Misfortune in the Sect

Inside Yun Xuechu's bedchamber on Bright Heart Peak, Lu Ye kept circling the maidservant, clicking his tongue in amazement.

No matter how he looked at her, the maidservant before him was no different from a living person, with scarcely a single flaw.

But Lu Ye soon noticed something was off.

There was no movement of Spiritual Power or divine sense around Yun Xuechu!

In other words, she was not controlling this maidservant!

Lu Ye was somewhat bewildered. What was certain was that this maidservant was indeed an Artificer creation, but... if no one controlled her, how could she move? How could she speak?

"Master, what is this?" Lu Ye looked toward Yun Xuechu.

Yun Xuechu smiled faintly and waved her hand. The maidservant withdrew.

"The Spirit Severing Technique," Yun Xuechu explained. "Strictly speaking, Xiao Die is my Clone."

"A Clone!" Lu Ye was startled.

He was only in the Cloud River Realm, still a hundred thousand miles away from the Divine Sea Realm. Though he did not understand Spirit Severing or Clones, he could still glimpse some of their profound mysteries. He knew this had to be an extraordinarily remarkable secret technique.

"I did not tell you these things before because I feared you would bite off more than you could chew," Yun Xuechu said. "I imagine you have noticed that besides the several orthodox paths of cultivation, Nine Provinces cultivators also have countless subsidiary paths—such as the Formation Dao, the Pill Dao, the Artifact Refining Dao, and the Artificer Dao. Yet every one of them is closely tied to Spiritual Patterns. Even the spells cast by Spell Cultivators cannot be separated from Spiritual Patterns. All of these can, in truth, be considered branches of the Spirit Pattern Path."

Lu Ye nodded.

As a Spirit Pattern Master, how could he