Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 985: Spirit Core

Chapter 985: Chapter 985: Spirit Core

If Fang Bai had released his full strength, even without using the Beast Taming Scripture, he could have easily dispatched these dozens of Antlered Silver Lions. However, such a one-sided overwhelming advantage wouldn’t have allowed him to experience the exhilarating and intense thrill of battle.

Therefore, Fang Bai deliberately suppressed his Cultivation Level, placing himself amidst the near-mad onslaught of dozens of Antlered Silver Lions, continuously roaring as he fiercely battled with them.

The site of Fang Bai’s fierce battle with the Antlered Silver Lions was far from the Stone Forest, and thus, the commotion here did not alarm Huang Miao and the other three who were deeply engrossed in comprehending Martial Arts Techniques within the Stone Forest.

By suppressing his own Cultivation Level, Fang Bai’s current strength was equivalent to a High-Rank Martial Artist at the Desolate Level.

With such strength, if he were to face a single Antlered Silver Lion, he naturally could kill the opponent with ease, but facing the attacks from dozens of Antlered Silver Lions from all directions, there were moments of oversight, making it difficult for him to cope.

The Antlered Silver Lions, controlled by Fang Bai’s Beast Taming Scripture, had already lost their self-awareness, only knowing to relentlessly launch the most ferocious attacks on Fang Bai, completely disregarding their own life and death.

Such Spirit Beasts were undoubtedly the most terrifying.

Soon, Fang Bai tasted bitterness.

He punched and sent a frontal Antlered Silver Lion flying, only to suffer a sudden and powerful collision from another Antlered Silver Lion from behind.

The one that struck Fang Bai was the leader of the pack of Antlered Silver Lions, with the strongest body and the most formidable attacking power.

Although Fang Bai’s body was exceptionally tough, the majority of his attention was on the Antlered Silver Lion before him, so he was solidly hit by the leader approaching from behind.

The leader’s antler on top of its head instantly snapped, and its massive body was flung away, struggling for a moment upon landing, then gradually grew silent and motionless, devoid of life.

Despite the leader of the Antlered Silver Lions dying, it had caused Fang Bai some injuries.

Under its collision, Fang Bai’s figure was propelled forward, the clothes on his back torn, bloodied and bruised.

Fang Bai’s strong body had been injured, which showed just how powerful the leader of the Antlered Silver Lions’ collision had been.

Fang Bai stumbled to the ground, and before he steadied himself, two more Antlered Silver Lions charging from the left and right sides simultaneously collided with his body.

The pincer attack of the two Spirit Beasts caused Fang Bai’s blood to surge and his internal organs to shake, nearly resulting in internal injuries, adding two new wounds to his body.

However, Fang Bai’s Chaos True Body was unmatched through the ages, endowed with an astonishing Self-Healing ability. As long as he wasn’t instantly crushed by his opponent, losing both body and soul, he could rely on this Self-Healing capability to recover.

Therefore, the injuries he had sustained were really nothing much.

The wounds on his body caused Fang Bai to feel a twinge of pain, but that pain made him even more determined to fight.

He let out a loud laugh, clenched his fists tightly, and once again faced an Antlered Silver Lion charging at him...

Dozens of breaths later, the scene finally calmed down, with only the sound of the wind howling across the plain and Fang Bai’s heavy gasps lingering in the air.

Fang Bai had killed dozens of Antlered Silver Lions, relying almost entirely on his formidable physical body. However, this type of pure hard-fought battle took a significant toll on his physical stamina.

After punching away the last Antlered Silver Lion, Fang Bai felt his whole body sore and weak, his fists powerless, and he collapsed to the ground, gasping for air in huge, labored breaths.

Within a few hundred meters radius centered on him, the bodies of dozens of Antlered Silver Lions were scattered about, with hardly a single one intact, the air filled with a thick scent of blood.

Fang Bai’s body was covered in wounds, his clothes torn and ragged, failing to cover his body.

After a brief rest, Fang Bai began to sit cross-legged and circulated his cultivation technique to regulate his breath.

His physical strength had been greatly depleted, but it recovered quickly. In less than a hundred breaths, he felt his strength return to his body, full of vigor once again, and the external injuries on his body had scabbed over.

Taking out a new set of Inner Court disciple’s attire from his Spatial Ring, Fang Bai moved his body a little and felt an additional strand of formidable strength between his muscles and bones.

If he could only shatter the skull of an Antlered Silver Lion with one punch before, now he was confident he could crush the bones of the entire body of an Antlered Silver Lion in one fell swoop.

"After this battle, my physical body has become much stronger. Such intense fighting where one exchanges blows directly and stakes one’s life is indeed the best way to enhance the strength of the body."

Fang Bai felt some new changes in his physical body, a trace of joy showed on his face as he murmured to himself.

"These Spirit Beasts, if taken back to the Bitao Martial Academy by Huang Miao and the others, would surely be an incredible achievement and could be exchanged for many cultivation resources. It’s just a pity there were no mid-tier Spirit Beasts, which would have been of great use to me. Let’s keep looking, since there are mid-tier Spirit Beasts in the core area of the Bitao Mountain Range, we are bound to encounter them."

Fang Bai thought to himself as he looked at the corpses of the Antlered Silver Lions scattered on the ground.

A Spirit Beast is only considered to have advanced to mid-tier if it has lived for over five hundred years.

The biggest difference between a mid-tier Spirit Beast and a low-tier one is the formation of a Spirit Core within its brain.

A Spirit Core is formed as the Spirit Beast continuously absorbs Heaven and Earth Origin Energy and fuses it with its own essence blood.

Spirit Beasts with a Spirit Core absorb Heaven and Earth Origin Energy faster than ordinary Spirit Beasts, and thus their strength advances quicker.

Mid-tier Spirit Beasts are merely the weakest existences among those with a Spirit Core, but within the Bitao Mountain Range, they are unrivaled kings.

The Spirit Core of a Spirit Beast is extremely valuable.

For ordinary Martial Artists, the greatest value of a Spirit Core lies in being able to exchange it for many cultivation resources at the Cultivation Resource Exchange Market.

For Pharmacists and Artifact Refiners, using a Spirit Core to exchange for cultivation resources is, frankly, a crime.

Because if a corresponding Spirit Core is added during the process of refining elixirs or Spiritual Artifacts, it can greatly enhance the effects, making the elixirs more potent and the Spiritual Artifacts stronger.

From this, it is evident that Fang Bai was eager to encounter a mid-tier Spirit Beast, then kill it and retrieve its Spirit Core.

This was Fang Bai’s greatest wish for this mountain training.

After standing in place and reflecting for a moment, Fang Bai suddenly sensed the fluctuations of Essence Energy coming from the Stone Forest, indicating that Huang Miao and the others were about to end their Cultivation State.

Fang Bai did not want Huang Miao and the rest to know that he had killed the Spirit Beasts, so he quickly re-entered the Stone Forest.

"Brother Fang, where did you go? When I came out of my cultivation state just now, I didn’t see you nearby, and I thought... I thought..."

Liu Qingqing, overjoyed to see Fang Bai, began to say but stopped midway, seemingly realizing the inappropriateness of what she was about to imply.

"You thought something happened to me, right?"

Fang Bai, with a smile in his eyes, asked Liu Qingqing in return.

Liu Qingqing fidgeted, her face flushed red, and she didn’t know how to respond.

Fang Bai let out a hearty laugh and decided not to tease her further, saying, "I was bored just now, so I wandered around the Stone Forest, almost getting lost. Somehow, I found my way back here."