For Shi Feiyang, if he had relied on his magic and supernatural powers to do whatever he pleased on Earth during that "transmigration" amid the final kalpa, he would inevitably have sunk into the demonic illusion. Not only would his primordial spirit have become trapped within it, unable to free itself, but his physical body outside would also have entered a state of Qi Deviation, its true qi thrown into chaos and its blood and essence surging wildly.
He would either have died at the hands of Old Man Withered Bamboo when the latter broke out of the formation and charged into the Main Hall;
Or, even if he regained consciousness, his bones and meridians would have grown into deformities, preventing him from attaining the body of a true dragon. Naturally, he would also have failed to cultivate his natal primordial embryo, utterly ruining his foundation in the Dao. No matter how powerful his magic became in this lifetime, he could not even have become an earth immortal. To achieve anything, he would have had to pass through another cycle of rebirth.
It was precisely because he had successfully endured those twelve years of demonic illusion with an upright heart and righteous qi that he had formed his primordial embryo in one stroke and entered the—Early Nascent Soul Phase?
Now, within the god-demon's realm at Wheel-Turning Temple, that very scene had been recreated.
But the demonic illusion during the final kalpa had formed naturally through the resonance between his own fragmented memories and obsessions and the Dao-body of heaven and earth. This one, however, had been pieced together by a god-demon using mind-reading powers to probe fragments of Shi Feiyang's memories. Their realism and spatial scale were as far apart as clouds in the sky and mud on the ground.