Magical Beast

Biodata

Ranks and Notable Beasts

• Ancient Void Dragons — An exceptionally powerful Magical Beast race. Zi Yan’s dragon bloodline can suppress other beasts, while her inherited talents help her find treasures and bypass restrictions 74 143 145.
• Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon — A nearly extinct beast encountered guarding a Soul Infant Fruit. Zi Yan subdues it through bloodline pressure, and Xiao Yan gives it an improved Transformation Pill in exchange for the fruit 145.
• Flame Lizardmen — Numerous creatures living in the magma beneath Jia Nan Academy; some reach Dou Zun-level strength 129. A pale-white individual later attacks Xiao Yan using Spatial Power and speaks human language 133.
• Three Great Magical Beast Families — The Ancient Void Dragon, Heavenly Demon Phoenix, and Nine Netherworld Python clans are the three great Magical Beast clans of the Beast Region. Ancient Void Dragons are described as the most mysterious and powerful of the three 74.
• Azure Luan Clan — Mu Qingluan’s clan. Its bloodline is sufficiently distinguished that she is surprised by the bloodline suppression she feels from Zi Yan 142.
• Purple Nether Flame Snakes — The companion Magical Beasts associated with Cai Lin and Cai Die. During their evolution preparations, the sisters assume enormous purple-scaled serpent forms and enter the Green Lotus Core Flame under Xiao Yan’s protection 28.
• Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Pythons — The evolved serpent forms associated with Cai Lin and Cai Die, which subsequently take human form 41.
• Ancient Heavenly Phoenix — One of the top-tier Magical Beasts whose appearance Xiao Yan reproduces with the Monkey Talisman. Its skeletal remains lie beside those of an Ancient Void Dragon beneath the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit’s altar 63 145.
• Ancient Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake — A mutated ancient beast whose soul Qing Lin obtained. After restoring its soul, Xiao Yan estimates its peak soul strength at late Heaven Realm. Its enormous skeleton remains in a hidden cavern in the Beast Region, preserved by its powerful bloodline, and is sought as a potential resurrection vessel for the Yellow Springs Demon Saint 250.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint — Originally a mutated snake Magical Beast, with a bloodline connection to the Ancient Heavenly Snake 250.

Power Progression

The following milestones concern documented individual beasts rather than a single progression shared by every species.

Abilities & Characteristics

Innate abilities and bloodlines

• Abilities vary by species: the Snow Demon Sky Ape can enter Berserk, while Ancient Void Dragons possess powerful bloodline pressure 64 143.
• Bloodline strength can change a beast’s standing. After refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, Zi Yan awakens her Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline and a fully matured Royal Bloodline 156.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape’s Berserk state also causes its injured arm to begin healing rapidly 64.
• Speaking human language is not unusual for a fifth-rank Magical Beast, as demonstrated by the Snow Demon Sky Ape 64.
• Ancient Void Dragons possess innate spatial abilities, including traveling through space and bypassing restrictions. Zi Yan combines these talents with her ability to sense rare natural treasures 63 75 143.
• Bloodline pressure can subdue other beasts without a prolonged fight. Zi Yan’s aura frightens away the Skeleton Mountain Range’s hidden watchers and renders the Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon docile 143 145.
• A powerful bloodline can preserve a beast’s remains long after death, as demonstrated by the Ancient Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake’s skeleton 250.

Human form

• A Transformation Pill allows the Amethyst Winged Lion King, later named Little Purple, to take human form 11 12.
• Zi Yan takes her Ancient Void Dragon form through Xiao Yan’s Monkey Talisman. She controls the form naturally but initially depends on him to switch between dragon and human forms 74 75.
• Xiao Yan initially mistakes Little Purple for a male based on her lion appearance. Yao Lao explains that an Amethyst Winged Lion King’s sex cannot be judged using the appearance of ordinary lions 12.
• Xiao Yan develops an improved Transformation Pill for Little Purple’s children and gives a spare pill to the Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon 145.
• The Monkey Talisman can reproduce the appearance of any Magical Beast that has existed on the Dou Qi Continent, including creatures Xiao Yan has never seen. This transformation does not grant the copied species’ innate abilities; his Ancient Void Dragon appearance does not itself provide spatial travel or restriction-bypassing talents 63.

Physique and soul strength

• Magical Beasts’ physical strength serves as a benchmark for Xiao Yan’s body cultivation. His physique is compared with a second-tier beast early in his cultivation, a peak third-tier beast after reaching Dou Shi, a fourth-order beast after reaching Da Dou Shi, a peak sixth-tier beast after refining the Sea Heart Flame, and a seventh-rank beast before consuming Tenfold Tonic Soup 2 5 13 47 68.
• Soul strength is an innate weakness for the vast majority of Magical Beasts. Despite reaching Two-Star Dou Sheng, Yao Ming’s soul is only approximately as strong as that of a seventh-grade alchemist 250.
• The Ancient Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake is exceptional in this respect. Its restored soul reaches an estimated late Heaven Realm, leading Xiao Yan to conclude that it possessed extraordinary strength while alive 250.

