Dharma body was a term Ancient Cultivators used for the attainment of a Dao fruit by those who had achieved the Dao, particularly attainments concerning the body or physical form.
Cultivating a dharma body meant bringing a law to perfection and fixing it within the body, a new level of wielding laws beyond the primordial spirit.
Generally, only cultivators in the middle or late stages of the primordial spirit realm could master a dharma body Dao fruit. The direct distinction was that newly ascended primordial spirit cultivators usually had to actively invoke their power of law for it to take effect, whereas those who had cultivated a dharma body Dao fruit had fixed it within themselves, allowing it to function passively.
Of all that Li Chen had seen and heard so far, the most classic example of a Great Power possessing a dharma body Dao fruit was Dancing Maiden.
The two powers of law Dancing Maiden possessed, life constancy and synchronized rhythm, were both built from their corresponding laws. The life-constant Dao fruit took effect automatically without requiring the will to direct it, making it a dharma body Dao fruit in the truest sense.
What Li Chen now called the Heavenly Ghost dharma body, meanwhile, was a form of Dao fruit derived from the Heavenly Ghost's Return to the Hidden secret art he had created himself.
The so-called Heavenly Ghost was a close kin of heavenly will, referring to an intelligent spiritual essence that existed unseen within the natural world. It could also be regarded as the source of all things' spirituality and the essence of true spirits.
Heaven's death was humanity's birth. When Heaven died, it became a ghost; unseen, the essence of spirit and will split from the Great Dao and evolved into life. This was the true