"What's going on?"
Li Dongbin frowned slightly and instinctively looked toward Chen Beiwu's Cave Abode.
It was one thing for Lunar True Venerable Gu Qinghan to slightly surpass him, but how had Chen Beiwu managed it?
"It's the Primordial Origin Profound Ability!" the Mysterious Altar Yang Lord said gravely.
Hearing this, Li Dongbin glanced at the Mysterious Altar Yang Lord, momentarily at a loss for words.
Was that what had surprised him?
It was not as though he had never seen the Primordial Origin Profound Ability. He even knew that this Profound Ability was called [Primordial Origin True Beast], with two major effects: Dharma Form Descends as Deity and Primordial Origin True Union. Through the Primordial Origin Dharma Form and a Companion Beast, it could awaken Bloodlines, causing the Companion Beast's Bloodline to resonate and reveal an unprecedented form.
What truly astonished Li Dongbin was that, bolstered by the Primordial Origin Profound Ability, that peculiar sword vine's Dao Practice had soared to 19,999 years, nearly breaking through the realm barrier and stepping halfway into the Demon Venerable mid-stage.
Even that would have been one thing. According to the Immortal Alliance's common cultivation knowledge, unless Chen Beiwu became a Spirit Transformation Venerable, his Companion Beast had almost no chance of breaking through the realm barrier and fully entering the Demon Venerable mid-stage.
But why?
Both were at the peak of the Demon Venerable early stage, yet the Mysterious Altar Yang Lord drew in and seized the world origin at less than a fifth of that peculiar sword vine's efficiency.
"Perhaps it has extraordinary natural gifts, or perhaps its Bloodline Profound Ability is unusual," the Mysterious Altar Yang Lord guessed.
The Five-Qi Vine Clan's Bloodlines were inherently changeable and originated from the legendary primordial five-elements ancestor tree, making them naturally attuned to