The Elemental Spirits of the Spirit Realm were born when various elements, substances, and even sources of power developed sentience and took form.
Besides the common Elemental Spirits born from the forces of the five elements, wind and thunder, yin and yang, ice, and other such elements gaining sentience, there were also all sorts of bizarre spirits born under various circumstances.
Back then, Liang Ji had sent his subordinate Dragon Beast Elemental Spirits into the Spirit Realm to lie low, search for, and harvest all kinds of Spiritual Stars. During their time there, they had encountered many strange and rare Elemental Spirits.
Elemental Spirits such as mountain spirits and stone spirits, which came from slight variations of the five elements, were considered common.
There were also many exceedingly rare Elemental Spirits, born only in extremely unusual environments.
Take special Star Spirits, for example. These were different from the Star Spirits born within the source of a Star Lord's Natal Star through cultivation. They were special Elemental Spirits born when an entire, unique star developed sentience in an unusual environment within the Spirit Realm.
Such stellar Elemental Spirits were usually high-ranked and immensely powerful from the moment they were born. Most emerged as high-tier beings.
Of course, the environments capable of imbuing a star with sentience and transforming it directly into a special Elemental Spirit demanded extremely high standards and were profoundly mysterious. Even across the vast sea of stars, naturally occurring environments that could nurture Stellar Elemental Spirits were exceedingly rare.
At least, across the vast sea of stars spanning the thirty Star Domains currently occupied by the Star Alliance, not a single such environment or terrain had ever been found.
Even within the Spirit Realm's unique environment, shaped by the influence of the treasure known as the Elemental Sea,