Although the avatar draws spiritual energy from the ore for cultivation, spiritual energy is still a kind of resource for practice.

Moreover, the technique being cultivated is also the Five True Skills deduced by Shen Can.

Normally, following this secret technique of cultivating the Desolate Beast Battle Body like the original form should simply create a second version of the original form.

However, the effect now is beyond Shen Can’s expectations.

The beast pattern resembles a massive Earth Dragon.

Yes, one without legs.

Because no other powerful attribute wild beasts were found to serve as references, the imprint of the Kui Ox is most prominent in Shen Can’s Desolate Beast Battle Body.

Yet now, on the beast pattern condensed by the avatar, even the Kui Ox has been diminished.

At this moment, strands of spiritual energy from the ore merged into the body, quickly turning into nourishment to evolve the beast pattern.

However, the avatar transforming into other beast forms has an advantage for Shen Can, as it helps to avoid being too similar to the original form.

Nevertheless, he still needs to find out why it has turned into such a form.

As time passes, every inch of the avatar’s muscles lights up with a brilliant glow, as if the entire body has undergone a cleansing.

The specks of ore dust inside the body don’t seem like impurities; rather, they appear to be part of the body.

Moreover, due to the increasing amount of external spiritual energy absorbed, the sense of brightness becomes even more vivid.

...

"The ore extracted over these past two days seems so dim; if one mine tunnel is producing poor quality, it can’t be that all areas are poor quality, right?"

Standing before dozens of stewards, the Elder of the Mines from Cyan Sheep Bo Division, who oversees the ore vein, spoke.

These stewards are directly responsible for liaising with the miner slaves.

"Reporting to the elder, we’ve also entered the mine to investigate; the miner slaves haven’t done anything false; the ore extracted is indeed like this."

"We’ve also verified it and even killed a few miner slaves to ensure there was no trickery involved."

...

The Elder of the Mines frowned.

This is not a good sign.

It very likely indicates that this ore vein has been mined to its end, becoming a waste mine.

This mine has been excavated for over a thousand years, so it’s actually normal for it to be mined thoroughly.

But for him, it’s not very favorable.

There are also tens of thousands of clan soldiers stationed outside the mountain, along with all the stewards, all relying on this ore vein for their livelihood.

"Starting tomorrow, you all will go down with the miner slaves again, and have them open new mine tunnels."

The Elder of the Mines ordered. If this ore vein is indeed exhausted, he will have no choice but to report it to the clan.

...

By this moment, the avatar had quietly left the site of the ore vein and ran a thousand miles into the wilderness.

Silently awaiting the arrival of nightfall, the avatar’s blood energy began to circulate rapidly, and the entire body swelled up quickly.

As the body expanded, the flesh emitted specks of starlight, manifesting one by one into a scene of the starry sea.

The entire body swelled, and a gigantic ’Earth Dragon’ of nine yards long slammed onto the wasteland with a ’thud’.

The Earth Dragon was covered entirely with dense scales, glittering with points of starlight, and its surface was as crystalline as meteoric iron.

The large eyes were like two stars embedded on either side of the skull.

A singular horn emerged on its head.

As for the arms and legs, they shrunk down into four flesh stumps.

With a gentle sway, its massive body floated up effortlessly.

The underbelly had no scales, extremely smooth, shimmering with dots of starlight.

Shen Can stood to the side, feeling the changes in the ’Earth Dragon’s’ body; he was utterly sure this was definitely not a dragon.

There was no trace of Dragon Qi.

In this form, it could be mistaken for an Earth Dragon, and claiming it’s a Xiaoyang Riding Beast Crocodile Dragon would convince some.

A beast form capable of suppressing even the Kui Ox Divine Form certainly doesn’t belong to a simple wild beast category.

In the Great Wilderness, there are many wild beasts, yet Shen Can currently cannot recognize what this is.

Awooo!

In the distant wasteland, a wolf pack howled, hunting a herd of antelope.

The Earth Dragon, which the avatar had transformed into, gave a gentle shake and let out a low grunt from its mouth.

Subsequently, wolves in the distant pack whimpered one after the other, tucking their tails and sitting on the ground without daring to move.

With a ’thump’, the hovering body descended.

The entire belly landed on the ground.

Fine, while the Kui Ox has only one hoof, this one doesn’t even have any hooves.

Shen Can pulled out a few pieces of ore and stuffed them into the avatar’s mouth, which opened wide enough to be two yards in size, capable of swallowing him whole without a belch.

Once the ore entered its mouth, it was chomped up with a crunching sound, its spiritual energy absorbed into the body, with the shattered bits spat out.

After transforming into the wild beast form, the craving for devouring ores has intensified. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

...

Midnight.

Beside a lake.

Shen Can and the avatar sat cross-legged facing each other, with a small bonfire lit before them.

Once again, he examined the avatar’s body, and it was exceedingly certain that the body full of starry glimmers was worlds apart from a normal person of the Human Race.

The avatar’s physique held mighty vitality, stronger than those of the same level.

The avatar’s war body was nine yards long and three yards tall.

After thoroughly checking, Shen Can still couldn’t determine the origin of the star ore within the avatar’s body.

But it can be confirmed that the avatar’s prodigious opportunity is inextricably linked to the stars within.

...

Biyang Ore Vein.

This time, Shen Can relocated the avatar to continue devouring spiritual energy elsewhere.

The previous location wasn’t entirely depleted; rather, Shen Can was preparing for an ascension to Divine Treasure, requiring substantial amounts of spiritual energy as resources.

Why stay in an ore vein that’s already been partially absorbed when a new ore vein could have abundant resources?

Upon entering Biyang Ore Vein, the avatar immediately transformed to nine yards in size, immediately opening its mouth to bite into the ore before it.