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After putting away the Deep-Sea Azure Demon Ape's primordial spirit essence, Lu Xiaotian had not even had time to gather the materials from its body before he sensed dozens of auras, large and small, converging from every direction.
The smell of blood had drawn other demon beasts over. Earlier, intimidated by the terrifying auras of the two Deep-Sea Azure Demon Apes as they fought, these demon beasts had fled far away for fear of being caught in the crossfire. Now, unable to resist the lure of blood any longer, they came swarming in from all directions. Lu Xiaotian inwardly called it a pity. He only took one Monster Core and did not even have time to retrieve the other before hastily leaving. The demon beasts coming from all sides varied in strength. As a human cultivator here, he was highly likely to suffer a siege from all manner of sea beasts. Lu Xiaotian had no desire to take that risk. Besides, unexpectedly obtaining the essence soul of such a formidable eighth-rank demon beast was already a delightful windfall. This was not the time to be greedy.
However, after obtaining the Deep-Sea Azure Demon Ape's demon beast essence soul, Lu Xiaotian's luck was never quite so good again. He rarely even encountered seventh-rank demon beasts.
Still, Lu Xiaotian did not care. Four years passed in a flash in this stretch of sea. Counting it all together, he had now been in the Golden Core stage for thirty years, yet he remained confined to Golden Core Early Stage. However, compared to when he had first formed his core, the solidity of his magical power was no longer something that could be mentioned in the same