"My lord, for Spirit-Transformation cultivators there is in fact no such thing as body-tempering."

The Nether-Gloom Spider Emperor was rather chagrined at having misspoken earlier, and so grew all the more circumspect.

That it, a demon, should have to explain such elementary knowledge to a cultivator — the very thought was absurd.

"I know."

Shen Yi nodded lightly.

After breaking through to Spirit-Transformation, a cultivator's flesh and blood was entirely replaced by the path infant — a wholesale remaking, an entirely new body of spiritual qi, which naturally could not be tempered by ordinary means.

The Nine Demons Transmutation Method was, after all, only a Mixed Origin method.

It was simply that too much demon blood had been poured into it, and that upon reaching Spirit-Transformation, those immortal-demons had undergone one more metamorphosis along with him.

That was the only reason he could now contend with the Thousand-Legged Demon Emperor in raw strength using nothing but his body.

Newly entered into late-stage Spirit-Transformation was likely his ceiling.

"Still, in the Nanyang Sect of old, there were no few cultivators fond of close-quarters killing."

The Nether-Gloom Demon Emperor pointed at two jade slips. "Reinforcing the spirit-body by various means. It should once have been a properly systematized road as well."

Shen Yi took them into his palm, felt their warmth, and two notifications appeared on the panel.

【Spirit-Transformation · Divine Sparrow Nirvana: Not Yet Begun】

【Return-to-Void · Heavenly Phoenix Undying True Body: Not Yet Begun】

"My lord?"

Seeing him fall silent, the Nether-Gloom Spider Emperor looked over in confusion and asked cautiously, "Are they not to your satisfaction?"

"It's nothing."

Shen Yi shook his head, something complicated flickering through his eyes.

He simply felt a certain weight of feeling.

This was the first time he had ever obtained a set of techniques leading straight through to a later realm.

That reassurance of an unobstructed road ahead was simply beyond words to describe.

Never again would he have to worry that at the end of his cultivation he'd be left relying on a pile of demons racking their brains, only to come…