However, the three first-generation mutated spirit beasts had all possessed extraordinary comprehension. Together with their descendants' tens of thousands of years of exploration, they had gradually perfected that method of transformation suitable for all spirit beasts, creating exclusive mutation methods suited to their own races.
These methods greatly increased the likelihood of mutation while reducing the bodily harm caused by cultivation failure, as well as minimizing the Side Effects.
Take the Cloud Touching Hurricane Ape Clan's "Cloud Touching Four-Hand Evolution Method," for instance. After cultivating this method, the chance of successfully mutating was one percent. Even if one failed, death would not follow—only severe injury, from which one could recover after several decades.
The side effect of drastically reduced lifespan had also changed. Rather than having only three hundred years to live after entering the Golden Core Realm, one could now live for five hundred years.
Such results were far better than those of the original incomplete mutation method.
This had also allowed the Cloud Touching Hurricane Ape Clan to gradually reproduce and grow stronger over the past tens of thousands of years, with the number of Cloud Touching Hurricane Apes within the clan steadily increasing.
Of course, the reason ordinary Hurricane Apes cultivated such a lifespan-reducing technique was naturally because they valued the benefits of mutation: greatly enhanced aptitudes, two additional arms, and a tremendous increase in combat power, among other advantages.
As long as they could successfully comprehend this method and mutate, it was an act of defying fate and changing their destiny for ordinary Hurricane Apes.
As for this clan's middle-grade divine ability, the "Cloud Touching Fist Technique," it was also recorded within the small stone house that stored a vast number of the clan's inheritances.
However, this fist technique divine ability had been obtained through the