The Source That Triggered the Evil Spirits

Whether in the Primordial World or the Mysterious Yellow Immortal Realm, there had never been any shortage, throughout history, of cultivators who attempted to transform their entire Dao Bodies, or certain parts of them, into mechanical artifacts!

This unique method of cultivation was known as the "Way of the Artifact Body."

Yet almost no cultivator who embarked upon this path had successfully reached the Divine Bridge Realm...

In a sense, no matter how intricate, precise, or miraculous a mechanical artifact might be, it could not compare to the human body;

To undertake such transformations was truly to abandon the root and chase the branches!

Even more extreme body cultivators, such as Li Zhong, the elite disciple of Star Peak who had fallen to the hands of a Heavenly Demon years ago and become a fiend, cultivated the body-tempering art, Heavenly Fire Body-Refining Art, merely treating his fleshly body as an artifact to be refined. Yet in the end, he was still made of flesh and blood.

His purpose was likewise to strengthen his physique, thereby better advancing his cultivation realm;

Such cultivators' Dao Bodies were not incomplete. They were fundamentally different from cultivators of the "Way of the Dwelling Body"!

Once a portion of one's body had been transformed into a mechanical artifact, with gold, wood, jade, stone, and other materials replacing one's original limbs or organs, the cultivator's Dao Body would become incomplete.

Below the Origin Core Realm, this was not much of an issue. But when one sought to condense an Origin Core, the incompleteness of the Dao Body made it difficult for the transformation of essence, qi, and spirit to attain perfection. Naturally, one would be unable to form a middle- or upper-grade Origin Core... Even if fortune smiled upon one and one formed an inferior Origin