First Hunt

Tang Yin waited, he waited until the boar had let down its guard while it munched on the grass.

Time drifted by. Tang Yin had waited for a whole 15 minutes, and this boar had not moved an inch. However, he remained patient and waited for the right moment to strike.

The moment he waited for finally came, the boar had stopped paying attention to its surroundings for a brief moment. Tang Yin pounced on the boar like a crouching tiger, He grabbed the boar and started wrestling it. The only thing he had to be wary of would be the boar's tusks.

Tang Yin and the boar wrestled for a hot minute, he utilised the rock in his hand and started smashing the boar in the skull repeatedly. The boars' shrill squeals resounded throughout the area; those squeals slowly turned silent until the area was shrouded in deathly silence.

Tang Yin sat atop the boar's corpse, his hands and the rock were coated with the animal's blood. The boar beneath him was beaten to a bloody mess, its head was almost unrecognizable, and even its brain juice could be seen leaking out. It was a gruesome sight to behold.

Tang Yin's hands were trembling, he felt very uncomfortable, this was after all his first kill. A few minutes passed by; he remained on top of the boar until he finally calmed down.

He got off the boar and sat beside the dead animal. Tang Yin imagined his Martial Spirit, instantly a black vortex with red and black lightning swirling inside of it appeared behind him. As soon as the Martial Spirit appeared, it sucked the dead boar's blood and flesh in an incredibly fast manner.

Before Tang Yin could even react, the boar's flesh and blood had been absorbed by his Heaven Devouring Abyss Martial Spirit, even the blood on his hands and rock had been absorbed.

Only the boar's disintegrating bones were left, they were being rapidly absorbed by the Heaven Devouring Abyss Martial Spirit. As the boar was fully absorbed, Tang Yin, noticed something that left him in complete shock.

The wounds he had received from Shan Yu, and his ripped nails from digging his father's grave, as well as the wounds he had sustained from wrestling the boar, were rapidly healing, in the blink of an eye they were mostly healed. His nails had grown back, his cuts were closing without leaving any scars, and the bruises faded from his body.

Before he could recover from his shock, he saw an illusory spirit in the shape of a boar taking form from where the boar's absorbed corpse was. This was the boar's soul. 'It can even absorb the soul of the boar!', Tang Yin was completely stunned. Only cultivators in the Spirit Vein Condensation Realm could extract the soul of beasts, all cultivators below this realm didn't have the ability to extract the souls from a corpse unless they had a special art that allowed them to.

Whoosh

Tang Yin's Cultivation rose from the 1st stage of the Spirit Channelling Realm to the 2nd stage. Although Tang Yin had not expected this, when he thought about it carefully, it made sense.

To raise one's cultivation in the Spirit Channeling Realm, one had to understand and familiarize themselves with their Martial Spirit. Tang Yin had just witnessed and unknowingly used one of his Heaven Devouring Abyss Martial Spirit's abilities, Devour.

This was a form of using the strength of his Martial Spirit. Although Tang Yin had done it unconsciously, he had still used an ability of the Heaven Devouring Abyss.

He had also recovered from his fatigue from when he had wrestled the boar, this was the benefit of his Martial Spirit Devouring the boar's soul.

Tang Yin looked at his Heaven Devouring Abyss Martial Spirit and extreme excitement appeared on his face. If he could devour this boar completely, even the soul, then couldn't he devour Demonic Beasts? If he could devour Rank 1 Demonic Beasts, his cultivation would advance by leaps and bounds. He could barely hold his excitement.

Tang Yin had the urge to rush into the Middle Ring and test out his newfound theory, however, he suppressed this urge and thought rationally. 'My method of killing the boar was very crude and inefficient, I need to increase my battle skills.' Tang Yin carefully contemplated how he had achieved his first kill. It had taken a lot of effort to kill this normal animal, he was now a cultivator, yet he was still injured by an animal that wasn't even a Demonic Beast. He needed to find a way to train his fighting skills to kill beasts more efficiently.

'This is my first-time hunting, and the results are not bad. I sustained minimal injuries, and the best way to gain experience and fighting skills is by hunting more beasts.' Tang Yin carefully thought about his next course of action after killing the boar. He had decided that he would stay in the Outer Ring and kill all the animals he found and devour them with his Martial Spirit.

This way not only would he gain lots of experience and increase his fighting skills, but he would also familiarize himself with his Heaven Devouring Abyss Martial Spirit and increase his cultivation base.

Tang Yin firmly decided that he would stay in the Outer Ring until he reached the 3rd stage of the Spirit Channelling Realm.