"Fine!"
Tiger Wanderer nodded.
His figure flashed, and he appeared to the left of the Black-Tipped Black Python Beast King. He struck out with his palm, sending a blast of force toward the beast king's seven-inch point!
Pfft!
The Black-Tipped Black Python Beast King let out a hiss. A bowl-sized hole had been punched clean through its seven-inch point, and snake blood sprayed everywhere. Its body, thicker than a barrel, writhed violently, sending rocks flying through the valley.
Seeing this, the Fierce Tiger Beast King's eyes filled with terror. It turned and fled, but Tiger Wanderer flashed after it and circled around it once.
Roar!
The Fierce Tiger Beast King roared furiously, then abruptly collapsed to the ground and rolled around. Its four limbs had been bent and snapped, leaving it unable to get back up.
"Little friend, it's done."
Tiger Wanderer stood beside the Fierce Tiger Beast King and smiled faintly at Qin Shuang.
"What terrifying cultivation!"
Seeing Tiger Wanderer snap all four limbs of the Fierce Tiger Beast King, whose strength rivaled that of the Divine Wheel Realm, Qin Shuang was horrified. This man was far too powerful. He forced down his shock, used his movement technique, and landed two zhang from the beast king.
Roar!
When the Fierce Tiger Beast King saw Qin Shuang approach with the Yellow Springs Saber in hand, it struggled desperately, terror in its eyes as it snarled.
Whoosh!
Pfft!
The black Yellow Springs Saber in Qin Shuang's hand traced an arc, slicing across the Fierce Tiger Beast King's neck. Its enormous head rolled to the ground, its fist-sized eyes wide and staring, their light gradually fading.
[Defeated Fierce Tiger Beast King +1!]
Just then, a mechanical voice sounded in Qin Shuang's mind.
"Little friend, you can dig out its inner core. It'll increase your Qi and Blood, and it'll also make a fine ingredient for pills. This is equivalent to a Divine Seed in the Divine Wheel Realm!" Tiger Wanderer's voice sounded behind Qin Shuang.
"Mm."
Qin Shuang walked over. The Yellow Springs Saber easily split open the Fierce Tiger Beast King's skull, revealing an egg-sized, blood-red bead. A surging aura of Qi and Blood Essence emanated from it!
After taking out the Tiger Pill, Qin Shuang went to dig out the Black-Tipped Black Python Beast King's inner core as well.
"As expected of a growing Divine Weapon! It's truly sharp!"
Tiger Wanderer looked at the Yellow Springs Saber in Qin Shuang's hand, a flash of heat in his eyes. However, he suppressed his greed. The Yellow Springs Heavenly Saber had already recognized Qin Shuang as its master; taking it now would hinder his growth of the Golden Bone.
Besides, Qin Shuang couldn't escape. Once the Golden Seed matured and filled in his Flawed Dao Platform, he would be able to step into a higher realm!
"Next, as long as I eat this Fierce Tiger Beast King and refine the Tiger Pill, my Tiger Roar Divine Intent Skill will be perfected!"
Qin Shuang gazed at the enormous tiger carcass, anticipation in his eyes.
He dragged the Fierce Tiger Beast King and the Black-Tipped Black Python to the edge of the cliff and set them down. After Qin Shuang had finished moving them, Tiger Wanderer pointed at a crack in the cliff below, more than a zhang wide, and smiled. "The Earth Core Spiritual Milk is inside. Go in and absorb it to forge your bones. I'll protect you nearby."
With that, Tiger Wanderer flashed away and disappeared.
"Thank you, senior!"
Qin Shuang carried the tiger carcass and the Black-Tipped Black Python Beast King over to the Stone Crack and set them down, then leaned closer to peer inside.
There were many Black-Tipped Black Python scales outside the crack, worn smooth. Evidently, the Black-Tipped Black Python Beast King had been coiled here for a long time, absorbing the spiritual energy seeping out of the crevice.
The crack was four or five zhang long and about half a chi wide. The spiritual energy spilling from it was indeed much richer than outside.
The vines growing along its edges were also much more luxuriant.
Qin Shuang looked at the hard granite wall and drew the Yellow Springs Saber. He slashed once. With a pfft, the sharp saber cut into it as easily as tofu. He twisted the hilt, and a block of stone three chi across broke free.
Qin Shuang kept cutting inward, digging out the granite. Before long, he had cut fifteen zhang into the mountainside. The crack inside had widened to two chi, and the spiritual energy spilling out had grown richer still.
"Is there a cave inside?"
Half an hour later, Qin Shuang had dug more than fifty zhang into the mountainside, opening a stone passage about one zhang high. At last, he could see what lay within, and couldn't help exclaiming in admiration.
The cave inside the mountain extended in every direction, with ceilings ranging from one to three zhang high. With Qin Shuang's eyesight, he could barely make things out, but the spiritual energy in the cave was a full twenty times denser than outside!
