From the blood energy squeezed out from within, a mass of illusory radiance condensed, transforming into a strange beast that looked like a tiger but had two wings—this was the ferocious Qiongqi. Even though it had dispersed into blood energy, it still retained a savage aura.

As Henry Brooks finished speaking, the previously silent stone spear flashed with a streak of purple light.

Puff!

The Qiongqi phantom let out an angry roar, but was still shattered by the stone spear, once again condensing into a mass of dark light.

Henry Brooks couldn’t care about anything else; with one hand, he seized the dark light into his palm.

“Condense for me!”

In an instant, he felt a violent killing intent surge into his body, rampaging throughout, sending piercing, bone-deep pain through his limbs and bones, as if insects and ants were gnawing deep within his flesh.

Even the warm blood energy of the Yuan Ge bird could not bring him the slightest warmth.

Buzz!

The stone spear trembled, and dense blood light, like a small river, rushed down from the top of his head, being absorbed into his body.

The surging blood light wrapped Henry Brooks into a figure of blood. According to the method imparted by the stone spear, the Qiongqi blood bone essence was refined anew. In his eyes, it was just a mass of illusory blood energy, beginning to take the shape of a crescent moon pattern, emanating intense killing and violence.

Qiongqi was inherently a vicious beast, born for slaughter, extremely bloodthirsty. Even a Qiongqi beast with only a trace of its bloodline would not lose this innate killing and brutality.

Just like that, he sat for three days and nights, with fierce beasts constantly drawn by the scent of blood, only to be slain by the stone spear all around him. The searing blood essence they released was absorbed by Henry Brooks!

“Qiongqi, the vicious beast, is born to slaughter the world. Is this the slaughter bone pattern belonging to Qiongqi?”

Three days later, when Henry Brooks opened his palm again, a blurry crescent moon manifested in his palm, radiating a violent and murderous aura, stirring within him an urge for extreme slaughter.

Chapter 5: Skin Wrinkles, Ancient Forest, Alien Tribes!

Feeling the crescent pattern, Henry Brooks realized how fortunate he was. No wonder the stone spear looked down on him and even the entire Qingyang clan.

The bone patterns derived from the essence of the great fiend’s blood and bones were legendary in the Qingyang clan and even throughout the ancient land of Lishan. Throughout history, there had been many powerful figures who wielded bone patterns to dominate the wilderness, and every generation of the Qingyang clan produced a few such individuals.

However, they merely used the bone patterns to increase their strength, while the stone spear made him understand that the bone pattern and the body must fully merge, becoming inseparable. By using the body’s senses to comprehend the bone pattern, it truly became his own, rather than something copied or branded!

The strength of the wild great fiends lay in the bone patterns within their bodies—these were manifestations of the laws of heaven and earth. In fact, bone patterns were mediums for comprehending the great Dao of heaven and earth; ultimately, it was all about understanding the Dao!

This was an essential transformation.

After three days of continuously absorbing the blood essence of fierce beasts, a connection had formed between the slaughter bone pattern and his body.

In the next moment, the bone pattern manifested in his palm suddenly shattered, and he could no longer summon it. Clearly, he hadn’t even reached the entry level yet.

“Integrating the bone pattern into your body requires your own comprehension. This bone pattern comes from a Qiongqi beast with only a thin bloodline—crude to the extreme—but it’s still a good starting point!”

“If in the future you can use this medium to comprehend slaughter and condense your own Dao, then even if you encounter a true Qiongqi, you’ll be able to tear it apart!”

“Senior Stone Spear, aren’t the bone patterns inside the great fiends innate?” However, the stone spear fell silent again, leaving Henry Brooks feeling awkward.

“In three days, you’ve absorbed the essence of thirteen fierce beasts. Remember what you must do!”

After a hum, the stone spear fell silent once more. Only then did Henry Brooks look around and see the ground littered with the pelts of fierce beasts.

He couldn’t help but grin. The stone spear had protected him for three days, but not for nothing. He needed to repay these thirteen fierce beasts by hunting ten times as many for the stone spear to absorb!

But compared to the opportunity he had gained, even if he had to repay a hundred times, he wouldn’t mind. If he couldn’t do it all at once, he’d do it slowly. Maybe he could even keep the stone spear by his side.

Only by seizing it would it truly become his own opportunity!

The slaughter bone pattern from the Qiongqi great fiend corresponded to the Dao of slaughter in the world. His father had also comprehended the Dao, but only after reaching the Spirit Capturing Realm, whereas he was still in the Body Forging stage and had already set foot on this path.

“I wonder if I can compare to the descendants of those ancient great clans now!”

“Far from it! Hurry up and hunt more fierce beasts!” The stone spear suddenly buzzed, sweeping him away!

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Puff!

Deep in the ancient forest, several ancient trees were snapped in succession. A scarlet fire rhinoceros, three zhang in size, had its head pierced by a stone spear, its skull shattered, and its dense blood energy drawn straight from its body!

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By the pond within a ten-mile radius, a giant crocodile roared, its massive tail exuding a chill as it swept toward Henry Brooks. Caught off guard, he was sent flying.

“Kill!”

But in the next instant, a surge of murderous intent erupted, the slaughter it radiated merging with the stone spear, smashing down toward the giant crocodile’s body.