Within the great hall of Star Picking Manor, a thousand human-sized "cocoons" lay quietly across the floor. Zhou Tong's thousand clones were being nurtured within them.
The entire process resembled Zhou Tong's own birth into this world, nurtured by heaven and earth.
Given Zhou Tong's innate foundation, if he had been born on the Sun Star or within chaos from the very beginning, becoming a True God at birth would have been no issue. This nurturing process merely replicated his birth, and though it was somewhat slow, it was the best method for Zhou Tong, who currently lacked resources.
"Rumble!"
Chaos surged, continuously flowing into Star Picking Manor and into the thousand "cocoons" formed from Golden Sun Flame. Chaos Power and the power of the Golden Sun Flame constantly nurtured each of Zhou Tong's clones, causing every one of them to grow rapidly stronger.
It was not merely their divine bodies and divine souls that grew; even their Pure Yang Golden Cores developed in the process.
The nurturing continued for a full ten years. After ten years, all the cocoons finally dissipated, and a thousand Zhou Tongs successfully broke free.
"After ten years of nurturing, I've finally completed most of the second level of the Thousand Body Sacred Canon... Only the Heart Power issue remains." Zhou Tong silently thought.
Their divine bodies, Golden Cores, and divine souls had all reached the level of his true body. Only Heart Power remained divided among them.
Still, these years of nurturing had increased the Heart Power of every clone considerably. Though it had not risen to the level of his original true body, once these clones fused back into one, his Heart Power would surely become even stronger.
Of course, that strength would only be quantitative. In terms of quality, it would still