A thought immediately surfaced in the burly middle-aged man's mind. There was no flesh or blood left. He believed someone had used some precious crystal or spiritual plant to cultivate a duplicate body.
That was why not a shred of flesh remained after the self-destruction. An incarnation was a body-separation technique forcibly created by low- and mid-level cultivators through their own cultivation.
Duplicate bodies generally included Divine Thought duplicates. This was considered an advanced form of incarnation technique, though ninety percent of them were centered on spiritual consciousness, forcibly condensed by powerful cultivators.
A true duplicate body was refined from a natural spiritual treasure. It could cultivate on its own and would also rapidly strengthen the main body's cultivation. That was the true purpose of a duplicate body; incarnations and Divine Thought duplicates could not do this.
By common reasoning, if a duplicate body could reach the Void Refinement Realm, then the main body had to be at least a Body Integration Realm cultivator. Once it was damaged, the main body's cultivation would suffer an even fiercer backlash!
Thus, the burly middle-aged man reacted as he did in an instant.
But that was enough for him to understand at once why, despite having sealed the other party, that person had still been able to suddenly self-destruct his fleshly body.
Someone was controlling that duplicate body with his main body. His spiritual consciousness immediately surged out like a tide, blasting away all the spiritual consciousness sweeping toward this place and, in that same instant, covering the entire sect.
The person controlling this duplicate body with his main body was very likely still inside Qianyu Sect. Otherwise, under the interference of his sect's protection array, the other party's main body could not possibly have reacted so quickly.
The burly middle-aged man realized