Jin Shi was no longer in the form of a spirit beast. As for what kind of existence it had become, even Qin Fengming, who was within it, could not explain clearly.
To say that it had transformed into soul energy was not entirely accurate, either.
That was because just now, when Qin Fengming's mind was assailed by the sudden thunderous sound waves, a deep, heaven-shaking beast roar suddenly rang out from within the mist around him.
That roar had clearly come from the Soul Devouring Beast.
It was precisely because that beast roar reverberated through the air that Qin Fengming awakened from the thunderous sound waves.
The fact that it could produce a beast roar was enough to prove that the Soul Devouring Beast still possessed consciousness and a physical form. If it had disintegrated its body into soul energy, then even if it still retained consciousness, it would no longer have been able to produce a beast roar.
"Unless..." Qin Fengming suddenly thought of a possibility.
That possibility was the supreme ability known as Dharma Aspect Heaven and Earth, achieved when a powerful cultivator who had cultivated an extraordinary Dharma Body had refined it to the utmost limit.
Dharma Aspect Heaven and Earth fused the Dharma Body into Heaven and Earth. It was an immensely powerful realm that was extraordinarily difficult to reach among Dharma Body abilities. It was not something one could achieve simply by cultivating a Dharma Body ability to the utmost limit.
Although all Dharma Body abilities spoke of the Heaven and Earth Dharma Idol and unity between Heaven and humanity, not every cultivator of a Dharma Body ability could truly accomplish this.
It could be said that throughout the Cultivation World—even the Immortal Realm—not a single existence that cultivated a Dharma Body ability had