Clone Secret Technique and Stepping Into Star Level

Spiritual Force easily drilled into the statue. Most of the statue was solid, with only a tiny space in its head. Inside that space floated a core, like a planet. The moment Spiritual Force entered, it immediately triggered a reaction from this tiny space.

"Hum—"

The floating core shot out a beam of purple light. Within the light were countless minuscule, densely packed characters. The entire beam followed the Spiritual Force channel, surging into Yin Congyang's Sea of Consciousness and heading straight for his soul.

Yin Congyang was startled. He wanted to sever the spiritual link and throw the statue away, but the purple light had already flooded into his Sea of Consciousness.

The soul within his Sea of Consciousness trembled. The purple light transformed into countless characters and patterns, merging into the boundless Sea of Consciousness. Though he didn't recognize the characters, each one carried a miraculous wave of consciousness that made their meaning easy to grasp.

[Clone Secret Technique]

Seeing these opening words, Yin Congyang was overjoyed. If one were to ask what the rarest talent or secret technique in the Devouring World was, clones would definitely count as one.

Other secret techniques could be cultivated by comprehending laws, but clones seemed to be a talent-type secret technique directly bestowed by the Primordial Universe.

One thing could prove this indirectly: after breaking through to the Universe's Strongest, all clones would return to their origin, no longer able to possess clones. Only a few avatars with little combat power could be differentiated. The Universe's Strongest's mini-universe had already separated from the Primordial Universe, no longer favored by it. Even in the Primordial Universe, it was very difficult for a Universe's Strongest to kill a Universe Master. If they actually did, they would be punished by the Primordial Universe's original will.

From this, one could see how heaven-defying a secret technique that could truly cultivate clones would be.

Yin Congyang suppressed his ecstatic mood and carefully read through the secret technique in his Sea of Consciousness. After a long while, his expression shifted between light and dark. He finally understood why a single [Shake God] attack had killed Universe Level Aulis, and why there were a thousand Universe Crystals.

The cultivation content of this technique was indeed about clones, but it was incomplete. It only described how to cultivate a clone. This method was vastly different from Luo Feng's Golden Horned Behemoth's innate clone talent. It could be called a shortcut.

Those who cultivated this Clone Secret Technique had to have a strong soul—at least several times stronger than their peers—to meet the basic cultivation conditions.

The first part of the technique described how to train the Spiritual Consciousness within the soul into a unified whole. The second part described how to cultivate a part of one's own body into a Soul Container—for example, turning a third of the liver into one. The third part described how to use the secret method to separate a portion of one's soul without harming the Spiritual Consciousness and inject it into the Soul Container. The fourth part described how to nurture the Soul Container into a clone.

When the original body reached Domain Lord level, the soul and original force would merge into one, forming a singularity. Under the technique's fusion, that singularity would become something similar to the Golden Horned Behemoth's Original Core.

At that point, if a clone was killed in an accident, the energy in the singularity could be used to recondense the clone. In other words, before Yin Congyang cultivated to Domain Lord level, even if he cultivated a clone, if it died, it was dead. It couldn't be recondensed; he would have to cultivate a new clone from scratch.

To nurture a Soul Container into a clone, various treasures could be used. The simplest was to directly use Universe Crystals. As long as they contained energy, it would work. Even the Soul Container itself could absorb the original energy of the universe to grow. Of course, that would be excruciatingly slow. Using Universe Crystals, however, required an enormous amount—not just a little.

Previously, after Aulis broke through to Universe Level, he had considered whether he could cultivate another clone, so he had prepared over a thousand Universe Crystals. But those crystals were definitely not enough for a clone's growth.

Once the clone grew up, it would be no different from a true clone. The soul, will, and consciousness were all shared. After reaching Domain Lord level, even if the original body unfortunately fell, it could be recondensed using the clone, provided the Original Core singularity storing the soul wasn't destroyed. From this perspective, the technique was indeed a powerful means of survival.

Of course, if Yin Congyang cultivated it and his original body unfortunately fell, whether the Strange Light Point in his dantian could be recondensed was uncertain. The clone didn't have this worry. If the clone fell, the original body could still recondense it, without even needing to repeat the soul separation process.

Everyone's soul power varied in strength, but it was always a complete whole. This technique could separate part of the soul without damaging the Spiritual Consciousness, which was indeed very clever. However, after the soul was separated, the main soul would inevitably fall into weakness. Even if the clone's soul grew, it would be weaker than its peers' souls. This was why Aulis's two bodies' souls had never reached the soul strength expected of Star Level and Universe Level.

This technique also had a hidden danger: after soul separation, it was unknown whether it would affect comprehension ability. After all, even beings like the Golden Horned Behemoth with clones had a unified soul that didn't undergo separation.

Aulis's soul power had definitely met the minimum conditions for cultivating this technique. His talent wasn't bad, and he should have broken through to Universe Level long ago. But he started cultivating this technique at Star Level, which delayed his breakthrough to Universe Level by thousands of years. He only barely broke through before Yin Congyang found him. This was because insufficient soul power was very disadvantageous for breaking through life evolution bottlenecks.

