Attacks on flesh and lingli were tangible, varied in countless ways, and mostly visible to the naked eye, allowing one to prepare in advance.
But attacks on the level of divine consciousness were an exception.
Under normal circumstances, when one person invaded another's divine consciousness, whether by spying or attacking, the target could generally sense it.
But if divine consciousness underwent a change in "quality," everything became different.
After death, a person became a ghost. There were also other demon specters, corpse spirits, evil spirits, demon wraiths, and "deities" such as Barbarian Gods, Mountain Gods, and Evil Gods. Once their divine consciousness had undergone a "qualitative change," they became imperceptible existences to cultivators.
The divine thoughts of ghosts, spirits, and gods were all on a higher level of "quality" than those of humans.
A cultivator's divine consciousness, however, could not undergo a "qualitative change."
That was because the cultivation methods for divine consciousness had long since been lost.
The vast majority of cultivators could only cultivate tangible flesh and lingli through their techniques, then transform the quality of their flesh and lingli by breaking through realms.
Their divine consciousness, however, could no longer undergo a "qualitative change."
Therefore, even though cultivators possessed divine consciousness innately, they still could not sense existences such as "ghosts and gods" of a higher level.
Unless the ghost or god "manifested its spirit," personally descended into the mortal world, invaded a cultivator's Sea of Consciousness, and influenced the cultivator through ghost arts and divine abilities—
otherwise, most cultivators, unless they possessed an innately extraordinary divine consciousness or had received some deity's Blessing, could not directly see any trace of ghosts or gods.
Someone like Mo Hua, who had undergone Divine Consciousness Daoization and could see ghosts and gods directly with his naked eyes in the