So that was it.
Chen Beiwu nodded slightly, unsurprised.
Ordinary bloodline talents, such as Windwalking, Firetreading, and Earth Escape, were innate spell arts as instinctive as breathing. Once a Companion Beast awakened them, it could use them with a thought, without spending any time learning to control them.
But this rule was not absolute!
According to the Immortal Alliance's records, some special Mystical Beasts needed stimulation or various natural treasures to awaken and master their bloodline Profound Abilities.
One example was the renowned Shadow-Tracking Nether Crow among Fourth-Tier Mysterious Beasts.
The Shadow-Tracking Nether Crow race dwelled year-round on the cliffs of solitary peaks a hundred thousand feet high. Their bloodline passed down a Fourth-Tier Profound Ability called Tracing Light, Roaming the Netherworld.
This Profound Ability possessed unfathomable power, allowing a Shadow-Tracking Nether Crow to briefly become a streak of light and shadow wavering between substance and illusion, slipping into the interstices of space to evade the vast majority of Profound Abilities and spell arts.
The books recorded: "The nether bird roosts upon the cliff; without falling, it does not cry. The light-tracing shadow, without tribulation, does not appear!"
To help the young crows master their bloodline Profound Ability, the elders of the Shadow-Tracking Nether Crow race would personally push them off those hundred-thousand-foot cliffs and impose flight-prohibiting spell arts.
Young nether crows with outstanding aptitude would instinctively awaken the power deep within their bloodlines on the razor's edge between life and death, successfully awakening Tracing Light, Roaming the Netherworld.
Those with ordinary aptitude, however, would crash heavily into the ground because of their shallow Dao Practice, suffering grievous injuries or even nearing death.
The elders of the Shadow-Tracking Nether Crow race would then heal the injured young crows before taking them back to the cliffs and pushing them off again,