As Beast Cultivators, they all knew exactly what Qi Xiaoren was doing at this moment.
This method of enhancing the Thunder Flame Fire Lion's strength was one of Beast Valley's few secret arts.
Its name was the Bloodthirsty Bone-Corroding Curse.
It devoured its master's blood essence;
It corroded its master's flesh and bones.
The Bloodthirsty Bone-Corroding Curse was an exceptionally vicious forbidden art, normally reserved only for rebellious beasts that turned against their masters and refused discipline.
Although such a method could greatly increase a Battle Beast's strength in a short time, the price the Battle Beast paid for it was incomparably painful.
According to records of past cases, scarcely a single Battle Beast had survived this secret art.
More often than not, when the battle ended, so did their lives.
Thus, aside from beasts that deserved death, few would willingly employ such a desperate, life-for-life method unless driven into a life-or-death predicament.
Yet this was merely an insignificant match. It should never have been used!
For the sake of so-called glory and face, he did not hesitate to inflict such torment upon his own Battle Beast.
He simply did not regard a Battle Beast's life as a life at all!
Those disciples who had previously stood on Qi Xiaoren's side and lavished him with praise could not help but fill with indignation after hearing the older disciples' explanation, as though they had misjudged him completely.
Even the disciple who had always followed Tang Yuan's lead no longer wore a smile. This was no occasion to gloat or mock.
He no longer had any desire to compare Qi Xiaoren with Tang Yuan.
To Beast Cultivators, Battle Beasts were often their closest companions, brothers who shared life and death!
A person who did not take a Battle Beast's life seriously was