Chapter 424: Devour (1/2)

Lin Mu's hair flapped around as his bloodshot eyes gleamed. The black thorn spear was thrumming with power and it had already reached the maximum limit of what it could hold for now.

”TAKE THIS!” Lin Mu shouted.

The black thorn spear was stabbed deep into the chest of the Great slumber bear and pierced its heart, nailing it to the rock floor. Lin Mu and the Great Slumber bear stared in each other's eyes as unwillingness appeared in the beast's.

”Rest in peace, I vow to use your bloodline and take it to the apex.” Lin Mu spoke suddenly.

He knew that he was killing a beast that had actually not wronged him. But like Senior Xukong had said this was the ruthless cultivation world, and he was now a cultivator. This was the least he could do for the beast and thus he did.

It was as if the beast understood his words or the intentions behind it as it gave up on struggling anymore and closed its eyes. A minute later, the steamy breaths of the Great Slumber Bear had stopped and Lin Mu confirmed that it was now completely dead.

~phew~

”It is done…” Lin Mu muttered as he looked at the still warm body of the beast.

”What're you waiting for, quickly take out its core and store the body in your ring, don't waste the blood!” Xukong urged.

Lin Mu nodded and hurriedly dug out the core from the beast's chest and then placed his hand on the beast, storing it along with all of the weapons in his ring. The only weapon he had lost in this was the long sword which had been shattered by the great slumber beast's attack.

Lin Mu looked at the handle of the long sword as that was all which was left, the blade having been split into multiple pieces fallen on the ground.

~Sigh~

”Thankfully, I already finished the practice routines with this long sword, or I would have ended to find a replacement.” Lin Mu said.

Lin Mu looked at the large core that he was still holding in his hand. This was the largest core he had ever seen and even in the beast records that he had the biggest core recorded was about five times smaller than this one.

The core in his hand was about ten centimeters in diameters and was barely graspable in his hand being so wide. It was transparent unlike the other cores and had a triangular brown colored pattern on it, like the one that one on the Great Slumber Bear's Torso.

Even after being removed from the beast's body, the core stayed warm and throbbed with power. Lin Mu could sense the bloodline deep within the core just by holding it in his hand and knew the potency of it. He was a bit anxious about the next few steps that he would be needing to do after this.

”You should begin in now, the faster you do it, the higher your success rate will be.” Xukong spoke.

”I understand, Senior…” Lin Mu replied before taking out a wide tub from his ring.

He then started removing his clothes and became naked. He didn't want to soil his robes for what was about to come, and frankly, it would be easier if he was naked to do it as there would be an ease of movements.

~Huu~

”Here we go…” Lin Mu said before he sat down in the tub and took out the corpse of the Great slumber bear.

He placed its large body outside of the tub and took another breath to prepare himself for what he was about to do.

Lin Mu closed his eyes and practiced the nameless technique of the lost immortal. He knew that it had reached a specific level, but knew it was barely at the start. He had just scratched the surface and its secrets were way beyond this.

Lin Mu tensed his body as the effects of the technique started and the hunger reappeared. He had intentionally triggered it this time and was prepared to bear its consequences.

”Grr…” A low rumble came from Lin Mu's stomach as it ached.