapid phase.

The spiritual energy in his elixir field continued to grow steadily, stopping only after reaching 699 units.

'The level 18 spirit core should be enough to help me advance to level 8, yet it failed to do so. I guess I have met a wall in my cultivation again, and I probably can't break it by using my wife's Yin Qi and spirit cores." Xie Yang sighed.

He was troubled as he felt that without the help of precious pills, he wouldn't be able to advance to level 7.

It was bad news but not terrible enough to keep him from moving.

He only lacked one main ingredient to create the breakthrough pills, and as soon as he got it, he would level up!

Xie Yang jumped out of the pit and started roaming the forest to search for the cause of the berserk bear's appearance and power.

He suddenly came to a halt.

'I hear something. Is it my imagination?'

Xie Yang's ear perked up as he focused on the sound coming from his left.

He heard human shouts and wolfish howls coming from nearby.

He wasn't the one hearing thing, but something was really happening near him!

He hurried towards the source of the sounds and saw a group of four humans fighting five wolves.

The group consisted of low-level cultivators.

The strongest among them was level 6, and he was wearing heavy armor and acting as the shield of the group. The two girls behind him looked a bit alike, and one of them was using offensive spiritual technique and the other defensive.

The last one was a level 4 cultivator, and he was throwing spiritual energy daggers at the wolves that pounced towards them.

The wolves had to change their trajectory to dodge his daggers.

The knife thrower didn't have endless spiritual energy as he was only level 3. He was bound to run of spiritual energy soon.

One could say that they were having an extremely difficult time against the wolves.

They were in desperate need of help.

The situation was not looking good for them.

It became worse when the alpha among the wolves appeared from behind the woods and directly pounced at the black-haired girl with a cute face.

The Alpha wood wolf had its mouth opened wide. Its spiky wooden teeth were extremely sharp and threatening to tear apart her neck in a single snap.

The wolves attacked the others at the same time so that they won't be able to help her.

"Mo Mingzhu, look out!" Mao Yue shouted as she fended off the wolf that attacked her by brandishing her sword.

When she saw the alpha wolf lunging towards her, Mo Mingzhu felt such immense fear that she failed to budge her tiny finger. She stood rooted on her spot as if immobilized by a magical force. She closed shut her eyes as if she thought that if it were out of her sight, it would really disappear. However, the reality was much crueler than her simple thinking, and no one could deny that it would have her head in the next second!

Warm tears fell out of her eyes.

When she felt the alpha wood wolf presence coming closer to her, Mo Mingzhu, who didn't want to die at such a young age, wished with all her heart that someone would save her from this situation.

"Spiritual Sword Slash!"