High above Heaven-Earth Peak, a blurry phantom stretched across the sky like a canopy draped over the heavens. Even low-tier cultivators could recognize it at a glance—a Primal Soul!

For qi cultivators, the pursuit of immortality was, in essence, the pursuit of an immortal spirit. The path began by refining vital essence into qi, followed by refining qi into spirit. Through this process, the cultivator gradually strengthened the divine soul within the otherwise scattered sea of consciousness. Yet no matter how powerful that soul became, it remained yin and insubstantial by nature and could not directly withstand the might of the world outside the body. At most, a cultivator could only extend part of it outward as spirit consciousness, or, at higher realms, divine consciousness.

However, that changed upon reaching the Nascent Soul Realm. In that realm, a cultivator would unite the Three Treasures of vital essence, qi, and spirit to form the unique existence known as the Nascent Soul. For the first time, the divine soul possessed a vessel that could exist outside the sea of consciousness. Even...