Considering the fact that the meat of any spirit awakened beast was harmful to mortals as well as the trouble in dealing with one, no one but the boy would go after one among the mortals. The immortals on the other hand hunt them for the spirit beads, though the exact reason for it was unknown to the boy. The fascination of the boy towards the spirit awakened beasts aroused some months ago, when he stumbled upon the body of spirit awakened panther. Doing a thorough check, the boy found that the beast died in a fight against another such beast and whatever the other beast was, it only took a part of the panthers heart as price. The boy at the time was tired and hungry after a long hunting section in the forest, without any results to show for effort. So rather than wasting the meat from the panther, he decided to cook and eat it, something any informed person wouldn't do, which he wasn't at the time. It was only after completely devouring the meat did he realise that something was wrong as an overwhelming heat spread across his body from his stomach, which seemed to want to tear him apart from the inside. Fortunately, the boy quickly used the Devouring Mountain technique taught to him by the Assassins organisation. As an assassin, who had to wait in for his target for months on time without so much as a twitch, the technique was quite useful as it enabled one to eat almost anything without problem, directly ingesting it without leaving any waste behind. It was a tyrannical technique, which upon trained to perfection was rumoured to allow one to eat even stone and metals. It was only with the help of this technique that the boy was able to avoid a calamity. Later, returning home, he inquired about the beast to his grandfather, from whom he learned all about the spirit world and cultivation. After words, during his routine training section, the boy realised that his strength, agility, endurance etc has increased by leaps and bounds. The reason was simple enough to find out and something he wanted to confirm and if possible replicate as well.
