As the Divine Infant formed, all the apertures in Xu Yi's body rang in unison. Vast waves of pure qi descended from the Heavenly Bridge and poured into his Qi Sea, turning into surging torrents.
Once the Divine Infant formed, Infant Essence arose of its own accord.
The opening line of On Infants read: "Those without an infant are slaves to the spirit; those with an infant are masters of the spirit."
To be a slave to the spirit meant that those who had yet to cultivate a Divine Infant could still control the spiritual power of a region, but in the end, they were borrowing power from heaven and earth, and what they could borrow was limited.
To be a master of the spirit meant that after forming an infant, Infant Essence arose of its own accord.
Infant Essence was also a kind of spiritual power, but it did not come from heaven and earth. It came from the Divine Infant's mastery of creation's mysteries.
By comparison, the former seemed able to borrow the spiritual power of heaven and earth without limit, while the latter was constrained by how much Infant Essence it possessed.
In truth, the two were incomparable.
The greatest limitation of the spiritual power wielded by cultivators who had not formed an infant was that the power they unleashed did not belong to them. As soon as they encountered a cultivator whose cultivation was higher, their attacks could easily be rendered null.
The so-called supernatural abilities of cultivators who had not formed an infant merely strengthened the stability of their unleashed spiritual power, making it harder for their opponents to dispel.
But the spiritual power unleashed by cultivators who had formed an infant came from their Infant Essence and belonged to them. It could not be