Chapter 935: Reading Faces
Whoosh.
Whoosh.
The great banner turned.
The wind howled like the shriek of an ancient battle standard.
Luo Manping abruptly put away the long banner in his hand. Luo Tianxiao had long since vanished from before his eyes.
A flash of astonishment passed through his gaze.
The complexity within it was beyond words.
Luo Manping looked at the long banner in his hand as though he were getting to know this treasure anew.
Even if ordinary cultivators could kill those of the same rank, or even defeat powerful foes above their rank, it was still difficult for them to eradicate them completely.
This was because the speed at which divine souls fled far exceeded all common sense, making them impossible for ordinary cultivators to catch.
More importantly, even after one destroyed an opponent's physical body and dealt them a grievous blow, they could still survive through all manner of spells and divine abilities. Some could even use heavenly materials and earthly treasures to reconstruct their bodies.
For example, simpler methods included placing one's divine soul inside a puppet, having one's Yin Spirit preside over the Purple Palace to control the body, and using spiritual objects of heaven and earth to power it.
More sophisticated methods involved not dying at all, instead using divine treasures to rebuild one's body.
This meant that if one wished to kill an opponent, one either needed cultivation far surpassing theirs, enough to utterly annihilate their divine soul through the crushing weight of one's realm, or one had to use a great divine ability to seize their soul.
Otherwise, under normal circumstances, it was very difficult to keep an enemy after destroying their physical body.
Tu Shan Jun's methods were already astonishing enough.
After battling the ancient snow pine demon in Demon-Suppressing