Silver Talent—Clone

Silver Talent—Clone!

"Master, the Genius Battle prize money has just been transferred into your private account." The voice of Alice, the auxiliary optical computer, sounded by Lu Ming's ear at just the right moment.

Along with successfully joining the Primal Secret Realm, the Virtual Universe Company had also awarded him a cash reward of a full one hundred thousand Origin Units. For Lu Ming, who was still only a Stellar-level youngster, this counted as quite a substantial fortune.

"Alice, are there any other important emails?" Ever since the Genius Battle had concluded, Lu Ming had once again received a large number of congratulatory messages and call requests. Moreover, quite a few of these people were not actually all that familiar with Lu Ming before.

Most of them merely valued his current fame and status and wanted to establish some connection with him. Lu Ming had Alice directly block such nuisance emails.

Only emails and calls from his teacher, friends, and family received a serious response from Lu Ming.

"Master, there are currently no..."

"Ding!"

Just as Alice was about to answer, a clear notification tone suddenly rang out.

"Who sent the email?" Lu Ming asked in a low voice.

Lu Ming had previously enabled Do Not Disturb mode in the email management system, so ordinary emails would not trigger a notification.

Therefore, the sender of this email was clearly either someone important to Lu Ming or someone of extremely exceptional status.

"Master, it is a congratulatory email from Jinlan Kingdom Lord..." Alice swiftly displayed the contents. Its message was quite concise, roughly praising Lu Ming's outstanding performance in the Genius Battle while warning him not to become too complacent. It also said that he would be given a "small gift."

A "small gift" from a Universe Kingdom Lord was something Lu Ming greatly anticipated.

Very soon, a direct staff member from the Jinlan Dojo delivered the small gift to Lu Ming.

"This is?" Lu Ming opened the box, and a statue roughly thirty centimeters tall immediately appeared in his hand. It was entirely carved from a translucent azure material. Just looking at it, he could faintly sense an unsettling aura.

The statue depicted a beast resembling an azure-furred ape. Yet an inexplicably savage aura radiated from this strange beast statue!

A Huo Suo Giant Beast Statue!

And it appeared even more exquisite than the enormous statue in the secret realm canyon!

"Jinlan Kingdom Lord has truly treated me well, to actually give me this." Lu Ming played with the miniature Huo Suo Giant Beast Statue, overjoyed.

He had been worrying that he would no longer be able to study the giant beast statue in the secret realm canyon during the journey to the Initial Universe, slowing his cultivation. Who would have thought that Jinlan Kingdom Lord would give him an even better one?

"Though it is much smaller, the secret patterns and spiritual bearing on the statue are actually more detailed and distinct. With this, I won't have to worry about having nothing to do during the three-year journey." Lu Ming was extremely satisfied with this gift, and he felt even more grateful toward Jinlan Kingdom Lord.

Although they had yet to truly meet, the help the other party had given him was enormous.

If not for the other party specially allowing him to cultivate in that secret realm canyon for five years, then even if he had achieved a decent ranking in the Genius Battle, he could not possibly have mastered the Huo Suo True Body so quickly. His improvement in strength would certainly have been far inferior to what it was now.

"Unfortunately, only the first time he guided me did I obtain an impressive talent." Jinlan Kingdom Lord had guided him twice in total, but only during the first time had he obtained the Purple Talent, Will of the Overlord. The second time, he had merely gained the blue talent Advanced Spear Mastery.

Thinking about it, that made sense. If he could obtain a Purple Talent every time Jinlan Kingdom Lord guided him, then wouldn't he be able to endlessly farm Purple Talents if the man guided him ten or eight times?

Clearly, no such wonderful thing could exist in the world. Based on Lu Ming's own speculation, unless Jinlan Kingdom Lord suddenly accepted him as a Direct Disciple, he might have a chance to obtain a second high-quality talent from him.

"Still, this time I took first place in the human Peak Genius Battle and achieved the special feat of clearing seven Trial Towers... The new talent I'm about to draw definitely can't be low-quality." Lu Ming eagerly anticipated it.

New talents were drawn on the seventh of every month, so Lu Ming still needed to wait a few more days.

That day, in the familiar independent cultivation chamber, Lu Ming sat cross-legged in calm meditation, his consciousness sinking into his mind.

Today was the day he would draw a new talent, and his intuition told him that this time, he would definitely get something good!

"Come on!" Very quickly, streams of unprecedentedly pure, flawless silver radiance instantly filled Lu Ming's sea of soul.

"This is? A silver talent unlike anything before!" Lu Ming could not help feeling slightly delighted. Purple Talents were already so powerful and remarkable. This Silver Talent, a level higher, certainly would not disappoint him!

"This talent is... Clone?!" Once the silver radiance had completely merged into Lu Ming's mind, his consciousness swiftly grasped the basic information of this new talent.

Clone (Silver): In the unseen depths, you have gained the favor of the Universe Origin Will and have been granted the authority to nurture three brand-new clones.

As always, the basic description of the new talent was brief and clear.

Yet Lu Ming almost instantly understood the actual effect of this new talent.

"This new talent has actually given me the indispensable life-preserving ability known as Clone!"

Clone!

Even for many great beings in the Original Universe, clones were an exceptionally precious and rare ability.

Countless Super Experts longed for such a heaven-defying ability. Unfortunately, once they had passed their weaker years, obtaining this talent ability was generally no longer possible.

Throughout the universe, Clone Techniques could mainly be divided into two types.

One type was similar to the Soul Devouring Beast. The clones formed possessed part of the original body's strength and understood all of the original body's law insights. Though they could not cultivate independently, they could produce greater numbers.

Based on Lu Ming's speculation, the Chaos Tablet guardian in the Initial Universe had likely once possessed a special lifeform similar to a Soul Devouring Beast.

The other type was like that of the Golden Horn Beast. It could nurture three clones, and the three clones shared the same soul and consciousness. They could each cultivate independently and divide the work to achieve better cultivation results.

In such cases, the number of clones generally could not be too high, basically remaining below three. The Clone Technique Lu Ming had obtained this time was of the latter kind.

Furthermore, Lu Ming noticed the line in the basic description of his Clone Talent—"In the unseen depths, you have gained the favor of the world's Origin Will."

On the surface, this line seemed merely to explain the source of Lu Ming's Clone Talent: a gift from the Original Universe's Origin Will. Yet Lu Ming always felt there was some other meaning hidden within it...

No matter. I can slowly explore any hidden effects later. First, I need to study how to use this new talent. If he wanted to become a true expert, he would inevitably need to venture into all kinds of secret realms and even battlefield zones between races in the future. Such places often contained countless dangers.

No matter how heaven-defying a genius's talent was, none would dare claim they would definitely not die.

And if an accident occurred and one perished prematurely during the process of growth, then everything would lose its meaning.

The Innate Secret Method—Clone—was one of the finest life-preserving talents in the entire universe.

As long as the soul core remained intact, or not all clones were destroyed at once, there would always be a chance to make a comeback.