After the Blood Bone Snake was cut into two pieces, Wang Mu began to collect materials.

As an outstanding Hunter, this was essential knowledge.

Hunting Skills included the ability to distinguish valuable materials from prey and the methods for processing them.

For ordinary cultivators, if a Fierce Beast's Realm was high, they would collect the Fierce Beast's inner core. These inner cores could not be used directly because they contained an extremely heavy murderous and evil aura and needed to be processed before use.

They were mostly used for Alchemy.

The Blood Bone Snake had a Cultivation roughly at the Qi Cultivation Seventh Level, and its gallbladder was its most valuable part. After processing, it could be used to refine some rather rare elixirs to increase a cultivator's constitution.

After some simple processing, Qin Yuyan cast a Cleaning Technique, and it was done in less than an hour.

This spell, the Cleaning Technique, was actually a basic Water system technique.

Water threads as fine as trickles could wash away many stains and dried very quickly. When cultivated to Fulfilled, the cast Cleaning Technique was like a passing breeze; one would only feel a faint dampness, followed by a crisp dryness.

A practical everyday spell.

"My Cleaning Technique isn't bad, right?" Qin Yuyan asked.

"Your Shuiyun Sect is said to specialize in such spells; they are indeed formidable," Wang Mu nodded. "Few in our Sect cultivate this spell..."

"You Sword Sect disciples are all obsessed with the Sword Dao; why would any of you learn these basic spells?" Qin Yuyan smiled.

After collecting the materials from the Blood Bone Snake, the two continued on.

Before long, three branching tunnels appeared within the cave, and the two stopped.

"Troublesome," Qin Yuyan said with a frown. "These caverns where Fierce Beasts gather always have such hidden, multiple tunnels. Moreover, some caverns also conceal Illusion Arrays. If one takes the wrong path, they could find themselves in a life-or-death situation!"

"If it's a Formation, that's still manageable; someone proficient in Formations could break through it directly."

"What I fear is that some paths have no Formations, but are purely traps dug by those Fierce Beasts to lure us in... In that case, we can only rely on luck."

"Brother Qin, have you been to the Blissful Shuiyun Stream before?" Wang Mu inquired.

"Never," Qin Yuyan said. "But I've heard that the interiors of these places often change. Someone who came a year ago might have found two tunnels, but a few months later, there could be four. There are definitely Fierce Beasts with high spiritual wisdom residing here, constantly altering the cavern's internal structure to prevent us from mapping it out."

Fierce Beasts are not simply Demon Beasts.

Their state is often the result of mishaps in their cultivation.

Or, some Spirit Beasts, in their desire to rapidly increase their cultivation, indiscriminately absorb various worldly energies and abuse their own power. This leads to the loss of their Divine Soul, and they fall under the control of murderous and evil auras, eventually transforming into Fierce Beasts.

Others are inherently vicious and bloodthirsty by nature.

These types of Fierce Beasts are the most formidable and possess the highest spiritual wisdom.

It is also due to these various reasons that the cultivation speed of Fierce Beasts is much faster than that of ordinary human cultivators.

Take the Blood Bone Snake, for example. It might have originally been an ordinary Little Spirit Snake. If it mistakenly consumed something tainted with a blood-thirsty aura, or absorbed such auras and demonic energies over time, it could transform into a Blood Bone Snake in just a year or two. Its strength would greatly increase, but it would also lose its spiritual nature and wisdom.

Therefore, Fierce Beasts are actually quite numerous in this world, and their growth rate is not slow.

"I inquired before coming here..." Qin Yuyan recalled. "The Blissful Shuiyun Stream is quite special. Many years ago, two Big Pythons settled here to cultivate. These two Big Pythons were Spirit Beasts. After achieving success in their cultivation, they transformed into two Red Flood Dragons and left this place. However, the Python Sheds they left behind possessed a unique power that changed this area."

"Afterward, the Shuiyun Stream often attracted Fierce Beasts, which occupied it. Over time, it became a den of Fierce Beasts."

"Although cultivators often come here to clear them out, Fierce Beasts can never be completely eradicated. Every one or two years, new Fierce Beasts will occupy this place... Over time, some Fierce Beasts with spiritual wisdom will even come to dominate the area, ruling over a territory. According to a senior brother from my Sect, about a year ago, this place was again occupied by a being called the Furious Blood Barbaric Bull King. It possesses cultivation close to the Foundation Establishment Stage, comparable to my own."

Qin Yuyan had come here specifically, so he had inquired in detail before arriving.

Wang Mu, however, had not come here for a specific purpose and hadn't inquired about this place at his Sect.

"If your fellow sect member is here, then he should be in the deepest part of the cave system," Qin Yuyan said. "Of these three tunnels, likely only one leads to the innermost part; the other two are probably traps."

"Brother Wang, what do you plan to do?"

Wang Mu thought for a moment and walked straight into the middle tunnel.

"Why choose the middle one?"

"Choosing one of the side tunnels would be asymmetrical, and that bothers me a little," Wang Mu said.

"..." Qin Yuyan.

He opened his mouth, but still followed Wang Mu.

"Brother Wang, the middle tunnel is often the trap…" Qin Yuyan said.

"Is that so?"

Without looking back, Wang Mu continued forward.

After walking for another hour, four tunnels appeared this time.

"Brother Wang, how about you listen to me this time?" Qin Yuyan said hastily. "I know some divination techniques. Although my Divine Sense can't perceive very far in this place, I can distinguish which of these tunnels is the correct one right now."

"No need, follow me," Wang Mu picked a tunnel at random and walked in.

"..." Qin Yuyan.

He... he... why doesn't he ever follow the usual script!

Qin Yuyan felt somewhat bewildered.

This time they didn't walk for long before encountering two more tunnels.

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