The quiet room was quickly cleared out. Lü Zheng worked with remarkable speed, carrying an air of thunderous decisiveness.
Inside the quiet room, Su Che watched the ever-changing sword intent at his fingertips and fell into deep thought.
People possessed three souls and seven spirits. The three souls were clear and numinous, dwelling within the brain palace. The seven spirits were plain and solid, following the body's form.
Hence the distinction between the divine soul and the physical body.
After death, life force was severed and the soul and spirits scattered. The three souls might obtain the earth's yin energy and transform into ghosts, or disperse between heaven and earth. The seven spirits decayed along with the body; having come from heaven and earth, they returned to heaven and earth.
Thus, Life and Death was the most crucial pass for cultivators. Daoists sought to evade death and prolong life because becoming a ghost after death, with the seven spirits separated, meant one was no longer the person one had once been.
There were even extreme cases. Some cultivators, after dying, had their souls turn into Ghost Cultivators, while their corpses developed spiritual intelligence on their own and became zombies.
One person by nature, divided into two minds.
From the perspective of cultivation, that was already a dead end of utter defeat.
Therefore, once one reached the Void Step realm and continued upward, one's attitude toward the physical body became a clear dividing line.
As for the Longevity Sect disciples who had died here, every one of their divine souls had already been taken away.
The divine soul ordinarily resided in the brain palace, surrounding the Innate Spiritual Nature Seed and forming a perfect structure from within to without. It did not change easily.
Yet within the brain palaces of these