Apothecary took her time extracting a Sixth Rank magic core and a third-tier magic core from the skulls of the larger and smaller lions.
Then Apothecary found the purple spirit crystal on the little lion, froze the remaining parts with bone spirit cold flame, and put them away in her Storage Ring for now.
Next, deep inside the cave dwelling, she found the still-warm companion amethyst source.
"Tsk, girl, your luck really is something-I raided eight Amethyst Winged Lion Kings' caves back in the day without finding this stuff, yet you stumbled across it on your first try."
"Teacher, what is this?" Xiao Yan examined the purple sphere.
"It's called companion amethyst source. Whenever an Amethyst Winged Lion King gives birth, there's an exceedingly small chance it will produce this along with its cub."
"Companion amethyst source spends an extremely long time inside the Lion King's belly, so it contains an impressive amount of energy. Once the cub grows into a fourth-order magical beast, swallowing it will let it become a fifth-tier magical beast directly."
After explaining this to Xiao Yan, Apothecary smashed an opening in the shell with the purple spirit crystal and had Xiao Yan collect the companion amethyst source inside in jade bottles.
Granted, companion amethyst source supposedly had "an exceedingly small chance of being produced when the Lion King gave birth," yet both the large lion and the little one were male.
Still, there was no third lion here, and Apothecary had no intention of outright "wiping out the bloodline" by sending the Lion King's entire family to the afterlife.
If the little lion had not been beside its father, Apothecary would not have deliberately sought it out and hunted it down.
After all, a third-tier little lion had only "begun to amount to something," and