Chapter 12: Inner Core and Realms of Cultivation.

"That bear likes to collect gems?" Ye Jingyi picked up the gem-like object and muttered to himself. After looking for a while, he did not find anything extraordinary about this piece of the gem, so he threw it in the pit again. He has no interest in these gems. Rather than wasting time on them, it's better to look at other herbs in the cave.

"Hmm, almost all the things in the cave are useful. It's better to turn them into medicines now." Ye Jingyi picked up some useful medicines and decided to convert them into medicines for emergencies. After making a decision, he started with his work, making some simple medicine for external applications and consumption, and some special ones.

When one is busy with some work, they do not notice the time. Ye Jingyi is like this, as he was busy making medicine, he did not notice the time. It's already half an hour since the bear left, and Ye Jingyi started making medicines. The medicines are all prepared, but the bear had not returned till now.

Thump! Just as he was thinking about the bear, he saw a silhouette entering the cave as something fell on the ground.

It's Bear who came in just now. Right now, his appearance is completely different from the beginning. His head is still bald, and his body is covered with some scars, blood kept flowing from the wounds. At his foot is a two-meter big saber-like beast whose neck was half snapped open.

"What happened?" Ye Jingyi glanced at the beast on the ground and asked the bear.

"I was going to hunt fish but encountered this guy. He wanted to kill me, so I killed him in return." Although his body is covered with scars, his face is filled with pride as he looks at the beast on the ground with a triumphant expression. Both of them were at the Essence realm, yet he still killed the opponent in such a short time.

"Oh." Seemingly uninterested, Ye Jingyi did not say anything but stood up, "Well, although you have not brought the fish, I can still eat this as dinner."

He walked toward the beast and a knife made from Nanoparticles and slashed the beast's skin, starting to butcher it as he removed all the edible meat and left the rest.

While butchering the meat, he noticed something as he heard Lynx's voice. "Faint energy fluctuations detected…"

After hearing this sentence, he looked at the position in which the energy is being detected. It's from the head! Ye Jingyi became curious as he slashed open the skull, and white and yellow materials poured out.

Ye Jingyi ignored this as he was used to dissection experiments. He searched inside the skull and found something familiar. A small, nail-sized gem!

Ye Jingyi picked up the gem and looked at it carefully. According to the data, the energy fluctuation is coming from this gem, which is why he wants to study it.

Ye Jingyi didn't notice that when he picked up the gem, the expression of the bear behind him completely changed as he looked at the small nail-sized gem with heartache.

"Give it to me! It's not a good thing," the bear said to Ye Jingyi in a low voice.

"Oh? Why do you say that it's not a good thing?" Ye Jingyi glanced at the bear and asked curiously.

"That thing is not good! It's the bad part of a beast. You can't eat it; otherwise, you will have diarrhea for one month," the bear said seriously, wanting to get back this inner core and add it to his collection. For this, he used the term said by Ye Jingyi to appear more persuasive.

Ye Jingyi's mouth twitched after hearing the bear. Diarrhea for one month? Why don't you say a year?

"So in your words, every beast has this bad thing? And we should not eat it?" Ye Jingyi did not give him the gem and continued to ask the question, but his expression became weirder and weirder.

"Yes! That's right, so give it to me," the bear said, feeling something wrong, but to get the inner core back, he agreed with him.

"Hmm." Ye Jingyi looked at the bear up and down and said, "Thank you for reminding me in order to repay you. I will help you remove the tumor in your head."

Saying this, he walked toward the bear with a good-willed smile.

The bear felt his backdoor tighten as he looked at the approaching human.

"W-what do you mean?" The bear stammered and asked.

"Didn't you say that this is a bad thing? You too have this in your head, right? So let me remove it for you as repayment. It's alright; you don't have to thank me; this is what I should do," Ye Jingyi said as he had a knife and needle in his hand, looking at the bear with narrowed eyes.

My head will be kicked by a donkey if I thank you for this. The bear roared inwardly as he wanted to escape from the clutches of this pervert.

But can he escape? The answer is no.

Soon from the cave, there was the sound of howling and wailing.

….

Near the bonfire, a bear, clutching his head, sat with tears of grievance in his eyes. Just now, he almost lost his inner core to this human.

"So you mean this is not a bad thing but a result of the so-called cultivation?" Ye Jingyi looked at the bear in front of him and asked.

Previously, he learned from the bear that this gem is called the inner core, and it's the result of cultivation; it's not a bad tumor. According to the bear, when a beast reaches the Essence realm, it forms an inner core in its head as the essence of the whole body is gathered inside the core.

The realms for the so-called cultivation are divided into Body Transformation Realm, Essence Realm, Qi Realm, Foundation Realm, Core Realm, and Soul Transformation Realm. As for realms further from it, the bear is not clear about them.