"If one wishes to become immortal, one must forget oneself; while my heart remains undying, the Dao has no gate."
Ren Qing routinely muttered the Daoist verse he had memorized in the mental asylum. By his understanding, whenever an orthodox Daoist immortal had an epiphany, they had to recite a few lines.
Immediately afterward, the Mortal Shedding talisman came alive, its crisscrossing lines redrawn anew.
Upon closer inspection, the talisman had become incomparably intricate and profound. Calling it an "Immortal Talisman" was more fitting; it was like a Great Dao Diagram formed within and upon his skin.
Though vitality had yet to return, he could faintly sense it.
His fleshly body was gradually transforming into the legendary immortal body.
Among the three mainstream methods of attaining immortality from Ren Qing's previous life, the highest was the "Celestial Immortal," said in ancient records to have existed in the primordial age when spiritual qi was at its most abundant.
A Celestial Immortal ascended with body and soul together, their form and spirit both wondrous—a realm cultivators could only gaze upon from afar.
An immortal body was something only Celestial Immortals could possess.
"The Mortal Shedding Immortal Talisman is as vast as the sea. To fully nurture an immortal body, I still need to achieve a Yin Immortal through the Metamorphosis Immortal Art. Right now, it seems I'm merely laying down its initial form."
"Immortal bodies are innately extraordinary, with no two alike. I wonder what kind of immortal body this poor Daoist will possess."
Like Lü Dongbin's Pure Yang immortal body, recorded as: "A body beyond the body forgets its illusory substance; within the apertures lie hidden apertures, nurturing Pure Yang."
Yet even if later generations obtained Lü Dongbin's Daoist inheritance, they could never cultivate the exact same Pure Yang immortal body.