Soul Cultivators' methods were not merely aimed at enemies. Even when used upon cultivators themselves, they carried a kind of ruthless finality.
Take Seven Souls Colored Light, for example. Though it was said to be used to refine avatars, once those avatars emerged, each possessed its own consciousness and personality. That meant eight different selves.
If one truly cultivated to that point, would one still be oneself? As far as Li Yan was concerned, he would absolutely never allow different versions of himself to appear.
Another cultivation art Li Yan saw involved separating off a portion of the soul and implanting it into an unconscious corpse. The soul separated through that art would allow the corpse to maintain the same consciousness as its original self at all times.
Even if one day the original body's soul scattered and vanished, one could still attain immortality through another method;
Some cultivation arts went even further down a perilous side path. They could refine the souls of powerful cultivators into purity, then merge them with one's own soul, rapidly increasing the strength of one's soul.
But fusion was fusion. If it was not one's own soul growing through cultivation, then one careless mistake could leave the cultivator himself foolish and deranged, forever unable to distinguish reality from illusion.
"Soul Cultivators' comprehension of the laws of the soul has already reached an utterly mad level..."
After examining one cultivation art after another, Li Yan remained indecisive for a long while and ultimately did not make a choice immediately.
If, when he had first stepped onto the path of immortality, the cultivation arts Li Yan encountered had been these, then seeing them now probably would not have felt strange to him.
But he was a cultivator who had walked the traditional path of immortality. Many