After paying a small price, Little Cat, the Cloud Winged Tiger King, defeated Xie Tianhe's Silver Horned Flood Dragon and devoured it completely.
Whether flesh, bones, or Monster Core, Little Cat swallowed every last bit.
Unfortunately, Little Cat showed no signs of breaking through.
Little Cat had proactively hunted the Silver Horned Flood Dragon precisely to make another breakthrough from its bottleneck at the peak of the Spirit Grade.
The last time Little Cat broke through from the Heaven Grade to the Spirit Grade, it had relied on the Beast Taming Sect's Five Elements Blood Fusion Pill. Now that its cultivation had once again reached the peak of the Spirit Grade and faced another bottleneck, Ye Zhen did not know whether it could break through on its own strength.
Ye Zhen had wanted to help Little Cat, but now that Little Cat's cultivation had reached the peak of the Spirit Grade, the Monster Cores of ordinary Human Grade, Earth-tier, Heaven Grade, and even low- to mid-grade Spirit Grade Monster Beasts would not be of much use to it.
Especially when it came to breaking through a bottleneck.
It was like trying to turn a piece of refined steel into hundredfold-tempered steel. Continually adding iron would be of little use.
Monster Cores from peak Spirit Grade Monster Beasts and Dao Entry Realm great demons, on the other hand, were exceedingly rare. Even if one wanted them, they were nearly impossible to obtain.
Looks like I'll have to ask the old ancestors of the Demon God Hall about this when I see them next...
Ye Zhen gently stroked Little Cat's listless head. Clearly, failing to break through this time had disappointed it. Then Little Cat carried Ye Zhen back toward the True Spirit Domain.
Although they had been sent to the Outer