In the current age, souls and spirits no longer manifested openly. Techniques such as shamanic spirit statues and external dharma bodies had long since become little more than jokes. Even when Purple Mansion Realm cultivators painstakingly refined them, the result was usually no more than a Foundation Establishment Realm spirit puppet. 5

Li Quewan and Li Chenghuai both possessed such things, but they were practically worthless. As for Purple Mansion Realm spirit statues or shamanic ghosts, they had become nothing but empty legends ever since Duanmu Kui's era!0

But after witnessing this scene, how could Miao Huanzun not be utterly horrified? He had expected the sixteen Profound Divine Wardens to be powerful, but not to such an extent! From that brief clash alone, he could already tell the statues' bodies rivaled those beneath the Sattva Seat. On top of that, they wielded all manner of spirit embryos and treasure artifacts, and were empowered by the grotto heaven's Profound Foundation!5

These sixteen statues likely rivaled the Profound Divine Wardens beneath the Lotus Seat itself. They might even be capable of...0