The soul's dharma form and the essence of the true spirit were inseparably connected.
The instant Li Ling perfected his Dao body and attained Core Formation, his original three-headed, six-armed child celestial aspect seemed to find an opportunity to grow as well, maturing into an adolescent aspect.
Blessed by the Great Dao of heaven and earth, it received an infusion of profoundly mysterious, ineffable Dao resonance. His soul's form underwent a strange transformation, becoming three heads and eight arms outright.
Li Ling immediately realized that the power of his laws had changed.
"The original multiplication law now grants a fourfold increase, while Divided Spirit Manifestation has become eight threads. Not only that, I've also gained the support of my flesh's blood and qi, allowing me to transform dharma power into yang vigor, turning the insubstantial into the substantial!
This is the Dao body's power to shift between substance and insubstantiality, to grow or shrink at will-a new Flesh Dao Fruit!"
Lin Rouniang and Granny Wu had once been astonished by True Person Zixu's potential precisely because the child appearance had such immense room for growth. As the years passed, or as his Dao body and spirit developed, his form would change along with them.
In the years to come, he would have successive opportunities to transform into adolescent, young adult, middle-aged, and elderly appearances. An ordinary person with a middle-aged appearance would have only one opportunity left, upon entering old age. Some even manifested an elderly appearance upon first attaining Nascent Soul, setting a hard limit on their future prospects, with no further growth or transformation possible.
What had now occurred was the growth and transformation from childhood to adolescence. Thus, beyond his previous innate divine abilities, he had gained a new one.
That it was a Flesh Dao Fruit