Reilo wanted to reshape his Star Body True Body, but it was no easy task.
He knew that perfectly well himself.
So, to prepare for this reshaping, he had to make absolutely sure he was ready.
For ordinary scholars, the power of a true body was not only like a protective outer layer, capable of negating a considerable amount of damage and amplifying their scholarly might. It was also a chance for an Extraordinary Scholar to change their fate after birth—a process of expanding their exploration of knowledge and reshaping their potential.
Thus,
for a scholar, damage to their true body was almost equivalent to an injury to their physical body.
And if the structure of their true body collapsed, it meant that their biological foundation had died. From then on, making any further progress would be nearly impossible.
The same was true for Reilo.
After his true body collapsed, Reilo might still make some progress in his academic field. With tremendous luck, he might even advance from elementary to intermediate, or from intermediate to advanced. But the chances of completing the evolution from a level-four to a level-five lifeform, or from level five to level six, would approach zero.
For a scholar, reshaping their true body a second time was far more difficult than creating it the first time.
This was because reshaping a true body was based on the scholar's experience of having one in the first place. Once they had completed their first true body, they gained remarkable insight from all they experienced through it, and made extraordinary progress. At the same time, they also became more uncertain.
As the saying went, the more you knew, the more you realized how little you knew.
The progress scholars made through these insights was plain to see.
But if