"Dealing with Fang Yuan isn't actually difficult. I can exploit the limitations of the Book of Years itself to lay an ambush along the timeline and truly kill him..."
"Alternatively, I can stop him before he actively uses this power!"
"Fang Yuan has neither attained the Sage Dao and reached the primordial spirit realm nor refined this magic power into himself to achieve a dharma body Dao fruit like Dancing Maiden's life constancy. To him, this power is a divine ability or spell that requires active use, not a true dharma body Dao fruit."
"Any power that requires active use leaves an opening. There is always the possibility of killing its wielder before he has time to use it!"
Within the primordial spirit realm, there was an attainment known as a dharma body Dao fruit. As its name suggested, it was a body incorporating the characteristics of one's own laws. The undying golden body and indestructible primordial spirit, renowned since remote antiquity, were two such attainments, representing immortality of the physical body and primordial spirit respectively.
For those who cultivated a dharma body, power merged into their very being. Only then could their mighty power truly be said to belong to them. A thought set it in motion, and laws followed their will. It could become a bodily instinct, or even an inherent characteristic of their life, manifesting at every moment and in every place.
By comparison, divine abilities and spells fell a notch short. They required the will to drive them, magic power to sustain them, or the power of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth to manifest before others.
Li Chen had already encountered such people. Dancing Maiden of the Creation Sect possessed the two Dao fruits of life constancy and synchronized rhythm. Both had long since