Jiang Liu waited another dozen breaths. Only after he saw that the strange beast had truly breathed its last did he dare climb down! The reason he had waited so long was that this beast had fooled him by pretending to be dead once before. He had no intention of staking his life against a dying beast!
He cut open the beast's belly and searched for a long time, not even sparing the intestines, yet he still couldn't find a beast core! Jiang Liu was baffled. Could this strange beast be an anomaly without a beast core?
He then looked toward the only part he hadn't split open—the skull. His palm transformed into a blade, wind attribute energy coating it, and he slashed down at the monkey's head! It split in two as easily as tofu. Without Essence covering its flesh, the strange beast's hide and meat were no longer tough! A blue beast core lay inside the skull!
This beast was more intelligent than ordinary strange beasts. Otherwise, it couldn't have pretended to be dead and tricked him! Could the beast cores of highly intelligent strange beasts all be located inside their skulls? Or was it because this was a mutated strange beast?
Jiang Liu didn't dwell on it. After all, there was too little evidence!
When he saw that darkness had fallen, he hurried back to the place where he had rested earlier!
It was a huge tree that more than a dozen people couldn't encircle even with their arms linked. Its branches and leaves were so dense that they resembled one enormous sun umbrella after another! Jiang Liu directly carved a tree hollow into the trunk, chopped down several branches to use as a bedboard, and hung it suspended there. After casually arranging the place, he turned