If he didn't eat, he would be nothing more than an ice-cold corpse in the snow by the next day. If not for that, who would be willing to gnaw on bones like a dog?
Thinking this, Yelin crunched down, shattering the bone and swallowing it whole. His Five Elements Vajra Technique had reached the third layer; even his teeth could crush mid-grade magic tools. To him, the bones of a demonic beast were no harder than a dry biscuit.
The texture of crushed bone was unpleasant, yet Yelin found a certain unique flavor in it. This habit of eating bones was something Elder Sun had used to remind him never to forget he had once been an ordinary beggar, and that he must not grow arrogant or abuse his power simply because he had become a formidable cultivator.
Chapter 28