The tentacles of the One Eyed Blood Thorn Octopus tied him up and the thorn on it continued to pierce into his body. His consciousness became fuzzy and he was rapidly losing blood.
By the time he regained his consciousness, he was already inside the beast's stomach and his body had begun to heal itself. The insides of the One-Eyed Blood Thorn Octopus was smelly and contained a weak but poisonous acid that could kill a regular person in minutes or seconds when inhaled or when coming in physical contact with the skin, the body of the person will get mummified immediately after death.
'It's after all not so different from normal octopus, it is just that the innards are as sturdy as steel and they have a poisonous qi protecting them', thought Xiao wan while comparing this octopuses internal organs with the ones he had seen on earth.
The main thing he needed from this savage beast was its core. Its core could allow him to advance to the next level and also help him in cultivating a skill he found in the ring.
It was a body art of the earth level but it was incomplete, and he had already reached initial success, if it was complete it could have reached the heaven level even possibly the divine level.
It was called the 'Five Elemental Cultivation Skill', it required the user to different treasure of the five elements and absorb it to cultivate the Qi and strengthen his body.
It was even possible to create rivers, make earthquakes with a stomp on the ground, bring a barren area back to life, slash a mountain with a mere wave of the hand, wreck havoc with a hurricane.
The One Eyed Blood Thorn Octopus was a beast that resided in water hence it would have water element in it. This was one reason the other was because he could temper his will with the brutal and savage qi contained in it. If he had a strong will and perseverance he might be able to face untold hardship than even when some saints are faced with such difficulty.
This act has already displayed how highly he thought of himself.
He stabbed the side of the octopus but was hit by a repulsive force and he only managed to leave a shallow cut that upset the monster and it started trashing itself around on the floor of the pond.
In the beast's mind it was wondering what it had eaten that caused it such discomfort, such low rank beasts have little or no intelligence. The more Xiao Wan stabbed its internal organs the more it turned its body over and over again writhing in pain. As a result of the movements on the outside Xiao wan would sometimes lose his balance and some of the poisonous qi would get in contact with his skin and turn his skin purplish.
By the time Xiao Wan had already stabbed a particular place multiple times the beast was at almost taking it's last breath. Xiao wan tore open the stomach but the octopus did not give up the ghost but rather it was curious to see what had been his source of discomfort.
Xiao Wan came out with multiple wounds and burns but his body had begun to heal very slowly. He'd have to actively run his Genuine Qi and take pills to be able to heal completely. Thankfully the storage ring had some Low-level Rank Nine Healing Pills so he took a pill out and began to heal himself.
Xiao wan sat down cross-legged on the back of the octopus and closed his eyes in order to ease his energy and recover fully. He then prepared to take the carcass of the octopus and exchange its the materials for cultivation resources. Xiao Wan was still underwater but since he had been fighting inside it he had swiftly learnt how to utilize his soul energy to prevent himself from drowning.
When he was done, his eyes flew open and two tiny almost invisible rays of light shot out from them into the horizon. He noticed that a trace of vitality was still in the octopus and he went to check it out.
He walked over the body of the Savage beast. The monsters eye which was as big as a child's head was stared at him from when he appeared by its side up until he arrived at it's front with deep animosity in it.
Xiao wan laughed hard with his hands holding his stomach and said seriously, "You have a powerful vitality and I respect the fact that you had to go all out in your Battle with me but I'm afraid this is where your journey ends".
The surrounding water was already dyed red from the cut in the One Eyed Blood Thorn Octopus and more came gushing out as it struggled to get out of Xiao wan's reach but Xiao wan appeared right in the direction it wanted to escape to leaving it no choice but to want to self-destroy.
Golden light rays were appearing on its body and it grew bigger and bigger by each passing second, terror immediately appeared on Xiao Wan's face and he pushed Genuine Qi under his feet to propel him forward but he was a little slow he was caught in the explosion when he was 30 steps away from the cave.
He was flung into the cave almost reaching the spirit fountain and the screen of light at the entrance of the cave shone with a bright blue light and blocked the explosion from entering the cave.
Xiao wan didn't have an inkling as to what was happening right now as he fell unconscious when he was flung into the cave. He was injured severely and even if one looks at him from afar the flesh on his legs could be seen dangling and it was only attached by a few strands of tendons which could fall off at any point in time but instead of him dying he was radiating an intense domineering life force which could revive someone that just died.
As if the Spirit fountain had its own consciousness, it brought out a hand made of Spirit Qi and formed a cocoon that covered him from head to toe and lifted him gently in the air few meters away from the ground and dragged him into the fountain. He was in the cocoon for three days and three nights. Inside the cocoon his eyes fluttered and he showed signs of awakening.
The spirit fountain had been here for almost three hundred and fifty years so that amount of time was enough to to build up a simple consciousness. But it had more than just a simple consciousness as it had interacted with the powerful cultivator in that stone room before his death.