"Is this the Desolate Fire Sparrow?"
Xiao Yunzhi briefly sensed the Desolate Fire Sparrow's aura and spoke in astonishment.
Demon beasts had long lifespans. Once they reached adulthood and the limits of their bloodlines, advancing further was even harder for them than for humans.
The Blazing Sun Bird, for instance, possessed a faint trace of the fire-aspected True Phoenix's bloodline. It encountered no bottlenecks before adulthood, and once fully grown, it would possess third-tier late-stage strength.
Before that point, its growth rate had even rivaled that of Xiao Yunzhi, who possessed a heavenly spiritual root.
But achieving transformation afterward was another matter.
Xiao Yunzhi had already formed her nascent soul, yet the Blazing Sun Bird remained at the third-tier late stage.
Aside from demon beasts' inherently slow advancement, the resources available to them also had a considerable influence.
Xiao Yunzhi could not procure a steady stream of more than a dozen Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs to aid her spirit beast's advancement the way Li Ping could.
Of course.
Beyond those resources, Li Ping was also a Fourth-Tier Beast Tamer who knew how to help spirit beasts advance quickly. That was another area in which Xiao Yunzhi could not compare.
That was why the Desolate Fire Sparrow had achieved transformation sooner than the Blazing Sun Bird.
Hearing Xiao Yunzhi's astonishment, Granny Suyue immediately turned her gaze toward the Desolate Fire Sparrow. Only then did she realize that the boy standing beside Li Ping was actually a Transformation Great Demon!
"The Desolate Fire Sparrow? It was him!"
She immediately remembered.
More than two hundred years ago, when she had helped the Yu Household surround and kill a fourth-tier scarlet flood dragon, a Core Formation Middle Stage cultivator present had suddenly killed one of the Yu Household's Core Formation Late Stage cultivators, broken through