Divine Clone

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Richard chose external apotheosis rather than becoming a god within his body. The method tore his soul in half and produced a wind-element divine clone, at the cost of severe but recoverable soul weakness 1. He chose this route because it preserved his ability to attain godhood through additional laws and rules.

A divine clone is simultaneously Richard and an independent consciousness: it is not a separate personality or mere multitasking, but a higher-level unified existence. It shares Richard's law comprehension while independently handling cultivation, combat, travel, and research 2.

Richard subsequently created clones aligned with Water, Life, Death, Fate, Earth, Fire, Thunder, Light, Darkness, and Destruction. By the time his remaining Light, Darkness, and Destruction clones ascended, he possessed eleven elemental-law and rule-based divine clones, an achievement described as likely unprecedented in the Coiling Dragon World 148.

Nature and Limitations

• A divine clone is formed when Richard independently becomes a god through a particular law or rule, requiring another painful division of his soul 1 34.
• The clone and Richard's main body share comprehension of laws, allowing each clone to specialize in one path while feeding its insights back to the whole 2 129.
• Within the Coiling Dragon World, a clone can use only the laws of its own element or rule; it cannot employ every law known by Richard 16.
• Richard's main body does not inherently possess a godhead or Divine Domain under this system, and borrows divine power from his clones 16.
• Divine clones can bleed and be injured. Their death is permanent; refining a replacement godhead would not restore the lost clone 22.
• A clone's strength can be reduced in worlds whose underlying laws conflict with its home-world system 16.

Abilities & Skills

Law and Rule Comprehension

Each clone specializes in its associated law or rule, freeing Richard's main body to study other paths.

• Wind Element Divine Clone — concentrates on Wind Element mysteries and their fusion; its known fusion work includes Wind Element, Wind Movement, Fast, Slow, Wind Space, and Dimensional Blade 80 148.
• Water Element Divine Clone — studies Water Element mysteries, guards the God Tree, and later uses Poseidon's Divine Gear and the Sea God position to contemplate the Origin Law of Water 34 93.
• Life Divine Clone — handles the Rules of Life and Yin-Yang Release; after reaching High-level God, it extracts High-level Divine Power and nurtures or repairs high-level defensive divine artifacts 34 121 122.
• Death Divine Clone — serves as the core of Richard's Netherworld construction and advances to High-level God 129 148.
• Fate Divine Clone — is created after Richard becomes a god in the Laws of Fate and recovers from the resulting soul-splitting injury in the Small World 106.

Cooperative Combat

Richard's clones act in coordination during combat and can support each other with their respective powers.

• They prepared together to confront Leimo's arriving Mid-level God clone 57.
• They neutralized Leimo's Divine Domain and captured his Water and Darkness clones through space imprisonment, time stasis, and sealing 58.
• The Wind Element Divine Clone helped capture the Earth God alongside Xia Mi and the Silver Dragon King 102.
• Their divine power can be pooled for large projects, including condensing divine rings for the Tree of Life Martial Soul 112.

Exploration and Territorial Duties

Clones allow Richard to operate across multiple locations without exposing every aspect of his strength.

• The Wind Element Divine Clone traveled throughout the Tara Plane and later took control of a small continent containing valuable resources 15 34.
• The Water Element Divine Clone guarded the God Tree in a large magic-crystal mine 34.
• The Wind Element Divine Clone maintained order in Richard's territory while Richard handled other matters 61.
• The Wind and Death Divine Clones traveled together to Hell, while the Life and Water Divine Clones traveled to the Life Supreme Divine Plane 150 151.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Azure Forest Sword — Richard's initial Wind Element Low-level Divine Artifact; it can release wind-infused sword aura when wielded by a god 2.
• Material Defense Divine Artifacts — Richard equipped each of his clones with defensive artifacts from Leimo's spoils 60.
• Material Attack Divine Artifacts — clones selected their own weapons from Leimo's collection, with the Water Element Divine Clone receiving the most suitable Water-aligned options 60.
• High-level Divine Artifacts — after acquiring Philias's wealth, every divine clone could be equipped with a High-level offensive divine artifact 122.
• Void Mirror — a sealing and imprisonment divine artifact made by fusing the modified Kamui Eye into a mirror; it can suppress multiple targets in separated areas of Kamui Space 34.

Notable Clones

• Wind Element Divine Clone — Richard's first, strongest, and most frequently deployed clone; it is a Mid-level God by Chapter 106 and remains one of his main combat forces thereafter 1 106 113.
• Water Element Divine Clone — formed after Richard's second independent apotheosis; it guards the God Tree, studies Water mysteries, and is severely injured by the Zhu Xian Sword before recovering 14 34 129.
• Life Divine Clone — a green-robed clone responsible for Life Law research and Yin-Yang Release; it becomes Richard's first High-level God clone 34 121.
• Death Divine Clone — helps construct the Netherworld within Richard's Small World and later travels with the Wind clone to Hell 129 151.
• Earth Element Divine Clone — openly remains in Richard's territory while other clones conceal themselves; it advances to Mid-level God during the three-hundred-year period 114 129.
• Fate Divine Clone — created alongside the Death clone after Richard attains godhood in the corresponding rule; it recuperates in the Small World following soul division 106.

Trivia

• Richard compares the unified-yet-independent nature of his divine clones to “One Qi Transforming into Three Purities” 2.
• The Wind Element Divine Clone is Richard's public-facing identity for much of the Tara Plane, concealing the existence of his other clones 14.
• Richard considers divine clones convenient for dividing research, but acknowledges that their elemental restrictions are a fundamental weakness of his world's system 16.