"Li Ling!"
Ye Hengsheng shuddered in alarm, for he discovered that the person before him was neither a tangible physical form nor a Dharma Form, a clone, an avatar, a ghost soul, a vengeful spirit, or any such existence, but a higher-order reward body.
This body manifested through karmic conditions, gradually taking shape as a cultivator probed the mysteries, comprehended the Dao, and attained its fruits, ultimately achieving the exalted state of spirit transformation.
Li Ling was not a mighty spirit transformation cultivator and could not yet control the connection between this body and himself. Thus, he seemed to remain on the far shore of distant space and time, not yet able to truly descend.
Yet the manifestation of this body still carried extraordinary significance.
For it meant that in the distant future, there existed a timeline in which Li Ling attained spirit transformation and possessed inconceivable divine abilities and Dharma power. Should that timeline merge with the present world, he would substantiate this Dao and attain its fruition.
This was not the Li Ling of the present, but an immortal, undying Li Ling-a mighty spirit transformation cultivator!
Only those who attained the Dharma body Dao fruit could produce their own reward bodies. A reward body transformed from a Dharma body and was also known as an expedient Dharma body.
It was like the sun and moon hanging high in the heavens, impossibly distant, yet radiating brilliant light. Their light and heat could still shine down, continually influencing all things beneath the sky.
The sun and moon themselves were the Dharma body, their light and heat were the reward body, and the effects upon matter and energy-the various results actually produced-were the avatars.
Ye Hengsheng knitted his brows tightly, unable to shake the feeling that this phantom might turn from