"Steal Heaven, Replace Buddha" was something he had obtained in the real world from those three bald Ancestral Buddhas, along with [Status: soul fusion].
"Steal Heaven, Replace Buddha" allowed Chen Miao to create a Buddha statue after splitting off part of his soul.
With it, he could redirect attacks targeting his soul body into the Buddha statue. He could even fuse statues made from several people's soul bodies into something like a "converter."
It was because of "Steal Heaven, Replace Buddha" that Xiao Bai's Yin-Yang Dharma Eye and five prisons had been unable to affect those three bald men.
Those three bald men had also relied on their soul fusion talent to use Steal Heaven, Replace Buddha to concentrate two people's power into one of them.
The hunger inflicted by the Mountain-Bound Starveling Lord definitely acted on the soul body.
"Steal Heaven, Replace Buddha" would most likely work, but Chen Miao wasn't sure whether it could eliminate the problem entirely.
Then there was the second-tier status [Hunger Delusion]. Although both hunger delusion and the Mountain-Bound Starveling Lord's ability made their targets hungry, their purposes differed.
The Mountain-Bound Starveling Lord's purpose was to make people feel hunger as it did and starve to death as it had. It was a lethal curse!
Hunger delusion was more about keeping the target in the negative state of hunger, primarily to impair them. Although it could also kill, that was a slow process.
Besides that, hunger delusion could use this negative state to draw out latent potential.
But hunger delusion was only a second-tier status, after all. It still couldn't contend with the Mountain-Bound Starveling Lord's curse.
So Chen Miao wondered whether raising hunger delusion to the third tier might allow its effects to cancel out the Mountain-Bound Starveling Lord's curse.
If so, as