Just like Nagato, Uchiha Obito, and Uchiha Madara, although they used the same pair of Rinnegan, the power they could wield differed greatly.
With Xiao Xie's current mastery of the Rinne Sharingan, there was no need to insert those Black Rods into the Six Paths Avatars.
Xiao Xie only needed to inject a trace of Soul Power into the Six Paths Avatars to control them from afar.
Moreover, with that trace of Soul Power, these Six Paths Avatars could even cultivate on their own.
As for why the Heavenly Path Avatar refined from the Golden Crow's corpse had become a young man, that was even simpler.
The Golden Crow Clone possessed the genuine strength of a Great Luo Golden Immortal. A mere transformation technique was as easy as pie.
The most powerful aspect of the Six Paths Avatars was that they could retain the abilities the deceased possessed in life.
By refining the Golden Crow's corpse into a Heavenly Path Avatar, Xiao Xie had not only granted him the abilities of the Heavenly Path, but also preserved the Golden Crow's abilities from when it was alive.
With a flip of his right hand, Xiao Xie took out the Sun True Fire.
Xiao Xie had originally intended to save the Sun True Fire for later use, but now that he had the Golden Crow Clone, giving it to him would allow it to realize its greatest value.
With the Sun True Fire, so long as the Golden Crow Clone did not encounter an enemy specifically capable of countering him, few experts below the level of Quasi-Saints could withstand it.
If the Sun Shooting Bow and Sun Shooting Arrow had not specifically countered Golden Crows, Houyi would not have been able to shoot them down back then.
After all, if it had