Aunt Forms Core, Yang Xiue Forms Nascent Soul

Different Dao Bodies emphasized different aspects and produced different effects.

The Five Peaks Dao Body focused on strength and solidity. Cultivators who achieved the Five Peaks Dao Body could even battle cultivators of the same rank with the power of their flesh alone. The Five Spirits Dao Body, on the other hand, possessed the blessing and protection of the spirits of the five directions, greatly enhancing all manner of divine abilities and Dao arts, whether used for attack or defense. As for the standard Five Elements Dao Body cultivated through the Five Elements Turning Wheel Scripture, it granted a deeper grasp of the principles of the Five Elements' generation and restraint.

The Five Lotuses Dao Body Liang Zhaohuang had cultivated could be said to be half the result of his own deductions and half the creation of the phoenix bloodline's Five Virtues Fire. Its effects and characteristics were recovery and calamity substitution.

Its recovery effect was strongest upon the physical body, healing wounds and even regenerating severed limbs. At the same time, the Five Lotuses Dao Body could also slightly accelerate the recovery of his spiritual power and Spiritual Sense, though the effect was less than half as potent as it was for the body.

As for its calamity-substitution effect, after cultivating the Five Lotuses Dao Body, Liang Zhaohuang would nurture a lotus Dao embryo within his body. Not only could it transfer and substitute for his injuries, it could even serve in place of his death.

Of course, once it substituted for his death, the lotus Dao embryo would wither. To restore it and nurture it anew would be exceedingly difficult.

It could be said that the effects of this Five Lotuses Dao Body were even better than the effects Liang Zhaohuang had initially deduced and planned for. Not