Chaos Bead Space.
Qin Hao continuously formed hand seals with both hands, using the War God Temple's Divine Dao Art to condense his clone.
This was also an act of necessity.
The Ancient Clan's cultivation method and that of the Immortal Clan were two entirely different paths—one could even say they were two separate systems.
The Ancient Clan did not cultivate the Nascent Soul, intent, or origin. They relied purely on the physical body and divine abilities.
As they continuously absorbed the power of heaven and earth, their bodies would grow ever larger.
The Immortal Clan's methods, on the other hand, focused on cultivating the Nascent Soul and intent, ultimately transforming intent into origin.
These two powers were incompatible. To cultivate both systems at once, one had to condense a clone.
Then, by merging the clone with the true body, one could achieve simultaneous cultivation of the Ancient and Immortal paths.
Unless one was like Wang Mazi and used a strand of hair from the Immortal Clan's ancestor to condense a second set of meridians within the body, allowing a single body to accommodate both Ancient and Immortal powers.
After a long while, Qin Hao Clone was finally condensed.
This clone had been created by Qin Hao using his own essence blood and divine sense, so it naturally looked exactly like him, except it possessed no cultivation.
The War God Temple's Divine Dao Art was incomplete, so the clone it condensed had an extremely fatal flaw.
The clone only had half a jiazi of lifespan—thirty years.
However, as the clone's cultivation increased, its lifespan would also grow.
For ordinary people, it would be extremely difficult to raise a clone's cultivation to a high level within thirty years.
After all, many Cultivators needed more than thirty years merely to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
But Qin Hao had no such concern.
After all, he had once been an Infant Transformation Expert.
Moreover, before coming to the Land of the Ancient God, Qin Hao had already prepared to condense a clone.
"Whoosh!"
With a slap of his storage bag, a large pile of bottles and jars appeared.
These bottles and jars were all filled with pills he had prepared for his clone.
There were Spirit Liquid, Spirit Seizing Pills, and Creation Pills for the Qi Condensation Stage; Foundation Establishment Pills and Qizuo Pills for the Foundation Establishment stage; as well as Tianli Pills, Earth Transformation Pills, and more for the Core Formation stage.
The pills Qin Hao had prepared were enough to support the clone's cultivation all the way to the Nascent Soul stage.
In addition, Qin Hao still had more than a hundred Supreme Grade Spirit Stones within his body.
The spiritual energy contained within these Supreme Grade Spirit Stones was exceedingly pure and vast.
If he refined them all, they would be enough for his clone to cultivate to the Grand Perfection of God Transformation.
As for Yin Transformation, that required enough Immortal Jade, which Qin Hao did not possess at present.
He could only wait until he went to another map and activated the system again.
Alliance Star Domain.
At the junction between the depths of the western region and the southern region lay a half-abandoned Cultivation Star.
This was where Vermilion Bird Star was located.
Back then, the Cultivation Alliance had granted this Cultivation Star to Vermilion Bird Country to establish its nation upon, but the native Immortal Remnant Clan lived here.
A world-shaking battle between the two sides had turned the originally spirit-energy-rich planet into a half-abandoned state.
On this day, an eerie red glow suddenly appeared in the void outside Vermilion Bird Star, nearly shrouding this stretch of Starry Sky.
As the red glow arrived, a dense bloody aura surged forth, illuminating the area into a blood-red world.
Within the blood light stood a jade throne entirely crimson in color, upon which sat an incomparably beautiful woman.
The woman's eyes were like phoenix eyes, killing intent at the corners of her brows. Dressed in white, she was none other than Blood Ancestor's Daughter Yao Xixue.
Behind Yao Xixue stood four Servants, each emitting the fluctuations of Great Perfection of the Ascension stage.
"Is this Vermilion Bird Star?"
Yao Xixue's Phoenix Eyes gazed at the star ahead as she muttered, "No wonder I had never heard of it. It's merely a half-abandoned Cultivation Star. It truly made me search hard!"
She had departed from Blood Star and traveled all the way to the nearest Trading Star.
