The path of the Body-as-Seed Method had not been pioneered by Shi Hao. He was merely the first to walk it successfully.
That path had already appeared in the Immortal Ancient Era, and many Heavenly Prodigies had set foot on it.
From nothing, they had expanded it bit by bit.
But no one had ever succeeded.
Just as Meng Tianzheng had said, most who had taken this path since ancient times had died violent deaths. A few had become cripples and survived by sheer luck.
In the Immortal Ancient Era, the mainstream practice had been the Immortal Ancient Method: fusing with an Immortal Seed.
Yet even in that dazzling era, perfect Immortal Seeds had been exceedingly rare.
Even True Immortals struggled to obtain them. Only Heavenly Prodigies with astonishing backing, those who wrested Fortune from heaven, or those so blessed with Fortune that they could be called Children of Fortune could acquire such perfect Immortal Seeds.
Most people had no hope of obtaining one. Some peerless Heavenly Prodigies and gifted cultivators refused to accept that they would fall behind Dao Union Practitioners who had fused with perfect Immortal Seeds.
The Body-as-Seed Method was their way out.
But this path was a Severed Path. A Dark Abyss seemed to cut across it ahead, too difficult to cross. Success was impossible.
Countless Heavenly Prodigies of the Immortal Ancient Era had lost their lives on this path.
In the original course of events, Shi Hao had not set his sights on this path from the beginning.
Shi Hao had wanted a perfect Immortal Seed too, but he could not find one.
The Immortal Academy had several seeds left over from the Immortal Ancient Era, but others had already claimed them. Shi Hao had no chance of getting one.
The Sacred Academy, which practiced