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The Unvalued Treasure

Xiao Hua looked at Yuan with a contemplated look. "Brother Yuan's cultivation base was only at the initial stage of the Seventh Level Spirit Apprentice before consuming the Jade Frog monster core. Even if Brother Yuan consumed the entire core of the Jade Frog monster, he should not be able to break through to the Eighth Level Spirit Apprentice. immediately and would only be halfway through.”.

"In addition, Brother Yuan also directly absorbed the entire monster core and did not receive any reaction but instead made a breakthrough ... Xiao Hua had never seen anything like this before ..."

"Maybe it has something to do with my physique?" said Yuan.

"Physical Brother Yuan?"

"It's called the Heaven Refining Physique," he said, hoping he knew something about it.

However, Xiao Hua simply tilted his head. "Heaven Refining Physique? Xiao Hua had never heard of it before ..."

"But if it has anything to do with why Brother Yuan can consume that Jade Frog monster core, then we can obtain a few more monster cores to experiment with."

"Hm ..." Yuan suddenly took the token given to him by the goddess during the evaluation of his character and showed it to her. "Then do you know what this thing is, or its purpose?"

Xiao Hua's eyes immediately widened in shock upon seeing the jade token in his hand. "The Ancient Jade Spirit! And very big!" he exclaimed loudly, "Where did Brother Yuan get this from!?"

"It was given to me by some beauty. But I don't know his name. What function?" Yuan became curious when he saw his shocked expression, looking as if he had just watched the sky collapse before him.

"This was a Spirit Jade; it was somewhat similar to a monster core but stored more Qi within it. Even Royal Spirit Jade was the size of a pebble with low quality, lowest grade, extremely valuable in the higher heavens .. as it could awaken or give bloodline ..." Xiao Hua forcefully swallowed his saliva and continued, "The Ancient Spirit Jade in Brother Yuan's grasp is three levels above the Royal Spirit Jade ... Not to mention the size of a stone the size of a palm.”.

The presence of the Ancient Jade Spirit was enough to make the usually calm Xiao Hua tremble uncontrollably — it was only a precious treasure.

"Hmmm... So I can consume this and obtain Qi like a monster core, right?" Yuan licked his lips as he thought about how sweet the Jade Frog monster core was. "I wonder how strong I would grow if I ate this ..."

Xiao Hua almost received a heart attack when he heard her words and hurriedly grabbed her hand. "Can't! If Brother Yuan consumes this, even if you have a unique physique, you will definitely explode to death! Not even a peak Spirit Emperor would dare to imagine eating it!"

Yuan chuckled as he looked at the anxious face he made, "Quiet, Xiao Hua. I'm not gonna eat it. Such a precious item, how could I consume it before I find that beauty to ask her why she gave me this Spirit Jade? "

'For that fellow to have this Ancient Spirit Jade, he must have a shocking background... Maybe someone from the Supreme Heaven?' Xiao Hua thought to himself.

"Xiao Hua, this."

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"!!!"

Xiao Hua's soul almost left his body when Yuan suddenly threw the Ancient Spirit Jade at him. Barely catching him, he looked at him with a puzzled expression. "Sister Yuan ...?"

"It would be wiser if you kept this Ancient Spirit Jade for me until I became strong enough to protect it" he said.

Yuan frowned, "If you don't want to hold it, then who else? I was aware of my weak existence in this vast world, so if I held onto something like that it would only bring endless trouble. If I could, I would have thrown it away, but now I know its value... You know what I mean, right?"

Xiao Hua clenched his fists and nodded with a serious expression. "Xiao Hua swore to protect this Ancient Spirit Jade even at the cost of her life!"

"Wrong!" said Yuan loudly. "No matter how precious the Spirit Jade is, it is only an object and will never be as valuable as your life! If you lose your life or that Spirit Jade, then you will choose to lose the Spirit Jade!"

"But…"

"Nothing but! It's orders!" Yuan insisted on his decision. In his eyes, nothing in this world could be as valuable as Xiao Hua's life.

"...Xiao Hua understood..." He reluctantly nodded before storing the Ancient Spirit Jade in his storage pouch.

With the Ancient Spirit Jade missing from his sight, the atmosphere was no longer heavy and stifling.

'I cannot learn more about that beauty or why she gave me such a precious treasure ... How unfortunate.' Yuan breathed deeply.

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"Where do we go to get more monster cores?" Yuan asked him with the steel sword still in his grasp, his blood still hot from the battle with the Jade Frog.

"Any monster with a cultivation base from a Seventh-tier Spirit Apprentice and above will have a chance to take down the monster core," he said.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's hunt!"

Xiao Hua began to lead Yuan around to find monsters for him to fight. With his cultivation base, it was an easy job for him to find monsters within a thousand meter radius.

"There are medium-level monsters 200 meters to the north."

Low levels were monsters between level one to three, intermediate levels between level four to six, and high levels were monsters between level seven to nine.

"Eh? If at least not at the Seventh Level, what use are we to hunt them down if they don't drop the monster cores?"

"Brother Yuan, no matter how talented someone is or how many heavenly techniques they have, without the experience to use them properly, they would still be considered as someone weak."

"I can't argue with him ..." Yuan nodded.

Thus, the two began slaughtering every monster that came across them.or rather, every monster that was unfortunate enough was in that area.