Chapter 96

The Divine Art of Transforming Weapons and Refining the Body is a rare martial skill that not only allows the transformation of divine weapons into essence energy to be integrated into the body but also enables the guiding of the divine weapon's essence energy, which has been fused into the body, back out to re-form into a tangible divine weapon.

However, unfortunately, the short rod passed down from Gu Fei's master was not a complete divine weapon. From the overwhelming sword qi it contained, Gu Fei could only guess that the purple short rod was a sword hilt.

Therefore, when Gu Fei guided the divine weapon's essence energy circulating in his body out, it could only form into an energy sword. Even so, this energy sword was like the flying sword of a Sword Immortal, capable of being manipulated to kill enemies from a distance, and was no less effective than a flying sword.

However, Gu Fei's art of transforming weapons and refining the body was not the way of the Sword Immortal, and its range of effect was limited. He could only achieve the level of beheading an enemy from a hundred paces away.

After all, the martial arts divine skill was not the way of the Sword Immortal and could not achieve the feat of beheading an enemy from a thousand miles away like a flying sword.

The giant demonic ape lay on the ground, its blood-red eyes, the size of a human fist, had lost all their luster. A bloody hole in its chest was gushing out fresh red blood.

Soon, a pool of foul-smelling blood gathered beneath the ape's body.

"How can there still be a fluctuation of power? This is impossible!" Gu Fei approached the corpse of the demonic ape, his face showing a puzzled expression.

He had killed many fierce beasts, but he had never encountered such a situation before. Once a fierce beast died, its power would dissipate, and there would be no energy fluctuations left in its body.

"Unless..."

Gu Fei thought of a possibility. He leaped onto the giant demonic ape's body, and a brilliant light surged from his right hand, striking the ape's abdomen.

That was where the energy fluctuations were coming from.

Soon, Gu Fei found the source of the energy fluctuations. As expected, there was a soil-yellow crystal, larger than an adult's fist, hidden in the ape's abdomen.

Gu Fei held the strange crystal and jumped down from the ape's body. The crystal in his hand shone like a gem, emitting a hazy light, a soil-yellow glow that was the result of the thick earth qi permeating the crystal.

The hazy soil-yellow glow made the crystal appear dreamlike and magnificent, as if it were a perfect masterpiece of nature. The crystal was faceted, like a soil-yellow crystal, radiating a hazy yet brilliant light.

"Hmm! In another ten or twenty years, this demonic ape would probably have transformed into a demonic beast." Gu Fei felt a bit regretful as he sensed the massive spiritual essence fluctuations within the soil-yellow crystal.

After all, not every fierce beast could take the step to transform into a demonic beast. Killing a fierce beast that could grow into a demonic beast seemed a bit regrettable. However, since it was already dead, Gu Fei did not dwell on it too much.

This kind of crystal was not the inner core of a demonic beast, but it contained a massive amount of spiritual essence, which surprised Gu Fei.

However, upon further thought, he understood that this demonic ape was likely at a critical stage of transforming into a demonic beast, which is why it had condensed this crystal similar to the inner core of a demonic beast.

This kind of beast crystal was probably the precursor to the inner core of a demonic beast.

Perhaps, other fierce beasts also had such crystals in their bodies, but they had not yet reached the stage of transforming into inner cores, which was why he had not discovered them.

Gu Fei's thoughts were not far off. In fact, ordinary fierce beasts did not have such beast crystals. Only those fierce beasts that were much stronger than ordinary beasts and could cultivate instinctively would condense beast crystals in their bodies.

Gu Fei did not know that such beast crystals, while not rare on the Tenglong Continent, were not something ordinary people could possess.

Because the beast crystals contained pure spiritual essence, cultivators could refine the spiritual essence within the beast crystals during cultivation, making their cultivation more efficient.

Therefore, in the secular world, such beast crystals were very precious, and only the children of powerful families or major forces could afford them.

Gu Fei, of course, did not know these things, but the massive spiritual essence contained in the beast crystal in his hand made him somewhat excited.

The massive earth elemental power was much purer than the earth elemental qi in the outside world. After all, this beast crystal was formed by the ape absorbing the thick earth qi day and night and condensing it within its body.

This meant that the thick earth qi from the outside world had already been refined by the ape, making it much purer than the earth qi outside, with the impurities in the earth elemental qi almost negligible.

If this power could be guided out of the beast crystal and refined into his own body, it would certainly be greatly beneficial to his cultivation.

Gu Fei looked around. Under the moonlight, the surroundings were silent. This was the territory of the ape, and no other beasts dared to approach.

Thus, Gu Fei held the soil-yellow beast crystal, which was about the size of two human fists, in his right hand and circulated the yuan qi in his body, directing it toward the beast crystal.

Soon, the soil-yellow glow surrounding the beast crystal gradually intensified, and Gu Fei could not help but feel delighted. The massive earth elemental spiritual essence within the beast crystal had indeed been activated.

Gu Fei quickly began to absorb the earth elemental spiritual essence from the beast crystal. Threads of soil-yellow energy rays emerged from the beast crystal and entered Gu Fei's body.

"Hmm! After all, this is the power refined by a fierce beast. Although it is much purer than the elemental qi in the outside world, it seems to be much harder to refine."

The threads of spiritual essence from the beast crystal were absorbed into Gu Fei's body but were not immediately refined by the innate essence in his flesh and blood. Instead, they flowed through his flesh and blood like cool streams.

Gu Fei quickly stopped absorbing the spiritual essence from the beast crystal. The glow from the beast crystal gradually weakened, but a hazy soil-yellow glow still flowed over the crystal.

It took three cycles of his cultivation technique for Gu Fei to completely refine the spiritual essence from the beast crystal and integrate it into his flesh and bones.

"It seems that it will take some time to completely refine the spiritual essence contained in the beast crystal." Gu Fei looked at the sky and saw that it was not long before dawn. He decided to put the beast crystal away and refine it when he had more time.

However, just as Gu Fei was about to put the beast crystal into the treasure pouch at his waist, he suddenly saw a purple shadow flash before his eyes. His hand trembled, and his wrist felt a burning sensation, as if something had grabbed it. The beast crystal in his hand almost slipped out of his grasp.

"What is this?" Gu Fei was startled and quickly looked down. He saw that a small piece was missing from the beast crystal, and there were several tiny tooth marks at the break. There were also several white scratch marks on his wrist.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp..."

Suddenly, a clear chirping sound came from ahead. Gu Fei looked forward and saw a purple creature, the size of a fist, on a rock about five or six zhang away, happily jumping while holding a small soil-yellow crystal in its paws.