Having no physical body meant that, in relation to the material plane of the Great Thousand World, Li Ling now stood detached from it, like something from beyond.
The mortal world was like a dream, and he was the nightmare demon who controlled that dream, possessing the ability to influence and alter matter without belonging here or being bound by its rules.
In the understanding of cultivators of the present epoch, this was a state approaching Dao integration and true refinement.
Beyond late-stage Spirit Transformation, one refined away the material form and returned to one's true essence, until there was no longer any distinction between form and spirit.
One severed the spiritual nature of the true self and anchored it in the void, thereby attaining everlasting life.
This was the realm of the Heavenly Dao!
The evolution of all things in this world made it clear that no mortal creature could ever cultivate until it became as powerful as heaven, earth, and the universe. A person before heaven and earth was like a grain in the vast ocean, unimaginably small.
Even a mighty being in the Spirit Transformation Realm, whose divine soul was as strong as those of tens of thousands of people, who possessed tens of thousands of years of cultivated Dharma power and could invoke laws to leverage a thousand or ten thousand times as much origin energy, only reached the scale of hundreds of millions.
With a single thought, such a mighty being could summon wind and thunder, stir towering waves, move mountains and shake peaks, shift stars and overturn constellations. Yet at most, they were merely borrowing the power of this universe.
To be born in the Great Thousand World was to be shackled by it. This was the limitation of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
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