Emerging from Seclusion

Yuan Tian had succeeded in severing his corpses, but he had also discovered a problem with his Corpse-Severing Clones. As he had known, an unlucky cultivator might find that a newly severed clone had only reached the Taiyi Realm. Yuan Tian had been that unlucky—and all four of his clones were in the Taiyi Realm. It was enough to make him miserable.

Worse, his Corpse-Severing Clones were at the very bottom of the Taiyi Realm: the Primordial Unity Heaven Immortal level. His luck could hardly have been worse.

Yuan Tian was truly frustrated. Before becoming Corpse-Severing Clones, when they were still Demon God Clones, they had possessed the strength of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals, not far below Yuan Tian himself. Now their strength had plunged so far that he could barely stand it. Anyone would have felt the same.

Still, these Corpse-Severing Clones seemed to understand the principle of softening a blow with a reward. They had just left Yuan Tian reeling, but now he discovered their benefits.

They had retained the independence of clones created through the Corpse-Severing Dao, along with the Demon God Clones' potential to grow stronger.

If both qualities had been lost—or even if only one had survived—Yuan Tian might have gone mad. His attempt at corpse-severing would have been a complete failure, and the clones would have had no reason to exist.

Fortunately, the result was still within what Yuan Tian could accept. Otherwise, he might even have wanted to destroy all four Corpse-Severing Clones.

The clones were weak, but at least they could improve. As long as their cultivation could rise, there was a way forward. The Fourth-Turn Golden Cores, Fifth-Turn Golden Cores, and Sixth-Turn Golden Cores Yuan Tian had refined to boost cultivation had found their purpose. The clones were lucky in that