Holding the Yellow Springs Saber and a fire striker, Qin Shuang followed the cave toward the place where the spiritual energy was most concentrated.
After walking seven or eight zhang, Qin Shuang suddenly spotted a cavern five zhang across inside the mountain. An inverted stalactite, three chi in diameter and over one zhang long, hung from the ceiling. Below it sat an oval stone platform, bearing a hollow three chi across, filled with milky-white liquid.
The hollow couldn't hold it all; the liquid had overflowed.
The dense spiritual energy emanated from that milky-white liquid!
Qin Shuang felt refreshed just from breathing in the spiritual energy!
"Th-this much Spiritual Milk!"
Looking at the Spiritual Milk, Qin Shuang's eyes lit up. He immediately walked over and dipped in his index finger, then put it in his mouth and smacked his lips. At once, he felt a surging current sweep through all four limbs and six bones!
Qin Shuang hadn't forgotten that he'd come here for the Spiritual Milk. He immediately sat cross-legged and began circulating the Tiger Roar Divine Intent Skill.
Boom!
As Qin Shuang circulated the Tiger Roar Divine Intent Skill, the vast spiritual energy inside him instantly transformed into Qi and Blood, pouring into the Golden Bone in his chest and his vertebrae!
"As expected of Spiritual Milk!"
Fifteen minutes later, Qin Shuang opened his eyes, shock showing in them.
He had only dipped his finger into the Spiritual Milk, yet it had taken him fifteen minutes to absorb it. It would probably take quite some time to absorb all of it!
"Keep going!"
Qin Shuang knew this was a golden opportunity to forge his Golden Bone and grow stronger. How could he waste it?
Six hundred li from the cave where Qin Shuang was.
On a mountain stood a woman dressed in black, her skin as white as snow and her dark hair cascading like a waterfall. A pitch-black saber was strapped to her back. Standing atop a boulder, she murmured, "Qin Shuang, I hope you're hiding somewhere secluded. Whatever you do, don't let them catch you..."
A breeze lifted Nangong Wan'er's hair and hem. At that moment, she was deeply worried.
She had originally wanted to find Qin Shuang and take him away from Qingzhou City.
But she had been in the mountains for eight days and still hadn't found him.
She had also run into Divine Wheel Realm experts from the Divine Saber Sect, Tang Sect, True Martial Hall, Thunderclap Hall, Pushen Hall, and other Jianghu forces. They were all searching for news of Qin Shuang.
The only thing that reassured her was that she hadn't heard they'd caught him.
As for the rumors in the Jianghu that Qin Shuang was an heir of Jingyan Palace, which had wreaked havoc two hundred years ago, and a Demon Lord who practiced the Jianghu's forbidden Life and Death Seal, she felt the people of the Jianghu might be exaggerating. During the time she'd spent at Fusheng Restaurant, she had learned quite a bit about Qin Shuang. He had a sense of justice and didn't seem like an evil fiend.
Nine days later.
Xuan Yin Mountain Range.
Spiritual Milk Cave.
"As expected of Spiritual Milk!"
Sitting cross-legged, Qin Shuang sensed the condition of his body and felt quite satisfied.
After absorbing the Spiritual Milk in the hollow and converting it into Qi and Blood to nourish all his bones, his breastbone, ribs, vertebrae, shoulder blades, collarbones, cervical vertebrae, and hip bones had all turned golden!
All that remained were his skull, the bones in both hands, the bones in both lower legs and feet, and the small section below his coccyx. The bones in those places hadn't yet been nourished until they turned gold!
"Too bad. If I could get one more hollow full of Spiritual Milk, my entire skeleton would be Golden Bone!"
Qin Shuang glanced at the hollow beside him. It was nearly empty. He had even licked clean all the Spiritual Milk around its edges, without wasting a single drop!
"I'll refine the Tiger Inner Core and nourish my coccyx!"
Qin Shuang sensed the Golden Vertebrae in his body. There was still a white patch the size of a fingernail on one vertebra that hadn't turned gold. His heart stirred, and he took out the Fierce Tiger Beast King's inner core, setting it in his palm. Then he circulated the Tiger Roar Divine Intent Skill, absorbing and refining its Qi and Blood Essence.
The Fierce Tiger Beast King's inner core contained less Qi and Blood Essence than the Spiritual Milk, but it still held an extremely abundant amount.
As he circulated the Tiger Roar Divine Intent Skill, the essence in the inner core was frantically converted into Qi and Blood, nourishing him starting from his chest.
Time passed.
After who knew how long, Qin Shuang felt his whole body jolt. The bone in his chest that had first turned into Golden Bone suddenly grew hot, and a golden §-shaped rune appeared on it!
The rune blazed with dazzling light, illuminating the cave in every direction!
At the same time.
Qin Shuang suddenly heard a thunderous rumble from overhead. The cave shook violently, and countless rocks came tumbling down!
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