Mao Jing analyzed carefully.
The "Demon Form" and "Demon Refinement" that Mao Jing mentioned were ranks used to classify the realms of demon cultivators.
Ghosts had five ranks: white, yellow, red, green, and purple.
Zombies had seven ranks: purple, white, black, green, red, flying, and Imperishable Bone.
Demons, meanwhile, had eight ranks: Initial Awakening, Demon Condensation, Demon Form, Demon Refinement, Demon Manifestation, Demon Law, Demon Communion, and Earth Immortal.
Human cultivators, on the other hand, had ten ranks.
Compared to zombies and ghosts, demons found cultivation easier, so their realms were more numerous and more finely divided.
They could bask in the light of the sun and moon, and absorb the essence of the sun and moon.
Still, compared to the ten ranks of human cultivation, they fell somewhat short.
Back when we encountered that den of fox demons on Grand Mountain, the strongest one, the fox mother, was in the Demon Form Realm, barely able to take human form.
Grey Master at the White Stone Mountain funeral home was also in this realm.
But I had previously heard that he was avoiding the Three Calamities.
If he had survived them, he might already have reached the Demon Refinement Realm.
Only upon reaching the Demon Refinement Realm could one be called a "great demon."
This realm was comparable to the middle to late stages of the Strength Soul Realm, or even the early stage of the Vitality Soul Realm.
Demons varied, and so did their strength...
After all, demons were born with the special abilities of the animals they came from.
At the same realm, a tiger demon's combat strength was certainly many times greater than that of a rat demon.
And once a demon reached the "Demon Refinement" Realm and became a "great demon"...
It would be an extremely