Clone Success (Seeking Follow-ups)

"Try to see if it can be transplanted."

Seeing that the tree body had stopped collapsing further, Zhang Dong breathed a sigh of relief and placed both the Sun Tree and Falling Star into his inner world.

The inner world was vast beyond measure, spanning a full hundred million miles in radius. Though it had no air and its world order was chaotic, making it impossible for life to thrive, that posed no issue for beings at the Transcendent level and above.

He then transformed back into his Bitter Snow Vine form and activated his innate secret technique: Transplant.

Zhang Dong first attempted to transplant the Sun Tree. One of the Bitter Snow Vine's tendrils detached itself, then coiled around the roots of the already-dead Sun Tree.

The innate secret technique activated, and the tendril merged into the roots, drawing out all kinds of internal information and beginning to replicate a clone.

Throughout the entire process, Zhang Dong was filled with anxiety. If the transplant succeeded, it meant he would possess an incredibly terrifying Special Lifeform clone.

A Special Lifeform with a thousand times the gene count, or even several thousand times—before the Sun Tree, that was nothing but dogshit.

The World Tree dared to claim it could become a Universe Master with absolute certainty? The most heaven-defying Special Lifeform in the Primordial Universe should be the innate Beast God.

A Beast God was born as a Universe Master, naturally mastering one path of the Beast God.

As for the Sun Tree, though its growth cycle was not short, reaching the True Deity level on the Boundary Heart Continent would still take eons. Compared to the Beast God, it fell short.

Eating and drinking, naturally grasping the complete laws of heaven and earth—it was just that it would encounter a major bottleneck on the path of creation, after all, the comprehension ability of plant life was hard to match that of humans.

Falling Star was even more miraculous. Though its growth limit was inferior to the Sun Tree, it possessed a very special talent: Parasitism.

It could parasitize other lifeforms, drain their energy, and even enslave the weak. However, its growth limit was only the Fourth Heaven Realm Deity, and reaching True Deity was extremely difficult.

Across the entire Boundary Heart Continent, the number of Falling Stars above the True Deity level was very small, with the strongest reaching the Chaos Realm level.

Boom!

The detached snow-white tendril began to change.

The tendril swelled, grew larger, and slowly started to devour the Sun Tree.

"The critical moment is here." Zhang Dong manipulated the tendril, devouring while replicating every tiny particle. The root of the snow-white tendril was also changing.

From the shape of a tendril, it became a tree root.

A change meant there was a high chance of success. Zhang Dong was extremely excited. What gene multiple would the Sun Tree have? Could it possibly reach 10,081 times directly?

In the Primordial Universe, achieving perfect genes would also grant the strongest secret technique.

The tendril continued to change, most of its form becoming the Sun Tree, until the entire tree body was devoured clean, then it stopped.

A giant tree, a full hundred thousand kilometers tall, stood at the center of the world.

Logically, this should have been the end, because the branches and leaves had already collapsed, not fitting the rules of the Primordial Universe, so naturally, such a clone could not be transplanted.

But perhaps due to the wonder of Zhang Dong's soul, the giant tree continued to grow!

Countless leaves and countless branches sprouted out. Zhang Dong quickly took out some energy items for the giant tree to absorb.

Fortunately, his Primordial Universe system was only at the Realm Lord level, and replicating this Sun Tree was merely at the God level, so the energy required was not too much.

If it were a Realm God level Sun Tree, its volume would be ten billion times what it was now.

The energy required would be even more exaggerated—tens of billions of times more. Even if Zhang Dong exchanged all the points in his pocket, he couldn't afford it. He would have to return to the Boundary Heart Continent to absorb the world's energy.

"Heavens." Zhang Dong had already pictured the scene when he reached the Universe Master level.

With the Bitter Snow Vine and the Sun Tree, two clones unleashed together, the endless, towering divine body would be enough to crush the starry sky of the universe.

"The Nine Abyss Lord, and later Luo Feng, had great difficulty controlling such a massive divine body to move. But I have the inheritance methods of the Boundary Heart Continent." Zhang Dong knew that the so-called difficulty in moving was actually just the wrong approach.

If the divine body was too massive, it would inevitably affect mobility.

But having a movement speed as slow as the Nine Abyss Sea was unreasonable. It had a lot to do with mental will and control methods. Later-stage Luo Feng's divine body was that massive, yet he never said his movement was slow.

Next came the transplant of Falling Star.

The process was similar to transplanting the Sun Tree. In the end, all the petals grew out as well.

"But why is the gene multiple the same as my Bitter Snow Vine?" Zhang Dong didn't understand.

Both of these clones had a gene count of 1,000 times. Falling Star was understandable—its growth limit was only the Fourth Heaven Realm Deity.

The problem was that the Sun Tree's growth limit was the True Deity Heaven and Earth Realm, an existence equivalent to a Universe Master. How could it only have 1,000 times the gene count?

In the end, Zhang Dong could only attribute it to the difference in Source Worlds, with the gene count being calculated based on the Bitter Snow Vine.

After both clones were fully prepared, Zhang Dong went to the Dark Marquis Lord. He had to show this senior brother before he could leave the human territory and venture into the Cosmic Secret Realms.

After more than seven days of travel, he finally arrived at the Cosmic Secret Realm where the Dark Marquis Lord resided.

The Virtual Universe Company had quite a few secret realms under its command. The one where the Dark Marquis Lord was located was relatively remote, a full 30 million light-years from headquarters.

"Senior brother, my clones are ready. I can now go for my Life-and-Death Trial." Zhang Dong released the Sun Tree. The appearance of the hundred-thousand-kilometer giant tree even startled the Dark Marquis Lord.

The Dark Marquis Lord carefully examined the Sun Tree for a long time.

"Where did you find this Special Lifeform?" The Dark Marquis Lord asked in confusion. "I've never seen it before. Could it be a unique Special Lifeform?"

Some Special Lifeforms existed in the form of a race. These types generally didn't have high gene counts—a hundred times, a few hundred times.

Or there were ones like the Bitter Snow Vine, of which only five were known across the entire Primordial Universe, making them relatively rare.

Truly unique Special Lifeforms were extremely scarce. But as for the known Special Lifeforms, the Dark Marquis Lord believed he should know all of them.

But this Sun Tree?

Every leaf of the Sun Tree was like a miniature star. The Dark Marquis Lord, who commanded spacetime, could perceive the vast energy contained within—it likely surpassed many Army Lord Immortals.

"I happened upon an opportunity," Zhang Dong said vaguely.

The Dark Marquis Lord wouldn't press for details. Which super-strong expert didn't have countless opportunities? When he himself had risen to power, he too had been blessed with innumerable fortunes.

Having secrets was only natural.

Still, he was curious where Zhang Dong had found such a unique, one-of-a-kind Special Lifeform.

The Dark Marquis Lord remarked with emotion, "At the Realm Lord Level, your energy reserves are already this immense. Paired with your comprehension of the laws, you could sweep through those Army Lord Immortals."

An ordinary Army Lord Immortal's divine body was only a hundred times the power of a Realm Lord.

Zhang Dong's divine body genes alone were a thousand times the power of a Realm Lord, and his law comprehension at the sixteenth level of the Heavenly Bridge surpassed even that of a low-level Marquis.

Once his law comprehension reached the twentieth level of the Heavenly Bridge, he would have King-Level Combat Power. Plant-type lifeforms had massive bodies—the Sun Tree might not look impressive in size now, but its density was extremely high.

By then, even a true King-Level pinnacle expert would find it difficult to kill Zhang Dong.