Just like Japan's yokai, they generally cultivated no particular methods, relying only on their bloodline instincts to absorb the essence of the sun and moon and grow stronger. This was why the upper limit of a Japanese yokai's growth depended entirely on its own racial bloodline, making it difficult to break past its limits.
With cultivation methods, however, things were different. Even an ordinary pig that had gained intelligence could become a demon immortal or demon king, so long as it knew how to cultivate... and encountered no bottlenecks.
Hong Meiling before her might not have been weak, but she had grown to her current level more like a Japanese yokai, through a demon's instincts. Only... because of the karma of this world clinging to her body... while it brought her endless torment, it also gave her formidable strength and rapid growth.
Perhaps that power had even stimulated a force hidden deep within her body—dragon blood...
The reason carp could pass through the Dragon Gate Leap and transform into true dragons was because they possessed a trace of dragon blood. Though she had not successfully passed through the Dragon Gate Leap, she still possessed some of a dragon's power.
And as a "Martial Ancestor"-level Immortal Chiyuan, she could see that Hong Meiling possessed excellent talent for martial arts. If Wu Qing'e was a genius in the Dao, then Hong Meiling before her was a genius in martial arts.
"Martial arts..."
Hong Meiling hesitated at those words. She truly had no orthodox cultivation method. Everything she possessed seemed to have come from the curse that was now tormenting her; it tortured her while also granting her powerful strength. She did not know whether it was a blessing or a curse.
It would have been a lie to say she was not