The Second Sign-in

Li Yilin closed his eyes, feeling a chill run through his entire body!

"I understand!" Leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed, he tilted his head back, exposing his vulnerable throat, and continued, "I will transfer 10 Hunyuan Units to your account shortly. This is the compensation from the Giant Axe Arena."

"Distribute the compensation to the families of the clansmen who sacrificed themselves, and use the rest for post-war recovery... Half a month from now, all clansmen must evacuate Wunuo Star."

"Understood." Blair nodded, "However..." She raised her eyes, looking at Li Yilin on the other side of the screen with concern.

"Why must we evacuate? Is there a danger we are unaware of?

"Could this involve you?"

She was not questioning Li Yilin's order; she was merely curious, and worried that Li Yilin might be in danger.

Li Yilin and Sidar were the two pillars of the Wutuo Clan!

Without them, it would be impossible for the Wutuo Clan to gain a foothold in the universe.

The Wutuo clansmen would unconditionally obey their orders.

Conversely, any danger they might face would be of the utmost concern and worry to the Wutuo clansmen.

"It's nothing." Li Yilin waved his hand, his face showing signs of defeat.

"The metal ore on Wunuo Star is too precious; it is not something a Domain Lord like me can protect. Unless I abandon all the clansmen on our home planet, but you know, I cannot do that." As he said this, he couldn't help but rub his throbbing temples.

"I have decided to return Wunuo Star to the Giant Axe Arena for the time being, and the metal ore on it will be handed over entirely to the Giant Axe Arena to handle... I will not touch it, and none of you are to touch it behind my back. Anyone who dares to disobey—"

"Will be treated as a traitor to the clan!" Li Yilin said with a stern face.

Blair dared not question him and nodded solemnly.

"Understood."

Having resolved the matter and transferred the 10 Hunyuan Units to her, Li Yilin finally hung up the communication.

Now that he was free, he finally had time to understand the updated system.

He lowered his gaze, his eyes landing on the system panel in the top right corner of his vision. As if sensing his attention, the system panel flickered and expanded to fill most of his field of vision.

[Sign-in count: 1.]

A short line of text.

Li Yilin couldn't help but ask in his heart, "What are the conditions for the system update to complete?" He always felt that there were conditions for the system to finish updating, but he had never discovered them.

Facing Li Yilin's confusion, the system remained like an inanimate object, without the slightest reaction.

Li Yilin tried various methods, even asking out loud, but the system gave no response. He had to admit that the system was just a simple panel, perhaps even less than a panel, as it lacked a so-called host panel that could record various information about the host.

Even after various attempts, the image on the panel simply changed to two words—

[Sign-in]

It was very simple; he only needed to use his consciousness to click on these two words to signify a successful sign-in.

After a thirty-thousand-year gap for this second sign-in, Li Yilin was very expectant and somewhat nervous.

To ensure the success of the sign-in, he even entered his own World Ring, where he bathed, changed clothes, burned incense, and prayed to the God of Wealth... After a series of operations, he prayed in his heart that he would sign in for something good, and only then did he control his consciousness to click "Sign-in."

His consciousness pressed down.

There was no golden light, nor the sound of falling gold coins; three golden lucky bags appeared directly on the system panel.

Without hesitation, he quickly clicked to claim them.

The three lucky bags opened simultaneously. One of them, upon opening, immediately transformed into a beam of light that shot straight toward his brow, entering the depths of his soul and consciousness...

What is this?

Li Yilin's heart tightened. The next second, he felt himself completely submerged by memories. Vast, immense, mysterious, and complex memories, filled with both text and images, surged into his mind, vying for space.

Li Yilin felt a headache, caused by the memories flooding in at a speed that nearly reached the limit of what his soul could bear, but he did not feel nervous because of it; instead, he was exhilarated.

This was clearly a bestowal, just like the innate secret techniques granted to special life forms by the Primal Universe. The difference was that the innate secret techniques of special life forms were granted by the universe, while his were granted by the system.

He hoped that what the system granted would be helpful for his situation!

Struggling to receive the memories, Li Yilin felt both nervous and expectant.

