Magical beasts and humans cultivated differently. Humans were born weak; in the early stages of cultivation, they had to absorb the energy of heaven and earth and transform it into Dou Qi within their bodies. Upon reaching the Dou Zong realm, they began comprehending the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
Magical beasts were much simpler. They cultivated only their own bloodlines. Thus, a magical beast's bloodline often determined just how far it could go. Take a first-tier Green Wood Fox, for example...
It would most likely remain first-tier for its entire life, never breaking through to the second tier, because its bloodline limited it.
Cai Lin's true form was now the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. Her bloodline was powerful, but because she had evolved from a snake-woman, it was not pure enough. Thus, much of her cultivation in the Tagor Desert over the years had focused on tempering her own bloodline.
Once she tempered her bloodline until it was as pure as that of the first Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python to exist between heaven and earth, she would reach the level of a peak seventh-tier magical beast.
In terms of human Dou Zhe realms, that was a Venerate!
At that moment, strands of energy from the Seven-Colored Primal Stone flowed into her body. This power, left behind after the death of another Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, shared the same origin and root as her own. Cai Lin could clearly sense that the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline within her was growing purer.
"Such a powerful effect. Just one Seven-Colored Primal Stone could probably equal decades of my own hard cultivation!"
Cai Lin was thrilled. She had only ever read about Seven-Colored Primal Stones in ancient texts, and this was her first time refining one. Its effects were far more