After many years, just when Xu Shi thought he had nearly finished his research, he took one wrong step and was trapped inside the formation for several hundred years! If there had not been some simple flora and fauna and water underground during those centuries, he would have died long ago!
It was also because he had been trapped for those centuries that he learned a few simple methods for operating formations and could activate them! Whenever he activated the formation, the entire Mount Fuji region would quake. That could be considered his last bit of gain!
In the end, he still had not entered the Secret Realm. His elemental power could never completely open the formation, and after conversion, the True Essence required was far too impure. It could only support his movements within a certain range. And that range was merely an entrance plaza before the Secret Realm, where there was nothing at all!
It was also during those centuries of confinement that, with nothing else to do, he spent his time studying formations and cultivating. Though the Alchemist's cultivation method was not particularly good, he had forcibly cultivated a clone!
Of course, that was also because there was too much elemental power inside the body, yet he had no method to convert it! Once the elemental power accumulated, it became a burden to him! That was why he used some cultivation methods he had found to cultivate a clone!
By doing so, he could use the clone to store all the excess elemental power! Once he truly found a cultivation method in the future, he would naturally be able to resolve the matter of the clone!
Thus, he had stumbled his way into modern society! He had even used the power of technology to help himself crack