"A Second Primordial Spirit?"
Hearing He Changnian's startled cry, Li Chen could not help being inwardly shocked as well.
The second primordial spirit was a secret art for cultivating the spirit practiced by the Outer Dao of the Other Continent. It could produce another primordial spirit avatar apart from the main divine soul, which could be controlled as freely as one's own limbs. From it had developed the methods of creating external avatars.
Even the Puppeteer Dao Path's methods of controlling multiple puppets had borrowed heavily from it. Its true teachings had once been a closely guarded secret of the ancient Primordial Spirit Way. Taken to its utmost extreme, it became the supreme technique of Three Pure Ones from One Breath.
With this secret art, the separated spirits and avatars possessed almost exactly the same cultivation, strength, and even potential for growth as the original!
They merely lacked the essence of a true spirit and could not divide any further. Otherwise, one would give rise to two, two to three, and three to infinity, repeating without end.
Fortunately, this art had essentially been lost. Since the revival of cultivation, no one had ever been heard to master it.
Even so, if someone truly cultivated it to the level of Three Pure Ones from One Breath, their strength within the same realm would multiply several times over, granting them extraordinary combat prowess.
The figure before them, radiating a terrifying aura and identified by He Changnian as Martial Emperor Yang Wuji's second primordial spirit, possessed cultivation somewhere between Core Formation and the Nascent Soul Realm. Yet no one doubted that a powerhouse like him could beat many opponents of the same realm senseless even with only Core Formation cultivation, and could even kill across realms, easily dealing with Nascent Soul Realm opponents.