*Crack!*
Uncapping a bottle of Grade-7 Mortal-tier Body Quenching Spirit Liquid, Beigong Yu drank it down and began to circulate the [Primal Body Refining Art] to cultivate.
This was his first time practicing cultivation with a mental cultivation method.
Fortunately, there was no need to cripple his past cultivation; he only needed to retrain it from the beginning.
As the Body Quenching Spirit Liquid entered his throat, an inexplicable suction force emerged, refining all of the Grade-7 Mortal-tier Body Quenching Spirit Liquid into the purest spiritual liquid, which then dissipated throughout his body.
At that moment, the [Primal Body Refining Art] technique circulated automatically. A wisp of mysterious, profound golden ancient characters suddenly welled up from the depths of Beigong Yu’s mind, transforming into bizarre and intricate golden patterns that rapidly covered his entire body.
Underneath these mysterious golden runes, his entire body's skin, meridians, muscles, bones, internal organs, blood, and everything else began to vibrate rhythmically.
The next instant, a strong feeling of hunger surged into his heart, startling Beigong Yu into hastily halting the circulation of the technique.
"What on earth is going on?"
Beigong Yu fell into deep thought.
It must be that the [Primal Body Refining Art] had too large an appetite, while the single bottle of Grade-7 Mortal-tier Body Quenching Spirit Liquid he had just consumed provided a severely insufficient energy supply.
Then he would just have to drink a few more bottles!
Thinking of this, Beigong Yu directly uncapped all the remaining Grade-7 Mortal-tier Body Quenching Spirit Liquid and drank them down in one go.
This time, when he circulated the [Primal Body Refining Art], the feeling of hunger was gone, and his skin even flickered with tiny golden spots of light.
Under the influence of these mysterious golden spots of light, his skin grew increasingly tough and resilient. A surging force flashed across his body, and the coarse linen clothes he wore instantly shattered into pieces.
However, Beigong Yu soon sensed that his energy was still insufficient.
He hurriedly picked up several bottles of Grade-8 Mortal-tier Body Quenching Spirit Liquid and drank them down.
In the next moment, brilliant golden light erupted all over his body, and a surging, boundless force was born from within him.
His skin turned golden in no time, making him look like a golden-bodied Buddha, radiating a sacred and mysterious aura.
A terrifying surge of vital blood emerged from within his body, spreading out in all directions.
Hidden in the shadows, countless wild beasts sensed this aura. Driven by instinct, they felt danger, yet also driven by the instinct for evolution, they swarmed toward this frenzy-inducing aura of vital blood.
Beigong Yu knew nothing of this. He only knew that he had reached the 1st Stage Skin Refining Realm after retraining.
His strength instantly skyrocketed to ten thousand catties.
This amount of strength was already comparable to when he was at the fifth or sixth stage of the Body Refining Realm in the past.
Is this the gap between having a cultivation technique and not having one?
Isn't it a bit too huge?
No!
This was the gap between a god-tier body refining technique and ordinary body refining techniques.
Over the next period of time, the bottles of Body Quenching Spirit Liquid arranged on the ground vanished at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the three drops of Demon Beast essence blood were also completely consumed.
In the end, all these resources only supported him in cultivating up to the 3rd Stage Tendon Refining Realm.
This consumed far too many resources.
However, feeling the terrifying power surging within his body—which was several times stronger than even the 7th Stage Blood Refining Realm—he felt somewhat relieved.
Although the consumption was terrifying, the power gained was equally terrifying.
Moreover, if his body in the past was a piece of defective scrap metal riddled with flaws, it was now divine metal that had been hammered a hundred million times. The difference was simply too vast.
At this moment, Beigong Yu made an awkward discovery: he was actually... stark naked.
When did that happen?
Did practicing this [Primal Body Refining Art] somehow burn through clothes as well?
It seemed he would need to prepare a few extra sets in the future. Moreover, he could no longer cultivate in crowded places; otherwise, women would call him shameless while peeking through their fingers, and men would cough up blood from the blow to their ego.
His assets were simply too formidable.
Additionally, his entire body was now covered in a thick layer of grime, stinking so badly he almost passed out.
He immediately grabbed a set of clean clothes and headed to a nearby stream to wash up.
Only, very quickly, he noticed something was wrong.
All around him, hundreds upon hundreds of massive wild beasts had appeared, all staring at him with crimson eyes...
Seeing this scene, Beigong Yu's expression turned stern. Were they attracted by the massive commotion he made while cultivating?
This was actually... a good thing.
He just wondered if slaughtering all these beasts would allow him to advance further and step into the 4th Stage Bone Refining Realm.
At this thought, Beigong Yu stomped his foot, his entire body shooting forward like a launched cannonball. Picking up the blood-red battle saber from the ground, stark naked and swinging a certain massive appendage, he charged straight into the pack of beasts and began a massacre.
For a time, saber light flashed everywhere, and one Grade-7 or Grade-8 beast after another fell dead beneath his blade.
Purities of mysterious energy drifted out from the bodies of these beasts, merging into his flesh, blood, and soul.
Sensing these streams of energy, the [Primal Body Refining Art] began to circulate on its own. After refining them, it integrated them into every single bone in his body, beginning the process of bone refinement.
Sensing this, Beigong Yu was overjoyed. The blood-red battle saber in his hand grew even more murderous, and beast after beast was cut down by his hand.
In no time at all, the carcasses of nearly three hundred massive beasts were scattered across the ground, and a pungent stench of blood filled the air.
As for the blood-red battle saber in Beigong Yu's hand, its blade was already notched.
As for his cultivation, it still hadn't broken through to the 4th Stage Bone Refining Realm.
He only felt that the bones throughout his body were somewhat itchy, hot, and vibrating slightly.
Beigong Yu knew that perhaps just one more wave of slaughter would allow him to step into the 4th Stage Bone Refining Realm.
With this thought, Beigong Yu discarded the notched blood-red battle saber, picked up a captured blood-red battle sword, and continued his slaughter.
These wild beasts were indeed a pack of uncivilized brutes, following only the evolutionary instincts deep in their bones, believing that eating the human before them would bring unimaginable benefits. Therefore, even though more and more of their companions were being slaughtered, they still frantically charged toward Beigong Yu.
"Haha... Die!"
Caught up in the slaughter, Beigong Yu's blood boiled. With a loud roar, the massive blood-red battle sword in his hand actually unleashed a swath of Sword Qi several zhang long. Wherever the Sword Qi passed, all the beasts were utterly annihilated.
It was rather miraculous that a saber practitioner could actually unleash Sword Qi.
...
Meanwhile, the Number One Tool Character, who had been searching everywhere for Beigong Yu, heard the beast roars and powerful combat shockwaves coming from not far away. His heart skipped a beat. Could it be... that damned Battle Slave?
Cunning little bastard! He was indeed so crafty that he hadn't been cultivating in the valley after all.
After pondering over and over, the Number One Tool Character couldn't suppress his curiosity and cautiously crept closer to the direction of the battle.
When he reached the slope of a hill and saw the figure frantically cutting down Grade-7, Grade-8, and even Grade-9 beasts like a god of slaughter not far below, he was struck as if by lightning.
He... he was actually this strong?
Dammit, how was this possible?
At that moment, towering waves crashed in the heart of the Number One Tool Character.
Along with them came a brush of despair.
Could it be... that he was truly destined to be subjugated by a lowly Battle Slave?
He was unwilling to accept this!
Time slowly ticked away amid the Number One Tool Character's reluctance, despair, resentment, and terror.
And right at this moment, a drastic change suddenly occurred on the battlefield...