Yin Congyang had two guesses. One was that the technique should have a fifth part describing how to restore the soul, making it a complete technique. But either it was lost, or the creator hadn't reached that stage, or the creator had his own method of soul restoration that wasn't described in the technique.

The other guess was that perhaps only such an incomplete technique could be cultivated in the Primordial Universe. If it were complete, it might be like the [Nine Tribulations Manual] that Luo Feng later cultivated—incompatible with the Primordial Universe.

Yin Congyang felt the second guess was more likely.

So, should he cultivate this technique or not? Yin Congyang pondered silently. First, his soul was very strong. With his current Planetary Level Nine body, he already possessed Universe Level soul power. Even if he separated part of his soul, he believed it wouldn't have a major impact.

Second, his current soul power's strength was inseparable from the miraculous fluctuations of the Strange Light Point in his dantian. If, after separating part of his soul, those miraculous fluctuations could restore his soul power, it might even be said there was no loss at all.

And Yin Congyang felt that, given the Strange Light Point's miraculous nature, it was highly likely it could restore the lost soul power.

Of course, more clones weren't necessarily better. All clones shared the will attached to the main soul. Even if the soul was strong enough, if the will wasn't strong enough, the combat power of all clones couldn't be fully exerted. They might even interfere with each other—just like if one's telekinetic amplitude was only 3, but they forcibly controlled 5 flying knives, the power of all the knives would drop significantly.

As for cultivating a certain body part into a Soul Container, that was no big deal. Ordinary people could regrow even a small part of their liver. Not to mention he was about to break through to Star Level. With a Star Level body's strength, supplemented by treasures like Moya Crystals, it could regrow in a few days with no impact at all.

After thinking it over for a long time, Yin Congyang decided: cultivate! But to be safe, it was best to break through to Star Level first, making his soul power stronger before starting.

Putting the stone statue back into his storage space, Yin Congyang took out the seed-like sphere from the strange ring. The moment the sphere appeared outside the ring's space, it emitted a faint fluctuation that swept over Yin Congyang and the entire spaceship.

When this fluctuation passed through Yin Congyang's dantian and met the fluctuation inside, the sphere suddenly turned into a streak of light, shooting into his dantian. The faint fluctuation abruptly stopped, no longer detectable at all.

Yin Congyang had no time to react. He could only watch helplessly as the sphere, nearly a meter in diameter, crashed into his body and into his dantian, yet he felt nothing.

Quickly sinking his spirit into his dantian, he saw that the sphere had turned into a sesame-sized point, orbiting the Strange Light Point in his dantian. Bathed in the strange fluctuations radiating from the dantian's core, every time a fluctuation passed over this sesame-sized seed, it flickered faintly, as if some miraculous change was happening. But after staring for a long time, nothing occurred.

Yin Congyang shook his head helplessly and let out a frustrated breath. Seeing no further changes in the seed, he simply ignored it.

Yin Congyang sorted all his items into categories. He kept what was useful to him, including the Universe Crystals. Everything else he didn't need, he packed into a storage space, planning to send it to Thunder God via the Virtual Universe Company's logistics system after returning to the Training Camp, letting him handle it.

The return trip to the Training Camp still had over twenty days. Yin Congyang decided to break through to Star Level on the spaceship.

Before breaking through, he consulted the Training Camp's instructor, saying his mission was complete and asking if he could advance to Star Level before graduation. The answer was yes, but upon arriving at the Training Camp, he would enter the Star Level Elite Training Camp.

After a little warm-up, he adjusted his state to its peak, then sat cross-legged. His powerful soul power split into two streams. One began pushing the nine telekinetic planets in his Sea of Consciousness toward a higher level of evolution. The other pushed the nine original force planets in his dantian to evolve.

The nine original force planets in his dantian and the nine telekinetic planets in his Sea of Consciousness had long reached the peak capacity of Planetary Level. Each was perfectly round and flawless. The nine planets revolved continuously, their trajectories filled with profound mystery. Trying to probe them was futile, like a perfect star map.

Now, Yin Congyang was about to actively break this perfection, to destroy in order to rebuild.

The nine planets gradually converged during their revolution, eventually colliding and squeezing together. At a certain moment, with a "boom," just as they were about to scatter completely, a tremendous gravitational force erupted from the central point, pulling everything toward it. After all matter condensed together, a qualitative change began from the innermost point. It was like a low-density static planet transforming into a star constantly undergoing nuclear fusion. Its volume, density, and mass were over ten times greater than the total of the previous nine planets.

Looking at the gleaming star representing Star Level in his Sea of Consciousness and dantian, Yin Congyang smiled faintly. His strength had taken another step forward. At this stage, he needed to find ways to deeply comprehend the various laws and the Law of Space.

Another goal was to start planning: finding a way to enter the Virtual Universe Company's core layer. Even if he entered the End-of-the-World Secret Realm, Yin Congyang believed he would eventually climb step by step—Heaven and Earth, Primordial Beginning, Original, Universe Level, Domain Lord, World Lord...

Once his Star Level cultivation was fully stabilized, the fluctuations in his dantian began continuously channeling energy again, transforming Yin Congyang's physique and telekinetic power. As for his soul power, after crossing into Star Level, it had taken another leap, far stronger than when he had just entered Universe Level.