After the demonic seed was spat out, it hung silently in midair, emanating intense waves of demonic aura.
Feeling the faint yet undeniable connection between her body and the demonic seed, Xu Chunniang became increasingly certain that this demonic seed was the sphere in the Golden Lion Playing with Pearl Diagram.
She recalled the movements and details of the Golden Lion Playing with a Pearl, imagined herself as the golden lion, and began to manipulate the demonic seed before her.
The Dao Fruit was the foundation of immortals, while the demonic seed was the origin of demons. Whether Dao Fruit or demonic seed, both were of utmost importance to cultivators.
Once a Dao Fruit or demonic seed was destroyed, a cultivator's entire cultivation would become like a tree without roots, duckweed without water—nine parts out of ten would be lost.
Thus, very few people exposed their Dao Fruits or demonic seeds to the outside. This was also why Xu Chunniang had not initially realized that the sphere the golden lion played with was a demonic seed.
The demonic seed was only the size of a pellet, yet the power contained within it was terrifying. Controlling it was no easy task.
Xu Chunniang mobilized all her senses, trying to play with the demonic seed like the golden lion in the painting, but she could never find the right method.
During practice, she discovered that the demonic seed was nothing like the sphere on the lion's back, light and easy to control. Even with all her strength, she could only barely keep it from falling.
After practicing for less than two hours, Xu Chunniang stopped, panting heavily.
She wiped the beads of sweat forming on her brow, a trace of fatigue showing in her eyes.
When she watched the golden lion play