"Since life has its limits, what about non-life?"
This was the hypothesis that the High Priest proposed for transcendence.
Based on this hypothesis, the so-called Death Spirit emerged.
The idea of transforming a life filled with extreme negative emotions into a different sort of existence, one that naturally ignores the limits of life and breaks through these limits to achieve transcendence, was indeed very imaginative.
But, as Danass said, the Order of the world would not allow such an existence to appear.
Can a stone become sentient and still not be considered life?
In the hypothesis posed by the High Priest, the beings transformed into Great Spirit Bodies certainly couldn't be life, otherwise they couldn't naturally transcend. But transcendence itself is based on surpassing the inherent limits of life; if non-life doesn't even have the concept of levels, how can it transcend?
Can a lifeless stone achieve transcendence?
