What troubled Xiao Ying was that forming an avatar was like bringing a newborn into the world: its cultivation and strength had to be developed from scratch. Unlike other avatars, it did not immediately possess a fraction of the true body's cultivation and strength.
Without vast quantities of pills, when would an avatar ever grow strong? This was also one of the main reasons the Heavenly Silkworm Nine Concealments was tied to alchemy. It could assist alchemy as well; the two complemented each other and depended on each other!
Of course, Xiao Ying possessed the Heaven-Mending Divine Ability, followed the Imperial Dao, and had abundant resources. He did not need to practice alchemy himself to support his cultivation. This was his principal advantage.
With such a heaven-defying, wondrous art, it was generally very difficult to be utterly exterminated!
Yet even the Alchemy-Hidden Ye Clan, mighty and flourishing in its day, had still been reduced to the brink of annihilation.
By Xiao Ying's reckoning, it was probably a case of "an innocent man bore no guilt, but the jade he carried made him guilty." Apart from spies, traitors, and other methods, the countless sects and arts of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds possessed wondrous divine abilities. Once someone obtained the relevant information, there were naturally plenty of ways to deduce and divine related matters. Following the vine to the melon and hunting down each avatar to destroy it was by no means impossible!
It was like the blood progeny of the Blood Dao, universally acknowledged as among the most troublesome and difficult divine arts to eradicate. Given sufficient determination, there were still many ways to destroy them completely!
For Xiao Ying, the Heavenly Silkworm Nine Concealments was enough. At least its drawbacks were less severe than those of the Blood Dao,