Chapter 55 Consuming the Beast core like some kind of snack

"Nah… this isn't working. My five senses are getting in my way, and at this rate, it will take forever for me to even clear my head, let alone feel the blood and manipulate it," Jin Wei muttered as he slowly opened his eyes in irritation.

"Well, I can't just give up this easily now, can I? Let's try this out," Jin Wei smirked and again closed his eyes. This time he wasn't trying to clear his head like before; instead, he was just cultivating.

Jin Wei's breathing style changed. He was taking in air through his nostrils and breathing out through his mouth, following a pattern. His senses were getting calmer with each passing moment.

After a few minutes of continuous breathing in the same pattern, the aura around him changed. If one could look closely, one would notice some kind of white light surrounding his body, and on top of that light, there was a deep red light visible to the naked eye.

As Jin Wei breathed in, the white energy entered his nostrils, and moved into his lungs, heart, and even his veins. It circulated throughout his whole body and then got stored in his belly like a round ball. As he breathed out, all the excessive energy that was not used came out of his mouth.

This process continued for about 10 minutes. After that, Jin Wei again opened his eyes, his breathing returned to normal, and the energy around his body disappeared.

"Sigh… this dungeon is cursed. The star energy here is so thin, I can barely cultivate," Jin Wei muttered in disappointment, but then suddenly an obvious idea entered his head.

"How can I be so stupid?" Jin Wei muttered in excitement, and then suddenly a beast core appeared out of nowhere. Without any hesitation, Jin Wei placed it in his mouth and bit on it with all his strength.

"Crack!!!"

"Crack!!!"

"Crunch!!!"

The beast's core shattered to pieces, and instead of having powder in his mouth, the whole core turned into a bluish-white light and got consumed by him.

As soon as the energy entered his body, he felt like his skin was burning, his heart was pumping like a drumbeat, and his lungs were burning like fire. He felt like he was on top of the sun, getting burned to death. His veins were bulging out of his skin, his skin was turning red, and anyone who saw him could tell he was about to die just by looking.

Actually, what he did just now is quite dangerous. If any normal human at his level had done this, they would have exploded by now.

Beast cores are never meant to be consumed like this. To use a beast core, one just needs to stay close to it and meditate. This will automatically hasten one's cultivation speed, but during this process, almost 70% of the energy would go to waste. So although it's a safe method, it's not too effective.

On the other hand, Jin Wei just now consumed the beast's core like it was some kind of snack, causing all the energy of the beast's core to enter in one go. 

Although it helped him not waste a single bit of energy, in return it caused him to experience a near-death situation.

One must remember that a single mid-bronze rank beast core can fill a peak bronze rank cultivator if used with 100% efficiency.

But Jin Wei is just a 3-star bronze-rank cultivator. Even though he was currently physically at the same level as any normal peak bronze rank cultivator, his star energy capacity was at the same level as any 3-star bronze rank cultivator.

So what he did just now would have been practically suicide if he were a normal human.

But he wasn't a normal human, was he? He was an immortal being. How could he die just by consuming one beast's core? Or so he hoped that's the case.

Jin Wei knew this would be painful to consume and that normal people could die if they consumed it like this. 

But he was sure that he wouldn't die since even the protagonist Liam survived after consuming a beast core.

Although at that time Liam was at the peak of bronze rank and consumed only a mid-bronze rank beast core, still Jin Wei was confident that he wouldn't die either, since his physique and regeneration speed were both superior to Liam's.

As the energy circulated in his body, his star energy was recovering at a fast speed. After about five minutes, his star energy had already recovered back to normal.

But still, more than 80 percent of the energy remained, and he couldn't just let it go to waste. So with this thought, Jin Wei again began to cultivate.

His skin was still burning like fire, his head was spinning, and his blood was boiling like lava. Even some of his veins were exploding here and there. A few of his bones were breaking due to the pressure. 

Fortunately, the more he got hurt, the more he healed. This time, to heal himself, he wasn't using blood energy since he didn't have any. He was using his own blood to recover, but this was causing self-harm to him.

A few wrinkles were appearing on his face. It looked like he was aging at a visible rate. Even his hair was turning grey like some old man's. In just a matter of moments, it looked like he had aged for hundreds of years. But even then, Jin Wei's strength was increasing with each passing moment.

This process continued for about half an hour. Then Jin Wei suddenly opened his eyes, and light around his body blasted, flashing through the whole cave.

"Boom!!!"

A loud bang erupted throughout the cave, causing it to shake violently and causing the monsters nearby to flee as they sensed danger from that cave.

After a few moments, the cave stopped shaking, and the monsters who had been running away a moment ago got confused, since the danger they sensed suddenly vanished as if all they sensed was nothing but an illusion.

But still, none dare to approach the cave, because who knows what monsters reside there. They don't want to be his midnight snack or something.