Time drifted by, and ten thousand years passed in a flash.
"Ding." "One year of cultivation completed. Obtained an enhanced Cloning Technique."
A notification sounded beside Li Xuan's ear.
Li Xuan slowly opened his eyes.
Another ten thousand years had passed. On top of that, he had eaten a Golden Immortal Flood Dragon and four Scale Armor Beings at the Mystic Immortal level.
Li Xuan's cultivation had now reached the Eighth Grade Mystic Immortal level.
He looked around.
The humanoid beings meditating at the foot of the mountain had gone from one to three.
It was clear that Bright Rabbit's fluffy, long ears couldn't be refined away.
After all, even when Demon Clan beings took human form, many parts of them still retained their demonic features.
Those rabbit ears were one such feature.
The other two were a boy and a girl, both with youthful appearances.
The boy wore a blue robe and had handsome features and black hair. With his eyes closed, he looked just like a human.
But once he opened his eyes, his vertical pupils and blue irises revealed that he wasn't human.
The girl wore red gauze and was also beautiful, every bit as lovely as Bright Rabbit.
But her hair was a vivid purple-red, clearly showing that she wasn't human.
The two were beings who had transformed into human form over the past ten thousand years.
One was a Wolf Transformation, and the other was a Purple Marten Transformation.
Calling all three beings by their original names didn't sound very good.
So Li Xuan simply gave them names. Bright Rabbit kept her name, since she was a rare innate being and the System had named her.
As for the wolf and the marten who had transformed later, Li Qing named them Little Blue and Little Purple.
Over the past ten thousand years, Bright Rabbit had also reached the ninth grade of the Mystic Immortal level.
It looked like she would break through to the Golden Immortal level in just a few thousand more years.
Comparing their aptitudes, Li Xuan couldn't help but sigh again.
Then he looked away, careful not to disturb the three beings still comprehending and cultivating.
After some thought, Li Xuan formed a hand seal.
Cloning Technique.
Spiritual energy rushed over, and in the blink of an eye, a human figure coalesced in front of Li Xuan.
The figure looked exactly like Li Xuan, with lively eyes and a smile.
Its flesh and skin were rendered in the finest detail, even more lifelike than a real person!
Li Xuan looked at the figure, and the figure looked back at him.
For a moment, Li Xuan felt that the whole thing was incredibly profound!
It was just like looking at himself!
Two of himself!
His consciousness filled both bodies without the slightest resistance!
They blinked and pursed their lips.
Li Xuan and his clone stared wide-eyed at each other.
After a moment, they spoke in unison.
"You're an idiot..."
"Ahahahahaha!"
They slapped their thighs and roared with laughter...
After laughing for a while, Li Xuan and his clone stopped at the same time. Li Xuan nodded with satisfaction. "The enhanced Cloning Technique really is great. It's far better than that piece-of-junk puppet doll from before."
The clone didn't say anything, simply standing there with a smile.
Li Xuan had already mastered the method of separating and reuniting the Original Self and the clone.
He wouldn't have to move in sync like an idiot.
"Ding." "Choice System activated." "Choice One: Travel to the Primordial Great World and collect Ten Thousand Races' Essence Blood and Killing Qi. Upon completion, receive one random Innate Supreme Treasure, a Hundred Thousand Years Cultivation Experience Scroll, and a Hundred Thousand Years Fivefold Cultivation Speed." "Choice Two: Travel to the Primordial Great World and stop Demon Ancestor Luohu from collecting Ten Thousand Races' Essence Blood and Killing Qi. Upon completion, receive one random Innate Supreme Treasure, a Hundred Thousand Years Cultivation Experience Scroll, a Hundred Thousand Years Fivefold Cultivation Speed, and an Innate Supreme Treasure (God-Slaying Spear)." "Choice Three: Travel to the Primordial Great World and awaken the Three Pure Ones' primordial spirits, bringing about their early emergence. Upon completion, receive three random Innate Supreme Treasures, a Twenty Thousand Years Cultivation Experience Scroll, a Twenty Thousand Years Fivefold Cultivation Speed, an Innate Supreme Treasure (Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud), and the blessing of Heavenly Dao fortune." "Choice Four: Do nothing and continue cultivating for ten thousand years. Upon completion, receive a Thousand Years Cultivation Experience Scroll and the Divine Ability: Incarnation Outside the Body."
Looking at the four choices in front of him, Li Xuan chuckled. "Ten Thousand Races' Essence Blood and Killing Qi? Why would I go collect those? And Demon Ancestor Luohu? I'm just a Mystic Immortal. How could I dare provoke him? He's a Quasi-Saint among Quasi-Saints! As for awakening the Three Pure Ones... well, that should be Hongjun's job. If I do it, won't I be stealing his thunder? Wouldn't Hongjun fight me to the death? Hmph, trying to trick me? No. Way. It's. Not. Happening!"
He raised his brows smugly and selected Choice Four.
"Ding. Choice Four selected: continue cultivating for ten thousand years."
Hearing the notification, Li Xuan smiled smugly, feeling that he had just avoided another huge pitfall.
But then he glanced at the clone and rubbed his chin, muttering, "Even if I don't go looking for trouble, there's no harm in going out to have a look, right? I've spent all these years within Mount Taixuan. I don't even know what the outside world is like..."
By now, it was the clone who was muttering.
The Original Self had already closed his eyes with a smile and begun meditating.
The clone turned his head and said, "Yeah, I'll go have a look. I'm only a clone, anyway. It won't matter if I die."
As he spoke, he moved and took flight.
A clone created by the Cloning Technique had only one percent of the original body's strength.
After all, the Cloning Technique wasn't the Incarnation Outside the Body. If it were, the body created would possess cultivation and magic power approaching eighty percent of the Original Self's.
So Li Xuan's current clone had only the meager cultivation and strength of a first-grade Heavenly Immortal.
In the Primordial Great World, a first-grade Heavenly Immortal was only slightly stronger than an ant... a big ant.
But that didn't matter!
He was only going out to look around, not to pick a fight with anyone!
So, after flying three thousand li from Mount Taixuan, Li Xuan's clone entered a brand-new world.
The breeze brushed his face. Whether it was an illusion or simply because he was happy, Li Xuan felt that the spiritual energy all around him was richer than it had been within Mount Taixuan.
Unable to help himself, he sang aloud, "I want to be free as the wind...!"
He flew onward. Everything around him was peaceful—so peaceful that it felt unreal.
What was going on?
Wasn't the Primordial Great World supposed to be bustling?
Puzzled, Li Xuan kept flying and looking around.
But after several days, all he saw were some ordinary beings. Not only had none transformed into human form, they hadn't even developed spiritual awareness.
"Strange..."
Li Xuan muttered a few times and continued flying east.
"Rumble!"
Just then, a series of deep rumbles suddenly came from the distant edge of the sky ahead!
Li Xuan's spirits lifted at the sound, and he quickly flew toward its source.
He hadn't seen a living thing in days. Even if it turned out to be a ghost, he still had to go take a look!
As he drew closer, the rumbling grew louder.
At the same time, sharp, frenzied roars gradually became clear.
"The Beast Race is finished! Prime Kirin has been trapped at Kirin Mountain by the combined forces of our Ancestor Dragon Lord and Bird Clan Chief Yuan Feng. With the great formation of Kirin Mountain, he won't hold out much longer! And you, Huang Hu! Are you still refusing to surrender?!"
Keeping out of sight, Li Xuan saw a middle-aged man being surrounded and attacked by several others!
He fought on, drenched in blood!
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