The Choice of the First Clone

With a wave of Chaos City Lord's hand, Qin Cang instantly received the auras of five types of special lifeforms.

The first was a strange, whale-like creature radiating a seven-colored glow.

The second was a vine-type lifeform with 1,296 vines dancing in the air.

The third was a massive cyan beast roaring toward the heavens.

The fourth was a black rock emitting an infinitely profound aura, as if it could devour one's very soul.

However, Qin Cang was not particularly satisfied with any of these four lifeforms.

In terms of overall strength, Qin Cang judged the whale-shaped special lifeform to be the strongest; its life gene level reached 3,000 times, and upon reaching maturity, its body length could reach seven million kilometers. Both in terms of size and gene multiplier, it was undoubtedly a top-tier special lifeform, yet Qin Cang did not like it.

The vine-type lifeform's vines could each grow up to a million kilometers long, but its life gene level was quite low, at a mere 1,500 times—far from Qin Cang's theoretical gestation limit of 6,000 times. Furthermore, plant-type lifeforms were difficult to move, and since this was his first clone, Qin Cang's plan was to gestate a special lifeform with outstanding combat power. Plant-type lifeforms could only be considered as backups.

As for the black rock, its life gene level was as high as 4,000 times, making it a unique special lifeform in the universe. Its theoretical size exceeded ten million kilometers in diameter, though there was no exact figure for its maximum potential; it seemed less like a rock and more like a massive mountain disguised as one.

The final cyan beast was named the Aurora Crystal Dragon. Its dragon head was ferocious yet majestic, its entire body covered in a layer of cyan scales flowing with liquid cyan light, and a pair of wings composed of countless ice-crystal feathers unfolded from its back, appearing both beautiful and sacred.

More importantly, this Aurora Crystal Dragon had a gene multiplier as high as 5,500 times. Once it reached the Immortal level, its body length could reach 100,000 kilometers. Such a high gene multiplier and exaggerated body size alone were enough to make any opponent feel despair.

If not for this fifth option, Qin Cang might have chosen the Aurora Crystal Dragon as his first clone, as it was truly perfect in every aspect.

This fifth special lifeform was named the Sky Canopy Python.

The Sky Canopy Python was born in the number one secret realm of the universe—the Ancestral God Secret Realm.

It was one of the most terrifying special lifeforms ever gestated within the Ancestral God Secret Realm.

However, after the Sky Canopy Python finished its gestation, it did not wait until it reached the Immortal level to act like other special lifeforms; instead, relying on its powerful innate secret technique, it disguised itself as an Immortal to roam the world.

Of course, it was not foolish enough to leave the Ancestral God Secret Realm, but while at a place where treasures were gestated within the realm, its identity was discovered by other powerhouses, leading to it being besieged by experts from all sides.

During the scramble for the Sky Canopy Python, the Human Race, relying on the Virtual Universe, quickly obtained the news and organized personnel to capture it. Outside the Five-Colored Aurora Lake, the Ancestral God Sect could not care whether it lived or died.

Although the Sky Canopy Python successfully retreated under the protection of several God Generals of the Ancestral God Sect, a portion of its blood was obtained by the Human Race during the previous battle and had been preserved ever since.

In the initial assessment, the Human Race estimated the Sky Canopy Python's gene level to be over 4,000 times!

Later, after the Sky Canopy Python reached the Immortal level, its gene level was finally exposed to be as high as 5,000 times. Although it could not compare to the cyan beast, it was still considered unique within the universe.

Clearly, a special lifeform that dared to participate in conflicts before reaching the Immortal level would be quite the troublemaker after becoming an Immortal, but the Universe Masters of the major powers found it difficult to take action against an Immortal.

However, ordinary Immortals and Venerables were no match for this Sky Canopy Python. Eventually, after it reached the Venerable level, it was besieged and killed on a Primitive Star, to the point where even resurrection was impossible.

To this day, no new Sky Canopy Python has appeared in the universe. If not for Qin Cang's arrival, even if the Human Race possessed the genetic material of this heaven-defying lifeform, they might never have been able to use it. After all, the Clone Secret Technique was rare among the rare, and a Clone Secret Technique capable of gestating such a super special lifeform was even rarer.

