Mark Sutton was greatly alarmed. If the Yin Wind Wolf swallowed the Purple Spirit Fruit, he wouldn’t even have time to cry.

“Die!”

With a furious roar, Mark Sutton stomped hard on the ground, true energy exploding beneath his feet. Using this burst of force, Mark Sutton instantly shot up to the top of the Yin Wind Wolf’s head.

“Ninefold Sea Wave Fist.”

Channeling his true energy to the limit, Mark Sutton smashed his fist down hard on the Yin Wind Wolf’s head, unleashing the power of five layers of fist force.

Bang!

Blood splattered, brains sprayed everywhere—the Yin Wind Wolf was killed instantly, dead beyond any doubt.

Having slain the Yin Wind Wolf, Mark Sutton let out a sigh of relief.

Walking over to the wolf’s corpse, Mark Sutton reached into its shattered skull and pulled out a grayish-white crystal—it was the Yin Wind Wolf’s demon core.

A demon core from a first-level, first-tier beast was worth at least ten taels of silver.

After that, Mark Sutton walked over to the Purple Spirit Fruit and, without hesitation, plucked it.

Although the Purple Spirit Fruit wasn’t fully ripe yet, Mark Sutton couldn’t wait here any longer. Even at eighty percent ripeness, it was already extremely rare.

After picking the Purple Spirit Fruit, Mark Sutton sat cross-legged and swallowed it in one gulp.

This cave was rather hidden, so refining the fruit here wouldn’t be dangerous.

As soon as the Purple Spirit Fruit entered his mouth, it transformed into a surge of immense medicinal power, rampaging through Mark Sutton’s body.

Mark Sutton quickly held his breath and focused, guiding the medicinal power to flow through his meridians, eventually converting it into true energy and gathering it in his dantian.

Before long, Mark Sutton’s dantian swelled, and a powerful aura rose up.

“I’ve finally broken through... the late stage of Qi Refining Level Two!”

A flash of joy appeared in Mark Sutton’s eyes as he nodded in satisfaction.

A single Purple Spirit Fruit not only helped him break through to the second level of Qi Refining, but also advanced him to the late stage of that level.

After the breakthrough, the true energy in Mark Sutton’s body was more than twice as thick as before, and even more condensed.

He could also clearly feel that his five senses and six faculties were much sharper than before.

“I’ll stabilize my cultivation first, then head out.”

Mark Sutton smiled slightly and began cultivating again.

Behind him, a pitch-black vortex martial spirit rose up, slowly spinning.

Just then, a sudden change occurred.

The blood and essence of the already-dead Yin Wind Wolf all gathered together, being absorbed by the vortex martial spirit.

Not only that, a phantom beast soul slowly floated up from the Yin Wind Wolf’s corpse and was devoured by the vortex martial spirit.

After the Yin Wind Wolf’s blood and essence were devoured, they turned into a surge of immense energy that poured into Mark Sutton’s body.

Instantly, Mark Sutton’s aura surged, approaching the peak of Qi Refining Level Two.

“What is this...?”

Mark Sutton’s whole body trembled, his face full of shock.

A martial spirit can devour blood essence?

A martial spirit can devour beast souls?

A martial spirit that can devour both blood essence and beast souls—Mark Sutton had never even heard of such a thing.

While Mark Sutton was still marveling, another change occurred.

After devouring the beast soul, the vortex martial spirit buzzed and trembled. In the next moment, yellow light burst forth.

Originally, the vortex martial spirit had only one yellow halo, but now, two yellow halos suddenly appeared.

With two halos, the vortex martial spirit’s speed of absorbing spiritual energy increased dramatically, more than twice as fast as before.

“What?”

Even with Mark Sutton’s firm will, at this moment, his heart was in turmoil.

It was common knowledge that the level of a martial spirit was innate and could not be changed after awakening. This was an unchanging truth in this world.

A martial artist’s cultivation talent mainly depended on the level of their martial spirit.

But now, his martial spirit had broken this world’s truth.

The martial spirit’s level had risen from Human Grade Level One to Human Grade Level Two.

If he could devour enough beast souls, wouldn’t he be able to raise his martial spirit’s level again, perhaps even to Earth Grade or Heaven Grade?

Heaven Grade martial spirits—how terrifying would that be? Mark Sutton’s heart burned with excitement.

“Hahahaha!”

After a long while, Mark Sutton calmed his excitement and couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

“Could this be the benefit of being a transmigrator?” Mark Sutton thought to himself.

Ever since awakening his martial spirit, Mark Sutton had been rather frustrated about its level.

He hadn’t discovered any special abilities in his martial spirit.

But now, this heaven-defying ability of the martial spirit had completely exceeded his expectations.

It swept away the gloom in Mark Sutton’s heart, filling him with excitement.

“From now on, I’ll call you the Devouring Martial Spirit!” Mark Sutton said with a smile.

Immediately, Mark Sutton quickly left the cave, eager to go out and hunt demon beasts, devouring their beast souls.

Over the next two days, Mark Sutton went out and frantically hunted demon beasts, killing more than fifty of them.

Among these fifty or so demon beasts, ten were first-level, second-tier beasts, and the rest were all first-level, first-tier beasts.

After devouring the blood essence and beast souls of all the demon beasts, Mark Sutton not only broke through to the third level of Qi Refining, but his martial spirit also advanced to Human Grade Level Three.

Through extensive combat, Mark Sutton’s fist techniques were also greatly honed.

With the Ninefold Sea Wave Fist, a single punch could now unleash six layers of fist force, greatly increasing his attack power.