I can gain insights into martial arts.

Chen Mochuan briefly browsed the resource exchange platform, memorized the martial arts cultivation resources he could use, and then turned off the projection on his personal terminal.

Seeing that he had finished dealing with it, Li Feng took out another item and pushed it over.

Chen Mochuan was slightly taken aback when he saw the insulated box in front of him. He didn't expect that in addition to the "City Guardian" badge, the police would have something else for him.

Seeing Li Feng gesture for him to take a look, he didn't hesitate any longer and opened the box. Inside a pile of ice packs, there was a sealed vacuum bag containing a few small pieces of bright red meat.

"This is..." Chen Mochuan was initially puzzled when he first saw the meat strips, unsure of what they were, but he quickly realized, "Is it the meat of that one-legged ferocious rat?"

Li Feng nodded slightly. "Xiao Chen, you killed that vicious rat on your own, so it's your personal trophy. We collected it for the sake of the case, but now that the review is complete and the case is officially closed, it should be returned to its rightful owner. The team's technical department even helped you with that."

Seeing the surprised expression on Chen Mochuan's face, he chuckled and joked, "You don't mean to think that such a big, ferocious rat only produced such a small half-pound of meat, and that our special operations team withheld a portion, do you?"

Only after Li Feng mentioned it did Chen Mochuan remember that there was still a usable part on the ferocious beast.

With his solid foundation in martial arts, he knew very well that the flesh of ferocious beasts did indeed contain abundant spiritual energy.

More than 600 years ago, in the early days of the appearance of ferocious beasts, humans discovered this after killing them, and many people began to eat the flesh of the beasts in hopes of becoming stronger quickly.

However, people soon discovered that in addition to being rich in spiritual energy, the meat of the ferocious beasts also contained undetectable toxins, and many people died from consuming large quantities of the meat.

This toxin is extremely unique and highly integrated with the flesh of ferocious beasts. Even martial artists find it difficult to neutralize, as if it should never have appeared in this world. With the current technology of Earth, it is still difficult to completely remove it from the flesh of ferocious beasts.

However, the research on the flesh of ferocious beasts by humans on Earth has not been without progress. Through continuous exploration, it has been discovered that not all ferocious beasts are inedible.

Some ferocious beasts contain a small portion of meat with very low toxicity, which can be processed through special methods to reduce the toxins to a level acceptable to the human body.

However, even among these ferocious beasts, those of extremely large, high-level individuals have very little meat with low levels of toxicity.

To properly process this ferocious beast meat, specialized equipment and special materials are required, as well as dedicated personnel. As a result, the price of ferocious beast meat remains consistently high, and it is considered a luxury item.

"Brother Li, the fact that a low-ranking ferocious rat can produce such a small half-pound of edible meat is already beyond my expectations! Besides, it would cost money to find someone outside to clean this meat, and the toxins might not be completely removed. I'm so grateful to our Special Operations Team!" Chen Mochuan quickly thanked him.

"I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable, Xiao Chen. Your grades in martial arts knowledge must be quite good!" Seeing this, Li Feng knew he didn't need to explain further, but he still couldn't help but emphasize, "This ferocious rat meat has undergone professional detoxification and meets the standards for consumption. You can eat it without worry."

After a brief chat, Chen Mochuan signed the registration form, then took his belongings and left.

Carrying the ferocious rat meat with him, he didn't go to Mingxin Martial Arts Hall to continue training and chose to go straight home.

Even with vacuum sealing and icing, the spiritual essence contained in the beast meat will gradually dissipate unless it is processed into jerky for easy preservation using special methods. He must eat it as soon as possible to maximize its effectiveness.

To avoid the predicament of blood stagnation and indigestion that occurred when he ate the boiled blood beast meat before, Chen Mochuan chose to eat the fierce rat meat in batches after frying it.

However, he soon realized that he had been worrying too much. After eating several pieces of the ferocious rat meat, although his blood and qi were noticeably agitated, they did not riot or stagnate like last time, and were still within a controllable range.

By evening, after standing in the foundation-strengthening stance for several hours, Chen Mochuan, with the help of "Spirit Devourer," finally completely digested all the ferocious rat meat.

This time, unlike when he ate the Boiling Blood Beast jerky, he did not become exhausted and immediately fall into a deep sleep. Instead, he felt energetic and refreshed.

He summoned the golden light screen to examine his harvest.

[You have devoted yourself wholeheartedly to your practice and have gained a deeper understanding of the fundamental cultivation method.]

[Strengthening Foundation: Da Cheng (69%) → Da Cheng (73%)]

[You activated "Spirit Devouring," efficiently absorbing the energy from the ferocious rat's flesh, and devouring and transforming its toxins to nourish your own body. Your blood and energy were stimulated, and your physical attributes were improved.]

[Qi and Blood Value: 4.89 → 4.99]

This small half-pound of ferocious rat meat increased his blood and qi by 0.1, which was only one-third the effect of the thin slice of boiling blood beast jerky he had before, but Chen Mochuan was still very satisfied.

After all, the Boiling Blood Beast is a third-tier ferocious beast, and the ferocious rats that do not enter the tier are completely incomparable to it. Moreover, its blood and qi value is much higher now than before, making it more difficult to improve. Therefore, its expectations are naturally not too high.

Improving his Qi and Blood levels was a minor matter; what he cared more about was the message displayed on the golden screen: "Devour and transform the toxins within to nourish yourself."

This indicates that even though the meat of these ferocious rats has undergone official processing and reached "edible standards," it still contains trace amounts of toxins that are difficult to remove by ordinary means.

When they consumed the piece of Boiling Blood Beast Meat that had undergone a more advanced process, the light screen did not display such a prompt.

Recalling the information I found online, there is a special process with extremely high costs, combined with precious medicinal materials, that can completely remove the toxins from the meat of ferocious beasts, and it is mostly used for high-level ferocious beast meat.

This may also be one of the main reasons why that small piece of Boiling Blood Beast jerky, even though it costs more than 50,000, is still in short supply on the military and police supplies exchange platform.

"It's so good to be rich; you have plenty of resources," Chen Mochuan sighed again.

But he also realized that even if other martial artists could obtain a lot of well-processed, completely non-toxic ferocious beast meat, they would not have the powerful devouring and digesting ability of "Spirit Devourer".

It would probably take a martial artist of the same level more than half a month to fully digest the spiritual power contained in a small piece of Boiling Blood Beast jerky.

He then realized that the "Spirit Devourer" could actually devour the special toxin in the beast's flesh that even martial artists couldn't cure, and convert it into energy that would benefit itself.

"Following this logic, with 'Soul Devourer' protecting me, I could probably eat the flesh of a ferocious beast without any problems, right?"

This thought warmed his heart!

Does that mean that the "scraps" of a ferocious beast that are discarded due to excessive toxins are deadly poison to others, but may be excellent resources for one's own spiritual practice?