They had heard about it before.
The other party had been born deficient, lacking one soul from birth, without Wisdom Light.
Just like the idiots spoken of in the mortal world.
Some of those present had even met him once.
From the look of it, he had likely lost more than just one soul.
It was more like he lacked even the Linghui Spirit among the souls and spirits. Wisdom was hidden within the Seven Spirits; missing one spirit made cultivation slow and dull.
And the missing soul was likely one of the Heavenly Souls.
All living beings were born with Three Souls and Seven Spirits. The souls referred to the Heaven, Earth, and Human Souls, and also pointed to Taiguang, Shuangling, and Youjing.
No matter which one was lost, the price was destined to be a flaw on the path of cultivation.
His innate foundation was incomplete, and the flaw lay in his Divine Soul and spirit. Even his True Spirit was deficient.
That was no good thing.
Trying to mend one's foundation was already exceedingly difficult.
"I saw him before. He merely lost Wisdom Light. Surely finding it again wouldn't be difficult for the Elders, would it?"
Someone raised this question as well.
"How could it be that easy? If an ordinary person lost it, finding it again wouldn't be terribly difficult. They could even manage it themselves."
"But I heard that before he entered this destined fate, he had already been missing a soul. How do you recover something that was never there to begin with?"
The Demonic Cultivator beside them, holding a wine cup, shook his head.
"Exactly. Without a Heavenly Soul, it is equivalent to lacking the Primordial Spirit among the Three Spirits. The Primordial Spirit is present from birth. If it is absent from