Hearing my master say that, I immediately spoke up:
"Master, Xiao Yu and I should go save him! What if Eldest Senior Brother is in danger?"
My master raised a hand.
"It's fine. He can handle a red-clad ghost with his abilities.
He's already died once, yet he's still so reckless. Let him suffer a little."
Hearing that, I could only smile awkwardly.
Xiao Yu stood beside him, watching my master skin the creature, and asked:
"Taoist Song, why are you skinning him?"
"Oh! I'm repaying an old friend a favor."
Xiao Yu nodded and said nothing more.
At the same time, Mao Jing and the others were brought over.
Other than Zhang Yuchen, who had four broken ribs, everyone else was fine.
At most, they had some superficial wounds. Nothing serious.
At that moment, my master gave a fierce tug and stripped the bat demon's hide off.
Then he tore open the bat demon's chest and dug out a demon core.
It was a black bead about the size of a thumb.
After digging out the demon core, my master said:
"Daoist Qingshan, did you take the rabbit demon's core?
A blazing fire has already broken out on the mountaintop. We won't be able to retrieve the other demons' cores, so we can't leave the rabbit demon's here."
Before Daoist Qingshan could answer, the weakened Zhang Yuchen chuckled.
"Senior Song, I took the rabbit demon's core.
It's red and still rather hot."
As he spoke, he took out the red demon core.
These were demon cores. The greater the demon, the more energy its inner core contained.
Of course, we couldn't consume them. We could use them to steep liquor or trade them to Grey Master or Grandma Cloud White for things we needed.
Seeing the red demon core,