The Primordial Spirit is Achieved

The Body Path had two branches: the substance body, and the body god. Whether these two paths were strong or weak was not determined by how powerful the body itself was. What the former pursued was purity—not mere simplicity, but a convergence of all phenomena that brewed spiritual radiance. The substance body broke its limits, substance transformed into pure yang, and upon reaching this step, the body would gain an almost unimaginable plasticity.

The sun was immensely powerful, yet it was dead, with no plasticity to speak of. Humans were frail, yet alive, possessed of countless possibilities.

Cultivation! Cultivation!

Countless scriptures and Daoist canons had already made it clear: power was only a means of protecting the Dao. The subtle and profound mysteries were what truly mattered.

The body god was much the same. For the body god to break its limits and reorganize its genes was the ultimate expression of bodily authority, forming a binary unity with the substance body.

In the beginning, Zhao Cheng's cultivation of the Body Path had relied entirely on the transformation of the Ladder of God. But after he learned the Heavenly Emperor God-Sealing Art and forged something new from the old, he had instead used swordsmanship to expound genetic modification—working backward from the results to deduce its mysteries, then making them his own.

Some time ago, Zhao Cheng had even drawn upon what he gained from Li Nishang to push the path of the body god in a single stroke to the peak of Red · Extreme, only one step away from breaking its limits.

And throughout all this time, Zhao Cheng had never ceased his exploration of the Body Path.

Now, with the effects of his Creation-grade talent, Zhao Cheng began reconstructing the chapters of the Body Path from the past.

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