Su Wen snapped his fingers. The material for today's lesson vanished from the electronic screen behind him, temporarily replaced by a lesson on Loose Immortals.
After cultivators of the Galaxy Alliance failed to transcend their tribulation, there was a method that let them abandon their bodies and send their Nascent Souls fleeing to escape the tribulation. Afterward, the Nascent Soul fused with a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure called sea-soul agate, condensing a new dharma body with which to remain in the world.
Such beings were called "Loose Immortals."
Li Yu was astonished to hear this. He had never expected such a wondrous method to exist after failing to transcend a tribulation, but a new question immediately arose, and he hurriedly raised his hand. "Isn't it the Primordial Spirit that escapes?"
Su Wen explained, "There are two ways to get through a tribulation: one is to overcome it, and the other is to make the Heavenly Tribulation believe that your body and spirit have both been destroyed. So, to escape a tribulation through the Loose Immortal method, you need to let the Heavenly Tribulation dissolve both your body and your Primordial Spirit. That leaves only your Nascent Soul able to escape."
"This method was developed by Houtu University of the Galaxy Alliance through research into the Ghost Immortal Method of Ancient Cultivators. Afterward, you still need to survive nine Heavenly Tribulations and achieve an alternative form of Mahayana before you can rebuild your physical body."
"Although generations of great experts at Houtu University have researched this path and worked out its entirety, no one has ever truly completed it. The predecessor who got the furthest survived seven Heavenly Tribulations, only for his soul to scatter during the eighth."
At this point, Su Wen sighed.
In advancing from Integration to Mahayana,