Incubating a Clone

As a directly administered administrative planet of the Xuanyi Universe Kingdom, the living environment on Qingyu Planet is significantly better than that of Biyan Planet in the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, where they previously stayed.

First of all, the five major powers of the human race all have high-level members stationed on Qingyu Planet, so there is no such thing as being unable to accommodate five-star clients.

Secondly, various commercial activities are extremely developed and convenient. Items that cannot be bought in the Black Dragon Mountain Empire can be easily found on Qingyu Planet, which brings a lot of convenience to the cultivation of Luo Zhiyuan.

To say nothing else, just take the energy used for the Time Chamber; it cannot be powered by ordinary energy, but requires Immortal Crystal to be used as fuel.

Immortal Crystal cannot be bought at all in the Black Dragon Mountain Empire because they can only be condensed by Immortal-level powerhouses. One hundred units of Immortal Crystal are worth one Hunyuan (PS: I have never found the pricing for Immortal Crystal in the original work by Tomato; this is just a price I deduced, don't mind it). They are generally used as strategic reserves, and one can only find places that sell them on planets directly administered by such high-level universe kingdoms.

On the F5-class spaceship flying to Qingyu Planet, inside the passenger cabin, what was originally Luo Zhiyuan's room is now empty, because he is currently inside his World Ring, looking at the sealed metal box in front of him with a hint of excitement.

Inside the box is a sealed planetary-level Shadow Race juvenile. Ordinary planetary-level lifeforms only have a lifespan of 1,000 years, but special lifeforms are different; the lifespans of special lifeforms are infinite. Coupled with the fact that the Light Beast God used a time secret technique to seal it, there is no need to worry about this planetary-level Shadow Race juvenile dying or decaying after such a long time.

However, Luo Zhiyuan thought of a serious problem and asked anxiously: "Bulieni, if this Shadow Race is unsealed, will it wake up immediately? If it really wakes up, can I subdue it with my current strength? After all, he is a special lifeform."

"My strongest ability right now is the soul secret technique of a spirit reader, but the Shadow Race happens to be immune to soul secret techniques. I'm afraid that my methods as a controller to manipulate the Lightning Shuttle won't be enough to subdue him, and that would be a huge problem."

Bulieni said in a flat voice: "Why do you think I waited until you reached Star-level 6 to wake you up? Was it just because of the news Luo Feng gave you and this intermediate auction? It's not that simple."

"Let me tell you, purely from an energy perspective, Star-level 1 is 10 times that of Planetary-level 9, and then it doubles for every level gained. You are now at Star-level 6, which is 320 times that of Planetary-level 9."

"Even if the Shadow Race has a gene level 100 times that of an ordinary human, your energy is still 3.2 times his. If you can't subdue him like this, then you don't deserve to have this clone!"

Hearing Bulieni's words, Luo Zhiyuan blushed with some shame. It was indeed as Bulieni said; he was already at Star-level 6, and his future goals were very clear, so why would he be afraid of a tiny planetary-level Shadow Race?

My heart is infinitely vast; let me start by conquering this Shadow Race and conquer everything!

Soon, after preparing for battle, Luo Zhiyuan unsealed the box. With a fluctuation of the laws of time, the box disintegrated directly, and a puff of smoke drifted out, immediately revealing the Shadow Race lifeform inside.

Luo Zhiyuan's spirit was highly concentrated, and he directly manipulated the Lightning Shuttle to use its third layer, combining the entire Lightning Shuttle into an elongated shuttle, hovering beside him, ready to attack at any time.

When Luo Zhiyuan looked carefully at the Shadow Race lifeform, he discovered that there was only a triangular pyramid emitting white flames on the bottom of the box, and nothing else. He was a little stunned, not understanding what was going on.

A burst of laughter came from Bulieni in Luo Zhiyuan's sea of consciousness: "Hahahaha! Kid Luo, are you nervous?"

"Hehe, the Old Mystic had long since used willpower pressure to make this planetary-level Shadow Race's consciousness nearly dissipate. He is now in a state of complete fainting and cannot wake up."

"I deliberately didn't tell you because I wanted to see you nervous, haha!"

"See that triangular pyramid? That is the life core of the Shadow Race, his true form. You can now directly perform your innate secret technique and gestate the clone!"

Luo Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief, finally no longer nervous. After putting away the Lightning Shuttle, he looked carefully at the true form of the Shadow Race lifeform again.

This was a triangular pyramid with a side length of less than 1 meter. On each surface of the pyramid, bright white mysterious patterns flashed on and off. It was these patterns that were constantly emitting white flames, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, as if breathing.

To use the innate secret technique, one needs part of the body tissue, but the true form of this Shadow Race is a triangular pyramid; where would the body tissue come from? Could it be that he had to cut off some crystal fragments?

