Ultimately, these ancestral divine beasts were merely formed from the vital essence of the three thousand Hongmeng ancestral beasts that Huaixu Ancestral Dragon, the Holy Venerable, had devoured in those days. In essence, they were a kind of manifested principle. Though Innately noble, far stronger and more full of potential than the flesh-and-blood descendants of later ages, they were therefore [owned by Heaven].
An Jing felt that the state of the ancestral divine beasts was somewhat connected to the "Immortal Fallen." And for the ancestral divine beasts, this feeling of being completely confined within the Zhaolin Realm—unable to grow any stronger, able only to undergo death and reincarnation again and again—was equally unacceptable.
But strangely enough, You Ruhui gave them a "feeling" that they could be freed.
But strictly speaking, it was not You Ruhui herself.
It was You Ruhui's Grotto-Heaven.
"More than that!" Golden-Winged Peng stressed at the end. "It isn't only when I eat Great King's friends—being killed by Great King's friends gives me the exact same feeling!"
"Is that so?"
An Jing thought of "Calamity Gold" and "Flowing Silver," whom he had slain and absorbed into the Grotto-Heaven within his body. He pondered for a moment, then asked Fuxie, "Fuxie, I have a guess... What do you think?"
"In essence, those Demon Spirits wish to imprint their Dao into the Grotto-Heaven within You Ruhui's body. Using that as their foundation, they would become true 'Ancestral Spirits.'"
Fuxie's voice rang out as well, thoughtful in tone. "Your Grotto-Heaven Method creates only a world that possesses 'space' and nothing else. Ordinarily, that is enough—but within such a 'small world,' at most one can accumulate a few Taiyang elements. It can never unleash a great Supernatural Ability like Taiyin Infinity, one that involves infinite future karma."
"Because there is no