Wang Yu soon found a thick, yellow-bound volume among the books crowding the shelves. Four large black characters on its cover read "Fengxiang Records."
Wang Yu opened the book and leafed through it rapidly, taking in ten lines at a glance.
Thick as the book was, eight or nine tenths of its contents actually recounted the experiences of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator named Fengxiangzi, who had searched throughout the Yu Kingdom for rare and exotic beasts several hundred years ago. Only a small portion contained his insights into raising spirit beasts.
Unlike the Wu Kingdom, which consisted mostly of plains, the Yu Kingdom abounded in rugged mountains and treacherous waters, with many dangerous places that even low-level Immortal Cultivators were unwilling to visit.
Thus, after spending most of his life in the Yu Kingdom, Fengxiangzi had indeed found some unusual beasts, but he had also nearly lost his life in the jaws of powerful demon beasts several times.
Wang Yu soon found an account concerning spirit beast mutations in the middle of the book and began reading it carefully.
This section recorded how Fengxiangzi had encountered a troop of Earth-Tailed Apes in a place called the Flower-Speech Forest in the Yu Kingdom. While fighting these demonic apes, he had personally witnessed one Earth-Tailed Ape sink straight into the ground and begin mutating. When the ape burst back out, it had gained another tail and two more arms, becoming a two-tailed, four-armed beast with greatly increased strength. Even he, a cultivator at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, had been forced to give it a wide berth and flee in haste.
What followed was a record of the Foundation Establishment Cultivator's reflections and comments on the power of mutated demon beasts after his successful escape.
According to Fengxiangzi, mutations in demon