Demonic Beast

Biodata

Characteristics

Demonic Beasts have no single appearance or body plan. They range from ordinary animals enlarged and mutated by demonic power to humanoid monsters and colossal aberrations.

• Bestial forms include Demon Hounds the size of small calves, wolves, tigers, bears, oxen, serpents, insects, and birds. Demon Hounds have matted fur, protruding fangs, black mist around their bodies, and strength at the Body Tempering Realm. 6
• Humanoid forms may possess humanlike bodies alongside multiple heads, extra arms, claws, horns, scales, or additional eyes. 404 409
• Colossal forms can measure hundreds or thousands of meters, including monstrous birds, mountain-sized creatures, and enormous Dharma Body Realm beasts. 413 427
• Their bodies are commonly thick-skinned and tough-fleshed, making them difficult for ordinary blades and swords to wound. 70
• Powerful individuals can speak human language, such as the black tiger Demon King. 501

Documented Strength Levels

Classification and Distinctions

Behavior and Tactics

Predation and Consumption

Demonic Beasts eat humans, while humans hunt them for their valuable bodies and materials. 245

• In Great Stone Village, a tide of black beetles stripped a villager to a skeleton almost instantly. 404
• Their corpses can be refined into pills and are valuable enough to motivate organized hunting expeditions. 245 385
• Villages use intact Demonic Beast corpses as fuel for protective torches. 405 406

Relentless Assaults

Many lower-ranked Demonic Beasts display little fear or self-preservation.

• Even after Li Xuancang killed multiple Profound Connection Realm beasts, the remaining horde continued charging without hesitation. 405
• During the Abyss invasion, massed beasts used suicidal attacks to exhaust Human Race defenders, often forcing cultivators to fight until their strength ran dry. 482 527
• Some Mid-Stage Dharma Body Realm beasts self-destructed to breach defensive lines and kill enemy experts. 545

Coordinated Warfare

Stronger Demonic Beasts direct weaker ones as expendable forces.

• Divine Repository Realm beasts withheld their attacks while lower-ranked hordes attempted to wear down Li Xuancang's Blood Qi Dharma Manifestation. 417
• A two-headed Cave Heaven Realm beast coordinated surrounding Demonic Beasts into an organized assault on Li Xuancang. 588
• Abyssal armies establish defensive lines, deploy high-realm experts, and use formations in major campaigns. 525 547 564

Abyssal Corruption

The Abyss can assimilate living beings into Demonic Beasts.

• Li Xuancang identified being dragged into the Abyss as a danger because assimilation would turn him into a Demonic Beast. 424
• Beings that fall into or are born in the Abyss gradually lose themselves and place the Abyss above all else under the Abyssal Will's influence. 562

Countermeasures

• Torches — Their radiance suppresses Demonic Beasts, burns low-level beasts to ash, and weakens even Divine Repository Realm beasts. 484 569
• Dawn — At Great Stone Village, the attacking horde retreated immediately when daylight appeared. 405
• Demon-Slaying and Demon-Subduing powers — Righteous spiritual techniques can purify demonic qi, disrupt enemy recovery, and weaken demonic formations. 184 363
• Judgment Jade Disc — Its divine light annihilated countless Demonic Beasts, damaged their bodies and souls, and sealed an Abyss passage to prevent retreat. 550
• Overwhelming Blood Qi — Li Xuancang's Blood Qi Force can melt invading demonic qi from his Dharma Avatar and repair the resulting damage. 417

Resources

• Every part of a Demonic Beast is considered valuable, especially the corpse of a Divine Repository Realm specimen. 245 385
• Intact corpses provide fuel capable of keeping village torches lit for years. 406
• Demonic Beast remains are sought for cultivation; Bai Meng repeatedly consumes their corpses to strengthen himself and advance. 501 569
• A living Demonic Beast may be captured for military merit or investigation rather than immediately killed. 410 449

Relationships

• Abyssal Will — Controls the souls of Abyssal Demonic Beasts and rewards those that kill a Marked One. 556 562
• Nanli Great Sage — Commands an Abyssal invasion force that includes vast numbers of Demonic Beasts; they react to his arrival with fanaticism. 525
• Li Xuancang — A major predator and adversary of Demonic Beasts, responsible for mass killings from village sieges to Abyss raids. His Abyssal Mark causes them to actively hunt him. 245 555 556 588
• Human Race — Their principal prey and battlefield opponent; Human settlements depend on torches, defensive formations, and organized armies to survive their assaults. 405 527

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Early hunting expeditions — The Black-Ridge Demon Wolf's death establishes Demonic Beasts as dangerous military threats, while Sunset Glow Canyon becomes a profitable hunting ground for cultivators. 15 245
• Heaven-Abandoned Land attacks — Nightly beast tides besiege villages and towns. The torches become essential defensive tools, while Li Xuancang repeatedly holds the line alone. 404 405 417
• Jinghui County crisis — Demonic Beasts exploit the destruction of the Torch and attempt to drag Li Xuancang into the Abyss for assimilation. 423 424
• Abyss invasion of the Wild Continent — The Abyss assembles over a hundred Dharma Body Realm experts and innumerable lesser beasts, launching a full-scale invasion that pushes the Human Race toward collapse. 525 527
• Allied counteroffensive — Li Xuancang's Ten-Thousand-Meter Dharma Avatar breaks the Demonic Beast defensive line, allowing the allied army to reclaim territory. 547
• Continued Abyss war — The beasts remain an existential threat after the Wild Continent's devastation, targeting Marked Ones and contesting Demon Territory against multiple races. 556 562 564 588