Compared to Golden Core and Purple Palace cultivators, Nascent Soul cultivators could not only send their nascent souls out of their bodies, but also reconstruct their physical bodies.
However, losing an entire physical body also meant losing much of a cultivator's source essence, so reconstructing one was naturally no easy task.
It required azure yang embryonic essence elixir, refined from several principal ingredients, including azure yang spiritual water and jade-restoring blood lotus.
Moreover, a body formed with this embryonic essence elixir would be relatively frail and suffer severe shortcomings in the short term. Restoring it to its original condition would require at least one or two hundred years of tempering.
Although one or two hundred years was not particularly long compared to a Nascent Soul cultivator's two-thousand-year lifespan,
For the Heavenly Demon Sect, which was currently desperate to preserve its power, that was an exceedingly long time.
Aside from reconstructing a body, there was also possession. Compared to reconstructing a body, cultivation after possession could progress extremely quickly, provided one had enough treasures. After all, with a nascent soul already present, recovering one's full strength in thirty or forty years was perfectly normal.
There would be no nascent soul lightning tribulation either. However, a cultivator only had one chance at possession in their entire life, even at the Nascent Soul stage.
Furthermore, after possession, the inner demon tribulation would become extraordinarily powerful when breaking through to a higher major realm.
By choosing possession, Black Feather True Lord had effectively severed his chances of reaching Spirit Transformation.
But he had no other choice. Leaving aside whether the Heavenly Demon Sect had prepared azure yang embryonic essence elixir in advance,
Demonic cultivation factions competed among themselves as well. The Heavenly Demon Sect occupied considerable territory and had offended even more cultivators.
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