Gold Vanquishing Gourd

Bone Melting Golden Snakes were not Demonic Beasts, but Savage Exotic Species akin to Savage Strange Insects.

These Savage Exotic Species were not Demonic Beasts. Generally speaking, they did not possess the intelligence of Demonic Beasts and mostly acted on instinct alone.

They usually shared the same traits: difficulty reproducing, slow growth, and an inability to coexist with other creatures.

These traits had made them increasingly rare in today's Cultivation World. Only in places rarely visited by humans, such as the Savage Jungle, could traces of them still be found.

They were beings even less suited to adapting to the present-day Cultivation World than savage beasts.

But that did not mean they were weak. In fact, any being called a Savage Exotic Species or Savage Strange Insect possessed formidable true strength.

Generally speaking, a Savage Strange Insect or Savage Exotic Species in its mature state was, at the very least, capable of harming a human Golden Core Stage Cultivator.

And Savage Exotic Species as well known as the Bone Melting Golden Snake were not to be underestimated even by Nascent Soul Stage cultivators once they reached maturity.

However, it was no easy matter for these Savage Strange Insects and Savage Exotic Species to enter their mature state.

Take the Bone Melting Golden Snake before Zhou Yang, for example. For this Savage Exotic Species to grow, it had to remain within a mineral vein rich in Gold Qi, absorbing the Gold Qi within the vein to nourish itself before it could grow normally.

Even under such conditions, it could only grow three inches every hundred years, while a mature Bone Melting Golden Snake had to exceed one zhang in length.

In other words, this fine-scaled little snake before Zhou Yang, which was no more than seven feet long, was actually over