Body Forging Ninth Level, Life Perfection

The mountain ghoul's massive body froze. Its crimson eyes swiftly dimmed, and it crashed to the ground with a thunderous boom, throwing dust everywhere.

"Exhilarating!"

Letting out a long breath, Xu Yuan was also covered in blood. Most of it belonged to the mountain ghoul, but some was his own. Fighting such a powerful demonic beast with his body alone made injury unavoidable.

Yet it was precisely because he had spent the past half year in such frenzied battles that his physique had advanced so greatly, rising directly from the early eighth level of body tempering to completion.

Transforming the short spear into a sharp knife, Xu Yuan cut open the mountain ghoul's chest and removed its heart. Since it had been slain while in a berserk state, the heart's vitality had reached its peak.

Holding it in his hand like this, Xu Yuan could even hear the mountain ghoul's unwilling roars echoing within it.

If it fell into the hands of a low-cultivation cultivator, this heart would likely become a form of mental contamination, directly turning them into a half-human, half-beast monster.

Carefully putting it away, Xu Yuan sealed it inside a jade box. After cutting off dozens of pounds of prime demonic beast meat, he leaped into the air and landed beneath a towering tree. In a few bounds, he vanished into the mountain forest.

His dwelling was a naturally formed cave high upon a sheer cliff face. Xu Yuan had renovated it somewhat, and it could barely be considered to have the appearance of a cave abode.

Returning to his meditation chamber, Xu Yuan did not even make any preparations. He took out the mountain ghoul's heart, raised it high, and then crushed it fiercely in his grip.

Chunks of flesh mixed with scorching blood essence so