Shirong looked around the room and everyone seemed to be in agreement with Clan head Mu's words.

"Now that we are close to the conclusion that it was done by a beast, perhaps we should now try to find what kind of a beast it actually was." Clan head Lu spoke.

"Of course, that is obvious. But how are we to do that? We cannot enter the forbidden zone to do that." One of the smaller clan heads asked.

"Young Master Shirong, can we please borrow the fragment of the beast shell that you got? I believe you are not leaving the city for a few days, thus we can analyze it more and try to determine which beast it belongs to. If we cannot find it and you are going to leave, we will give it back to you." Clan head Lu said.

While Shirong did not want to give them the fragment, he could come to terms with the current arrangement. First of all, Shirong was sure that they would not able to determine what kind of a beast it was, anyway. He himself had seen a lot of beast encyclopedias, and he could not recognize which kind of a beast it belonged to.

"That is fine with me," Shirong said before taking out the beast carapace fragment from his spatial storage ring.

Clan Head Lu took it and looked at it for a moment before speaking.

"This will be placed in the town hall, and every person that wants to investigate more can look at it there. But remember this that it is not to leave its confines and not to be taken. You all can use your own sources to find out what kind of beast this was." Clan head Lu stated.

"That is fine with me." Clan head Meng spoke.

Others also chimed in and agreed with the armament. Shirong nodded his head as well, confirming it. He knew that he was not going to head to the clan anytime soon and even when he was going to leave the Deer Wood city it would be after a few days.

Shirong checked his internal injuries and guessed that it could take up to a week for him to heal them all.

~Sigh~

He let out a sigh and rubbed his forehead.

Soon the meeting ended and everyone stood up to leave the hall. Shirong did the same and quickly returned to his courtyard to rest. He sat down in a meditative pose and popped a few healing pills in his mouth before starting to nurse his injuries.

Meanwhile, Lin Wu was thinking of what to do next and was gazing at the spirit stones with a storage look in his eyes.

"Let's try and see if he even remembers if a stone is missing…" Lin Wu muttered in a creepy tone.

He then floated over to one of the spirit stone bags and took out a single low grade spirit stone. He touched it and started absorbing the spirit qi from it. A minute later he had drained it empty and looked at how much he had obtained.

He felt that it was different absorbing it himself than letting the system absorb it.

~Ding~

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HOST CULTIVATION: Mid stage of the Core Condensation Realm

-Spirit Qi required to upgrade = [00010/12000] units (liquid spirit qi)

QI STORAGE: 12 units [liquid spirit qi]

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But after looking at the data, he found it to be wrong.

"Huh? This is strange… system what happened here?" Lin Wu questioned.

~Ding~

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ANSWER: Because the Host absorbed the spirit qi himself, the spirit qi was directly taken by the host's body. Because of this, it is not shown in the qi storage of the system. The spirit qi that was absorbed is now part of the host's cultivation and is thus shown in the upgrade requirements as well.

——

Lin Wu thought it over and understood it.

'So cultivating on my own is like this and will result in a direct upgrade to my cultivation base, and the spirit qi that I use for the skills is the one that is directly present in my core now.' Lin Wu thought.

Lin Wu now had two storages of spirit qi. One belonged to the system, and its max capacity was currently unknown. The second one was Lin Wu's own meridians and beast core. It had a max capacity of 12000 units of liquid qi currently, and when he reached that limit, his cultivation base would automatically upgrade.

Seeing this, Lin Wu had an idea and he wanted to try something. He used the innate skill of cellular manipulation and cellular crystallization to change the shape of his body. He then took a look at the qi storage again.

~Ding~

——

HOST CULTIVATION: Mid stage of the Core Condensation Realm

-Spirit Qi required to upgrade = [00007/12000] units (liquid spirit qi)

QI STORAGE: 12 units [liquid spirit qi]

——

"Just as I thought it reduced. So the qi that I cultivate can be depleted when I use skills. Seems like I need to keep a close eye on how much spirit qi I have in my core myself." Lin Wu muttered to himself.

Lin Wu looked through the list again and started going through the items that were in the ring. He had not gotten the chance to check it fully and now that he had it, he was interested. Because he was also able to read now, he was having fun.

"Interesting…" Lin Wu muttered, looking at some of the information in the scrolls and books that were present in the ring.

The four that he had obtained as data node were the important ones which were analyzed and made it able for him to read it too. Lin Wu kept on reading and improving his understanding of this world and its contents.

Just like this, a couple of days passed and Shirong woke up from his session. He opened his eyes and a troubled expression appeared on his face.

~Cough~

~Cough~

~Splat~

"That was disgusting…" Lin Wu said as he looked at the black blob that Shirong had just spat out.