The bright moon hung high, sea and sky meeting in a single line. It should have been a vast, boundless phenomenon, yet now, besieged by an even broader expanse of golden lotuses, it was on the verge of collapse.
Ji Haoyue's expression was ugly. Adam's words from back then faintly echoed in his ears, but Yan Ruyu's relentless divine techniques left him with no energy to think too deeply.
"The Eastern Wilderness Divine Body... in the end, it is merely a divine body."
Adam sighed.
"If you make reasonable use of its advantages to plan your cultivation, it can still count as an innate advantage. But if you rely on it as your foundation, that is rather shortsighted."
In Zhetian, the word "divine" was not actually much different from "sacred."
A divine body meant possessing Dao laws within one's body similar to those of an Immortal Four Saint. If all went smoothly, one could use them to cultivate to the Immortal Four Saint realm.
Yet physiques inherently came with both benefits and drawbacks. Especially when one borrowed the Dao of predecessors for convenience, it became an invisible shackle on the path toward higher realms.
A physique like the divine body, which could only help one reach the Immortal Four Saint realm, might not cause much trouble in the struggle upon the Emperor's path, but it was certainly not much of an aid either.
Ji Haoyue had once prided himself on it and even devoted most of his efforts to developing the divine body phenomenon. Now, that seemed somewhat laughable.
Unless he intended to remain deeply rooted in the Saint realm—either breaking through to Saint King and earning the title of Ji Divine King, or becoming a "living fossil" of the Ji family, explaining ancient secrets to the current generation of