Energy transformation.
It had been mentioned before.
This ability was not actually some particularly rare method.
Many [Acquired Divine Abilities] with rather unusual effects could allow their users to transform into lightning, raging winds, rainbow light, sword shadows, and similar things.
The main reason this method had not become widespread was simply that it was difficult to cultivate and had little practical use.
Yes.
Not only was it difficult to cultivate.
Its practicality was also low.
It truly possessed every major drawback there was.
As everyone knew.
If the physical body was the boat by which cultivators sailed through the bitter sea of the world, then the soul was the core housed within it.
Thus, the existence of a physical body was extremely necessary to every cultivator.
Even cultivators who could continue living without a physical body rarely chose to abandon one.
Energy transformation, however, often caused a disconnect between the physical body and the soul—the awkward situation where the physical body had turned into energy while the soul remained unchanged.
In that situation.
There was not much difference, in essence, between it and actively exposing one's own weakness.
Among the numerous related methods, only an exceedingly small number of energy transformation techniques, ones of extremely high grade and cultivation thresholds, could transform the user's soul into energy as well.
However, even then.
The drawbacks of energy transformation had not been completely changed.
Energy transformation on the level of the soul.
Would directly give rise to a problem.
Namely, when the opponent could interfere with your energy.
Your soul would likewise be interfered with by them.
What was more.
When the opponent wore away your energy, it essentially meant they were wearing away your soul—circumstances that.
Directly caused many people, after high-intensity battles, to immediately suffer incomplete souls, or even