The Legend of Fangren

"Elder, what should we do with this stone-toothed boar carcass?" Feng Zhonghua asked.

The elder replied, "You can take some meat back. This mystic beast is primarily associated with metal and secondarily with earth. Its fangs are incredibly hard and are excellent for forging materials."

The materials for Xuanqi come from a variety of sources. They are cast from the Yin Xuan image of the Xuan beast, which can be described as "using form to supplement form".

Upon hearing this, many disciples showed expressions of anticipation.

A cultivator in the Nourishing Realm who is forging a new Xuan weapon needs second-tier materials corresponding to their realm.

The journey of training is also a journey of collection. Family members like He Qisheng have their own inheritance, while ordinary disciples need to keep an eye out for usable materials along the way, which are collected by the elders and finally sent to the Li Huo Hall for forging.

Of course, there are forging materials in the Fire Palace, but good forging materials are expensive and scarce. They are either in demand but priceless, or priceless but unavailable. They are not as good as what is readily available.

Since the killing of the Stone-Toothed Boar was Feng Zhonghua's achievement, this item should belong to him.

"Take it if you want it."

Noticing the stares of those around him, Feng Zhonghua raised his chin and walked away unconcerned.

He only needs to gain merit by killing the mystical beast; the Feng family has no shortage of forging materials.

"In that case, whoever needs anything, please speak up," the elder said.

The disciple who had volunteered with Feng Zhonghua immediately stepped forward: "Hey, don't fight over it. We went up just now too, so we should go first."

These were the conditions they had just offered, but they never expected to have no chance to make a move.

In that case, the others didn't have much to say. Anyway, the road of training was still long, and there would be plenty of opportunities later.

Then the elder ordered all the disciples to watch as he taught them how to extract and peel the spirit flesh.

Killing the mystical beast is only the first step; cultivators also need to learn to identify the spiritual flesh and other useful parts inside the mystical beast.

Take the stone-toothed pig for example. It belongs to the metal and earth elements. Its corresponding organs have the most concentrated spiritual energy, but because it is too concentrated, it cannot be eaten directly and is called a spiritual medicine.

The location of the spirit flesh within a mystical beast is not fixed and varies depending on the individual's experience. Once a mystical beast dies, the active mystical energy within its body begins to dissipate. Once this mystical energy is completely dissipated, the corpse will rot faster than ordinary dead flesh.

Therefore, the ability to quickly and accurately locate the most valuable piece of spiritual flesh inside a mythical beast has become a highly skilled task.

The elders worked together to turn the pig over, took out a butcher's knife, and cut open the skin. Because the pig had not been bled, the meat was full of red and white mixed together, which did not arouse any appetite.

The Grand Elder stood aside and said, "After a mystical beast dies, the mystical energy within its flesh will slowly dissipate. Since it corresponds to its own element, this can be used as a basis to sense the mystical energy and find the flesh."

As they spoke, the young elder skillfully used his knife to peel the spiritual flesh from the Stone-Toothed Pig's body. The flesh was located inside the spine and was a large piece of tenderloin.

The meat was bright red and tender, without any blood stains. It looked like the best. There was also a mysterious energy emanating from it, which mixed with the blood and became a fragrance, tantalizing everyone's appetite.

Several mortals among the yellow jade stalks swallowed hard upon seeing this meat, but unfortunately, they could not possibly consume such spiritual flesh. Excessive profound energy would be no different from deadly poison if it invaded their mortal bodies.

"Alright, we can eat this meat when we get back. Once we get the spiritual medicine, we can burn the remaining Xuan Beast corpses to dissipate the Xuan Qi and prevent them from attracting other Xuan Beasts."

The elder carefully stored away the spirit flesh and instructed the harvesting farmers to continue their work.

When the carriage was full and they were about to embark on their journey home, Fang Shi was still thinking about the stone-toothed boar that had been burned black.

What a pity, what a pity.

Such a large pig, and they only took one piece of tenderloin and threw the whole thing away. Although it's understandable that the elder's storage space was limited, in his opinion, it was such a waste that there were so many ways to eat different parts of a pig.

After much deliberation, he couldn't bear to do it any other way, so he secretly went to the stone-toothed pig while everyone was gathered around the car.

"Unfortunately, although my internal space is large, I need to break things down into blocks and items before I can store them. I remember in the game, killing creatures would drop corresponding items, and corpses would just disappear..."

If he followed the game's rules exactly, he wouldn't be able to do anything about the Stone-Toothed Boar.

However, thinking outside the box, tools such as swords and axes could extend and expand his destructive power, perhaps achieving different effects.

So he took out a stone axe and chopped at the stone-tusked boar, whose exterior was already charred black.

Sure enough, the power of dissolving manifested, and the cube appeared on the Stone-Toothed Boar, gradually taking shape until it closed up.

Fang Shi quickly checked his backpack space and saw a bone [item] x2 lying quietly in the item slot, while the part of the Stone-Toothed Boar's body that was covered by the block seemed to have slumped down.

"It seems that tools, like objects that dissolve earth and stone, have their own specific powers that target the bodies of living beings."

If an axe can chop bones, what about swords?

He immediately took out the stone sword again and struck the same spot as before.

With a few swift sword strikes, the Stone-Toothed Boar's body surface caved in, and when pressed down, it was discovered that there was nothing beneath the skin.

"A sword can cut flesh." Fang Shi noted this in his mind, and then tried several other tools.

Unfortunately, apart from knives and axes, other tools such as picks, hoes, and shovels cannot be disenchanted, perhaps because knives and axes are both tools and weapons in the game.

In the blink of an eye, Fang Shi dissected and absorbed the flesh and bones of an entire stone-toothed pig into his body, leaving only a charred black skin and internal organs.

He knew very well that there were no internal organs in the game, but there was a corresponding leather [item] for the skin, so what tool should be used for the leather?

"Scissors…"

Based on his life experience, he took out the scissors and tried it. It worked! The leather that was dissected was automatically cleaned of its burrs, leaving a clean and refreshing piece of leather.

In this way, only the internal organs of the large stone-toothed boar remained in place. Since it was not very large, Fang Shi cut it up a bit and put the good parts into his Tianfang Ring.

Hehehe, others only get a little bit of spirit meat and spirit medicine from killing a monster, which is incomparable to his utilization rate. He is truly making a fortune in silence.

"A prescription, a prescription."

"They're here."

Hearing the Luo River calling for him in the distance, he hurried back to the carriage and lied that he needed to relieve himself.

There's nothing we can do about it. The masters on the mountain have vision and composure, but the world below is not so safe. We should keep our abilities hidden to avoid causing trouble.

The carriage then embarked on its return journey, arriving back in the city without encountering any wild animals, which was quite fortunate. However, as the carriage, laden with food, passed through the city gate, everyone could see the hungry eyes of the refugees outside the city.

"Gentlemen, please, please give me some food...!"

Some people were so hungry that they rushed forward, but were stopped and pushed away by the city gate guards.

A guard shouted, "The city is facing a severe food shortage these days, and the wild beasts are fierce. The soldiers who went out to fight have suffered heavy casualties. If there is no food to supply the front line, I fear the city gates will fall."

This ordeal has finally managed to quell public anger.

Fang Shi, who was almost inside the city gate, wrote down these words.

When everyone returned to the inn, the elder handed the spirit meat to the kitchen staff and ordered them to cook it in the simplest way possible before distributing it to the disciples.

"Hey, as expected of fresh spirit meat, even a simple stew makes it incredibly fragrant."

The taste of the meat was frequently praised.

However, Luohe noticed that Fang Shi seemed to have some other thoughts.