Great Joy Arhat's spirit had wandered the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. The path he had taken to break through into True Martial was not the orthodox route of condensing power and laws to advance into True Martial, but a shortcut—a shortcut fraught with immense risk. He had sought transcendence through his own formidable spiritual power, then used it to drive his physical body into the True Martial Realm.
In truth, Great Joy Arhat had succeeded in the end, yet he had also failed.
His spirit had already transcended, coalescing into the legendary Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. The problem was that he was not of the Monster Race and did not possess their powerful primordial spirit.
Nor had he cultivated the primordial-spirit secret art recorded upon the White Jade Tablet, an art from another world that could turn illusion into reality, cast off the flesh, and let the primordial spirit roam freely between heaven and earth.
Thus, Great Joy Arhat had fallen into an exceedingly awkward state. His primordial spirit had transcended, but his physical body continued to weaken, until eventually all life force had vanished from it.
When Venerable Longzang opened the secluded chamber, Great Joy Arhat's body had even turned into a withered skeleton. Only his transcendent primordial spirit still clung to those dry bones, yet it no longer possessed the slightest bit of strength. After all, even if his primordial spirit had transcended, it still needed a physical body in order to survive.
Later, Venerable Longzang had directly sacrificed his own flesh and blood, all so that Great Joy Arhat could achieve full completion. The facts proved that he had indeed succeeded in the end.
Only, an accident had occurred afterward. Venerable Longzang had believed that his primordial spirit would surely disperse, but Great Joy Arhat's