Duan Ke appeared in the elaborate and large courtyard. She crossed the streams and rivers to reach the manor that was standing at the end of the courtyard. Her eyes looked around for her grandfather but could not find him nearby.

Finding that her grandfather was not outside, she went up the steps of the manor and entered through the large twin doors. The inside of the manor was so luxuriously decorated that it would even put a king's palace to shame.

Duan Ke walked towards the left and entered an enormous library. There were more books than one could count in the library, along with a multitude of scrolls, bamboo slips, and jade slips kept on different shelves.

At the centre of the library, one could see a table and a few chairs. Unlike the rest of the manor, the table and chairs did not look luxurious or expensive, rather they looked very simple and could be found at any commoner's house. Duan Ke walked up to the table and saw her grandfather sitting at it on a chair.

The old man was reading a book that looked like it would wither and break any moment. The book was old and damaged, yet the old man was able to flip its pages with no problem. Once Duan Ke came up to the side of her grandfather, Jing Wei spoke without moving his eyes from the book.

"Did you find anything?"

Duan Ke waved her hand in response to her grandfather's words, making twelve corpses appear. These corpses belonged to both fierce beasts as well as spirit beasts. Even though the corpses belonged to different types of beasts and had different physiologies, they all had one thing in common. They were all pitch black in colour and emitted an unnerving aura.

Duan Ke then carefully withdrew a box that looked to be made of glass. In that box, a pitch-black blob the size of an orange was kept. The pitch-black blob was emitting an even greater unnerving aura, it was at least 10 times the intensity of the aura emitted by the strongest beast corpse.

Jing Wei turned to look towards the glass box in Duan Ke's hand.

"So, it was that 'thing' indeed." Jing Wei said.

"I found these twelve beasts in the northern forest. They were mostly spread around the deeper regions of the forest, but some of them were even present at the outer parts of the forest, with one wandering around near the edge of the forest." Duan Ke said.

Duan Ke stayed silent and let her grandfather examine all the beast corpses. Jing Wei looked around at the corpses for half an hour, after which he finally came up to the glass box.

"Where did you find this piece of that 'Thing'?" Jing Wei asked Duan Ke.

of the northern forest. It was lying inside a small pond and had tainted the water." Duan

the mutations then, no other traces

not find any more traces of it, only

nodded upon hearing Duan Ke's

Jing

not speak a word before pointing to the black blob inside the glass box, which then started to

black blob was destroyed he

boy

of a 9th stage body tempering realm beast to him. Though he did not ask for money in exchange for the materials."

raised his eyebrows in

weapons in exchange for the materials. I let him choose some weapons from the shop. He picked

the chair and placed his hand on his chin.

like

in case he ever lost the short sword during a fight."

how did he come to that reasoning?" Jing Wei

had a slight smile on her face as

old short sword has tasted a man's blood once again,

had his first kill. That was faster than I thought, but still, it's good for him that he experienced it early on and even learned a lesson from it." Jing Wei spoke with nostalgia in his

minutes to exit the town before he could

was at the shack, he withdrew all the new weapons he had bought. He wanted

now.' Lin

proper training methods for each of the

Mu then started practicing the boulder collapsing fist before cooking the new beast meat he had got today. The aroma of the 9th stage body tempering beast meat was richer than the other meats he had eaten before. Once it was completely cooked he ate it

sat down cross-legged to chant the calming heart sutra. He could feel the dense, vital energy being spread from his stomach. The energy was slowly spreading over his body and assimilating into his skin

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