To many people, the term "Living Weapon" might have seemed perfectly ordinary.
Even many Warriors believed that they themselves were so-called Living Weapons.
That was not actually the case.
Not every Warrior in this world qualified to be called a weapon.
The reason was that the term had to be understood in its separate parts: the warrior was a Warrior, and the vessel was a container.
It did not refer to the implements and devices that ordinary mortals used to kill and injure their enemies.
Those weapons were lifeless objects, not Living Weapons.
According to the records in the Warrior Administration's internal archives, the warrior path had been created from the outset to produce Living Weapons in the truest sense, capable of storming cities, seizing territory, and slaughtering enemy armies.
Daoist cultivators had three treasures: essence, qi, and spirit.
Warriors likewise had three forms of cultivation: body, spirit, and bloodline.
These corresponded to the three main branches: Beast-Body Transplanters, Parasites, and Bloodline Bearers.
The most widespread and technically mature practice within the warrior path was Beast Body Transplantation.
This path primarily involved grafting Demon Beast body parts onto humans to obtain some of the abilities of the Transformation Dao. Wang Ran and the others in the Personal Guard all belonged to this category.
Within the warrior path, however, this was actually only a very low-level, very rudimentary application.
A more advanced, and more difficult, practice was parasitism.
Parasitism involved lodging a particular Spirit Creature inside a human body, making the two one so that they could undergo a mutated transformation and, when necessary, physically transform like a Heaven-Tier Powerhouse.
One level deeper lay the manipulation of bloodlines, the least widespread and most difficult form of Warrior modification to accomplish.
This combined a Desolate Beast's bloodline with a human body, granting