"A wind weasel this enormous must have been deployed at the direction of a Heaven-Tier Powerhouse!"
Ye Tianming rose behind him, picking up where Wu Lianyi had left off.
Wu Lianyi nodded slightly.
Ye Tianming was right. Ordinary wind weasels were merely great demon-level demon beasts. Even one capable of growing into a Demon King possessed talent found only in one out of a hundred, and only a major sect could rear it.
To grow beyond a hundred zhang in size, however, it had to be transformed into a spirit creature and infused with tremendous quantities of heaven and earth essence.
This was because spirit creatures were summoned manifestations constructed with a true spirit as their soul and spirit essence as their flesh and blood. Although their evolution did not necessarily follow the law that stronger spirit essence meant a larger body, on the whole, they could not escape that pattern.
Moreover, controlling such tremendous quantities of origin energy also required Heaven Tier spirit essence.
A spirit creature manifestation was a combination of a Spirit Tamer's spirit essence and heaven and earth essence. This was fundamental knowledge within the Spirit Tamer system.
Both Wu Lianyi and Ye Tianming knew something of the affairs of major sects. Spirit creatures like this were generally important fighting assets under a Heaven-Tier Powerhouse, or secondary spirit creatures outside their primary cultivation, entrusted to institutions such as the Creature Rearing Office.
Such spirit creatures had generally been used by Heaven-Tier Powerhouses in their earlier years, then discarded after their advancement as they further refined their cultivation systems and concentrated their resources on nurturing their primary spirit creatures. To a sect, however, they remained fighting assets that could be put to full use.
For this purpose, Spirit-Herding Envoys or dedicated Disciplinary Officers might even be assigned