As the Divine Domain enveloped him, Li Ling's spiritual consciousness seemed to grow vast and profound in an instant. Through Empathic Perception, he surveyed his surroundings and saw the scene before him clearly.
Amid the golden light filling the sky, Granny Wu's figure was shrouded in an aura like flame. Her outline vaguely took on a half-dragon, half-human appearance, the projected phantom's skin covered in scales-the very image of the Great Lin River God carved into the statue.
She had played the trump card in her possession: the authority of the Great Lin River God!
As a fierce blaze surged upward, the light and shadow surrounding Granny Wu abruptly expanded, burst free of her body, and formed a figure in midair.
This was a secret art practiced by members of the Ghost Soul Sect, a ghost-and-god technique that allowed even low-level cultivators to achieve Soul Departure.
The fundamental difference between this and a Nascent Soul's Soul Departure was that, once they achieved Soul Departure and transformed into a yin spirit, they had to refine the world's five elemental energies, incense and fire prayer power, or other vital energies to sustain themselves, becoming ghost cultivators or yin spirits.
The two Foundation Establishment cultivators froze briefly, then their expressions changed drastically.
They saw golden radiance materialize out of thin air and flow into the figure, making it clearer at a startling speed.
Granny Wu's spirit had already entered perfect resonance with the divine kingdom domain, truly merging into it.
She had become the Great Lin River God!
The deity had a middle-aged face covered in scales, with features of an alien race. She wore an archaic blue-black robe embroidered with dragonlike golden patterns that lent her an added air of majesty.
Countless golden rays and wisps of moisture followed her every movement.