We're nearing the entrance to the Abyss. Wu Yuan was seated on a battleship, directing it with a fraction of his consciousness. 0

This battleship, though only a top-grade Dao Instrument, could traverse the Spacetime Intersection Layer at light speed with his mana body taking full control.0

In terms of combat power, his mana body was no different from his qi refiner self in most aspects, with the only disparity being the absence of his lifebound flying swords.0

At present, Wu Yuan had four major combat bodies—his body refiner self, his ether body, his qi refiner self, and his mana body. He had left only his qi refiner self behind to guard the Greenridge Macrocosm.2

After all, when it came to direct combat, neither his qi refiner self nor his mana body could match his body refiner self or ether body. Their greatest utility lay in domain suppression and evasion, so his mana body was sufficient for this journey.0

As for why he left his qi refiner self behind, there were two reasons: first, to safeguard against any unforeseen circumstances in the Greenridge Macrocosm. Second, in the worst-case scenario where his body refiner self perished, he would still have hope for survival.0

I suspect Senior Brother Bei Zhen is still puzzling over the relationship between my qi refiner self and body refiner...0