Chapter 101: The angler and punishment
This newborn soul was utterly ignorant. Even its Primordial Spirit's surging dark aura could not conceal the fact that it had only just been born.
It-or he, as he could now be considered-had inherited the Dao Fruit Ning Chuan had cultivated, along with the lingering instincts for wielding his various Precious Techniques. With a period of adaptation and learning, he would be fully capable of unleashing strength no weaker than Ning Chuan himself.
That was how darkness erosion worked: the stronger the original person, the stronger the newborn Primordial Spirit.
Black blood was, in essence, black blood containing the essence of a demon. Using the flesh's spirituality or the remaining seven corporeal souls as a foundation, it allowed the demon to give rise to an entirely new soul.
So-called cultivation deviation occurred when this sort of demon grew within the body and disrupted the self, leading to violent madness, or even a drastic change in temperament once the demon had completely merged with the self.
However, the demons spawned by black blood were far stronger than those produced during normal cultivation. They could even be considered independent life-forms, which was why the so-called dark race had been born directly from them.
In other words, the dark race consisted of demons that had completed their transformation at birth, escaping their race's innate limitations.
Ordinary demons lacked the ability to cultivate. They lived almost entirely as parasites on their hosts and were affected by their hosts' cultivation. Those that had completed their transformation, however, had undergone a metamorphosis in the essence of their lives and were no longer bound by those rules.
Similar beings existed in nature, too. Medicinal herbs, for instance, could not cultivate without taking form, unlike plant spirits that could cultivate naturally after