In the end, she bought a star map there leading to Vermilion Bird Star, then headed straight for it.
Along the way, a Mid-stage Asking Peak Cultivator had actually been foolish enough to set his sights on her.
Before Yao Xixue could even use the magic treasure the Blood Ancestor had given her, a servant appeared and blasted that Mid-stage Asking Peak Cultivator apart alive.
After revealing his identity, the servant directly remained at Yao Xixue's side.
From then on, no one dared provoke her during the journey.
"Let's go down!"
Yao Xixue narrowed her Phoenix Eyes slightly and thought, Qin Hao, This Young Lady has come for you. This time, I will definitely capture you and whip you without end to vent the hatred in my heart.
A half-abandoned Cultivation Star could at most have a Level Six Cultivation Nation.
Even if Qin Hao was a core disciple of a Level Six Cultivation Nation, Yao Xixue was not worried in the slightest.
After all, the four Peak Profound Ascension Servants behind her were enough to sweep across the entire Cultivation Star.
"Rumble!"
Since they made no effort to conceal their auras and charged directly toward Vermilion Bird Star, they drew the attention of countless Cultivators on the planet.
At that moment, all the Cultivators raised their heads and looked toward the sky dome.
They saw five blood-colored flowing lights breaking through the Gale Layer from Beyond Heaven.
At the peak of Vermilion Bird Mountain, the core of Vermilion Bird Continent, Zhu Quezi, dressed in a fiery red robe with white hair and beard, suddenly appeared.
He looked up at the sky, and after sensing the auras of those five flowing lights, his expression changed drastically.
Zhu Quezi sensed that among those five figures, four were actually at the Great Perfection of the Ascension stage.
As the lord of Vermilion Bird Star, his cultivation was only at the Late-stage Asking Peak.
Now that four Outer Domain Cultivators far stronger than himself had arrived, what exactly were they here for?
"Whoosh!"
Zhu Quezi flashed forward and teleported toward the sky dome.
Very quickly, he arrived before them and cupped his hands in salute. "This Old Man is Zhu Quezi, lord of Vermilion Bird Star. Greetings, Seniors. May I ask what brings you to Vermilion Bird Star?"
As he spoke, Zhu Quezi secretly examined the five of them.
To his shock, he discovered that the four Great Perfection of the Ascension stage Experts all deferred to this stunning woman at the Yin Transformation stage.
What exactly was her identity? Could she be from a Level Seven Cultivation Nation?
That was a Cultivation Nation with Second Step Experts who possessed Great Divine Abilities.
"You are the lord of Vermilion Bird Star?"
Yao Xixue rested her cheek in her palm, glanced at him indifferently, and asked, "Do you know where Huofen Kingdom is?"
"Huofen Kingdom?"
Zhu Quezi was stunned. He had never even heard of this Cultivation Nation.
Could it be a sect from some Level 4 Cultivation Nation?
Why would someone from a Level Seven Cultivation Nation cross the Star Domain from afar to seek out a Level 4 Cultivation Nation?
"This Old Man has never heard of Huofen Kingdom!"
After saying this, Zhu Quezi feared that he might anger her, so he added, "However, all the Cultivation Nations on Vermilion Bird Star are recorded by my Vermilion Bird Country. I can have someone investigate it."
"Would Noble and the Seniors be willing to visit Vermilion Bird Country?"
"Lead the way!"
Yao Xixue ordered directly.
"Yes!"
Zhu Quezi responded and made an inviting gesture. "Noble, please follow this Old Man!"
As he spoke, he began leading the way ahead.
After returning to Vermilion Bird Mountain, Zhu Quezi said with a smile, "Noble has come from afar. This Old Man shall have someone prepare some fine tea and Spirit Fruit at once!"
Yao Xixue spoke indifferently, "No need for the trouble. I only wish to find Huofen Kingdom as soon as possible!"
One of the Servants even rebuked him, "My Young Master's status is noble. What fine tea has she not drunk? What Spirit Fruit has she not eaten? What could a half-abandoned Cultivation Star like yours possibly offer?"
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