After entering the paper offering, Chen Miao no longer felt that same loneliness when he looked at his physical body.
Once he grew accustomed to moving in paper-offering form, Chen Miao gained some new insights.
"Different paper offerings specialize in different things. The General Effigy has powerful attacks, but its mobility is average."
"The Paper Horse has terrible offensive capabilities, but exceptional mobility."
"If I could give the General Effigy the Paper Horse's mobility and shrink it down, wouldn't I have another formidable fighter? Even an ordinary Yin cultivator at the entering yin stage might not be a match for a General Effigy like that."
"It probably wouldn't be much weaker than a Grade-C Investigator from the Administration."
"But even the Spirit Effigy Sutra never mentioned this kind of fusion. It probably wouldn't be that easy..."
Chen Miao shook his head and shelved the idea for now.
He was becoming increasingly familiar with combining mystic arts, but trying to improve the Spirit Effigy Sutra was still getting ahead of himself.
After abandoning that idea, Chen Miao began his preparations.
Once his soul left his body, Chen Miao could sense the nine apertures in his body more clearly.
Previously, his physical body had stood between him and the nine apertures. Without that "intermediary," everything seemed much easier.
It gave Chen Miao the feeling that his physical body was useless.
Of course, that was only a feeling.
In reality, the physical body was extremely important.
There was a special connection between the physical body and the soul body, though no one had yet figured out exactly how it worked.
When the physical body was damaged, the corresponding part of the soul body would suffer the same damage.
For example, if someone's right little finger was cut off, their soul body would also