Originally Posted by
Ren Wo Xing
RE the hydra, given that Yan Mo is middle Kongming, the snow cat can only be early Kongming at best, and I suspect more likely late Dongxu. If we take 'surpassed Dongxu' at its face, that would mean the hydra itself is also Kongming; unlikely, given how it treated the snow cat. But given that the novel stated the hydra had passed the 6-9 Tribulation, it has to be at least Dongxu stage. Given all of this, and how it was portrayed as being superior (but not extravagantly so) than the Hong Luan and the Dragon Rocky Lion, which are still at peak late Yuanying, and how a Dongxu level Xiuyaoist was able to land a hit and leave a mark on him, dollars to donuts, I would bet that the hydra is only at early Dongxu stage, which as a divine beast would make him approximately equivalent to an early Kongming Xiuxianist, which would indeed have 'surpassed the Dongxu level [of Xiuxianist power]'.