The External Incarnation standing before Chen Yan began, little by little, to form karmic connections with him.
They had nothing whatsoever to do with the past, but were brand-new threads of karma.
All of this arose from the intersection created by this meeting between Chen Yan and his External Incarnation.
"This is rather interesting."
Facing his own External Incarnation, Chen Yan first raised an eyebrow slightly, then smiled.
"I think it was necessary for me to come back and see you, to tell you about the things we encountered outside."
The External Incarnation standing before Chen Yan spoke.
This External Incarnation was entirely driven by Chen Yan's Spiritual Sense. In essence, it and Chen Yan were wholly the same person.
Or rather, under normal circumstances, Chen Yan's External Incarnations were extensions of his will, like another one of his hands.
But Hidden Truth Returning Silence had changed all that.
After concealing and severing their karma from the main body, the many External Incarnations now resembled a vast web with a hive mind, while Chen Yan's true body stood completely apart from it all.
As a result, when Chen Yan spoke with his External Incarnations now, it was more like conversing with separate individuals.
"So you're currently a disciple of the Mystic Mechanism Palace, and you're... in the Martial Spring Realm?"
Chen Yan asked.
"Merely one of the wondrous uses of the Hidden Immortal Art."
His External Incarnation replied.
The Hidden Immortal Art could conceal one's true cultivation realm from any existence in this world, while displaying whatever realm one wished to show instead.
Chen Yan had manifested seventy-two External Incarnations in the Hedao Realm, as well as seventy-three thousand six hundred and twenty-one External Incarnations in the Divine Ability Realm.
As for whether the one before him was in the