Seeing the madness revealed on the young cultivator's face, Qin Fengming's heart stirred slightly. He immediately thought of how vine demons reproduced.
Vine demons were a special kind of demon beast. Unlike ordinary demon beasts, they did not reproduce through only one method of mating. They had an even more unusual method: they could split themselves apart and produce offspring.
Based on Qin Fengming's understanding of vine demons, they would resort to mating only when they wanted offspring with pure bloodlines.
The offspring born from the branches and tendrils that naturally broke off from a vine demon at regular intervals had far less-pure bloodlines. That was because the vine demon's most refined essence remained in its main body.
Vine demons born from broken stems naturally contained very little of their main body's origin energy.
However, vine demons born through mating could inherit a large amount of origin energy.
Only vine demons capable of mating and producing offspring were powerful existences that could transform into human form. Only vine demons with intelligence that could take on fleshly bodies would choose to mate and leave behind offspring with pure bloodlines.
As for exactly how vine demon cultivators produced offspring, Qin Fengming had naturally never carefully consulted the ancient records.
However, the vine demon cultivator before him now claimed that he had left a contingency within his clan. After he perished, a vine demon identical to him would be born and inherit his spiritual consciousness. This made Qin Fengming feel curious as well.
From the young man's words, Qin Fengming was somewhat certain that the contingency he had left within his clan bore a striking resemblance to the avatars cultivated by cultivators.
Faced with an opponent bent on dying, Qin Fengming did not find him difficult to deal with. Instead, he smiled faintly