He did not know how much time had passed.

Finally, having received all the information, he opened his eyes, his gaze filled with shock.

"It's actually... the Clone Secret Technique!"

This was recognized by the universe as the most powerful life-saving secret technique. Did he just obtain it so easily?

He was both pleasantly surprised and skeptical. He sank his consciousness into the "singularity" deep within his mind and discovered that, surrounding his seemingly ordinary gray singularity, two wisps of purple Lightning had appeared out of nowhere.

Sensing his gaze, the two wisps of Lightning jumped twice, hiding into the singularity like timid young beasts.

That is...

"My soul clone?" Li Yilin could feel that as long as he moved his mind, he could control those two wisps of Lightning at any time, just as if he were controlling his own second body.

The difference was that Lightning did not yet have a body; that had merely been his illusion.

The Clone Secret Technique bestowed by the system was fully mastered the moment he absorbed the complete memories.

The method for gestating a clone was simple: have Lightning consume a fragment of the desired creature, and Lightning would replicate the genetic material of the consumed fragment... gestating a complete life form.

This life form would be his clone.

The most important aspect was that the soul produced by the Clone Secret Technique granted by the Primal Universe would always follow the soul characteristics of the original body and would never change; if the original soul was human, the clone's soul would only be human and could not be any other race.

However, the soul born from a clone gestated by the system-granted Clone Secret Technique would be almost identical to the physical appearance of that clone.

In other words, if the clone Li Yilin gestated was a member of the Monster Race, then the soul displayed by his clone would only be that of the Monster Race, with no trace of any Wutuo Clan characteristics visible.

Furthermore, although the system-granted Clone Secret Technique caused the clone's soul appearance to differ from the original soul, the clone remained entirely under the control of the original body's consciousness.

Even if a clone died, the original body could gestate a new one at any time, and the soul characteristics of the newly gestated clone would not change.

The reverse was also true.

There was no such limitation where the shattering of a core would lead to immediate death; nor was there any restriction preventing a clone from gestating an original body...

"This is terrifying!" Li Yilin's breathing grew rapid, fueled by pleasant surprise.

With a Clone Secret Technique like this, if he chose a member of the Monster Race as his second clone, and a Bug Race Mother Emperor as his third...

As long as he didn't expose himself, he could go anywhere in the Primal Universe, and even if discovered, everyone would only assume he was a member of their own race rather than an outsider.

After all, no one had ever heard of a Clone Secret Technique possessing the ability to alter soul information characteristics.

At the same time, the possibility of all three clones falling simultaneously was extremely low; as long as Li Yilin kept his secret, he would have no risk of falling, at least while growing within the Primal Universe.

The very first sign-in item had provided such a massive surprise that even with Li Yilin's steady temperament, he felt secretly thrilled and excited for a long while before calming down.

Once composed, he looked at the remaining two items, the look of anticipation in his eyes becoming even more pronounced.

With such a good start, what followed surely wouldn't be bad either!

The first item was a horn from an unknown creature, measuring a full three meters in length.

The horn had a black base, with intricate patterns resembling burning flames in purple lining the entire surface; from a distance, it looked just like a horn engulfed in purple flames.

[Heaven-Swallowing Bull Beast Horn ×1.]

This was the system's description of the reward.

"Heaven-Swallowing Bull Beast?" Li Yilin turned it over and over, yet he couldn't discern a single characteristic.

He even connected his consciousness to the Virtual Universe to search for it, but he couldn't find any information on a Heaven-Swallowing Bull Beast.

"Could this be the material the system prepared for my Clone Secret Technique?" Li Yilin couldn't help but speculate.

So far, nothing the system had given him was simple, and he didn't believe this purple-glowing horn would be ordinary.

Moreover, the words "Heaven-Swallowing" sounded incredibly domineering.

After pondering for a long time without being certain of the system's intent, Li Yilin had no choice but to place the bull horn into his World Ring and look at the final item.

This item was quite simple: three metal books, each a meter long and wide, and half a meter thick.

Stacked together, they looked like a square metal pillar.

The cover of the top book bore three shimmering golden characters—

Thunder Dragon Step