Subjugation and cultivation relationships

• Magical Beasts can be bound through soul restrictions. Yao Lao places one on the Amethyst Winged Lion King after defeating her, compelling her submission 10.
• Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils can control snake-type Magical Beasts and draw them into a space within her pupils. There, their energy can be extracted continuously to nourish her cultivation 91 214.
• A beast’s strength can exceed Qing Lin’s immediate ability to control it. When she cannot subdue the Dou Sheng-level Nine Netherworld Python called Old Dog, Xiao Yan uses the Sheep Talisman to make him accept her control, allowing her pupils to establish a contract 214.
• Xiao Yan restores the Ancient Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake’s soul to its peak before helping Qing Lin refine it in the Ancient Void Dragons’ Dragon Tomb 215 250.

Materials and medicinal uses

• Seventh-rank Magical Beast blood essence is one of the three principal materials used in Yao Tianhuo’s revival, alongside a Dou Zong body and a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill. Xiao Yan supplies blood essence from a Red-Eyed Roaring Flame Tiger 78.
• Xiao Yan refines the dried corpse obtained from the Black Emperor Sect with his Heavenly Flames and extracts five drops of Ancient Phoenix Blood Essence. He uses them to produce an Ancient Phoenix Blood Pill for Ya Fei 201.
• High-tier Magical Beast bodies can serve as resurrection vessels. Yao Lao’s revival uses the North Dragon King’s body, while Xiao Yan later seeks the Ancient Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake’s skeleton for the Yellow Springs Demon Saint 162 250.
• Soul Infant Fruit tempers the soul and is beneficial to Magical Beasts as well as humans 144.
• Ancient Void Dragons accumulate vast stores of medicinal treasures through their innate senses and ability to bypass restrictions. Their inability to make full use of raw herbs makes a relationship with a skilled alchemist particularly valuable 160 251.

Habitats and Encounters

• Magical Beast Mountain Range — Xiao Yan fights beasts there for combat experience. The Amethyst Winged Lion King rules one part of the range and keeps Purple Spirit Crystal and Companion Amethyst Source in her cave 7 10.
• Forest near Jia Nan Academy — Fifth- and sixth-rank beasts live deep in the forest and generally avoid the academy. After Xiao Yan and Zi Yan raid their lairs, some beast kings leave treasures outside rather than fight them again 64 65.
• Skeleton Mountain Range — Its accumulated bones and lingering energies attract many beasts; Zi Yan’s Ancient Void Dragon aura frightens off nearby watchers 143.
• Magma beneath Jia Nan Academy — An immense subterranean environment inhabited by Flame Lizardmen, including powerful individuals capable of wielding Spatial Power 61 129 133.
• Ancient forest within the Dou Saint Ruins — Contains rare medicinal treasures and a lake where the Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon guards the Soul Infant Demon Tree. A concealed Spirit Beast Barrier protects the altar holding the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and the remains of an Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heavenly Phoenix 144 145.
• Dragon Island — A major seat of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. After Zhu Ling kills the Three Great Dragon Kings, Zi Yan spares their followers and begins reunifying the islands. The clan maintains a Dragon Tomb custom for its dead, although Zi Yan gives the kings’ bodies to Xiao Yan 154.
• Nether Serpent Earth Vein — Headquarters of the Nine Netherworld Python Clan and location of the Nine Nether Yellow Springs. Xiao Yan finds Clan Leader Yao Ming chained beneath the springs 203.
• Hidden cavern in the Beast Region — Contains the enormous, bloodline-preserved skeleton of the Ancient Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake, located with Qing Lin’s guidance 250.

Relationships with human settlements

• Little Purple protects the Xiao Clan after taking human form, serving as a hidden sixth-tier guardian while Xiao Zhan publicly holds the clan’s defenses as a Dou Ling 12 31.
• Large Flying Magical Beasts are used for passenger transport. Hai Bodong arranges one to carry Xiao Yan’s group to Wutan City, and Jia Nan Academy uses them to transport recruits 30 39.
• Jia Nan Academy permits the nearby forest’s beast population to remain while it does not threaten the grounds. Students use the forest to train, gather herbs, and hunt Magical Beasts 64 65.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion captures and confines suitable high-tier snake-type Magical Beasts so that Qing Lin can gradually control them as her cultivation increases 91.
• Xiao Yan’s breakthrough to Dou Zun causes the Magical Beast Mountain Range’s inhabitants to flee in panic. After the breakthrough, his released aura frightens many beasts into remaining motionless 136.
• Little Purple later takes Little Blackie to the Magical Beast Mountain Range for training after his breakthrough 193.