As Little Pearl spoke into her ear about demon-spirit dual cultivation, Su Jiu found it utterly astonishing. This was the first time she had ever heard of such a thing.
Setting aside whether demonic roots even existed in this world, surely a primordial origin spirit root and a chaos body had not appeared for thousands of years...
"If someone had only a demonic root, would that mean they were a born demonic cultivator?"
Little Pearl shook its head. "Demonic cultivators are still fundamentally human. Their so-called demonic roots develop later in life. But the case you're describing is different. That would be a demon, not a human."
"Then what about someone who has both a primordial origin spirit root and a demonic root?"
"Human, of course! Anyone with a spirit root can be counted as human. But although someone like that cultivates quickly, ascension is impossible for them."
Su Jiu more or less understood what Little Pearl meant. By impossible, it meant that even with the Heaven-Connecting Tower and an open Heaven-Connecting Path, such a person could not ascend.
"But you don't need to know too much about people like that. Before you encountered the Phantom Blood Demon, demons had been absent from the Azure Realm for ten thousand years. Not only would they be killed the moment they appeared, even a well-hidden demon could never venture somewhere crowded.
"Humans and demons share an irreconcilable feud, steeped in a sea of blood. A union between a human and a demon that produced such a child would be even more unthinkable.
"In short, there cannot possibly be anyone in this world who can truly practice demon-spirit dual cultivation."
At that, Su Jiu naturally stopped dwelling on the subject and asked instead, "Then what is going on with these suppressors? When I