Divine Firmament Sword Palace.
A violet mote of heaven-and-earth primal essence at Gao Xian's fingertip rapidly broke apart into streams of violet light. They flowed from his fingertip into his body, circulated through a full cycle under the conveyance of his powerful pure-yang divine consciousness, gathered in the sea of consciousness deep within his brow, and finally merged into his natal yang spirit.
His pure azure natal yang spirit was like blue-green glass, utterly clear and translucent within and without, yet possessing an indestructible hardness.
It was not only his natal yang spirit. Gao Xian's physical body, inside and out, had also taken on a translucent azure hue.
Gao Xian's natal yang spirit was a fused yang spirit of Unity of Form and Spirit, allowing his fleshly body and yang spirit to become wholly unified as one.
Under normal circumstances, cultivation of a fused yang spirit was exceedingly slow.
Once cultivators reached the sixth rank, most would abandon the path of the fused yang spirit. Tempering the physical body to the same level as the yang spirit required ten times the resources needed for the yang spirit.
And it was not merely a matter of resources—the difficulty of cultivation also increased tenfold.
A physical body tempered by a sixth-rank body-refinement art was already powerful enough. Further tempering it held little meaning for a cultivator.
Even Gao Xian felt that cultivating the fused-yang-spirit method offered poor value. No matter how mighty a fleshly body became, it could not compare to a Divine Artifact.
Yet he possessed the Primordial Heaven Wheel and the Five Emperor Wheel within his body, while his cultivation method emphasized perfect unity of inner and outer, without flaw or lack.
If he abandoned his physical body's shortcomings, leaving spirit strong but form weak, it would instead be detrimental