Chapter 2051 — The Inner Core of a Spirit Beast
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"Let's go to the backyard!" Wei Zhao naturally didn't want the front courtyard—it could be seen from outside. If anyone saw a little pig writing on the ground to converse with a human, they'd be scared to death.
The backyard, however, was private ground. With its high walls, no one could see in unless they climbed over them.
Though Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had heard from Wei Zhao that the Thunder Pig could write, this was their first time seeing it, and they couldn't help but find it curious.
"So what exactly is this thing?" Wei Zhao pointed at the round bead in the Thunder Pig's arms and asked.
"..." With its forepaw, the Thunder Pig wrote in the soft soil of the backyard flower bed: "Spirit beast essence inner core."
"Spirit beast essence inner core?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. "What's that?"
"High-tier spirit beasts form inner cores within their bodies, and the inner cores of earth-tier and above spirit beasts are called essence inner cores," the Thunder Pig wrote.
"You mean this is the inner core of an earth-tier spirit beast?" Wei Zhao asked in astonishment.
"Squeak, squeak!" Clutching the round bead, the Thunder Pig nodded.
"What's this thing used for?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Spirit beasts can use it to cultivate. Humans can use it to refine pills," the Thunder Pig wrote.
"Cultivate? Oh—you can just cultivate through me. You don't need this thing!" Wei Zhao said, and snatched the round bead back from the Thunder Pig's arms.
"...Squeak, squeak..." Looking rather aggrieved, the Thunder Pig wrote: "Even for cultivation, most spirit beasts wouldn't use it..."
"Wouldn't use it? Even better." Wei Zhao felt rather relieved at the Thunder Pig's words. Good thing most spirit beasts wouldn't use it—otherwise, if that lion had used it himself, it would never have gotten around to offering it to Wei Zhao!
"Then whose inner core is this, exactly, and what tier?" Wei Zhao asked.
"My cultivation is too low. I can't determine that," the Thunder Pig wrote.
"Then how is it used in pill refining?" Wei Zhao asked.
"I don't know," the Thunder Pig wrote honestly.
"Zhang Lifeng doesn't know either?" Wei Zhao was surprised. Even the Thunder Pig didn't know.
"Maybe he knows, but he never told me." The Thunder Pig shook its head.
"I see. All right, then!" Wei Zhao put the round bead away. Though the thing seemed useless for now, it might yet prove greatly useful someday.
Watching the treasure being taken back by Wei Zhao again, the Thunder Pig looked somewhat helpless—but it didn't dare cross Wei Zhao. After all, the claim that the inner core could be used for cultivation was only a legend, and the specific method of cultivation was something even the Thunder Pig didn't know!