Suddenly realizing this, Hu Shiyun's delicate body trembled violently. The incantation she had been hurriedly circulating stalled, and her jade-like face was completely covered in shock.
How had Senior Qin accomplished such a thing? The female cultivator was utterly bewildered.
To erase the consciousness of a soul whose cultivation had reached the Mahayana stage from within the spirit essence of an Integration stage cultivator—while the consciousnesses of both had already coexisted within that spirit essence—was something Qin Fengming could not do. Even a late-Mahayana existence would have been unable to accomplish it.
The consciousnesses of the two shared a single spirit-essence body, yet were actually unaffected by one another. Such a thing was unheard of in the Cultivation World. Qin Fengming had seen and experienced much, and had read more ancient records than most cultivators, but he had never encountered any record of such a situation existing.
Spirit essence was a bizarre existence. It was formed from the condensation of a person's spiritual origin, and was also the vessel of that person's intelligence and consciousness. Within a person, it was the dominant existence that controlled the body.
Even if a cultivator condensed a core infant, so long as it remained within the physical body, the core infant would still be governed by the spirit essence.
In Qin Fengming's memories, a spirit-essence body could contain only a single consciousness. Although cultivators could split their spirit essence, the consciousness within the split spirit essence would still be an extension of their original consciousness. It would not become another existence, and its subordinate relationship would remain extremely clear.
Of course, multiple spirit essences could coexist within a cultivator's sea of consciousness.
However, those spirit essences had a relationship of coexistence with the cultivator's spirit essence. Their consciousnesses were not interconnected. Naturally, if a