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Chapter 419 - 62: Observing the Demon Core (2/3)

Chapter 419: Chapter 62: Observing the Demon Core (2/3)

Just then, both of them sensed a burst of somewhat murky yet exceedingly natural Golden Qi erupting from Iron Hand’s cottage, prompting the two to exchange glances before hastening into the house.

"Uncle, what happened?"

As soon as Huo Qing entered the door, he started questioning, while An Jing pinpointed the source of the Golden Qi eruption.

It was a somewhat familiar squirrel.

He saw Iron Hand, looking helpless, holding a silver squirrel that was nibbling on a remote control. Behind him, a flying sword, a gun barrel, and a water mirror frame keychain, each bitten, along with a variety of trinkets, were piled up.

He didn’t say anything, but his expression said it all. An Jing immediately bowed in apology, "I’m sorry, my pet is a bit... challenging to tame."

"How much is the damage? I’ll cover it all!"

The silver squirrel, still held by the nape by Iron Hand, was blissfully nibbling on the intercom, showing no reaction even though it had advanced to Qi Refinement or was known as an Inner Strength Demon Beast.

"It’s not much, no need for you to compensate, it’s natural wear and tear caused by rodents."

Iron Hand sighed, threw Cangsu Cang back into An Jing’s arms reluctantly, and said, "Where did you find this big-tailed rodent? It really loves eating Spirit Iron, and it’s picky too. It bites each different type of Spirit Iron once and then leaves it to wreak havoc on the next type..."

"Man, it even nibbled on the underfloor heating plate and water pipes, not to mention my stainless steel faucet. I discovered it when I was about to wash my face."

"Hey... it has a unique physique, a unique physique..."

Out of gratitude for finding the Crystal Seed for him, An Jing had left the little squirrel in Iron Hand’s care, instructing him to look after it well when he went to Special City to shop, not realizing it would cause such a problem.

He carried Cangsu Cang to an outbuilding nearby and discovered that its physical strength had significantly increased, its texture changing from soft to bouncy.

If nothing else, it had relied on Divine Abnormality, the "Hundred Golden Bodies," to advance to an Inner Strength Demon Beast — Hey, this little thing actually has a Fate Pattern, it’s a Spirit Beast!

How could An Jing have imagined that by casually grabbing in Broken Blade Mountain, he could bring back a Fate Pattern Spirit Beast?

But when you think about it, it made sense. If it didn’t have a Fate Pattern, didn’t have Spirituality, a normal Demon Beast would have followed the pack away from Broken Blade Mountain; why would it stay in the snow? Even though it could survive on ores, its ability to resist the herd mentality demonstrated intelligence far beyond an ordinary squirrel.

He just didn’t know what exactly its Fate Pattern was or its rank.

An Jing released his grip, and instead of falling, Cangsu Cang proudly floated in midair by magnetic levitation, spinning around with its tail flicked up.

The Golden Qi at Broken Blade Mountain was abundant, with many Spirit Ores; it had long been accumulating much Golden Qi inside its body, just lacking a sufficiently pure high-grade Spirit Ore as a core attribute to condense a Demon Core.

And An Jing had given it a piece of Jade Cutting Steel, not much, but it was a qualitative change, such a fine material of Pure Gold. It activated Cangsu Cang’s instinct to advance, so it was constantly looking for the remaining materials for advancement, namely various types of Spiritual Gold and Spirit Iron to nibble on, replenishing its internal energies.

Then An Jing threw it into Tianyuan Realm, filled with various metal artifacts, and a recycling hut — truly like throwing a rodent into a granary — it ate until it was stuffed.

In this way, Cangsu Rat, having gathered a hundred types of Golden Qi, began to condense "Hundred Golden Bodies," advancing to Inner Strength and, guided by its destiny, became an Inner Strength Demon Beast!

"It seems to be a Fate Pattern naturally related to the geology, but the Hundred Golden Bodies don’t have the ability of magnetic levitation,"

Having tested the fate pattern of the silver squirrel, An Jing pondered, "It seems we are quite fated, you helped me acquire a treasure the moment we met, and I helped you succeed in your advancement... not bad."

He reached out his hand, grabbed the silver squirrel, and looked into the eyes of the lively spirit beast.

An Jing smiled and said, "So, how about you officially join me in what I do?"

The Cangsu Rat nodded frantically, wagging its tail—it was fully aware of its spirit and knew that its own advancement and not being killed by Iron Hand as a large rat all depended on An Jing, the boss.

—Following the boss, there’s iron to eat!

"You are really straightforward... Well, you’re a Cangsu Rat, with a big silver tail... from now on, I’ll call you Cang,"

Although it seemed he thought a lot, the naming was quite casual. An Jing grabbed Cang, then observed it closely: "A demon beast that has formed a Demon Core can potentially advance its Martial Meridian—last time, the Great Hui’s demon core completely demonized and transformed into Mysterious Primordial Qi before I could even observe it."

"Come on, show me!"

Although the Demon Core was the most precious lifebound item of a demon beast, Cang also knew this was the best opportunity to show its loyalty; it lifted its tail, and at the base of its spine, a tiny, thumb-sized, pale silver Elixir Pill appeared.

"Huh?"

An Jing was surprised, "It didn’t spit it out from its mouth?"

"This is a path of a Demon Spirit connecting naturally; it must first connect with the vast world, it just hasn’t had the time to refine and assimilate into the body yet," Subdue Evil explained nonchalantly. "Condensing Pure Gold Qi and refining the body, essence gathers into a pill, which should indeed first condense somewhere on the body surface, just as the dragon clan condenses dragon pearls in their claws before swallowing them."

"However, this indeed is a recently born Demon Core, in its primal form connected with nature. Observing it now will surely yield greater findings than later on."

An Jing certainly wouldn’t pass up this opportunity, he observed attentively.

The Demon Core of Cang, although small, was complete in every aspect.

A hundred different kinds of Golden Qi, each following their own generative and controlling properties, interwove and arranged together like a hundred very fine, very long, and very tough threads of Spirit Qi, forming a whole.

This kind of perceptiveness towards the subtle differences among various Golden Qi, even An Jing barely matched it; his specialized ’Taibai Fiend Qi,’ although the purest form of Golden Qi, wasn’t extensive and needed the establishment of a Formation Realm within the body’s Martial Meridian to connect it with other attributes of Spiritual Fiend and evolve into Five Metals, and then further evolve into a hundred different kinds of gold.

"Indeed, this is interconnected,"

An Jing’s eyes lit up with Spiritual Light, the True Spirit Eye and Pupil Fire in operation, allowing him to see deeper into the secrets of the Demon Core: the Hundred Qi Net interwoven on the surface of the Demon Core was continuously drawing natural Golden Qi from the environment and refining it layer by layer inwardly.

The outer layer was Hundred Qi, and the next layer was several dozen more refined strands of Golden Qi, moving further inward to twenty or thirty, and then about a dozen strands nearing the Qi of the Five Metals.

At the core of the Demon Core, refined through layers of sieving nets, was a point of purest Pure Gold Qi, not much different from the Taibai Fiend Qi that An Jing cultivated with Taibai Luminous Godly Ban.