Test the Clone

Lin Yuan had just put the Flame-Ice Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal back into System Space when another system message entered his mind.

[Your comprehension of the Law of Time Origin has reached the threshold of an Origin Law. You have received one lottery chance. Would you like to draw?]

"Draw!" Lin Yuan said silently.

[Congratulations! You have won the F9-Grade Mechanical Puppet, the 27th ordinary prize. Would you like to claim it?]

"Claim it."

"Whoosh!"

A pitch-black puppet suddenly appeared before him. It stood ten meters tall, with a Battle Blade strapped to its back.

If manufactured by the Machine Race, this kind of puppet would cost several hundred Hunyuan Units.

Humans could manufacture them too, but at a much higher cost than the Machine Race. Each puppet cost about 1,000 Hunyuan Units to make, and even more at auction.

"I can't use this puppet, either. I'd better find a chance to sell it later," Lin Yuan thought.

As he pondered, another message entered his mind. The lottery wasn't over yet.

[Your comprehension of the Law of Wind Origin has reached the threshold of an Origin Law. You have received one lottery chance. Would you like to draw?]

"Draw!"

[Congratulations! You have won one Star Heart, the 36th ordinary prize. Would you like to claim it?]

"A Star Heart? Claim it," Lin Yuan thought.

A clump of energy shaped like a planet's core appeared before him. He let his consciousness seep into it and learned about the Star Heart:

When a life-bearing planet was nearing the end of its life, there was a chance its core would give birth to a nucleus containing all the life force the planet had left. It could provide cultivators with pure life energy and promote their physical evolution.

Lin Yuan recalled that when Luo Feng had entered the World within a World, there had been one in its treasure vault. Its price was probably low. It was a precious cultivation resource for ordinary cultivators, but of little use to Lin Yuan. It was probably worth only a few Hunyuan Units.

Lin Yuan waited for a while, but no more lottery notifications came.

The successful birth of his clone had given him four lottery chances and even unlocked a new feature. Lin Yuan was already very pleasantly surprised.

After dealing with the system lottery, Lin Yuan turned his attention to the Storm Ruins Spirit Clone.

Lin Yuan began sensing the fluctuations of the laws. Thanks to his clone's affinity with them, he could clearly sense the fluctuations of the four Origin Laws: wind, earth, time, and space.

"This... The fluctuations of the Origin Laws are incredibly clear! My sensitivity to all four Origin Laws has reached the level of my sensitivity to the Law of Fire Origin!" Lin Yuan was overjoyed.

"Especially the two great Origin Laws of time and space. My comprehension of the Law of Space Origin used to improve extremely slowly, but now my sensitivity and efficiency must have increased by at least ten thousand times."

"And my affinity with the Law of Time Origin went from nothing to something. I've leaped from knowing nothing about it to becoming its favored child. This feeling of transformation is truly amazing!"

The improvement was like a person who couldn't read suddenly inhabiting a scientist's body and gaining all of the scientist's memories and research abilities.

Lin Yuan was immersed in the wonderful sensation, unable to tear himself away for a long time.

A month later, Lin Yuan finally began to come back to his senses.

"I should try out the Innate Secret Technique."

With a thought, Lin Yuan activated the Innate Secret Technique Formless.

The Storm Ruins Spirit Clone quickly shrank until it was the same size as his Original Body. The two stood facing each other, indistinguishable from one another.

With another thought, the clone began to grow. Its body gradually turned transparent, until it became invisible to the naked eye.

Lin Yuan could feel the Storm Ruins Spirit Clone now dispersed throughout the entire Clone Space. In this form, its movements became sluggish and its attack power dropped to almost nothing, but it could see every part of the Clone Space.

"This form seems to have all sorts of uses," Lin Yuan mused.

For example, during explorations of secret realms, he could disperse the clone beyond his own sensing range to gather information from a much wider area.

Lin Yuan took the clone back outside and tested it again. To his surprise, even in this dispersed form, the Storm Ruins Spirit Clone could still send anything it touched into the Clone Space.

Lin Yuan tested further. He left the Storm Ruins Spirit Clone in the training room, then took the Original Core with him and went outside the manor. The Storm Ruins Spirit Clone could still store and retrieve items from the Clone Space, just like Lin Yuan's Original Body when it carried the Original Core.

"Whoa! The Clone Space is far more incredible than the Internal World!" Lin Yuan was astonished.

"The Clone Space is directly connected to every clone. Without carrying the Original Core, I can still put items into it or take them out! No wonder it was bestowed by the system!"

"I wonder if this ability will still work after I advance to World Master and the Clone Space merges with the Internal World."

But Lin Yuan found it a pity that without the Original Core, the Storm Ruins Spirit Clone itself couldn't return to the Clone Space out of nowhere.

"Right, what about living things?"

Lin Yuan took out Liu Li and handed it to the Storm Ruins Spirit Clone, then walked away with the Original Core.

A moment later.

"No. Living things, like my clone, can't enter the Clone Space out of nowhere, nor can a clone without the Original Core take them out of the Clone Space."

It seemed the Clone Space bestowed by the system only allowed inanimate objects to be stored and retrieved this way. In other words, it was only suitable for transferring items.

After testing the Innate Secret Technique Formless, Lin Yuan began trying out another Innate Secret Technique.

He conducted his next tests in the Virtual Universe. After activating the Innate Secret Technique Condense, the moves might have tremendous power and cause a huge disturbance, making them unsuitable for use in his small training room.

"Innate Secret Technique: Condense!"

"Buzz!"

As soon as Condense took effect, Lin Yuan felt his speed and attack power surge, reaching thirty times their previous level!

Lin Yuan tried out all his Secret Technique moves.

His speed had increased tremendously, his footwork had become even more unpredictable, and his close-combat burst power had also improved greatly.

But when Lin Yuan activated the third move of the Burning Universe Flame Wild Axe, Burning Sky, he found that the space of flames hadn't grown any stronger.

It seemed the Body Amplitude Secret Technique only affected things like speed and force, and didn't enhance area-of-effect Secret Techniques that relied not on force, but only on Law Comprehension.

After completing his preliminary tests of the clone, Lin Yuan began planning his future cultivation.

For now, Lin Yuan's top priority was naturally improving his combat strength, so the Storm Ruins Spirit Clone began comprehending the Law of Space Origin without pause.

Meanwhile, his Original Body focused on cultivating the Fourth Layer Move of the Burning Universe Flame Wild Axe, which had previously left him completely at a loss. He used the remaining time to comprehend the Origin Laws of fire and earth.

He hadn't neglected his footwork cultivation, either. As his comprehension of the Law of Space Origin rapidly improved, he began to make progress in the third layer of Ten Thousand Shadow Steps, Hundred Shadow Steps.

The Peak Warrior Tournament drew closer day by day.