Dr. Harris digs into the boars chest and rips out the demonic core.

“Lintian do you know why the rankings for tier beasts start at the martial realm stage?” Harris questions.

“The reason is because demonic beast do not form a demonic core crystal until they reach the first stage of the martial realm. Before that they are like us except they can naturally absorb qi from the air without even trying.”

“Correct,” Harris said and his hand began to emulate a blue thick light that ingulf the demonic core. He tosses Lintian the demonic core, “Lintian here. I used a rank 1 formation on the core to purify 80 percent of the qi. Its purer now and has less of the demonic characteristic in it. I want you to wear this head band starting now. So I can monitor your brave waves. To see how it changes every time you absorb a core. We will use you as of now as the original model.”

Lintian looks at the headband that Dr. Harris pulls out from his inter-spatial ring. It looks like any old headband that people wears for sports but it has 7 small green metal circles connected by a thread spread around it. It looks really embarrassing to wear. Lintian puts it on unwillingly but if it will help it doesn't matter how embarrassing it is.

When Lintian puts it on, a hologram screen pops up on Harris’s wrist. Harris click some buttons and said, “Lintian began the absorption process.”

“Ok,” Lintian answers and began to focus on the demonic core. Lintian felt the energy turning into a stream of qi as it enter his body. He guided the energy to the meridian points he wants to open. Lintian could feel that this energy was different from the boar he absorbed before. It was a lot calmer and way less fierce. The effect was also less proficient but that was probable because it is a tier one beast and not a tier two. After 10 minutes Lintian absorbed the demonic core dry. Lintian estimated that he needs either 4 tier two demonic beast or 17 tier one beasts. This is only an estimate and in truth can vary by a bit.

Harris looks at his watch and recorded all the data.

“Lets move on to the next beast. From the looks of this tier one beast seems to have no effect on your overall brain activity. Lets try tier two and see where that leads us.”

“Also I already implanted trackers on all 7 of the tier two so we can find them easy,” Dr. Harris added.

Lintian followed behind Harris. Harris kept a slow pace so Lintian wouldn’t get lost. Since this was the boar’s territory not a lot of other demonic beast were around making it easier for them to move around. If a tier three or four came even he would have trouble dealing with them. He was at stage 8 of the martial realm but his knowledge and talent in formations makes him as frightening as a cultivator in the mid stages of the Master Realm, or so he led others to believe.

After about five minutes they found the tier 2 boar. It was 10 meters away from him. Dr. Harris signals Lintian to hide and do a surprise attack. Harris quickly hid into the trees as not to spook the boar. Lintian hiding behind trees, and bushes creeps closer to the boar. Lintian as never done this before so when he was about seven meters the boar notices him.

It felt that Lintian was challenging his territory and began his charge. Lintian dodged as quickly as he could and tried to cut the boar but the blade couldn't even draw blood. It was like using a normal kitchen knife to try and cut open a stone. Utterly almost impossible.

Lintian withdrew the sword and retreated. Lintian could now feel the difference between heaven qi and martial qi. It was like the difference of power between a bb gun and an actual hand gun.

Walking cautiously in a circular motion Lintian looked for a weak spot. He has done his research on the computer and he knows the boar’s autonomy quite well if not better than the boar himself. I will not be able to break his skin no matter what I do, Lintian thought. At my current level I don't have the skills to do it with this sword. Lintian remembers his father’s saying to fight smart not stupid. If the skin is too tough then the eyes will have to do, he thought. Since if he stabs through the eye it will reach the brain.

Lintian charged toward the boar. He felt that Dr. Harris would jump down to save him if there is any danger. The boar also decided to charge at Lintian. Lintian thrust the sword forward at the eye. Then he used the emperor’s step retreat to move backwards at a constant speed in order to prevent himself from being hit by the boar. The sword thrust missed the eye and hit the temple of the boar. Which did not do anything at all, since he failed Lintian used the emperor’s steps to dodge to the side. Still gotta work on my sword skills he thought. Lintian has never truly practice with a sword since he grew up. It was always his fists and legs that were constantly trained. Therefore when he has to use a sword no matter how good his hand eye coordinations are against a moving target it would be extremely tough to hit the mark.

The boar hit the tree causing a slight rumble before the tree fell to the ground. Lets try again thought Lintian. After three more attempts Lintian was finally able to hit the eye and the sword slid through the eye socket with ease. It didn’t immediately kill the boar so Lintian let go of the sword and dodged. While the boar hit the tree and ended up killing himself. Death by suicide.

Dr. Harris came down and ended the boar’s life. He felt pity for the boar and killed it straight off. He then digs out the demonic core and did the same process to the core before handing it to Lintian to absorb. Lintian could feel the effect of the core immediately. It was much stronger than the tier one boar. The flow of the qi was stronger but still calm and controllable thanks to Dr. Harris. While Lintian was absorbing it, Dr. Harris was checking his brain activity. Still normal he thought.

They went off to search for another tier two boar again after a twenty minute rest. Lintian did the same thing again and killed the boars by stabbing through the eye and the boar kill itself by slamming into the tree. Dr. Harris did not put a formation on the demonic core this time when he handed Lintian the core. Lintian began the absorbing process again. The qi was still flowing through as proficient as before but this time it has a wild side to it. It would try to attack the veins but the asura side of Lintian’s qi would quickly suppress it. Even through Lintian was only in the refinement stage the asura part of his veins releases cells that possesses such domineering aura that martial realm qi simple could not do anything about it.

This time Harris saw certain parts of Lintian’s brain surge up and down in a very volatility motion. Eventually it calms down to the point like it never happened before. For the rest of the day they would search and kill. All the boars died by the same method unintentional suicide. Harris would also switch between the cores in order to better access the effect of the cores accurately.

On the fifth core Lintian made a breakthrough. His fifth meridian point opened up. He could also feel his dantian fill up with qi by a bit.

“Dr. Harris I just opened the fifth point. Should we stop for now?” Asked Lintian.

“Yes that would be a good idea. I still need to go over the datas I discovered today.

We will take a rest tomorrow and continue the day after. Don’t practice the martial art I gave you today for the rest of the day. Your body needs rest. It seems you were still try to use qi intensively after you came back today. Let your body rest and absorb the information from today.”

Harris brought Lintian back to his house. Kyuri was following in the trees without Harris even noticing. It’s animal instincts kicked in to help it hide and sneak so well. Once Harris left Kyuri came out. It stared intently at the core in Lintian’s hand.

Noticing this Lintian took out the five dried up core he got today and handed it to him. Kyuri began to chew on one of the core and at it. It was a strange site to behold. Kyuri who was only two feet big was eating the cores the size of an apple. After all five cores were eaten, Kyuri was satisfied and directly went into the beast cube to rest. Lintian went to his room and began to research the reason for Kyuri’s appetite.