Luo Zhiyuan urged the Lightning Shuttle again and sliced it towards one of the edges of the triangular pyramid. Except for leaving a crack that was gradually healing, no debris fell off, which stumped him.

"Bulieni, the true form of this Shadow Race is a triangular pyramid. My innate secret technique requires the other party's body tissue to be performed, but I can't get any debris from this triangular pyramid. What should I do? If I break this triangular pyramid, won't it kill this Shadow Race directly?"

"You're so stupid. Why don't you just use his entire life core as the target?"

Can he? Luo Zhiyuan didn't know, but he would give it a try.

So he used his spiritual energy to completely wrap the triangular pyramid and activated the innate secret technique—External Incarnation, choosing to gestate a permanent clone. Then he saw the triangular pyramid dissolve and disappear, while an independent small space appeared in his soul space.

In that small space, a white cocoon of light appeared and began to flicker constantly, as if breathing. Luo Zhiyuan sensed a piece of information from his sea of consciousness: gestating a clone requires replenishing energy.

A little surprised, does gestating a clone require replenishing energy? Luo Zhiyuan remembered that in the original work, it was never mentioned that Luo Feng's Golden Horned Behemoth needed to provide energy to gestate a clone.

It seems that his clone is different from the Golden Horned Behemoth's clone, but the energy is readily available; the Secret Realm Spirit Marrow can provide sufficient energy.

After telling Bulieni that the clone gestation was successful but required energy replenishment, Luo Zhiyuan walked directly into the lake of Secret Realm Spirit Marrow and soaked his body in it again.

Soon, Luo Zhiyuan discovered the difference from the last time his body evolved.

Although the Secret Realm Spirit Marrow was still emitting a fragrance, his soul did not have the obvious intoxication of the last time, and his consciousness did not lose itself.

Moreover, an energy channel appeared in his soul space, and the energy of the Secret Realm Spirit Marrow entered the white cocoon of light directly through that channel.

In just a few dozen breaths, the cocoon of light dissipated, and a white triangular pyramid identical to the Shadow Race's true form appeared in his soul space. Luo Zhiyuan received a message from the depths of his soul: clone gestation complete!

Afterwards, Luo Zhiyuan controlled the white triangular pyramid to continue absorbing energy in his soul space for a while. The energy channel disappeared, and the energy intensity of the triangular pyramid reached Star-level 6.

Before he could even get out of the Secret Realm Spirit Marrow, Luo Zhiyuan immediately received another piece of information: life imprint reception complete!

Luo Zhiyuan paused, understanding the meaning of this information. Because the Shadow Race is an energy lifeform and has no soul, it cannot undergo Soul Fusion.

However, they use life imprints to inherit memories. In the process of gestating the clone, the External Incarnation secret technique dissolved the Shadow Race's true form, which also allowed him to fully receive all the life imprints of that Shadow Race.

It's just that he hasn't absorbed them yet; he can freely choose when to accept the memories. Leaving the seal of the Secret Realm Spirit Marrow, Luo Zhiyuan told Bulieni and began to accept the memories of the Shadow Race.

Streams of massive memories flowed through Luo Zhiyuan's sea of consciousness. It took a whole day to finish receiving them, and he also understood the specific information about the Shadow Race.

The Shadow Race is an energy-based lifeform that does not fear soul-type attacks. Because they have no soul, they do not possess spiritual energy. They are a melee martial artist attack type. Their life gene level is 100 times that of an ordinary human. Their life core is an energy core, which is that triangular pyramid. As long as their own energy is sufficient, they can transform into any figure with a height of no more than 1 kilometer.

They possess two innate secret techniques: Shadow Transformation and Shadow Control.

Shadow Transformation can hide the body in the shadows formed by light, concealing the figure and aura; Shadow Control can affect the opponent's body by controlling their shadow, making their body and spiritual energy unable to move, but this requires physical contact or shadow contact to perform.

In this memory inheritance, there are also many special combat secret techniques, all of which are performed in conjunction with the Shadow Race's special talents and are very powerful.

However, because that Shadow Race was only a planetary-level juvenile, it only had the secret techniques to practice but no experience in practicing them. If Luo Zhiyuan wants to use them, he needs to figure out and practice them bit by bit himself.

After completely organizing the memories of the Shadow Race, Luo Zhiyuan's heart moved, and the Shadow Race energy core in his soul space appeared beside him. Then, a flash of light intertwined with light and dark passed, and it directly turned into the appearance of Luo Zhiyuan.

Luo Zhiyuan and the Shadow Race clone looked at each other, and a strange feeling came over him. This feeling was different from the feeling of an incarnation; for a temporary incarnation, Luo Zhiyuan could completely dissipate it with a single thought.

