Chapter 504: Wolf Meat

"You still deserve my thanks," Saintess Jiang Nian insisted.

Xiao Fan had no choice but to accept, and he turned his gaze toward the Fourth-Order Yao Beast that Saintess Jiang Nian had slain earlier.

It was a wild wolf with formidable strength, but it had already been killed by Saintess Jiang Nian.

"This… do you still want it?" Xiao Fan looked at Saintess Jiang Nian.

"Uh… I'll give it to you!" Saintess Jiang Nian was very generous. A Fourth-Order Yao Beast was actually quite valuable, not much worse than those ten-thousand-year Spirit Medicine.

As for the Spirit Medicine that Holy Son Mo Yihong had snatched away earlier, she didn't intend to ask Xiao Fan for it either…

After Holy Son Mo Yihong had snatched that Spirit Medicine earlier, he had put it directly into his Storage Pouch!

After all, her own life had been saved by Xiao Fan!

"Then I won't stand on ceremony!" Xiao Fan rubbed his hands together and looked at the wild wolf.

"Awoo…"

The Golden-Haired Lion on the side also yelped a few times in excitement.

This wild wolf was six meters long, which could be considered huge, but compared to the wild boar from before, it was much smaller.

Judging by its aura, this wild wolf was about the same as the wild boar, likely both at the Middle Stage of the Fourth Order.

Saintess Jiang Nian was stunned, unable to understand why these two were so excited?!

Then she watched as Xiao Fan walked over and proceeded to butcher the wild wolf…

He removed its internal organs; Yao Beasts at the Xuandan Realm possess a monster core.

It was equivalent to a human's Golden Core. Xiao Fan glanced at the wild wolf's Golden Core and threw it directly to Saintess Jiang Nian.

A Yao Beast's monster core is the most valuable part of the creature, equivalent to more than half of the Yao Beast's total value!

"This…" Saintess Jiang Nian was stunned, unable to grasp what Xiao Fan meant.

Did he not want such a valuable monster core?

One had to know that within Wuhuang Province, Yao Beasts above the Fourth Order were very rare, yet Xiao Fan had just tossed this monster core to her so easily?

Xiao Fan ignored her. In no time at all, he had finished processing the wild wolf.

He tossed a wolf leg directly to Little Gold, then circulated his Azure Flame Art to begin roasting the wolf meat…

Half a quarter of an hour later, the aroma of meat wafted through the air.

Xiao Fan took out his pitch-black longsword, sliced off a piece of wolf meat, and tossed it to Saintess Jiang Nian.

"Give it a try."

"Uh… Okay…" Saintess Jiang Nian was dumbfounded; clearly, she hadn't expected that Xiao Fan actually intended to eat this wild wolf.

However, she didn't want to spurn Xiao Fan's kindness. As the wolf meat entered her mouth, a surge of spiritual power flowed from the meat into her limbs.

"This…" Saintess Jiang Nian was stunned; apparently, she had never eaten Yao Beast meat before and hadn't expected such benefits.

"It's delicious, right?" Xiao Fan laughed, then ate a piece himself.

"The taste is average, a bit worse compared to the wild boar meat." Xiao Fan raised an eyebrow; this wild wolf wasn't as tasty as the pork, and the texture was rather tough.

Saintess Jiang Nian: "…"

She hadn't expected that Xiao Fan would just eat this Fourth-Order Yao Beast like this.

One had to know that a complete Fourth-Order Yao Beast could sell for at least ten million Spirit Stones…

And just like that, it was gone.

However, she had to admit that the spiritual power contained within this wolf meat was indeed very beneficial.

She had eaten Yao Beast meat in the outside world, even that of Xuandan Realm beasts, but compared to this Secret Realm, it was far inferior.

"You are the Saintess of the Jixian Sect?" Xiao Fan looked at Saintess Jiang Nian.

"Yes, I am." Saintess Jiang Nian nodded.

"And the other one in the red robe is the Divine Son?"

"That's right."

"I see." Xiao Fan nodded. "Where were you all before? Why haven't I seen you since I entered the inner Sect?"

"We have always been Cultivating in a Secret Realm within the Jixian Sect and rarely come out…" Saintess Jiang Nian sighed. "Our responsibility is to become stronger; the burden on our shoulders is very heavy."

Saintess Jiang Nian explained to Xiao Fan some of the things that Divine Sons and Saintesses had to do.

The pressure they were under was immense, and it all came from the Sect.

Being able to serve as a Divine Son or Saintess required more than just being a Prodigy; one also needed to have sufficient loyalty to the Jixian Sect.

People like Saintess Jiang Nian and Divine Son Liu Yuan had grown up in the Jixian Sect, and their families had elders who were Grand Elders of the Jixian Sect.

This was also an important condition for becoming a Divine Son or Saintess.

Besides the Jixian Sect, other major powers selected their Divine Sons and Saintesses in the same way.

"I see." Xiao Fan nodded.

For a major power, loyalty was indeed the most important thing.

Afterward, Xiao Fan asked Saintess Jiang Nian some questions about the Divine Sons and Saintesses of the various major powers.

Saintess Jiang Nian answered everything without reservation, and Xiao Fan could feel that she was very sincere.

This might be related to Saintess Jiang Nian's upbringing.

Although she had a cultivation base at the Xuandan Realm, she rarely left the Jixian Sect.

She spent her days Cultivating and had very little contact with other people.

The Divine Sons and Saintesses of the other major powers were the same.

"Our initial task is to Cultivate, and we only go out for training once our cultivation reaches the Yuanhun Realm." Saintess Jiang Nian explained, telling Xiao Fan that Divine Sons and Saintesses generally would not leave the Sect until they reached the Yuanhun Realm.

And including the Jixian Sect, other Sects had also had other Divine Sons and Saintesses go out for training before.

They were destined to become powerhouses of the Pi Hai Realm, but among them, there also had to be those who could become powerhouses of the Yuding Realm!

Otherwise, without a Yuding Realm powerhouse to hold down the fort, the Sect would sooner or later decline.

Xiao Fan even heard that some of the Divine Sons and Saintesses who had gone out for training before were already several hundred years old.

"Major powers are actually so complicated." Xiao Fan sighed; clearly, this was something he hadn't expected before.