Immortal Ascension: Path of a Hundred Refinements
Chapter 2553

External Incarnation and Internal Incarnation

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It sounded rather mysterious. To get two benefits in one stroke—there was an old saying: fish and bear's paw could not both be had. Good things in this world always required some choice and sacrifice. How could it be possible to let one person take all the advantages for himself?

On the surface, that reasoning was correct. However, how could everything in the world of immortal cultivation be measured by common sense? And sure enough, after some thought, Lin Xuan truly did find a way to get two benefits in one stroke.

It was simple enough in principle. Though the Main Nascent Soul and the Second Nascent Soul were divided into primary and auxiliary, strictly speaking, both were independent entities. If he could obtain a body for the Second Nascent Soul and give it flesh, then it could cultivate by itself in that cultivation cave.

In this way, the Second Nascent Soul could keep advancing in rank, while Lin Xuan's true body would be free to do whatever he wished. It would not become a shackle on the true body just because the Second Nascent Soul needed to cultivate in seclusion.

Was this not getting two benefits in one stroke?

And doing this, though somewhat troublesome in theory, actually held many advantages. Once the Second Nascent Soul had a body, it would be equivalent to cultivating an External Incarnation for himself.

Moreover, this incarnation would absolutely be of the highest grade, utterly different from the secret arts of second incarnations cultivated by ordinary cultivators.

After all, an ordinary incarnation was controlled only by the primordial spirit. Simply put, it was more or less the same as a highest-grade puppet that responded as one wished. If the true body perished, then the incarnation would likewise vanish like smoke and disperse like

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