Spirit Beast

At last, he had managed to kill the strange serpent. Li Yang let out a breath, then stepped forward to examine it. Once he confirmed that it was dead, his eyes lit up.

The stronger the ancient beast's corpse, the greater the benefits it could provide. This strange serpent was so powerful that eating it would surely bring him considerable gains.

He immediately stood beside the Shadow Venom Serpent's corpse and slowly extended both hands, pressing them against the scales that radiated a chilly, eerie light. The moment he began absorbing it, an energy filled with cold and mysterious power surged into his body along his arms like a roaring tide.

The first thing Li Yang felt was a vast current of spiritual energy rampaging through his meridians. Compared to what he had absorbed in the past, this spiritual energy was purer and more powerful. It was like a nimble ice serpent weaving through his meridians. Wherever it passed, tiny blockages in his meridians were broken through one after another, while their resilience and width quietly changed. His originally narrow meridians gradually widened, like a trickling stream being expanded into a surging river, allowing more spiritual energy to flow through them. Their resilience also grew stronger under the impact and nourishment of this power, as though fragile spider silk had become tough ox sinew. This allowed Li Yang to withstand greater pressure and impact as his spiritual energy circulated in the future, reducing the risk of Spiritual Energy Backlash.

As the spiritual energy continued pouring in, Li Yang's spiritual root was like a withered tree finally receiving rain after a long drought, frantically absorbing the power. His spiritual root already possessed a certain natural foundation, but under the infusion of the Shadow Venom Serpent's spiritual energy, it began undergoing a