On the path of cultivation, the strong reigned supreme.
Within a sect, if there was no pillar capable of suppressing the rest by an entire major realm, it would be impossible to gather so many experts beneath one roof. Looking at it from another angle, since the Haoyuan Sect possessed so many Body Enlightenment Realm cultivators, it must have Spirit Enlightenment Realm cultivators—and perhaps even stronger ones.
And once one entered the Spirit Enlightenment Realm and possessed a Primordial Spirit, physical means could no longer destroy them completely.
The greatest advantage of the Primordial Spirit was its immunity to all physical attacks.
Even if the physical body were utterly destroyed, the Primordial Spirit would still remain.
The horizon suddenly trembled faintly.
A figure rose into the air.
The moment this figure rose, it became a thousand-zhang Dharma Body.
As soon as the Dharma Body appeared, everyone felt as though they had fallen into an ice cellar.
It was a white-haired old man. His physical body was shattered beyond recognition, yet his Dharma Body was lifelike, without the slightest trace of being constructed from True Essence. It was like a genuine thousand-zhang body of flesh.
This was the hallmark of the Spirit Enlightenment Realm.
In the Body Enlightenment Realm, True Essence Manifestation formed an outer shell around the body. The body's outline might appear a thousand zhang tall, but in the eyes of true experts, the body was the body and True Essence was True Essence; one glance was enough to distinguish them.
But in the Spirit Enlightenment Realm, the Primordial Spirit fused with flesh and blood, fundamentally expanding the physical body itself.
That expansion was real.
One was real and one was false; the difference in battle power was as vast as heaven and earth.
Lin Xiaosu's Heavenly Insight Eye