The Demon Beast resembled a savage tiger, its body the size of a fighting bull. Its fur was long and sharp as a hedgehog's spines, a pair of sinister wings sprouted from its back, and fangs jutted from its enormous maw.
Although its form was hazy, the beast radiated boundless ferocity, as though it could tear everything in the world apart.
Gong Chenying knew nothing of this. Had she seen it, she would have been astonished.
The Demon Beast's appearance was very familiar to her, closely resembling a statue her clan worshipped. It was Qiongqi, one of the four peerless savage beasts of antiquity.
The instant Qiongqi's image appeared above her head, Gong Chenying's aura surged, almost immediately reaching the peak of the Pseudo-Nascent Soul Realm.
Yet her aura still did not stop rising. It continued climbing, but grew somewhat violent and unstable.
Outside the chamber, Hong Yin suddenly opened her lovely eyes.
"Her Body Refinement art is far too domineering, and it has long been approaching the Nascent Soul Realm, while the magical power in her dantian is somewhat weak and out of balance.
"Now that she's cultivating a new art, it's suddenly surging without pause. If this continues, she might draw down her Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation, but this is absolutely not the right time."
Through years of slaughter, Gong Chenying's Qiongqi Purgatory Art had already broken through to the fifth level ahead of schedule. Her mental state, however, had never kept pace, creating a considerable gap between her cultivation realm and her actual strength.
She cultivated both magical power and her body, unlike the vast majority of Tianli Clan cultivators, who practiced only the Body Refining Technique and would enter the Nascent Soul Realm once it reached the fifth level.
Gong Chenying needed to balance both arts