Chapter 155 - The Beast Core
Lin Mu came to stand in front of the Alpha steel back wolf and observed it. The large stab wound in its skull was still dripping with blood as his short sword was only recently retrieved. There were other smaller wounds on its body, but they were no longer bleeding.
Compared to Hei Yingjie, the Alpha steel back wolf was relatively unscathed. This made Lin Mu wonder why. Although Hei Yingjie was supposed to have a higher cultivation base than the beast, he still lost. He wondered if the Bloodline awakening was really that impressive.
"It is indeed rather surprising that Hei Yingjie lost. From what I observed, it seemed to me as if his spirit qi stores were much lesser than they should have been. We’ve already seen his core, so it’s obvious that there is some problem that we don’t know of." Xukong spoke.
"We should get some idea after observing the Alpha steel back wolf’s beast core." Lin Mu replied in his mind and then extended his spirit sense.
Now that his spirit sense was ten times as stronger than before, Lin Mu had an easy time scanning the corpse. Lin Mu knew that when beasts reached the Core condensation realm, they would similarly form a spirit qi core, which was called as the beast core.
Though there were some exceptions as well. There were some beasts that could form a core before they even reached the core condensation realm. The cores that were formed when they were in the qi refining realm were called as pseudo cores.
Any beast that could form a pseudo core was considered to be exceptional and was often multiple times stronger than its normal counterpart. While this usually only happened with beasts that had high ranked bloodlines, sometimes normal beasts could also achieve this through a stroke of luck.
Lin Mu’s spirit sense pierced the Alpha steel back wolf’s body and started scanning around for the beast core. Depending on the species of the beast, its core could be anywhere in the body. Though in most cases it was either in their head or their chest.
"Oh? What do you want to do?" Xukong asked, feeling strange.
"I want to go and search for the clues on my own. Now that I have a stronger spirit sense, it should be relatively safe. And even if someone does find me, I’m confident I can escape using my skills. If I stay with the Hei Corps, won’t be able to freely use my skills and with Hei Yingjie out of commission our protection is gone anyway." Lin Mu spoke and took a pause.
~Sigh~
"This way at least this trip won’t go to a waste. Hopefully, by the time the other team gets the news, I’ll be back as well." Lin Mu continued in a tired tone.
’Hmm, although his decision is risky, it’s good that he’s taking it. He needs to learn to take risks. Anyway if push comes to shove, I can temporarily help him hopefully.’ Xukong thought to himself.
"Fine, then. Though I don’t think you can tell these people what you are going to do, can you?" Xukong replied.
Lin Mu thought for a bit over it. It was indeed true that the Hei Corps may not be open to Lin Mu leaving on his own. They were now down one man and were overall weakened. Their morale was also lower than before.
"I’ll just have to make an excuse, I guess." Lin Mu spoke and then walked towards Xie Bohai.
Xie Bohai had just finished telling his fellow members of Lin mu’s orders and saw Lin Mu approach him.
"Do you have any more orders, senior?" Xie Bohai questioned.
"Yes... well, not exactly. I just want to inform you that I’ll be cultivating on my own for two days." Lin Mu answered, cooking up a lie.