Su Che nodded.
Jiang Shoucheng was half right.
The so-called "Spirit Preservation, Shadow Reflection" was a secret divine technique within the Grand Simplicity Nine Netherworlds Illumining Elixir Formula. Specifically, it could be divided into two steps.
The first step was "Spirit-Storing."
Upon reaching the Reverted Elixir Realm, there was no longer any need to suppress ghosts as before. So long as one captured a trace of a ghost's aura, whether an image or a name, one could store it within the Dao Foundation and evolve it into a spiritual likeness.
When facing an enemy, one could then transform one's own true essence and recreate a similar ghost to command in battle. This step was "Reflection Projection." The evolved ghost would possess divine abilities similar to those of its original body.
At its root, this divine technique was a simplified derivation of the Mystic Gate's great divine power, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones. It was essentially a specially tailored version for Ghost Cultivators.
However, the method Su Che used differed somewhat from this technique's original form.
The first difference was that Su Che had omitted the "Spirit-Storing" step, directly borrowing origin essence from the several Void Step ghosts suppressed by Ruomu.
The second difference was that the power driving the evolved incarnation—in other words, the "Reflection Projection" step—was not Su Che's own magic power, but was instead drawn from their original bodies.
"Junior Brother Su truly possesses profound magic power. Ordinary people who reach the Reverted Elixir Realm can at most enlighten a few ghosts of the Divine Communion Realm. Even fellow disciples proficient in this art, capable of evolving Reverted Elixir ghosts, could never wield such power as Junior Brother Su."
Jiang Shoucheng spoke with considerable emotion. "Junior Brother truly lives up to being Uncle-Master Wei's disciple."
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