Within the Foundation Establishment Dao Platform, the few martial artists had grown tremendously stronger.
But the Spirit Monsters had made even greater progress.
In just five or six short years, many Spirit Monsters had undergone three or four bloodline evolutions.
In the past, they would only have had a chance to evolve their bloodlines by becoming demons or consuming special spirit medicines.
Now, however, they only needed to do some work to evolve their bloodlines.
That alone was enough for them to boast about for the rest of their lives.
Some Ox Spirits had grown six pairs of horns on their foreheads, each pair capable of unleashing different spells of earth, fire, wind, water, thunder, lightning, and more.
Some Butterfly Spirits had grown more wings, fluttering gracefully and looking even more beautiful.
These Spirit Monsters with evolved bloodlines were only one step away from becoming demons.
Yet very, very few could ultimately cross that threshold.
Wang Quan occasionally questioned them and learned that these Spirit Monsters needed to undergo certain special internal changes to become demons.
Once they weathered those changes, they would be demons.
After becoming demons, they could assume human form: yes, from the inside out, their viscera, bowels, sinews, bones, flesh, blood, and everything else would be identical to a human's.
Such demons were far more fearsome in strength; most could rival cultivators whose true bodies had descended into the second-layer world.
A small number could even beat those cultivators back.
At first, Wang Quan had thought these demons would leave after growing stronger.
Instead, not only did they stay, they even called on their friends, wanting more Spirit Monsters of their own kind to come work for him.
Still, Wang Quan felt that these Spirit Monsters and demons actually just wanted to exchange their labor for