855 Spirit Weapon—Resha
State of Unity!
What exactly did it mean? And why did it signify the ceiling of power a cultivator on a Continent could attain? Most of all, why was it feared the most?
In simpler terms, the answer could be revealed through the basics of the power system employing Prana. There were four stages: Spirit, Body, Life, and Transcendence.
Spirit Stage was an exclusive of the Free Human, a product exclusive to Sumatra. On this continent, Spirit Stage showcased the aspect of the mind; Body Stage the aspect of the body; Life Stage the aspect of the soul.
Finally, Transcendence was to transcend the limitations. It was where the three aspects fuse to birth a whole new level of power. Those who had succeeded in this became immortals with infinite lifespans, wielding power incomprehensible to cultivators. Such beings were termed Transcendents. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
In other Continents, the logic of Natures was as follows: body aspect for the Primary Nature, mind aspect for the Secondary Nature, and soul aspect for the Tertiary Nature.
When these three Natures work in perfect sync, it results in the State of Harmony, which is the strongest state a cultivator could achieve and exist in the category of. Their power conformed to the power system of their respective Continent.
However, when the three Natures are treated as a part of a whole, and their fusion resulted in a whole new power, that was the State of Unity, a power available to the Transcendents.
In essence, the State of Unity was a way through which a cultivator could unleash a power on the level of a Transcendent. Power here didn't mean brute strength, but authority, one capable of killing a Transcendent.
The Transcendent Prana of a Transcendent was extremely toxic to everyone other than the source. If a unit of it were to fall on a continent, the sheer influence it generates would mutate the natives in an entire region beyond the level controllable by Prana.
It was like cancer, causing mass death to the living beings and destruction to the terrain. The influence would permeate and continue radiating off the region, making it a death zone permanently.
Minor Treasures could influence living beings and Major Treasures the terrain. The State of Unity was pretty much a Transcendent's power. And hence, like radiation, it would exist forever and keep infecting everything in its range to birth more of its kind. It was kind of like a radioactive influence.
Of course, in other Continents with a developed power system, there were methods to guard against the State of Unity. The simplest approach would be to counter the influence of a State of Unity by another State of Unity.
The second approach would be to fuse three Minor Treasures—each of the body, mind, and soul aspects—with the victim and rely on their combined influence to gradually combat the influence of the State of Unity.
These three Minor Treasures should not only be compatible, but should have a non-zero capability of behaving like they were parts of a whole. And even then, it wasn't guaranteed to win against the effects of a State of Unity.
This was exactly the issue at hand. Technically, with Sumatra's incomplete development of its body and soul aspects, a State of Unity should have never appeared. But breaking all common sense, it appeared.
And there lay the problem. The victims didn't have body and soul capabilities to resist the influence of a State of Unity, as all Natures on Sumatra belonged to the mind aspect. Therefore, even if extremely powerful beings like Resha were to resist the effects of Unlimited Predator, which he actually did, it only amounted to the mind aspect.
Resha's body and soul were fully vulnerable, like a human with no protection walking into a nuclear storm. "Now I understand..."
Recorded in a Bone Slip was all the information as Pet fed it to Resha, who barely had enough strength to use psychokinesis to access the data. His expression eased a little as he stared at Pet, "Thank you for informing me. And one more..."
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