Wang Yuan finished the latter half of that sentence.
Yet those mere four words left Luo Chen stunned.
"Since Body Refinement Cultivators could stand shoulder to shoulder with Qi Refining Cultivators in the Primordial Era, how could they fail to attain longevity?"
"I don't know the exact reason either."
Wang Yuan sighed. "Perhaps the true methods of body refinement have long vanished into the river of history. By now, orthodox Qi Refining has already occupied the mainstream of the Cultivation World. Even when there are occasional Body Refinement Cultivators, most of them cultivate both paths."
"Or perhaps those Body Refinement Cultivators, mighty for a time, never possessed a method for longevity in the first place. Otherwise, how could they have been swallowed by the river of history?"
Through Wang Yuan's explanation, Luo Chen finally understood why the current path of body refinement could not grant longevity.
Cultivators who primarily refined Qi gradually strengthened their divine souls as they continuously broke through realms.
By the later stages, the body was merely a shell that carried the divine soul.
The shell was easily decayed, but the divine soul was undying. Naturally, one could obtain a lifespan of centuries or even millennia.
Body refinement, however, ran somewhat contrary to that path.
It did not focus on Refining Essence into Qi. Instead, it used massive quantities of spiritual qi to nourish the body itself, making the flesh increasingly powerful.
This path was actually extremely similar to that of demon beasts.
Yet the Human Race's physique had innate limitations. Unlike certain powerful demon beast races, humans were not born with long lifespans of several hundred or several thousand years.
Therefore, no matter how incomparably powerful human Body Refinement Cultivators made their physiques, they ultimately could not escape their predetermined lifespan limits.
Moreover, all manner of