In an instant, all of Xu Taiping's earlier uncertainties about these Chaos Demonic Beasts became perfectly clear.
The so-called chaos qi of this Upper Realm isn't actually useless. It's simply that only Half-Immortal Realm experts can refine it.
To cultivators below the Half-Immortal Realm, it's no different from poison.
But ever since the ascension of the First-generation Five Emperors, Half-Immortal Realm cultivators have all had branded restrictions planted on them, preventing them from continuing to advance their cultivation by absorbing the power of chaos as they once did.
That's why the chaos qi in this Upper Realm has accumulated in ever greater quantities.
Eventually, once the chaos qi grew dense enough, the Shangqing Edict began clearing it away on its own.
As a result, the Great Dao Edicts originally hidden within the power of chaos, which should have been absorbed and refined by Half-Immortal experts, began developing into Chaos Demonic Beasts possessing all manner of bizarre chaos powers.
Xu Taiping formed these conjectures as he sensed the Great Dao Edict he had just fused with inside his body.
Although there were still gaps in his conjectures.
In Xu Taiping's view, however, he should at least have deduced eighty percent of the truth.
By now, he had also finally allowed his primordial spirit to fuse completely with that strand of Great Dao Edict power.
After examining it with his mind, he said with a look of realization:
"So that's it. This isn't a complete Great Dao Edict. I need to refine more Chaos Demonic Beasts to make it more complete."
Yet the more this proved to be the case, the more Xu Taiping felt his earlier conjectures were correct.
"Wait..."
Something suddenly occurred to Xu Taiping, making his heart seize as he said:
"Then doesn't that mean the Demon Mother, a