All things possessed spirit, and some beasts suddenly awakened to cultivation and became demons.
This was a general designation, not a derogatory one.
To humans, even Qinghe, with her Flood Dragon body, was broadly classified as a demon.
Of course, if you pointed at Qinghe's nose and called her a demon, Qinghe would not mind throwing an elbow at you-no sooner said than elbowed.
Plants awakening to spirit were essentially no different from beasts, but compared with demons that had brains, brainless plants really needed favorable timing and terrain to give rise to anything.
Things like nourishment from spiritual energy and illumination by moonlight.
Thus, cultivating plants were mostly called sprites-it made them sound a little more precious.
Around a thousand years ago, sprites were still rarities. Though weak and somewhat troublesome to raise, their cuteness and the chance to show them off still made them highly sought after.
For a time, there were sprite-catching teams.
But then some genius devised a method for cultivating sprites, and their prices plunged all the way down.
Quite a few people back then must have questioned their lives, thinking a great calamity of heaven and earth was approaching, for sprites to become so numerous.
Once their selling prices were almost equal to their production costs, leaving only hard-earned money to be made, that genius cultivator simply published the cultivation method outright.
It opened people's eyes while also making them grind their teeth with hatred.
Fortunately, that genius cultivator not only had formidable means but also avoided playing tricks, never spreading rumors that everyone needed a sprite to survive the great calamity of heaven and earth.
Otherwise, vast as the world was, it probably would have had no room for that genius cultivator.
From then on, sprites were no longer worth much.
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