"So that meant I was already a Spiritual Body?" Lan Caijie asked.
"Yes!" Chen Mo said. "And you were an ownerless Spiritual Body. In the Cultivation World, an existence like you was like a precious treasure. Anyone who knew about you would want to obtain you."
"That included you as well?" Lan Caijie continued.
Chen Mo fell silent for a moment. He did not know how to answer. This answer was truly difficult. If he said no, he would be insulting Madam Ru's intelligence. But if he said yes, what difference was there between him and those greedy cultivators? Didn't they all want the Spiritual Body before them, ultimately to control it and use it to command a spirit treasure?
Chen Mo pondered quietly. Lan Caijie watched him without speaking, simply waiting for his answer.
In the end, Chen Mo nodded. "Yes, that included me. I wanted to obtain you too, because opportunities for a Spiritual Body to form were rare. They were exceedingly scarce even in the Cultivation World. A cultivator had to have achieved something in cultivation, possess a Spiritual Sea strong enough to a certain degree, and hold an intense obsession at the moment of death. Only then could a Spiritual Body form, and even then, it depended on chance. So whenever one was encountered, no one would fail to want it. Even if they did not use it themselves, they could sell it for enough resources, or offer it to their sect in exchange for tremendous benefits."
"Though I was currently on this Spiritual Energy Desert of a planet, and there were not many cultivators here. Encountering a Spiritual Body was practically a one-in-ten-thousand opportunity delivered right before my eyes. It would be absolutely impossible not to want it."
Lan Caijie listened to Chen Mo's lengthy