"Mm... over the past fifty years, Li Shenyi should be the most accomplished practitioner of this spirit scripture. His chun-tree body is complete. I think he should soon ascend the Sky Tower."
"It can actually let someone cultivate themselves into a chun tree..."
"'Formless Body' cannot turn someone into a tree. That resulted from Li Shenyi's own contemplation," Ming Qitian explained. "'Formless Body' allows Spirit Profound to connect with the Spirit Body after Body Recasting, committing the signs of bodily life to a greater scale. It amounts to gaining a Formless Body.
"But the scripture offers no ready-made path for what sort of body one can cultivate. All things and spirits have their laws. A Formless Spirit Body must harmonize with heaven and earth above and blend with the flesh below. To cultivate a Formless Body requires profound, sustained contemplation and understanding. From your bones to your heart and life, everything must resonate with it, connecting without a gap," Ming Qitian said. "In other words, deep down, you believe you are that thing."
Pei Ye froze slightly. "Li Shenyi believes he is a great chun tree?"
Ming Qitian nodded. "At least, his mind is willing to lodge within one."
Pei Ye thought for a while. "There was also that Wang Jiuqiao today."
He turned toward her. "Miss Ming, Changsun Che made two moves today, and I couldn't understand how he countered either one. Miss Shi from Heavenly Mountain couldn't tell either."
Ming Qitian paused. "His Dao Resonance has formed; all his arts flow together. It's normal not to see through Wang Jiuqiao. I can't either."
"Even you don't know how he dodged that arrow, Miss Ming?" Pei Ye turned toward her, eyes wide. "Then-then how will you deal with him?"
"That, I might know." Leaning against the railing, Ming Qitian