As the two spoke, they heard an ethereal deer cry.
Green Deer now spent only one-third of each month in the Gourd World. The rest of the time, it helped at the sect by casting spells on the Spirit Fields. The cry had come from the Five-Colored Deer.
Before long, the spiritual deer with Five-Colored Radiance glowing from its antlers came bounding over happily.
True Monarch Lianshan smiled and said,
"Half a year ago, I sensed that this deer's aura had reached integration. Now it seems its accumulation is sufficient, and some of the fog over its bloodline memories has dispersed. It has obtained the art needed for a breakthrough."
Ji An stroked the Five-Colored Deer's forehead, deeply moved.
"Demonic beasts with high-quality bloodlines truly possess an enormous advantage."
His beast companion had told him that its Bloodline Inheritance contained secret methods for breakthroughs. It merely needed to prepare some high-grade spiritual fruits.
"Do not envy that. Bloodlines only grow thinner with each generation. The meaning of inheritance is to allow cultivators with no foundation at all to climb to the summit of ten thousand mountains, not to rely on the glory of their ancestors.
"Human cultivators may lack inherited bloodline memories, but we have countless cultivators jointly driving the progress of the cultivation world.
"In the earliest days, we crawled beneath the tyrannical might of the Demonic Beast Clans. Now, we have driven every Demonic Beast Clan to the edges of the continent.
"At present, only the sea beasts still possess their glory. But one day, cultivators' footprints will be stamped upon the vast emerald waves."
There was a faint pride in True Monarch Lianshan's words. He had witnessed the grand era when the top Demonic Beast Clans were driven out of Central Continent.
Ji An smiled and continued,