The Sky Devouring Pearl had waited for who knew how many years before Jiang Chen activated it.
Blood had to stain the Sky Devouring Pearl, and the person had to have no dantian—their dantian had to be destroyed. Only when both conditions were met could it acknowledge a master.
Otherwise, even if blood was dripped onto the Sky Devouring Pearl and it acknowledged a master, it could not merge into the dantian, nor could one receive the inheritance of the Sky Devouring Demonic Dragon Art.
If it could not merge into the dantian, then after three days, the Sky Devouring Pearl would sever its master-recognition bond on its own.
It would wait for the next host to appear.
The odds were simply too harsh.
Only by fusing with the Sky Devouring Pearl could one cultivate the Sky Devouring Demonic Dragon Art.
An ordinary dantian simply could not withstand such an overbearing cultivation method.
The dantian was fragile. If a massive amount of spiritual energy struck it in a short time, the dantian would explode as well.
Cultivation had always been gradual, improving step by step. Once one's realm rose, time was needed to consolidate one's cultivation; in truth, the strength of the dantian also had to be reinforced.
Otherwise, if one broke through repeatedly in a short period, an ordinary dantian simply could not endure such impacts.
That was why something as heaven-defying as the Sky Devouring Pearl was needed to replace the dantian, allowing one to cultivate the Sky Devouring Demonic Dragon Art smoothly.
This was the dragon pearl left behind by the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon in life; it could also be called its inner core.
It was precisely because it had condensed such a formidable Sky Devouring Dragon Pearl that the Sky Swallowing Demonic Dragon had become