Yuan Spirit

Yuan Spirit , also called primordial spirit, works like a separate entity from a person's main body. It can fight alongside the person and pass energy to and fro.
It is what remains of a person's soul after they are deceased. The Blazing Dragon Cauldron is able to absorb yuan spirits.
== Uses ==
* "I've already condensed a Yuan Spirit and am a true Soul Transformation expert. Empyreans are different from Celestials. For Celestials, condensing a Yuan Spirit is like a second life. They can survive even if their physical bodies are destroyed, and their Yuan Spirits even have a bit of power to fight. But Empyreans can use their Yuan Spirits to form hand seals for their true body to unleash magical arts. The two work together during combat. How will you fight me now?" Lu Qingfeng laughed coldly.
*The Energy between the physical body and yuan spirit is different. The body mainly uses essence and qi, but the yuan spirit requires essence, qi and soul, but the division of energy usage is different. The yuan spirit uses 10% essence and qi and 90% soul energy. So the yuan spirit can actually fight as a type of clone, but you have to have a very strong soul and lots of Soul Runes. (probably in the millions)
== Description ==
A cultivator’s Yuan Spirit was incredibly important. It wouldn’t be taken out to fight so easily. If the Yuan Spirit was harmed, the body might just wither and die.
Furthermore, there were many specialized weapons and poisons targeted toward Yuan Spirits. If struck, they would definitely die. There wouldn’t even be a chance to save them.
When most experts used their Yuan Spirits to fight, they would at most risk letting it go out for one attack and then retreat. It was used for sneak attacks and catching people off guard. If they managed to kill their target, then good. If they didn’t, then they would immediately pull their Yuan Spirit back.
=== Empyrean yuan spirits ===
Only Yuan Spirits belonging to those on the level of Empyreans were able to leave the body to fight, but even for the absolute majority of Empyreans, their Yuan Spirits would only be used to assist their attacks. No one dared to directly summon their Yuan Spirit to fight for them. That was too dangerous.
“How did they manage to make their Yuan Spirits so condensed? They don’t even look like Yuan Spirits! Just how many primordial runes did they condense?!” exclaimed an Empyrean. He felt like he had gone insane. Why was it that there was such a huge difference between two Empyreans?
Normal Empyreans had a Yuan Spirit that was a foot tall. Any larger, and it wouldn’t be solid enough. As for others, their Yuan Spirits were even weaker.
Yet, both Long Chen and Xiang Yunfei had Yuan Spirits almost identical to their true bodies. If it weren’t for the green and violet light coming from them, the spectators wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
=== Battle ===
If one of their true bodies was defeated, their physical body would be destroyed. If their Yuan Spirit was defeated, their soul would dissipate. Either way, they would definitely die. However, people could only keep track of one fight, so their eyes were moving so much that they couldn’t keep track.
A battle of Yuan Spirits was different from other fights. If both Yuan Spirits were relatively equally matched, then winning would require technique and combat experience.
However, if the difference between the Yuan Spirits was too great, then the weaker one would be unable to pose a fatal threat to the stronger one.
== Long Chen ==
When it reached a size of three hundred meters, it slowly opened its eyes. Its eyes shone brightly like golden lanterns.
Long Chen found that he could now control his Yuan Spirit. This Yuan Spirit was him, and he was the Yuan Spirit. It was just their viewpoints that were different.
His Yuan Spirit was different from his main body. When his main body fought, it focused on the qi and essence of him.
The Yuan Spirit used energy from the qi, essence, and soul, but the proportions were different. The qi and essence were only ten percent, while the remaining ninety percent of the energy came from the soul.
That ten percent of qi and essence was what allowed the Yuan Spirit to unleash the true body’s magical arts and Battle Skills.
=== Shapeshifting ===
A Yuan Spirit was not the true body or a clone. As it was an entirely separate entity, passing energy back and forth resulted in a portion of it being wasted.
It can change size and become massive while also shrinking as its energy is depleted. For example: it instantly transformed to become thirty thousand meters tall, and it devoured the divine phoenix (Divine Lightning) in one gulp.
It can also shrink into a three-inch-tall figure of Long Chen. It was identical in appearance to him.
=== Battle Skills ===
Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit could actually unleash Battle Skills such as Split the Heavens. Then at the very least, his Yuan Spirit possessed eighty percent of the combat power of his true body. At the end of the Dragon Slaughtering Convention, he had looked to be at a miserable disadvantage, but he had actually been holding back.
=== Barehanded ===
There were cases of Spirit Transformation experts sending out their Yuan Spirit to fight, but Di Xin had never heard of someone’s Yuan Spirit being able to fight against a divine item barehanded.
Normally, Yuan Spirits were only able to assist the main body and form some hand seals for magical arts. 
In truth, the Yuan Spirit was a final trump card, usually only used when the physical body was destroyed. Even if a Yuan Spirit was extremely powerful, it was also a fatal weakness.
Normally, if a Yuan Spirit were to launch an attack, it would be very vulnerable to a divine item or a magical art specialized against spiritual bodies. However, Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit could actually fight barehanded against his divine item.
== Xiang Yunfei ==
Xiang Yunfei’s Yuan Spirit came flying out and grew until it was the exact same as his true body, except it was violet.
Xiang has 370 million primordial runes.
Xiang Yunfei shouted along with the surge in the power of his Yuan Spirit. Violet light soared into the sky. His voice resounded through heaven and earth, and every person’s jaw dropped.
Even Yan Nantian and the others couldn’t help nodding along. Having three hundred and seventy million primordial runes truly was rarely seen in this world.
== Trivia ==
*The strength of a person’s Yuan Spirit depended on their Spiritual Strength. Not everyone had such a powerful Yuan Spirit.
*Normally it's impossible for cultivators to release their yuan spirit outside of their body whilst their true body is still alive. Only empyreans could use their yuan spirits to assist them, let alone use their yuan spirit to fight for them.
*Its name is pronounced 'genshin' in Japanese and some Chinese dialects. 元 is sometimes a synonym for 原 meaning 'origin'. Moreover 元神 sounds similar to 原神 yuanshen.
== See also ==
*Yuan Spirit Stones
*Yuan Spirit Pill
*Yuan spirit beads
==References==
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