"This old woman shall obey. Thank you, Your Majesty, for sparing my life." The old locust-tree spirit knew which way the wind blew and hurriedly bowed in gratitude.
Afterward, the mountain excavation and mining continued as a matter of course, but Li Chen no longer cared to watch. Instead, he began studying the divine cultivation method the locust-tree spirit had presented.
The incense-and-fire deification practiced in Great Qian had originally come from a secret Soul Dao canon of the Spirit Firmament Gate on the Earthly Immortal Continent. Someone had once used it to create powerful gods and thereby attain a Yang Spirit dharma body.
A dharma body was a dao fruit that fused flesh and blood, divine soul, and magic power into a single whole through laws and dao essence. It possessed the ability to unite with the Dao and refine the true, and could also be regarded as the perfected form of a dao body. Its every movement drew upon laws, wielding tremendous power at the level of the very source.
As far as Li Chen knew, Dancing Maiden possessed two great dao fruits: life constancy and synchronized rhythm. Her body was a true dharma body, capable of resisting external changes of any kind, as well as interfering with lifeform mechanical-body rhythm and controlling it through the dance movements of the Art Dao.
Incense-and-fire deification was meant to transform a Yin Spirit into Yang, attaining the immortal body of a Yang Spirit.
Yet throughout history, very few had ever brought this path to full perfection. After all, the ancient sages had long warned that a Yin spirit could endure ten thousand tribulations and still struggle to enter sagehood.
Once one lost one's own Yang energy, relying solely on the shelter and purification afforded by the people's incense offerings and