"Mm..."
"Life, Death, Reincarnation."
"Though the realm isn't particularly high and the strength isn't especially great, it's still a very good approach."
Although his body was bound, his primordial spirit could leave his body and observe its own changes.
After departing from Douluo's cultivation system and losing his divine soul, the primordial spirit became the foundation of everything.
It could even be said that even if Gu Chen's body vanished,
his primordial spirit could still endure eternally to some extent.
This was the difference between a primordial spirit, a soul, and a divine soul.
A divine soul was essentially the soul of a god.
The essence of a primordial spirit was the result of a soul's cultivation and ascension. It possessed the ability to govern the soul, control the body, bear one's cultivation, contain the laws of a grotto-heaven, and establish the foundation for immortality.
Ordinary people: only a soul.
Cultivators: soul + body.
People like Gu Chen: condense a primordial spirit, with the soul reduced to an accessory of the primordial spirit.
"It's just... a little tiring."
Some inexplicable force seemed to be drawing his primordial spirit away. It was very weak, but he did not resist.
The range affected by the spacetime dimension only enveloped Gu Chen's body. His body would continuously crack apart amid the clash of life and death. In the end, the current Gu Chen had merely returned to the state from before his Double Pupils had achieved minor mastery, when he was a rank-99 Limit Douluo.
It was only natural that some people could not withstand such an impact. He needed precisely that kind of natural outcome. Between endless restoration and destruction, his body would be forced to perish from death energy, only to revive again through life energy.
As the primordial spirit