The Beast Core Cultivator

ss, reflecting the pale afternoon sk

harsh frontier living, took over. He threw himself backward into the mud just as

e and jagged armor, water pouring off its metallic scales. Its eyes burned with a mindless, ch

f his fishing spear. His hands were shaking, but his stance was wide. He couldn'

al roar, the

had no martial arts techniques, no Qi armor to protect him. Every time the beast's claws

thought, tasting copper

t dodge. Instead, he planted the butt of his spear deep into t

beneath its jaw, driving deep into its skull with a sickening crunch. The shaft splintered instan

d. One of the beast's razor-sharp claws was lodged deeply in hi

tunneling into a pinpoint of grey. "Mom...

s open, clawing weakly at

It was coming from the corpse of the beast. Deep within th

felt like a lifeline. With the absolute last shred of hi

rb,no larger than a peach levitated upward. It hummed with wild, chaotic energy. Slowly, almost

ing light and sank str

energy exploded outward from his heart, flooding his dying veins. H

his eyes, the moon

in. He looked down. His clothes were shredded and stained dark with dried blood,

ed his own strength and practically launched hi

ay. He could see the individual veins on the leaves in the dark. He felt a thrumming, conde

w how, but he

on hitting him like a physical blow. The hound had

istance with terrifying speed, his new muscles pr

the tree line, the sme

uction was horrifyingly precise. Houses hadn't been smashed; they had been sliced cleanly in

med, tearing through the

mia

rn. Damian hurled a wooden beam aside with one hand, a beam that would

half was crushed, hi

y? Was it a beast herd?" Damian aske

lips. His trembling hand reached up, gripp

h lingering terror. "The sky... they came from the sky.

s. Cultivators. The immortals who looked d

your sister... they chained them in light. Flew toward the Eastern P

s eyes glossed over, staring u

nds, feeling the thrumming, stolen power of the beast core radiating in his chest. He looked tow

ds. Damian was going to p