Chapter 299 - Methods For Bloodline Refinement
Lin Mu flicked the blood off of his short sword and looked back at his handiwork. The lizard beast and the four ape beasts were lying on the ground, dead. All of them had been killed in one precise blow to the head and had their skulls pierced.
It had not taken Lin Mu even a minute to finish the five beasts off which showed his capabilities. If it were any other cultivator, they would have either been unable to do it alone or would have taken a while to do it. And even if they were able to do it, they definitely would have sustained some injuries.
Lin Mu kneeled and used his spirit sense to check their bodies for their beast cores. He found them rather easily but did not remove them there. He would do so with all the other beasts he had hunted till now, back at this house.
The only reason he checked the beast cores was to see if there was any beast core that had awakened a bloodline ability. Because Lin Mu was soon going to assimilate the bloodline of the great slumber beast, he wanted to get some practice.
This practice was not going to be the actual assimilation of the bloodline, as that would be counterproductive. No, rather Senior Xukong was going to teach him the way to prepare the bloodline for assimilation so that he knew when the time so arose.
The most common method that was used was to refine the beast core of the spirit beast along with a few supplementary materials and turn it into a type of a alchemical pill. There were many other methods, but depending on the bloodline, they greatly varied.
Some methods were suitable for some bloodlines while some were not. Senior Xukong was going to teach Lin Mu about a different method that needed no additional material and could be done as long as the entire corpse of the beast was available.
But senior Xukong had already warned him that the process was going to be quite painful and difficult. Still, Lin Mu did not falter and was fully determined to go through with it.
"Not these either," Lin Mu said, looking at the corpses.
"You will have to look for more. Beasts that have awakened bloodlines are harder to find. Though… there are still some methods to refine an awakened bloodline if you have more of the same type beasts." Xukong replied.
"Same type of beasts, huh? Hmm, how many would I require if they are on the level of these ape beasts?" Lin Mu questioned.
"With their cultivation bases? I would say anywhere around twenty, but even then there will be chances of failure and this is only to refine the awakened bloodline. To make it into the form which can be assimilated will take even more effort." Xukong answered.
~Sigh~
"It is indeed quite complex. Guess, I'll just have to keep looking," Lin Mu stated before looking at the sky.
"Or not… it'll be dark in a couple of hours." Lin Mu muttered.
He then stored the corpses into the ring and headed back. In today's hunt, Lin Mu had been able to hunt about twelve spirit beasts and five normal beasts. From this, he estimated that he would need to hunt for about a week to even get a basic amount needed to test out the progress of the nameless technique of the lost immortal.
Still for Lin Mu, Hei Wen gathering the beast meat would be the fastest option, as it meant that he would not have to spend the time he could use for cultivation in hunting down beasts. The chances of finding spirit beasts was also not absolute.
That time when he had found the herd of the Ash Crowned deers was also rather uncommon and would likely not happen again. The large herds such as those were rather rare, and only a few types of beasts would stay like that. Most of the spirit beasts in the Northern forest were either solitary or lived in smaller groups.
The journey back was much faster for Lin Mu, as all he needed to do was run in a straight line. With his skills, he could ignore most obstacles or jump over them. Lin Mu was back at the town in an hour's time and was now in the courtyard preparing the beast corpses.
As soon as he started digging out the beast cores from the corpses of the spirit beasts, Little Shrubby ran out of the house and came towards him. It had been attracted by the scent of the blood and was probably here to get some.
~Meow~
It lightly growled and looked at the beast core that was in Lin Mu's hand. It nudged Lin Mu with his head and then Lin Mu felt a thought appear in his mind.
"Want." The thought said.
"Oh, you want the beast core?" Lin Mu said as he gestured to the small olive sized beast core.
Little shrubby nodded in an almost human like manner, showing his response.
"Give it to him, you won't be using the beast cores anyway, will you?" Xukong said.
"Will it be fine, though? It won't have any bad effects, will it?" Lin Mu asked in a concerned tone.
"The beast cores are kind of like alchemical pills for the beasts, and they often consume them to grow their cultivation base. In fact, it's one of the primary methods by which they cultivate. Though there are of course certain beast cores that they can't consume depending on the type of the beast.
Still, the beasts innately know what kind of cores are good for them, so whichever beast core it like you can give it to him and it won't be problematic for you." Xukong answered.
"Alright senior." Lin Mu replied before handing the beast core in his hand to Little Shrubby.
The beast core he had just given it was that of the lizard beast and was dark green in color. The color matched to those of its scales and looked a bit like a gem. Little shrubby did not even look at it for a second before swallowing the entire beast's core.
"Well, that was fast."