Meng Chuan had plenty of strange and unusual techniques. The false-body technique he gave Shi Hao was hardly the strangest.
But of all the techniques of its kind that Meng Chuan possessed, this one worked best.
It was like cultivating a second body and letting it break through to later realms first, gathering experience and testing the waters for danger.
The false body's cultivation was grafted from the true body's, however, and the process left no trace on the true body.
When the two merged, there would be no obstacles or problems with an unstable foundation.
Some cultivation would inevitably be lost, though.
Once Shi Hao's true body advanced to the Divine Flame Realm, the quality of its cultivation would certainly surpass the false body's. When the two became one, that cultivation would be compressed and refined to match the true body.
The false body's purpose was merely to keep Shi Hao's cultivation from stagnating. It could not match the efficiency or quality of cultivating with his true body.
Even so, it was an extraordinarily powerful technique.
The ancient prodigies of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces had sealed themselves away and slept lifetime after lifetime in pursuit of opportunity. Who knew how much time they had wasted?
With a false-body technique like this, once they entered the Immortal Ancient Era in this lifetime and merged their two bodies, they would reach the True God realm at the very least.
All that wasted time would be made up in an instant.
By cultivating this technique, Shi Hao would keep the advantages he had gained in Stone Village thanks to Meng Chuan's arrival.
Otherwise, Meng Chuan's influence had put Shi Hao at least one realm ahead of his counterpart at the same age in the original story.
If that lead vanished while