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Yu Chen's words struck at the greatest problem with Tongming's cultivation method.

The idea of using numerous magical treasures to replace the body-deities and station them throughout the body had been considered by someone in the game world as well—and that person had gone even further.

As far as Yu Chen knew, that person's eyes were Sun-Moon Pearls refined from the sun and moon of a minor world; his hair was fused with Heavenly Silkworm Silk, Taiyi Golden Essence, and Star-Tome Divine Iron, every strand equivalent to a flying sword bearing a different stellar aura. His skin was an imitation Mountains and Rivers State Diagram; his mouth and stomach had been refined with the Heaven-Swallowing Bowl; his bones were supreme mechanisms crafted by some puppet master.

By the standards of the time, any single part taken from his body would have been an absolute top-grade magical treasure.

Yet until Yu Chen left that world, the other man had still failed to advance further. He had been stuck at the great completion stage, unable to take that final step, capable only of remaining as an Earth Immortal in the mortal world, with no fate for the great Dao of the Heavenly Immortal.

Ultimately, cultivation in the Earth Immortal Realm was the perfection of commanding the three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit. In the end, the three treasures merged into one, creating Dao qi unique to oneself and achieving the Dao Fruit of a Heavenly Immortal.

Transformations like those of the Yellow Court Body-Deities counted as changes to one's own essence, qi, and Dao nature. Even someone like Yu Chen, who had relied on external forces in his early cultivation, still had his foundation rooted in his own three treasures, so merging them caused little conflict.

But if numerous magical treasures