On the ground, blood was still pouring from the corpses of two colossal beasts.
"Mid-Eighth-Rank Magic Cores. Can't let those go to waste."
With a flick of his wrist, Lu Heng took out a sharp bone knife forged from deep-sea cold iron.
He deftly leaped onto the berserker bear's head and brought the blade down, splitting its hard skull. From deep within its brain, he dug out a bluish-black Magic Core the size of a millstone.
The Magic Core weighed heavily in his hand, brimming with dense, immense earth energy.
Next, he cut open the giant python's skull and extracted a poison-attribute Magic Core that shimmered with a dark crimson glow.
Besides their Magic Cores, the blood essence within these two ancient exotic beasts was also a rare treasure.
Lu Heng took out several jade bottles, then summoned the Green Lotus Core Flame within him and began refining the two enormous corpses on the spot.
Under the Heavenly Flame's searing heat, the beasts' flesh rapidly withered. Impurities turned to ash and drifted skyward, leaving dozens of drops of origin blood essence gleaming with rich light to settle steadily into the jade bottles.
Once he had finished, Lu Heng wiped the fine sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand.
"The berserker bear's blood essence will be perfect for tempering that girl Han Xue's muscles and bones. I'll save the python's blood essence and poison core for Xiao Yi Xian. This trip really paid off."
Lu Heng stuffed the jade bottles filled with Eighth-Rank Magical Beast blood essence into his Storage Ring and set off.
He had no intention of staying a moment longer.
Just to test the power of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dharma Body, he had battered the entire basin until it sank twenty feet.
He had