To some people of great wisdom, whether ordinary humans, demons, or the so-called Heaven's Favor lineage, they were merely different flowers blooming on the same great tree, different fruits borne from the same branches.
That great tree upon which all living beings depended was what some called the Heavenly Dao.
To all things beneath heaven, the Heavenly Dao was cruel, for as Yuan Tianyi had said, the laws of the Heavenly Dao were the law of the jungle. Yet at times, the Heavenly Dao also maintained a subtle balance among all things, compensating for one's deficiencies in certain aspects through advantages elsewhere.
For instance, although the vast majority of the Demon Race were born without spiritual awareness and found cultivation innately far more difficult than ordinary Daoist cultivators, most demons possessed vitality and physical strength far surpassing that of ordinary cultivators. Many demons also had unique innate abilities.
The Fox Demon King lineage to which the white-clad young woman belonged consisted of spirit foxes that had cultivated human forms. Though she lacked formidable physical strength, her cultivated human body contained uniquely formed meridians, allowing her to cultivate two different cultivation arts simultaneously and even cast two entirely different spells almost at the same time.
As for the so-called Heaven's Favor lineage represented by the old beggar controlled by True Master Hong Yi, they were in truth merely a type of people with extraordinary perception. Just as some living creatures could innately sense approaching danger, or instinctively feel that one place was fraught with peril while another was safe, the people of the Heaven's Favor lineage simply possessed exceptionally acute senses. Yet they had no particular talent on the path of cultivation, so their cultivation was generally extremely low. When fighting others with spells, such perception was of little use. Just