Su Shi'er blinked as a stream of information flashed rapidly through his mind.
Though he now possessed an Immortal Body, his original body had only reached the Out of Body stage.
Yet after reading extensively in the Ancient Immortal Sect, he had long since gained a thorough understanding of the cultivation realms of Cultivation World cultivators.
When cultivators broke through to the Spirit Severing stage, they naturally gained the ability to cultivate a clone.
Such clones differed from the incarnations he had previously condensed through techniques.
Incarnations were, in a sense, merely more advanced puppets. Even an External Incarnation cultivated to the utmost, possessing independent consciousness, remained closely linked to the cultivator's original body.
Once the original body met with disaster, the incarnation would often perish as well.
Clones, however, were different. They were independent entities formed when Spirit Severing stage cultivators forcibly separated their Primordial Spirit and Nascent Soul.
They possessed self-awareness and could cultivate on their own.
In the cultivation world, human hearts were unfathomable. Even Dao Companions rarely shared trust without reservation.
A clone was thus another independent entity a cultivator could trust besides their original body.
Should the original body fall, the clone would naturally become the new original body and continue upon the path of cultivation.
Once one reached the Body Integration stage, clone and original body would merge into one, granting strength far surpassing that of other cultivators.
Yet this also meant that to attain the Body Integration stage, both clone and original body had to cultivate to the peak of Spirit Severing stage Great Perfection.
The cultivation resources and time consumed in this process were far from as simple as twice the amount.
For the overwhelming majority of cultivators, reaching the Spirit Severing stage was already their limit.
If they chose the path