"No true body?"
Fang Weiqi and the others were hardly narrow-minded or ignorant. As Nascent Soul Experts of the Immortal Alliance, they had all heard something of the legends surrounding the Great Powers and supreme experts among the Ancient Cultivators.
Their own sects and lineages even had records of mighty ancestors ascending after overcoming tribulations, or attaining longevity and immortality.
The truth and precise details of those legends and ancient records had long since become impossible to verify, but almost without exception, they pointed to one fact: to attain longevity and immortality, one first had to cultivate an undying body.
"Undying" here did not mean absolute deathlessness and indestructibility, but rather a concept of life and death measured against mortals.
After cultivating such a body, one's form of life would rise to a level mortals could scarcely imagine. Almost no force other than the power of law could kill them, hence the term "undying."
This also meant that above the primordial spirit realm, undying experts were like Immortals and Gods, possessing all manner of incarnations, substitutes to die in their place, and even means of resurrection and rebirth. They were almost impossible to kill; one could only weaken or seal them, or wait until their allotted lifespan ended and they naturally withered with age.
Different Dao Paths and fields had different understandings of this Dao Fruit. The Puppet Dao was particularly adept at using Substitute Puppets to take death in their place. Its practitioners often concealed their true bodies, appearing before others through all manner of incarnations.
Puppet Dao experts were already difficult to kill once they employed such methods, but history had seen even more troublesome Puppet Masters: those who directly rendered their primordial spirits insubstantial and divided them, making numerous backup copies.
Yet this method had an obvious