The seventh-rank Demon Soul Generals refined directly from True Immortals differed markedly in nature from those that had advanced from the peak of the sixth rank!
The former had merely transformed their life forms. They had not undergone the entire process of cultivating the Selfless Devil Scripture, advancing to the seventh rank, and merging their bodies with the Dao. Their own Dao had not been branded into the Soul Refining Banner, nor had they perfected the Immortal Dao. Thus, they could not drive the Soul Refining Banner to transform and ascend, and their own Dao would not turn into vines that bound the Immortal Court world to death.
At the same time, because no Dao imprints of theirs had been left upon the Soul Refining Banner, they possessed only the "undying trait" of ordinary Demon Soul Generals: immortality on the level of the "spirit," but not on the level of the "Dao."
If a supreme powerhouse slew them and simultaneously erased the Divine Soul imprints they had left on the banner's surface, they would perish completely. No matter how much mana Shen Mo expended, he would be unable to reconstruct their soul bodies!
The seventh-rank Demon Soul Generals who had advanced from the sixth rank were different. They had cultivated the Selfless Devil Scripture, completed the process of merging their bodies with the Dao and perfecting the Immortal Dao with their own Dao upon advancing to the seventh rank, and branded their own Dao onto the Soul Refining Banner.
Therefore, the Dao originating from them could turn into vines that bound the Immortal Court world to death, just like those of ordinary True Immortals.
Even after being utterly destroyed in both form and spirit, Shen Mo could use the Dao imprints on the Soul Refining Banner to gather their Divine