As his divine sense spread out into the forest, Xuan Hao didn't take long to notice that there were more than just a few demon beasts in the Nascent Soul Realm gathered around the outer parts of the forest. Not just that, but he even noticed a few stronger demon beasts in the Domain Lord Realm among them.
The weaker demon beasts in the forest in the Core Formation Realm and below were also present, but they had long since hidden themselves. Most of them had gone below ground into small dens or tunnels where they could hide from the divine sense of the demon beast up above with the help of the layer of earth between them and the surface.
Of course, this kind of hiding method would only work against those demon beasts in the Nascent Soul Realm whose divine sense weren't that strong and couldn't penetrate far into the ground. Faced with the Domain Lord Realm demon beasts, they were still clearly visible.