The Sky Canopy Python had a gene level as high as 5,000 times, so its body size could not possibly be small. After reaching the Immortal level, its body length exceeded 60,000 kilometers. Although it did not match the Aurora Crystal Dragon, it was still among the best in the universe, provided one did not count those plant-type or rock-type special lifeforms.

"Qin Cang, after looking for so long, tell me your choice. These are all the special lifeform materials currently suitable for you within the Human Race," said the Chaos City Lord.

The Human Race had always been generous in cultivating geniuses. As long as you could demonstrate sufficient talent, various treasures and secret techniques would not be locked away; they were yours to use, provided you could become stronger.

Moreover, with the existence of the Virtual Universe, no other race in the universe managed the distribution and utilization of resources better than the Human Race; even the Machine Race was slightly inferior.

These special lifeform materials would just gather dust in the treasury if not used. Only by being utilized could they exert their maximum value, and they had to be used on the right person.

If the prerequisites were not met, taking out these materials would be a waste.

Back then, when Luo Feng was searching for materials for his third clone, he scoured the treasuries of the Human Race and the Hong Alliance and still could not find a suitable material. It was not that there were no good materials in the treasury.

It was simply that Luo Feng's requirements were too outrageous: first, the gene multiplier could not exceed 1,000 times, the body size had to be as large as possible, it was best if it were a flesh-and-blood lifeform, and the innate secret technique had to be as powerful as possible.

Otherwise, any of the materials mentioned above would have sufficed for Luo Feng, not to mention those materials that weren't even brought out. However, giving those special lifeforms with only a few hundred times the genes to Qin Cang would truly be a waste of his clone talent.

Searching the entire universe, the only thing that seemed to satisfy Luo Feng's conditions was the prince of the Lord of Nine Serenities, but there was no information about the prince in the Human Race's intelligence. It was only by sheer coincidence that he obtained a bit of seawater to gestate his third clone. As for the previous World Tree, except for the fact that it was not a flesh-and-blood lifeform and could not cultivate the Nine Calamities Manual, it was perfect in every other aspect, but its gene multiplier was too high, exceeding the gestation limit of the Golden Horned Beast.

Of course, in Qin Cang's heart, the most ideal second clone would also have been a World Tree or the Nine Nether Sea. After all, whether it was law talent, gene level, innate secret techniques, or body size, these two special lifeforms were almost flawless.

"Replying to the City Lord, this disciple's choice for the first clone is the Sky Canopy Python!" Qin Cang said firmly. Although the Aurora Crystal Dragon and the Sumeru Demon Whale were extremely powerful and no worse than the Sky Canopy Python, Qin Cang still chose the latter.

After all, the Aurora Crystal Dragon's law focus was on the Time Law, while the Sky Canopy Python's was on the Space Law. As for the Sumeru Demon Whale, although its time and space talents were both quite good, it was not in Qin Cang's plans.

"Good, just as I thought. In the projections of your teacher and me, this Sky Canopy Python or the Aurora Crystal Dragon were the most suitable choices for you. Furthermore, the blood samples within our Human Race are just enough for you to gestate a clone. In fact, in the entire universe, this is the only genetic material belonging to a Sky Canopy Python. If you can successfully gestate it, you will likely be the only Sky Canopy Python in this universe," the Chaos City Lord said, waving his hand to retrieve a Space Ring.

"Inside this is the genetic material of the Sky Canopy Python. I hope you can successfully gestate it. Start now; I will watch you perform the gestation."

After Qin Cang finished the Original Core modification, he was brought back to the Chaos Ruins by the Chaos City Lord. After all, the Thousand Treasure River Secret Realm did not have another clone sitting in it, and while other Universe Masters could substitute, Chaos City generally only had the Chaos City Lord as its resident Universe Master. Moreover, with newcomers constantly heading to the Initial Universe to cultivate, he needed to identify which ones were alien spies, so he naturally could not leave for too long.