Bone Slaughter's corpse tore out the Golden Core of the Gaotu Tribe barbarian general, then... swallowed it whole.
A Golden Core, cultivated alongside a cultivator's life and fused with blood qi and spiritual power, was forcibly chewed to pieces.
The immense power contained within the Golden Core exploded, blasting Bone Slaughter's face and entire head out of shape. Yet it still could not escape its fate of being chewed apart and devoured.
With his face reduced to a bloody pulp, Bone Slaughter ate the Gaotu Tribe barbarian general's Golden Core as though chewing on a "fruit."
The sight was utterly horrifying.
Every Golden Core barbarian general present felt the Golden Core they had painstakingly cultivated in their dantian tremble, a chill creeping through them.
Never in their lives had they seen anything so bizarre.
Not even demonic cultivators did such things.
What was even stranger was that, after Bone Slaughter's corpse consumed the Golden Core, ancient and savage beast patterns emerged across its body.
These beast patterns seemed to have "come alive," sucking in the Golden Core's spiritual power before feeding that power back into Bone Slaughter's corpse.
Those savage beast patterns were like the "totem" upon Bone Slaughter's body.
And Bone Slaughter himself seemed to be merely the "medium" for those beast patterns.
Bone Slaughter was human; the beast patterns were an array.
Yet the beast patterns were alive, while Bone Slaughter was dead.
That bizarre and discordant sensation weighed heavily upon everyone's hearts.
At the same time, Bone Slaughter, whose aura had been weak and whose spiritual power had been exhausted, seemed to have received a replenishment of Golden Core power. A deep, icy blue radiance spread over his body, and his aura surged explosively in an instant.
It was as though he had finished charging and come