If someone asked.
What exactly did death feel like? Shi Yi should have been able to answer that question.
Death.
It was a silent, soundless sensation. His limbs lost all feeling, his consciousness gradually blurred, and his memories began flashing by. Everything important and unimportant flowed past like a stream.
The feeling was truly strange.
Peaceful. Serene.
The instant Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind emerged, Shi Yi felt his body collapsing. This was a power beyond his reach; attempting to transform Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind was simply courting death.
Fortunately.
He was now a spiritual consciousness body. His body exploding did not mean death, and with the Thirteen Scriptures protecting his soul consciousness sea, no one could erase his soul.
But normally.
Dying in the Void God Realm would also inflict severe damage in the real world. One's vitality would be greatly depleted, and one's essence, energy, and spirit would be harmed. At the very least, it would take several months of recuperation to slowly recover.
This kind of spiritual death had an enormous impact on oneself. At best, it caused mental problems; at worst, it could even cause one to lose one's spiritual nature, leading to problems in future cultivation.
Yet Shi Yi was in the Void God Realm, this unknown and mysterious place. After his spiritual consciousness body exploded, the losses to his essence, energy, and spirit were negligible.
But precisely because the damage to his essence, energy, and spirit was negligible, Shi Yi's body in the real world did not awaken.
Several minutes passed.
Shi Yi's exploded spiritual consciousness body, its scattered flesh and blood, gradually began to gather under the Unceasing Growth of the Willow Deity Method, returning to its previous form.
Flesh regeneration.
Shi Yi naturally could not accomplish this in the real world.