Ju Mang commanded wood and dwelled in the east. His entire body was verdant green; he had the body of a bird and the head of a man, rode upon two dragons, and was the Wood Ancestor Witch, quite renowned throughout the primordial wilderness.
Ju Mang was the Wood Ancestor Witch. Wherever there was wood, he could come and go freely. Yet as one of the Twelve Ancestral Shamans, his status was beyond comparison with ordinary cultivators. He only occasionally appeared in legends, and very few had seen his true form. At the very least, Ye Tian had no chance of seeing him. But that was merely a matter of time, because everything he did now was to raise his strength high enough to have a chance of fulfilling Jiuxiao's final wish. His ultimate goal was to leave this place and return to where he originally belonged. Even if he encountered so-called Demon Ancestors again, they likely would not be worthy of making Ye Tian act. Their levels differed, and naturally their horizons were no longer on the same plane.
Yet after swallowing the demon cores of the three clones, countless demonic beasts appeared within Ye Tian's divine sense. Their strengths varied, but Ye Tian knew their purpose perfectly well. They wanted nothing more than the demonic beast cultivation within him. Whoever obtained such a benefit would save decades, even centuries, of cultivation time. No one could clearly explain the changes involved, while one's strength determined one's status among demonic beasts and the resources one obtained. At their root, all of it was for the sake of reaching the step of immortality.
Moreover, it was already several times harder for demonic beasts to become immortals than for humans. This made their pursuit of strength even more frenzied and persistent than