Su Hao guessed that the monster below was most likely formed from the Lineage Masters of Moon-Gazing Valley's Six Veins.
As for why it had become like this, one could glimpse the answer from the design philosophy behind the Cloud Moon Immortal Method.
"To continue the Nascent Soul method of breaking through into Body Integration, using more spiritual power to form an even stronger aggregate of spiritual power and thereby break through to Above Integration... All I can say is that the idea is highly idealistic, but making it a reality would be far too difficult!"
Spiritual power existed on the foundation of the physical body. If one completely shed the body and consisted entirely of spiritual power, it would be like water without a source—sooner or later, it would run dry. Not only would one fail to gain the desired lifespan, it would instead be shortened.
Perhaps that was why this monster had been devouring cultivators all these years—to replenish its spiritual power! More importantly, spiritual power was not a vessel for thought! Even if it succeeded, it would become nothing more than an unconscious aggregate of spiritual power, possessing only the instinct to constantly devour spiritual power to sustain itself. It would be utterly useless.
It was not even as good as the God that Su Hao had once failed to evolve.
"The path went wrong at Body Integration. No matter how one continues, it can never lead anywhere!"
In Su Hao's eyes, cultivation in this world had already fallen into a dead cycle.
What Nascent Soul Cultivators yearned for was becoming Body Integration Cultivators. They exhausted every means to break through into the Integrated Body Realm, only to suddenly discover, upon reaching it, that there was no road above.
Even if they realized then that the path