Second-Order Demon Core

Ji Yuan looked at the badly wounded Big Clam before him.

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He had never imagined that the first to risk his life for him would be a Demon Beast rather than a person—and a toad at that.

Both were Demon Beasts, and both were Second-Order Demon Beasts.

Ji Yuan could not tell whether they were at the early or middle stage, but given the state Big Clam was in after killing the creature, their strengths could not have been far apart.

He had fought an equal to the death just to bring Ji Yuan something tasty.

He had truly put his life on the line.

Ji Yuan looked at Big Clam, who seemed to have lost half his life, and could only sigh. He did not know what to say.

"Croak—"

Big Clam thought Ji Yuan was unhappy with the food. There was a plaintive note in his voice, and he sounded so weak that it was almost pitiful.

With Big Clam in that state, Ji Yuan had no heart to refine Cultivation Pills.

It would only take one night. He might as well cook this thing and eat it first.

He jumped down from the Flying Boat and landed before the giant insect. Summoning the Greenfly Flying Sword, he struck one of its two huge claws.

The Flying Sword scraped across it, sending sparks flying.

An upper-grade Flying Sword could not even break through a Second-Order Demon Beast's defenses. Damn it, that was terrifying.

Ji Yuan found himself reassessing Big Clam's strength.

He examined the giant insect. Its fatal wound lay where its head joined its body. The head hung loose, as though it had been torn off by sheer force.

Only Big Clam's tongue could have done that.

Ji Yuan enlarged the Flying Sword