Hou Niao rode away, his back feeling a little cold.
That Yellow Weasel Spirit had posed a very real threat to him. This was a Sword Cultivator's intuition. Sword Gall was not merely for recklessly fighting to the death; its greater purpose was actually to foresee danger!
Gall meant not fearing an opponent, however strong or weak. To take it a step further, when you felt your Sword Gall surge, it often also meant that the enemy before you might be very powerful.
Such was the first Yellow Weasel Spirit he had encountered.
When beasts became demons, their cultivation stages were entirely different from those of humans. Hou Niao did not yet know much about the specific differences, only a few broad stages in theory.
For instance, a demon creature whose Demon Core had reached full maturity was roughly equivalent to a human at Golden Core, while Horizontal Bone Transformation corresponded to a human's Profound Connection stage. These were only generalizations. After all, humans differed from beasts, and differed still more from Soul Ghosts. They should never have been lumped together for comparison in the first place.
Compared with the meticulous refinement of human cultivation, demons progressed somewhat more slowly because of their intellectual development, and thus fell short in strength. Yet, cultivating by instinct, they lost in the east only to gain in the west: they were compensated with longer lifespans.
Wisdom or longevity-which would you choose? There really was no right answer. It was like asking whether you wanted to blaze like a meteor for a single brilliant instant, or live as carefree as a pig.
This Yellow Weasel Spirit had undergone Horizontal Bone Transformation, perhaps only recently. In Yinling, it already qualified as a Great Demon, yet for some reason it had retained its customary caution. Even