Gu Xi's guess was right. While Gu Xi was fighting, several more Living Beasts sensed the situation over here and charged in.
Though the fight was somewhat difficult for Gu Xi, he seized on the Living Beasts' core weaknesses and attacked there, so nothing really went wrong. The battle ended smoothly enough. At most, he simply had not had time to clean up the battlefield before new Living Beasts appeared again.
At times like that, Gu Xi had to turn around and attack the newly emerged Living Beast.
Because of that, the battle ended up dragging on a little longer.
Still, after the fighting was over, Gu Xi's gains were rather decent.
For example, he obtained at least seven items like the short blade from before, whose flesh and blood had been in the middle of transforming.
Gu Xi could tell now. Things like Living Beasts were basically furnaces for cultivating red equipment.
After they swallowed Rule Fragments, they would nurture those Rule Fragments inside their bodies, then transform them through certain cycles within themselves.
Once the Rule Fragments became Red Equipment Paths, they would choose a part of their own bodies and guide the Red Equipment Paths into it.
Four Red Equipment Paths formed one set, slowly turning that part of the body into red equipment.
As for whether that red equipment would ultimately grow inside their bodies or appear as weapons and gear, that depended on their own intentions.
In any case, some were cultivating it for themselves, and some were helping others cultivate it. In the end, they were all cultivating red equipment there.
Gu Xi had no objections to that. In his eyes, all of it would benefit him in the end.
When new Living Beasts finally stopped appearing, Gu Xi commanded his subordinates to clean