Chapter 1727: Paragon! (1/2)

The falling giant being didn’t emanate even the slightest soul fluctuations.

Also, he wasn’t wreathed in a strong flesh aura, which meant he most likely wasn’t an outsider.

However, his magnificent, mountainous body brimmed with energy: the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth!

Only humans could take the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth into the spiritual seas in their dantian region, form spiritual cores, and use them as the source of their power.

This was the fundamental difference between humans and outsiders.

The spiritual Qi of heaven and earth was indeed the giant being’s source of power. However, the cultivation system he had adopted was clearly different from that of most human Qi warriors.

Rich spiritual Qi of heaven and earth filled his whole body!

His acupoints, meridians, bones, flesh, and blood all brimmed with pure, refined spiritual power!

This was very different from the four great sects’ so-called orthodox cultivation system, where cultivators only channeled spiritual power into the spiritual sea in their dantian region, and largely ignored their body refinement.

The mainstream cultivation method mandated that Qi warriors cultivate their spiritual seas at early stages, and then move on to the cultivation of their souls, until they could completely discard their fleshly bodies.

Since humans were born with feeble bodies, which could never grow to be as strong as the outsiders’ and spirit beasts’ flesh aura-wreathed bodies, they had always upheld the principle of playing to their strengths and avoiding their shortcomings. They believed that this was the Dao of human cultivation.

All those who refined their fleshly bodies with secret magics, like Yin Yanan, were considered to be on the wrong path.

Some of the so-called crooked Qi warriors in the Doomed Star Sea also emphasized body refinement.

However, people like them had always been considered crooked and excluded from the mainstream world.

As for the slowly-descending giant being, his muscles, blood, bones, meridians, and internal organs all contained copious amounts of spiritual power, not to mention the spiritual sea in his dantian region. This suggested that he had attached great importance to the refinement of his body.

Perhaps that was why his body still exuded rich life force, and was without the slightest signs of corrosion countless years after his demise.

“His body still contains terrifyingly strong energies of heaven and earth!” Nie Tian said. His perception seemed to have grown even keener after his heart had started thumping wildly. “Those lightning bolts wrapping around him, that frosty gem on his neck, and that shiny golden plate on his chest... They seem to correspond to his internal spiritual energies, which means he had probably mastered the profound truths of lightning power, ice power, and metal power.

“Aside from these, even his pure spiritual power alone is far more immense than that of the grand elder.

“And this is only the spiritual power scattered all over his body. I can’t even sense or fathom the spiritual power in his spiritual sea.

“If...”

He suddenly froze as his train of thought reached this point.

“What?” Dong Li asked.

Nie Tian’s expression flickered drastically as he cried out in astonishment, “Paragon! He must have been a paragon before he died! A mighty, fear-inspiring paragon who had refined his body to the extreme, made the cultivation of pure spiritual power the core of his cultivation, and at the same time, mastered the profound truths of metal, ice, and lightning power!”

He uttered these words with absolute certainty.

Even though he didn’t have any proof, he was fully convinced that the giant being was a dead paragon, a human paragon!

Dong Li was flabbergasted. “How... how is that impossible?! Our ancestors were oppressed and trodden on by the powerful races in the Spirit World for many eras after humanity was born in the Realm of Middle Continent. The Ancientspirits and outsiders in the Spirit World treated humans like animals, and slaughtered them in large numbers at sacrificial rites. Back then, humans didn’t even know how to channel the energies of heaven and earth to practice cultivation.

“Everyone knows that humanity rose to prominence in the Mortal World.

“If such a human paragon was actually born in the Spirit World, the rise of humanity would have happened much earlier.

“Besides, there are no records about him in the history of the Mortal World or the Spirit World...”

Pei Qiqi also muttered something in a low voice with a disbelieving look on her face.

No matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t wrap their minds around the fact that the descending giant being was a human, and a paragon no less!

If he was indeed a human paragon, and had created a time of glory in the Spirit World, how come there hadn’t been any records about him?