Lu Yun could clearly sense that each soul emanating from the rotten flesh was connected with a spirit as a single entity. They were the souls of regular beings, rather than those of cultivators.

That meant that in the human dao era, or the eras before it, all living beings had a soul, and one fully fused with their spirit. Modern times, on the other hand, saw living beings beneath the dao immortal realm with just souls and no spirits.

Only by reaching the dao immortal realm would one’s true spirit take form and lodge itself in the soul.

However, Lu Yun had only studied the souls and spirits of aether and arcane dao immortals,...