The Winter Hunt Ends; Showing Off the Prey

"This trip yielded enormous gains!"

"This Consumption skill was simply far too useful."

Li Xian secretly clicked his tongue. Consumption advancing meant that the energy he digested and absorbed from his three daily meals far surpassed that of ordinary people.

If he could take pills and Essence Treasures as well... its usefulness could be amplified even further.

Li Xian focused and sensed the continuous heat flowing through his dantian. His Inner Qi had grown ever more vigorous. Bran and plain vegetables became mountain delicacies and seafood; mutton and beef became miraculous medicinal pills.

Growing stronger was naturally as inevitable as water flowing into a channel.

At fifteen or sixteen, Li Xian had now shed his frailty. He had become rather lean and sturdy.

But [Consumption] was difficult to upgrade. He needed to eat rare treasures from the mountains and earth, and the Winter Hunt only came once a year. If he wanted to stuff himself like this again—devouring venison, swallowing tiger meat, drinking bear meat—he would have to wait until next year.

"I won't leave the mountains yet. I'll hunt as many deer beasts as I can and prepare more jerky!"

Li Xian's eyes shone with excitement as he made the most of this Winter Hunt.

The Winter Hunt lasted three days and three nights. The reckoning would not come until early tomorrow morning.

Li Xian still had one night to slowly smoke his jerky. Of course, with the rain falling without end, he first needed to find a cave and light a fire.

The next day.

As dawn broke, a rainbow bridge of rosy clouds climbed the steps of heaven.

Winter dawn-glow was truly a rare sight.

The rain had shown signs of weakening last night, but it had remained a fine, unending drizzle. Only this morning