"Can naturally ignore the limits of life, allowing one to break through the life limit and reach a Transcendence Level existence...?"
At that moment, even Shane, upon hearing the High Priest's words, felt a sense of astonishment.
There was no way around it.
Such an existence, if it could truly be created, would simply be too contrary to the natural order.
To know, up until now, apart from those few individuals at the pinnacle of the Divine Race and Demon Clan, only the Heroes of generations had ever successfully broken through the life limit to reach the Transcendence Level.
In the countless years of Omni Potanssen's history, there were only a dozen or so individuals who could be considered Transcendent, and that was it.
Among these dozen, the Three Great Goddesses, the Six Great Demons, and other beings like the Justice Goddess and the Strongest Evil God were inherently transcendent.
Only an extremely limited number of heroes, through their own efforts and growth, had ultimately managed to break through the life limit and enter the Transcendence Level.
Under such circumstances, if there was an existence that could naturally ignore the limits of life and breach these limits to reach the Transcendence Level, then such an existence would undoubtedly be a "natural miracle" comparable to the Three Great Goddesses and the Six Great Demons.
Such an existence had never been born in the countless years of Omni Potanssen's history, and now this Necromancer actually wanted to create one?
Shane was truly somewhat astonished.
However, as one can imagine, a hypothesis is merely a hypothesis; whether such a contrary-to-nature existence can be created remains an unknown.
Not to mention, the conditions required to form a Great Spirit Body were undoubtedly severe.
First and foremost, it required an extremely large amount of "material."
This so-called "material" refers to a massive collection of Death Qi and Magic Power — [Spirit Essence].
[Spirit Essence] is fundamental to fostering a Great Spirit Body; one must consume a large quantity of this material to create a Great Spirit Body.
Each strand of [Spirit Essence] also needed an immense amount of Death Qi and Magic Power to be refined.
To put it in concrete numbers, refining a strand of [Spirit Essence] would approximately require draining the lifeforce of at least a hundred people and all the Magic Power from a small Magic Source.
In such a scenario, refining might still fail, with a success rate of only about fifty percent.
Then, to create a Great Spirit Body, the required amount of [Spirit Essence] would need to be in the tens of thousands at least.
What does that imply?
It means the High Priest would need to extract the lifeforce of at least several million people, refine an extremely large amount of Death Qi, and find the equivalent of tens of thousands of small Magic Sources worth of Magic Power, just to meet the basic requirements to create a Great Spirit Body.
That's not even accounting for the possibility of failing to refine the [Spirit Essence].
Therefore, its severity is self-evident.
Moreover, since the High Priest could no longer wantonly extract life's Death Qi, lest she attract the pursuit of the Life Goddess Anima, she had to carry out such work quietly and stealthily, further complicating the process.
And just the preparation of "materials" alone was already so troublesome, not to mention the other conditions.
For instance, even if there were sufficient [Spirit Essence] prepared as material, to create a Great Spirit Body still required a vessel.
A vessel to undergo transformation by [Spirit Essence] and serve as a foundation for a Great Spirit Body.
That means the High Priest needed a person.
This person had to withstand the transformation by [Spirit Essence], and hence the requirements were equally demanding.
First, the vessel could not be from the Demon Clan or Divine Race because their compatibility with [Spirit Essence] was very poor; only Humans, like the Great Spirit Body, who were "artificially created," had better compatibility, so even naturally born Elves had to be excluded.
Second, the vessel could not be the High Priest herself, because she was an Undead, existing between life and non-life, and her Undying Body was a collection of immense Death Qi. If [Spirit Essence] were added, not only would the ratio of Death Qi to Magic Power in [Spirit Essence] be thrown off, but it could also go out of control.
Third, the vessel, to withstand the transformation by [Spirit Essence], needed not a robust body or immense strength, but a spirit capable of resonating with [Spirit Essence].
Such a spirit, capable of resonating with [Spirit Essence] refined from immense Death Qi and Magic Power, would naturally not be one of positive energy.
In short, the vessel needed to possess extremely strong negative emotions, intense enough to resonate with [Spirit Essence].
Only then, could it withstand the transformation by [Spirit Essence] and gradually transition into a Great Spirit Body.
For a thousand years, the High Priest had been searching the world in secret, quietly collecting Death Qi and Magic Power to refine [Spirit Essence] as material, while continuously looking for a suitable vessel.
Regrettably, after finding many people, the High Priest almost found no one who met the criteria; either their negative emotions were not intense enough, or even if they were intense, they did not resonate with [Spirit Essence].
[Spirit Essence] seemed to require a negative emotion that was even more compatible with itself, not just merely intense enough.
Many kinds of negative emotions exist, not every type is suited to resonate with [Spirit Essence].
After many trials, the High Priest discovered that negative emotions born from love, such as hatred, unwillingness, and anger, were the most likely to resonate with [Spirit Essence].
Moreover, the more intense the love that caused the negative emotions, the more likely it was to trigger a response from [Spirit Essence].