"Hehe! Junior Brother Li, here's the Demon Beast Core!" Mu Qilong had also finished dissecting the Demon Beast. He handed Li Xiaoya a jade box as he spoke.
Meanwhile, Mu Dingping was gathering the dissected hide, flesh, sinews, and bones, affixing an anti-rot talisman to each piece before tossing it into his Storage Pouch.
"Haha! Thank you so much for your help, Elder Mu!" Li Xiaoya said politely. He opened the jade box and saw a green, spherical object inside, radiating astonishing spiritual qi and the aura of a Demon Beast. It was the Demon Beast Core the Four-Eared Striped Horse Beast had refined throughout its life. This core was far more useful than the beast's blood. It was one of the main ingredients for certain special elixirs and could also be directly refined into an elixir for consumption, with effects no weaker than a fifth-grade cultivation-enhancing elixir.
"Not at all! The credit belongs entirely to you, Junior Brother Li. If anything, the two of us have been greedy!" Although Mu Qilong coveted the Demon Beast Core, the two of them had already received materials worth tens of thousands of spirit stones without lifting a finger. Having also witnessed Li Xiaoya's divine abilities, he naturally dared not entertain any improper ambitions and spoke with a chuckle.
"All right! We haven't lost much time! Let's keep going! There shouldn't be any more high-tier Demon Beasts ahead!" Li Xiaoya said with a chuckle.
"All right!" the other two answered at once. Without any of them noticing, Li Xiaoya had more or less become the leader of their group.
What the three of them did not know was that several cultivators were talking in a small canyon more than ten li to their left.
"Huh? Are you sure they'll pass through this canyon?"