Although Qin Fengming had no interest in the methods used to enable mortals to cultivate immortality, he had still been deeply shocked when he first saw such matters recorded in the ancient texts.
Such matters, which overturned everything he knew, had left him unable to calm down for a long time.
For mortals to cultivate immortality was not actually that difficult to understand. The reason mortals found it so hard to cultivate immortality was mainly that their comprehension of the Heaven and Earth Five Elements energy was extremely poor.
Even with a cultivation technique, they found it difficult to gather and refine the Five Elements energy in the air and incorporate it into their dantians. That was also why mortals found it so difficult even to get started.
In the Spirit Realm, there was a strange pill known as the Spirit Concealing Pill. It could conceal one or two of a mortal's spirit roots, allowing the mortal to reach the point where he could sense the Five Elements energy.
Although this spirit pill could allow a mortal to reach the level of cultivating immortality, such a cultivator could cultivate only as far as the Nascent Soul stage at most. If he wished to advance further, the effects of the Spirit Concealing Pill alone would no longer be enough.
There was, however, another method that could free mortals from the constraints of their spirit roots: soul fusion.
The so-called soul fusion involved capturing a demon beast, extracting its soul, tempering it with a special secret technique, and then having the mortal devour it.
This devouring had to be carried out while a cultivator cast a secret technique.
Although this process was somewhat more dangerous than consuming a Spirit Concealing Pill, as long as the soul fusion succeeded, the mortal would possess