Li Shiming controlled the Heavenly Ghost, and tried to manipulate the Nascent Soul Body to operate the "Nanming Leaving Fire" Cultivation Technique, but he discovered that after the Nascent Soul Body lost its Nascent Soul, it also lost the entity of "Nanming Leaving Fire."
"Nanming Leaving Fire" left along with the Nascent Soul, leaving behind only this empty shell.
Most of the essence of the Nascent Soul Ancestors resided within the Nascent Soul, and the body merely served to protect the Nascent Soul.
During combat with Nascent Soul Ancestors of equal ranking, they seldom used their physical body for battle but instead fought through the Nascent Soul Dharma Form, because the combat power of the Nascent Soul itself was not formidable; what was formidable was its defensive power.
Of course, what's described here refers to non-Body Refining Nascent Souls; Refining Body Nascent Soul Cultivators are a different system altogether.
A thought subtly stirred in Li Shiming's mind.
