[The hybrid individuals mentioned in the previous chapter only inherit the corresponding attribute from one of their parents when they encounter a parent with a perfectly matching attribute, based on different priorities.]

However, this priority will be factored in. For example, if someone possesses 15 times the essence and has a priority of 15, then the 5x cultivation speed and 10x combat power of the person mentioned at the end of the previous chapter will both be increased to 15x.

[It will also grant nearly four times the lifespan, more than twice the comprehension, and the resources consumed for cultivation will still be twice that of the priority level of 20, requiring only twice the resources!]

[—Before you advance to True Immortal, when you can only increase the essence, the inheritance level will be the same as the amount of the other party's essence.]

"So that means that if someone's essence has been weakened to less than half, their offspring with people of normal essence will still have one half of their essence, and it won't become a family-related genetic weakness?"

Unfortunately, this ability isn't very useful to you right now.

[You can now replicate a maximum of 22 Dao principles per year, possessing 22 times the comprehension of an ordinary True Immortal, or 10 times that of an ordinary person. Your comprehension has already leaped from the most ordinary level of 1 times that of an ordinary person to 999.999... times that of an ordinary person as you advanced to True Immortal.]

[With just tens of thousands of times the essence, your comprehension can be boosted to 22 times the Immortal level, and your comprehension speed is more than enough to support your current speed of replicating the Dao principles.]

[Adding extra lifespan is useless; your lifespan had already reached a form of immortality through a double multiplication zone before you became a true immortal.]

As for increasing cultivation speed... that only applies to realms zero to five. Incidentally, although it's verbally called increasing cultivation speed, it actually only increases the rate of absorption of various resources.

[Others can only digest one unit of primordial energy per day, and it takes them ten years to advance to the next realm. Increasing cultivation speed simply means allowing someone to digest ten units of primordial energy per day. This is useless for replicating Dao principles, or even for achieving the fifth realm's perfection and condensing the Dao seal.]

"For someone with only true essence, this increase in cultivation speed is actually the same as before, because even if their energy absorption efficiency increases tenfold, the resources required for upgrading also increase tenfold under true essence. Therefore, the cultivation speed is the same whether the essence is ten times or one time."

"As for Twelve, his true essence is that his cultivation resources and cultivation speed cancel each other out, and he also has an additional external essence that is tens of millions of times greater."

"His cultivation speed should have been tens of millions of times faster than others, but it took him hundreds of thousands of years to rebuild 2,000 systems... purely because he needed too many resources."

"He can digest resources quickly, but the area he can digest them on isn't that large!"

"The resources he can access and begin to digest in an instant are only a tiny fraction of the billion times more resources he needs."

"It's like a creature with a huge appetite and a fast digestion speed, capable of absorbing the energy of millions of stars in an instant. But the problem is that it has a mosquito's mouth and a belly only the size of a thumb. It can digest millions of stars in an instant, but in reality, it can't even eat a pebble."

Fortunately, there's still one crucial change!

[External nature!]

This is the most exciting upgrade for you!

[Starting today, your external essence will grow at the same rate as your true essence!]

[What was originally a 1% increase in external power consumption per year has now multiplied by 8000%, reaching 8000%, or 80 times!]

Originally, as your strength increased, your true essence increased more and more each year, but your external essence remained at 1%, which was quite rare, making your double multiplier not as powerful as it seemed.

[Currently, both aspects of your essence are increasing 80 times annually (the true essence can be stacked up to 160 times through returning to the origin), symbolizing that your overall essence is about to experience a significant leap!]

Yun Shou: "After all, his current external essence is only about ten million times, but his true essence is more than one billion."

"If the two essences had increased by the same amount initially, then the multiplication factor of each essence would be one billion times, and the combined essence would be multiplied by another 100 times, which is equivalent to multiplying the Dao power by another 100 times!"

And then... nothing else changed.

[Your essence reward and punishment data is the same as in Chapter 721; it can only eliminate a little over 49% of someone's essence at a time.]

"Emmm..."

Unwilling to give up, you continued to examine yourself, and finally discovered a slight difference.

[Some differences from other True Immortals.]

Some principles have emerged.

They float around your Dao Fruit, primarily exhibiting two types.

These two different types of Dao principles are clearly distinct, forming two separate camps, like two round golden pills.

[Upon closer inspection, you'll discover that each golden core contains an immense, compressed amount of Dao principles—at least a billion!]

[You didn't count them carefully because the principles within were densely intertwined and couldn't be distinguished in a short time.]

These two types of principles—

One is "the future."

[The other is precisely "essence".]

Your gaze lingered hungrily over the two condensed Dao principles, revealing many effects you'd only ever dreamed of.

[The principles of the future contain the simplest technique for observing future time and space. Regardless of whether you are present in that future or not, you can directly see what is happening there!]

For example, imagine an important conference room where a crucial meeting will be held in the future. If your current self is weak, even if you could foresee the future, you wouldn't know what the meeting will discuss because you can't enter the future.

However, once you possess this principle, you can enter the meeting room when it's empty and security is relaxed, and then observe the meeting situation there a few days later.

Many of the future-related Dao principles are scattered. Simply replicating a few of them will only increase the number of Dao principles and Dao power, but will not form effective skills.

Only by comprehending various principles and connecting them to form a "Taoist art" can one truly demonstrate extraordinary effects.

"Adding two individual principles together may only produce a mediocre 1+1 effect."

Yun Shou's gaze sharpened: "But if two different principles are perfectly combined, they might produce a delightful 1x1 effect!"

"...Wait, that's not right."

"Let me give you another example."

"If you apply the three principles rigidly and try to combine them in a crude way, the result will only be 1+1+1."

"But if you combine them perfectly, it becomes 1x1x1!"