Ye Han had read about soul possession in several books. When cultivators lost their physical bodies for various reasons, their surviving primordial spirits and souls had to possess a new body if they wanted to be reborn...
But possessing a body came with several conditions.
First, the target's spirit roots had to have at least the same attributes as those of the possessor's original body.
For example, if a cultivator with water-and-wood dual spiritual roots had his body destroyed and his primordial spirit and soul escaped, he would have to find another cultivator with water-and-wood dual spiritual roots to possess...
With any other spirit roots, even if the possession succeeded, the severe rejection would destroy both body and soul.
That was why Ye Han's sudden change of spirit root attributes had caught this fellow completely off guard. His perfectly good metal-attribute spirit root had turned into a thunder spirit root in an instant...
Although it was a higher-grade root, it no longer matched the fellow's attributes, sending his chances of successful possession plummeting.
Perhaps that was the purpose of the Heaven and Earth Laws: to maintain balance among cultivators by keeping everything in orderly operation.
If high-level cultivators could freely possess the bodies of cultivators with better spirit roots, the entire Cultivation World would have descended into chaos long ago...
This was an iron law among cultivators.
There were exceptions, however. Some cultivators could change their spirit root attributes, just like Ye Han now. Thanks to the heaven-defying Purple Cauldron, he already possessed six kinds of spirit roots: the Five Elements Spirit Root and a thunder spirit root...
In Ye Han's current situation, if someone happened to destroy his body and only his primordial spirit and soul escaped, finding a cultivator with the Five Elements Spirit Root as well as