Li Xiaoya was studying the beast hide in his hands.
He really had no idea what kind of hide it was. Still, most things could probably be refined inside the Earth Demon Dragon's stomach, including Spirit Treasures, some of which had been partially damaged. Only the True Immortal Spirit Treasures remained intact. That meant this hide was at least as tough as a Spirit Treasure. Li Xiaoya had tried tearing it apart, but even his tremendous strength had failed. Later, he had tested the Fire Dragon Sword on it and found that it could indeed cut through the hide. What stunned him, however, was that another piece of beast hide lay inside, glowing with a faint golden light...
The inner hide actually recorded a Divine Ability, though he had no idea which race it belonged to. It was called the Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram! The name sounded rather ordinary, but the Divine Ability itself was anything but. It specialized in refining Demon Beast essence blood. By refining such blood, a cultivator could continually strengthen his body to an astonishing degree and even develop unparalleled beast-transformation abilities.
It sounded similar to the ordinary essence-blood-refining abilities practiced by the Demon Race, but in truth, they were worlds apart. The Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram had one astonishing feature: it could refine and fuse the essence blood of different Demon Beasts, and the more varieties of essence blood it refined, the more powerfully its abilities would stack!
One had to understand!
There were plenty of Divine Abilities for refining and fusing Demon Beast essence blood, including some extraordinarily powerful ones. However, they generally came with restrictions, either on the practitioner's bloodline or on the kinds of essence blood that could be refined. For instance, the refining abilities developed by the Demon Race