Back when he was in the Jade Balance Realm, Han Yi had encountered demonic beasts while still at the Qi Refinement stage. They were beasts that had not yet fully gained intelligence and could not yet be called demonkind.
Once his realm had risen higher, the demon cultivators he encountered came in all shapes and forms. Myriad Demon Mountain, Myriad Star Sea, the Seven Big Dipper Realms, Azure Mystic Daoist Grounds—he had come into contact with demon cultivators in all these places.
Among them, through a twist of fate, he had been taken to the Shaking Light Realm before making his way to the Tianquan Realm. The Shaking Light Realm was, moreover, a world of demonkind, while half of the Tianquan Realm's territory belonged to demonkind as well.
Therefore.
Han Yi had long since understood demonkind's path of cultivation inside and out.
If the immortal path cultivated "laws" and "arts," while the ancient gods cultivated "body" and "strength," then demonkind cultivated only one core: "bloodline."
A demon's cultivation meant continuously transforming its own bloodline. The first hurdle they faced, like human cultivators, was Foundation Establishment.
Human Foundation Establishment in the Jade Balance Realm required passing three gates and surviving five tribulations, but the demons of the Jade Balance Realm had none of those messy hurdles.
When the power in their bloodlines accumulated through the sun and moon, through consuming heavenly treasures, or through breathing in the essence of sun and moon, and at a certain moment broke past a boundary and transformed, they achieved Foundation Establishment.
Their Foundation Establishment involved condensing the power of their bloodline into a core.
That was: a demon core.
That was right.
For human cultivators, Foundation Establishment merely expanded and transformed their spirit sea and consciousness sea, further condensing their dharma power and laying the