However, this is a permanent clone; unless this body is destroyed, it will not dissipate. Furthermore, these two bodies share a single soul, and the main consciousness of the soul can switch between either body at will.

Reaching out to pluck a hair, Luo Zhiyuan once again used the innate secret technique External Incarnation, though this time he created a temporary incarnation.

In an instant, a third Luo Zhiyuan appeared. The three Luo Zhiyuans kept looking at each other, comparing themselves, and occasionally moving their limbs.

Luo Zhiyuan himself could clearly feel the differences between these three bodies; he was most familiar with his own original body, and it was where his soul consciousness was most concentrated.

The Shadow Race clone and the incarnation only held a portion of his consciousness, but with his current 55 mental strength amplitude, perfectly controlling these three bodies was not a problem at all.

Of course, the incarnation only possessed one-tenth of the original body's energy.

After comparing the differences between the incarnation and the clone, Luo Zhiyuan dissipated the incarnation. He then controlled the Shadow Race clone, constantly changing its appearance and body size, and began to familiarize himself with controlling the Shadow Race clone.

First, he made several attempts at changing his form. He discovered that with the Shadow Race clone's current Star Level 6 energy accumulation, without compromising the body's capabilities, he could only change his height to a maximum of 100 meters; growing any larger would affect the body's defensive and control capabilities.

He released a large amount of energy from his life crystal core and tried to change into a body one kilometer tall, only to find that this body felt like an overinflated balloon, as if it would pop if someone poked it.

Trying to move the body slightly, let alone moving freely, even walking was extremely difficult. It seemed that increasing body size also required more energy; otherwise, simply making the body larger had no benefits at all.

Luo Zhiyuan then used his Earthling original body and the Shadow Race clone to jointly comprehend the Laws of Light for comparison. The result was that his original body had only comprehended the Laws of Light to the fourth level of the domain, but using the Shadow Race clone, his understanding of the Laws of Light continuously improved, and he easily reached the ninth level of the domain.

The Shadow Race clone could even clearly perceive the connection to the Laws of Light; every movement of the body could naturally conform to the rhythm of the Laws of Light. This Shadow Race was truly worthy of being the darling of the Laws of Light.

After familiarizing himself with the body, Luo Zhiyuan moved his mind, and the Shadow Race clone used the innate secret technique—Shadow Transformation.

He saw the Shadow Race clone suddenly turn into a faint light and shadow, instantly collapsing from a three-dimensional human shape into a black shadow that disappeared into the original body's shadow.

It was a very strange feeling. Whether looking with the naked eye or using spiritual power to scan, he could not find that another life existed here; even Bulieni could not detect it.

Yet in Luo Zhiyuan's consciousness, he could clearly perceive that both his original body and the Shadow Race clone still existed; it was just that the Shadow Race clone had merged into one with the original body's shadow.

Through the consciousness feedback of the Shadow Race clone, he felt as if he were in a pitch-black void space. He could still perceive everything in the outside world, and at the same time, a strange fluctuation surrounded him.

Frowning in thought, Luo Zhiyuan asked Bulieni uncertainly: "My Shadow Race clone seems to be sensing waves of spatial fluctuations. What is going on? Is this the Laws of Space?"

Bulieni let out a sound of surprise: "Eh? Really? I have detected fluctuations of the Laws of Space near your shadow. Could it be that this Shadow Race is not only the darling of the Laws of Light, but can even sense the Laws of Space?"

Controlling the Shadow Race clone, Luo Zhiyuan began to comprehend it carefully again. Fluctuations, space, it should be like this, right?

"Eh? Why did the fluctuations of the Laws of Space disappear? Luo, kid, what did you do?"

"Hmm, I wanted to control these fluctuations so they wouldn't have too much of an impact and would remain hidden. It turns out I can control them. It seems the Shadow Race really can sense and even control the Laws of Space. Bulieni, I've hit the jackpot!"

Luo Zhiyuan then controlled his original body, wanting to comprehend those spatial fluctuations. It would have been absolutely impossible before, but with the comprehension experience provided by the Shadow Race, he faintly felt some fluctuations of the Laws of Space this time as well. They were very weak, but he had indeed sensed them.

Luo Zhiyuan asked with some anticipation: "Bulieni, did I just sense the Laws of Space? Have I stepped through the door to the Laws of Space?"

Bulieni said disdainfully: "Keep dreaming, kid!"

"This is just the lowest level of sensing something; you haven't even entered the threshold. However, this can be considered as opening the door to the Laws of Space for you. In the future, you can use the Shadow Race clone's comprehension to promote your original body's comprehension of the laws, making your path to understanding the laws much smoother."

Fine, it was still better than never finding the way. Luo Zhiyuan had always thought he would need to enter the Initial Universe to even sense the Laws of Space. Now, he had gained powerful motivation to complete the goal he had hidden in his heart.

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