After successfully cultivating the Soul Core, Li Qing did not hurry back to the Great Desolation Region. The spiritual power within his body was still fairly abundant, so there was no need for him to return and recover just yet.
Having emerged from seclusion, he slowly withdrew his outwardly spread spiritual sense.
Before long, Rice Bucket came charging over from not far away, dragging the massive corpse of an Ironclad Savage Bear.
"Awoooar!"
Upon seeing Li Qing emerge from seclusion, Rice Bucket immediately let out a thunderous roar, its voice brimming with delight.
Li Qing merely stood atop the mountain and chuckled. He did not tell Rice Bucket that he had helped it kill that Ironclad Savage Bear earlier.
"Let's go. Now that my Soul Core has formed, it is time to find a place and inquire about Third-order Exotic Beasts."
"We can treat it as preparation for hunting after I form my core."
Saying this, Li Qing gave a slight shake of his blood and qi. His feet suddenly exerted force, and he leaped directly down from the barren mountain.
Hearing this, Rice Bucket did not hesitate. In three strokes and five cuts, it took out the Red Crystal from the Ironclad Savage Bear's body, then swallowed it in a single gulp.
Seeing Rice Bucket's incomparably practiced movements, Li Qing couldn't help but laugh silently.
There was no need to think about it. During this period, Rice Bucket had certainly hunted no small number of Exotic Beasts. Its movements in digging out Red Crystals were now far more practiced than his own.
Rice Bucket was now a late second tier demonic beast. Ordinary Second-tier Red Crystals were not considered much use to it; casually swallowing one or two would no longer allow it to undergo rapid transformation.
Li Qing