When Chen Shi died, he was only nine years old. At that time, he was merely in the Divine Embryo Realm, at most just the Golden Core Realm. After his death, his soul could not take any cultivation power with it. He entered the Underworld all alone; surviving there was already extremely difficult, let alone practicing cultivation?
Furthermore, without a physical body, how could one practice cultivation?
Without a physical body, there was no way to forge a golden core, a nascent soul, or a primordial spirit; it was impossible to build a dao field, achieve bodily integration, or sever the three corpses.
As for attaining the Spirit Refining Realm, that was even more out of the question!
Chen Shi suddenly said, "Perhaps back then, I attached myself to a skeleton, or some other shell, and practiced cultivation through a false body. There are many scattered pre-Qin cultivation methods in the Underworld, left over from the Great Shang Era. I might have acquired some kind of technique similar to the Blood Lake True Scripture, which is why my cultivation speed was exceptionally rapid."
Scholar Zhu nodded gently. "That possibility exists. However, assuming it was a skeleton body, how did your mother find you?"
Chen Shi froze.
That was right. His mother, Wu Qingyu, had wandered everywhere in the Underworld searching for him. At that time, Wu Qingyu was in a daze and had fallen into madness. If Chen Shi had only been a skeleton back then, Wu Qingyu definitely would not have recognized him.
The only reason she could recognize Chen Shi must have been because Chen Shi had maintained his true appearance.
"Then, is it possible for a ghost to directly leap from the Divine Embryo or Golden Core straight to the Spirit Refining Realm?"
Thinking of this, Chen