The Path of Rebirth Li Qingyun had attained with this body had naturally been influenced by the "Heavenly Dao" of Nine Sons Heaven. It emphasized the power of vital life energy as the foundation of the Dao and the path to transcendence.
Yet Nine Sons Heaven's "Nine Sons Dao" was undoubtedly a twisted path of life generation. It pursued bearing many children, then devouring human-medicine resources to break through realms. It was darkness and bloodshed in the extreme.
Especially when the "Nine Sons Dao" broke through to the Ninth Realm, this "Great Immortal" had to consume at least one top-grade Nine Sons human medicine.
"Top-grade" meant, first, that it had to be born of one's own bloodline; second, both parents had to be at least Eighth Realm existences; third, before the Nine Sons human medicine matured, it needed to be "watered" with the Heavenly Outer Medicine Guide, nurturing it into perfect medicinal potency.
The "Path of Rebirth" of Li Qingyun's soul-corpse body was somewhat twisted as well, but at its core, it still leaned toward the righteous path.
Rebirth meant dying first, then living again. Survive nine deaths without perishing, and one could obtain a trace of divine radiance and yang power, transforming the essence of life and stepping onto the road of transcendence.
Every breakthrough in realm required passing through nine great gates of death.
A true brush with death nine times over!
The Path of Rebirth was clearly an exceedingly difficult route to attaining the Dao. Even Li Qingyun himself felt that, aside from a soul-corpse body, probably very few could endure eighty-one desperate death trials and reach the Ninth Realm.
But the more difficult a "Dao" was, once it reached its pinnacle, the more unmatched its mighty power became, suppressing all ages beneath it.
"This Dao can