Richard recalled the material on bodily revival.
According to the records, if a revived body imprisoned a soul, it would attempt to merge that soul into itself.
But the odds of a successful fusion were infinitesimal.
When merging with a body, it had always been the soul that chose the body. If the soul was unwilling, the body's fusion would only weaken the soul bit by bit.
In the end, the soul would meet only one fate: its soul scattering and spirit dissipating.
But what if the soul was willing? Every body capable of revival was incomparably powerful. For ordinary creatures, replacing their body with one like that might well be a stroke of fortune.
Unfortunately, even if the soul was willing to merge, the chances of completing the fusion remained infinitesimal.
The greatest reason for this was incompatible bloodlines.
When Ulysses had seized the body of the old sect master of Formless Valley, the first thing he had done was use the connection between body and soul to alter the body's bloodline.
Otherwise, the mismatch between the body's bloodline and the soul would mean that the connection between soul and flesh had to be deliberately maintained.
This condition applied equally to living people. Though Richard's primary bloodline had become that of the Titans, his life core still contained intact fragments of a human life core.
Those fragments simply had not manifested.
Yet the bloodline strength of a body capable of revival certainly would not be weak.
If the bloodline could not be changed, then the body was nothing more than a prison to the soul.
However, that material also recorded a special case.
The author believed that creatures should exist in this world that could complete bloodline fusion without changing their bloodlines.
Such creatures should be symbiotes, capable of