The form of immortality Wheel-Turning King described left everyone feeling uneasy. If they gave up their physical bodies, would they still be human? Perhaps that was what the immortals of legend were—but none of them felt any longing for it.
After all, they had all seen the ghastly state of the mummified corpses in the Nine-Layer Sword Pavilion. It seemed those people had deciphered the secrets of the White Jade Tablet over the course of that long passage of time, which was how they had survived for nearly ten thousand years. Their bodies had withered, but their primordial spirits remained intact.
However, the secret technique Wheel-Turning King described was incomplete. Even combined, the contents of the eight White Jade Tablets were only a part of it. He had probably cultivated only half the technique.
So even though their primordial spirits could leave their physical bodies, they still had to attach themselves to the White Jade Tablet. Perhaps the complete version of this technique was far more powerful than the one they had learned.
Even so, none of those present reacted. This so-called secret technique for cultivating the primordial spirit alone shared the same roots as the martial arts they practiced. It simply took a different path—a path they found distasteful.
In fact, when martial artists reached the end of their cultivation, each had a rebellious spirit in their bones. They borrowed the power of heaven and earth, then resisted it, refining a power that belonged to them alone.
The Spirit Transformation Realm borrowed the power of heaven and earth. The Soul Fusion Realm fused the spirit with heaven and earth. The Yang Spirit Realm gave one initial mastery over the power of heaven and earth. At the True Martial Realm, one began to cast off heaven and earth and master