Chen Xia had a preliminary understanding of the option of mana.
It should be able to enhance the comprehension of the world between heaven and earth and quickly master the Great Dao, techniques, and supernatural powers.
Simply put, it was like having one's wisdom opened up.
Chen Xia added a point of mana and then saw a supernatural power method of the Life Technique. This was like having his wisdom opened up, an instant comprehension.
When the mana points were higher in the future, Chen Xia would be able to comprehend supernatural powers faster. Supernatural powers that ordinary cultivators might take a hundred years to get started with, Chen Xia might be able to master just by taking a look.
This was what was called comprehension.
There were also such physiques in the world between heaven and earth. For example, the Great Emperor figure in the previous era had the Innate Supreme Saint Dao Body. He could instantly comprehend the supernatural power techniques under the Emperor's Law and Immortal's Law, use ten thousand methods to form his own Great Dao, walk the path of the Emperor, and achieve the position of the Emperor.
Chen Xia was using the method of adding points to forcibly create the Innate Supreme Saint Dao Body. And when he added more points in the future, he would surely surpass this so-called Innate Supreme Saint Dao Body and even instantly comprehend the Emperor's Law and Immortal's Law.
However, to reach this level, it was estimated that hundreds of thousands of points would need to be added.
Chen Xia twisted his neck, memorized the supernatural power of this Life Technique in his heart, and slowly tried to use his lifespan to cultivate an external incarnation with seventy percent of his original body's strength.
The problem was that he didn't know how this strength was calculated. Generally speaking, ordinary external incarnations could only carry forty percent of the cultivation base and combat power of the original body, and other special supernatural powers couldn't be carried.
Only cultivators who specialized in this path could make their external incarnations carry rare supernatural powers.
For example, Chen Xia had three million flying swords in his body. Calculated according to forty percent of the cultivation base and combat power, it would be one million two hundred thousand flying swords.
However, to reach this level, one had to be at least a quasi-saint level figure and also a person who specialized in cultivating the path of external incarnations.
The strongest and most profound existence in the study of external incarnations was also a famous Great Emperor in history, named the Selfless Great Emperor.
The path he took to become a Great Emperor was the same as his title, emphasizing the two words "selfless".
The Selfless Great Emperor reached the peak of the Great Sage with his own talent but could never obtain the title of Emperor, not even touch the level of a quasi-emperor.
So he took a different path. When the second era arrived, he transformed himself into three million external incarnations, scattering them throughout the myriad worlds in the heavens and cultivating separately.
In the end, only seven of the three million external incarnations survived, but all seven of them became Great Sages.
Finally, the seven Great Sages merged and achieved the position of the Great Emperor, reaching the top of the heavens.
When Chen Xia was reading this historical record in the Heavenly Pavilion at that time, he couldn't help but sigh.
"What? Combining like the seven dragon balls to summon a Great Emperor?"
It was really a bit abstract.
But this was achieving the Dao through external incarnations, and he was also the strongest Great Emperor in the study of external incarnations in the myriad worlds in the heavens.
The previous example of achieving the position of the Great Emperor through the tea ceremony was the same. As long as you could excel in your own Great Dao and win first place, then you would have the possibility of becoming a Great Emperor.
This possibility wasn't very high, about ten percent or so.
It depended on which path you took to reach first place. There were some Great Daos that had been walked through countless times since ancient times, such as the sword path, the alchemy path, etc.
But if you could take the first place in the sword path, then you would surely have your own unique comprehension, and it would be a top-notch comprehension that surpassed predecessors.
The first place in a popular Great Dao had a great possibility of achieving the position of the Great Emperor. The reason was also simple because the first place in a popular Great Dao was strong enough.
The figures produced through intense competition were surely stronger than the cultivators emerging from other more leisurely Great Daos.
The tea ceremony path and the external incarnation path could be regarded as unpopular Great Daos. Since ancient times, few people had been able to reach the peak on these paths.
Even more unpopular were the sleeping path, the dream path, etc. These were paths on which only one Great Emperor had emerged, and others couldn't walk through these paths at all.
There were numerous Great Daos in the world between heaven and earth. Everyone had the possibility of forging their own path. But it was one thing to create a path, and it was another thing to reach the peak.
If Chen Xia wanted to take a different path and create his own Great Dao, he had quite a few options.
One was the "enduring path" and the other was the "lazy path". These were his unique unpopular Great Daos.
There were also popular Great Daos. For example, the Great Dao of Time that he had been constantly comprehending, the alchemy path that had just begun to bear fruit, and with three million flying swords in his body, it could probably be considered a sword path too.
Other cultivators would find it very difficult to comprehend just one Great Dao. Occasionally, there would be a child of heaven who could comprehend three or four Great Daos, and that would already be considered a top-notch talent.
Chen Xia was a bit better than a child of heaven and accidentally walked on several Great Daos.
There was nothing he could do about it. After all, in the myriad worlds in the heavens, he might be the only odd one out.
Chen Xia raised the teacup he carried with him, shook it gently, and looked at his reflection in the tea water.
Nice, he was quite handsome.
But that wasn't important.
After observing the tree and observing people, Chen Xia's comprehension of time had probably reached the level of having a good grasp. It wasn't extremely powerful, but below the Heaven Mending Realm, just considering the Great Dao of Time, there should be no one stronger than him.
If the Reincarnation Desperate Realm, plus three million flying swords, and the Great Dao of Time were all used together, those below the fifth level of the Overturning Sea Realm should not be his opponents.
However, the ones he had to fight were not just cultivators in the fifth level of the Overturning Sea Realm. The biggest threat was still the quasi-saint level fisherman.
Although Chen Xia had diligently maintained the good habit of cutting off the fisherman's lifespan once every five years.
But it probably wouldn't be an easy thing to really wear the fisherman down to death. Moreover, before dying, the fisherman could still pull him and forcefully self-destruct.
It was impossible to really expect to wear down the old fisherman to death.
He now had two options, to run and to run faster.
As for the escape route and plan, from the moment he saw the external incarnation of the Life Technique, he had his own idea.
If the external incarnation could really possess seventy percent of the original body's strength and have all the supernatural powers and techniques, then who could tell that it was an external incarnation?
The youthful version of Chen Xia wasn't just a joke.
His lifespan was like an endless sea, constantly rolling. When the seawater disappeared, it would be quickly replenished. It was inexhaustible.
In the cave dwelling, without disturbing anyone, a brand-new Chen Xia stood there, moving his muscles and bones.
He stretched out his hand, and several flying swords shot out, exactly the same.
Behind Chen Xia, there was another Chen Xia sitting with his head drooping and his consciousness blurred.
His spiritual consciousness could freely shuttle between these two bodies. When he controlled one of the bodies, the other would fall into this sleeping state where it only knew how to cultivate.
Chen Xia looked at his main body and then at his current body and suddenly had a strange idea.
Could this body of his create another external incarnation with forty percent of the combat power according to the cultivation method?
Once this idea emerged, it couldn't be stopped. He immediately started to try.
A youthful-young version of Chen Xia appeared.