"Hmm?"
After his Blood Qi had settled, Bai Yi had not yet had a chance to feel the surge of strength in his body when his Divine Sense fell upon the crimson cocoon above his head, which radiated dense Demon Qi.
The familiar yet unfamiliar aura from the cocoon made Bai Yi raise his brows slightly.
It was familiar because that aura belonged to Little Red Tangerine, but unfamiliar because it was a dense aura blossoming at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining and transforming toward a Foundation Establishment demon beast.
A hint of curiosity and surprise swept through Bai Yi's eyes.
After all, while the Demon Race possessed powerful physiques and longer lifespans than humans at the same cultivation level, the difficulty of breaking through and the speed at which they accumulated Demon Power and Blood Qi were several times, even dozens of times, greater than those of human cultivators.
Even fox demons, whose average aptitude was the best among the Demon Race, were clearly inferior to human prodigies at the same level.
After countless tests by the Immortal Alliance's instruments and Feng Weiyi's examination, the Little Red Tangerine above his head was clearly an ordinary Fire Spirit Bird with an utterly ordinary Second-Tier bloodline.
It usually took a hundred years or more to accumulate enough to reach the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining and break through to Foundation Establishment.
But Little Red Tangerine was no more than four years old, and even after adding the past six months, its age still amounted to only about four years.
Half a year ago, it had barely been at the First Layer of Qi Refining. Half a year later, it had reached the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining, and judging from its aura, its breakthrough to Foundation Establishment was all but