Divine beasts were wondrous creatures. There was no helping it—every divine beast was born of heaven and earth. How could they possibly not be extraordinary?
Divine beasts did not need to cultivate. So long as they grew naturally, they would eventually reach the limits determined by their bloodline.
The four great divine beasts, for instance, were all at the Chaos Realm, while most divine beasts were at the Black Hole Realm. There were absolutely no divine beasts at the Comet Realm or Celestial River Realm—that would be far too weak, practically an insult to the words "divine beast."
Divine beasts were powerful, but their descendants were not necessarily so.
Heaven-and-earth divine beasts were each one of a kind, yet to produce offspring, they inevitably had to mix bloodlines, diluting the purity of their blood.
Take the Azure Dragon Clan. Beneath that old dragon, only one Second Ancestor had ever reached the Chaos Realm, yet compared to the old dragon, he had been inferior by far, far too much.
The descendants of divine beasts fell into two types. One possessed a powerful bloodline and directly had their original form, with their human form merely being an incarnation. Such descendants inherited the advantages of divine beasts: they only needed to eat and sleep, and once grown, they would naturally become supreme experts, their achievements determined by their bloodline.
The other kind had weaker bloodlines. Under normal circumstances, they remained in human form and could transform into their original form only after activating their bloodline. They were like human martial artists, facing barrier after barrier to break through, perhaps becoming stuck forever at the Star Realm or Celestial River Realm.
But this also had its benefits: they might escape the suppression of their bloodline's limits and attain even greater achievements!
Such examples were