Ethical Issues in Reconstructing a Physical Body

Wang Qi still remembered taking an elective course back at Xinyue Immortal Academy. Its main content had included more than a dozen laws concerning "transferring tribulation," along with common methods and the like. Since that class had been fairly interesting, he had listened rather attentively.

That class had specifically covered the ethical issues that had to be faced when replacing one's physical body through transferring tribulation.

Body-snatching was an absolute violation of the law; once discovered, it meant the death penalty without discussion, so there was no need to talk about it for now. Generally speaking, borrowing a corpse to return the soul was the least recommended method. Leaving aside how much cellular activity remained in a corpse after death or how much its proteins had hydrolyzed, merely handling the corpse's original social relationships was a tremendous headache.

Possessing a beast was slightly better than returning the soul through a corpse. Unless one's offspring also served as one's inheritors, the Demon Race themselves would not care about their descendants or siblings. For cultivators who possessed beasts, tangled and unending social problems simply did not exist.

Fashioning a physical body was also a good option. For instance, molding earth, or borrowing vegetation to take human form. That was equivalent to an alternative kind of "demon body." Bodies made of soil, wood, or stone especially did not need to deal with things like "children" at all.

However, no matter what kind of transferred tribulation it was, it had to confront this question.

Could the descendants born after "I" underwent transferred tribulation and reincarnated truly count as "my" descendants?

After all, reproduction existed to propagate one's biological descendants and continue one's bloodline. This was the earliest and most fundamental instinct of living things. If one merely wished to perpetuate one's spirit, then descendants