A great many fossils had just been sent from the Mortal World, all stored in a hidden cavern on Kunlun!
Ren entered the cavern alone, searching for fossils that contained useful materials. In the end, he cracked open fossils to find bones from all sorts of creatures, a great deal of Innate Divine Material, and many Spirit Treasure fragments...
Ren paid little attention to most of it. With the Expounding Sect supplying him with unlimited resources, such things no longer impressed him!
Of course, those fossils held more than ordinary treasures. Some even made Ren's heart stir!
After searching through countless fossils, Ren finally found a complete Ink Kirin skeleton inside an enormous one!
Yun Zhongzi, who had come along, was beside himself with delight at the sight of its bones! An Ink Kirin was a member of the Kirin Clan, and a particularly rare kind at that!
Ink Kirins possessed a special Bloodline Divine Ability called the Treasure-Devouring Divine Ability! At first, it let them devour Divine Materials and Innate Objects, converting them into a special energy that strengthened their bodies. As an Ink Kirin grew, the ability grew stronger too, until it could devour Houtian Spirit Treasures to strengthen its body! Cultivated far enough, it could even devour Innate Spiritual Treasures!
That was why, among the five ancient clans, an Ink Kirin's body was second only to the Black Tortoise's in strength! Unfortunately, Ink Kirins were exceedingly rare. According to legend, only nine had ever existed in the Primordial World! All nine had gone extinct in the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity!
Yet Ren had found a complete Ink Kirin skeleton in a fossil!
It belonged to an adult, and its bones were exceptional artifact-refining materials! After all, Ink Kirins devoured Spirit Treasures to strengthen their bodies, tempering their flesh until