The Golden Body State was an extremely mystical state, and the only way to enter the Origin World with one's physical body.
Other cultivation systems all entered the Origin World with their Primordial Spirits.
Only Body Cultivators could enter the Origin World in their Golden Body States.
As for entering the Origin World with a Dharma Form, its nature was much the same as entering with a Primordial Spirit.
Dharma Forms were exclusive to Dharma Form Type Body Refining Techniques of the Buddhist Sect.
Body Cultivators, however, were not exclusive to the Buddhist Sect.
The earliest Body Cultivators should also have counted as a branch of the Daoist Sect.
Ancient cultivators could be divided into Body Refining and Qi Refining factions.
It was just that, as time passed, the path of Qi Refining clearly became smoother, producing far more experts.
Through survival of the fittest, the number of Body Refining cultivators gradually declined.
Later, the Buddhist Sect improved the Daoist Sect's Body Refining Techniques, incorporating a large number of Buddhist and Daoist elements and creating entirely new Buddhist Body Refining Techniques.
From then on, Buddhism flourished, and Body Refining welcomed a new age of glory!
However, transforming the physical body into a Golden Body and entering the Origin World had already been "old traditions" of the ancient Daoist Body Refining Techniques. They were not novel inventions of the Buddhist Sect.
In other words, the Body Refining path of transforming the physical body into a Golden Body actually came from the founder of the Body Cultivator system—the Dao Ancestor!
However, it was impossible to know which of the three Dao Ancestors it had been.
Li Xiuchang stood in the Origin World in his Golden Body State. The Great Dao manifested all around him; visions of the Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and