"Coo, coo, coo, coo..."
"Heh, heh, heh, heh..."
Deep in the mountains, beasts roared and birds sang, bustling as a marketplace.
Amid the answering calls of unidentified creatures, Li Ling sat cross-legged beneath a towering tree, quietly sensing the strange fluctuations coming from the Dragon Heart Stone.
The power within this gemstone was an essence inclined toward the domain of flesh and blood. The bloody light spilling from it was a peculiar power of law, capable of transforming the flesh of lower-order beings and raising their level of life toward a higher realm.
Throughout the ages, there had been no shortage of tales of immortals enlightening beasts and turning them into demons. This power happened to have countless threads connecting it to those legends.
Strictly speaking, this already belonged to the domain of the Great Dao of creation!
Enlightenment... creation!
No wonder Bai Xiaohuan cultivated a human form in just half a month. And those countless little demons and spirit monsters beneath Soul-Rending Mountain-even with their beastly heads and faces, they already had something of a human shape.
All of this resulted from Demon King Hou Lu using the earth vein to nurture spiritual fruit, diluting the power within. He used this Dragon Heart Stone's power to permeate the entire spirit vein, then distributed spirit materials through special methods and cultivated them into those transformation fruits, making the fullest possible use of its effects.
But I'm human to begin with, and I don't want to become entangled in the karma here. Rather than absorb its power directly, I'd be better off comprehending its mysteries and mastering its laws.
With this in mind, Li Ling quietly entered a dream, meeting his wife, far away in the North Sea, within his own dreamscape to discuss the matter.
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