Accomplishment Complete

Long Xuan could not help but marvel. Having clones help the main body cultivate was truly too creative—an idea fit for a god. Just how had the creator's brain been built?

Who on earth could have created such a heaven-defying cultivation method? Long Xuan felt a surge of reverence and could not resist carefully searching the cover for the author's name.

In the end, he found a line of text in the lower-right corner.

—Authored by the Yao Guang Empress ◎

"A woman?" Long Xuan racked his brains, only to realize that he did not know this person at all. As a minor Rogue Cultivator, his knowledge was truly far too limited.

He dared to say that this woman was definitely someone whose name had gone down in history. If he flipped through the historical records, he would surely find accounts of her.

Long Xuan stopped dwelling on the matter. He had already decided that his Ten Absolutes Scripture would use this kind of divine ability.

Of course, this was not plagiarism. It was purely reference.

The Sun-Moon Heart Scripture could condense the three great Externalized Clones of sun, moon, and stars.

Then could his Ten Absolutes Scripture condense the five great Externalized Clones of metal, wood, water, flame, and earth?

That would be two more Externalized Clones than the original version, making his cultivation speed twice as fast again. Perhaps he might even surpass his predecessor, blue emerging from indigo yet bluer than indigo.

The Seven Masters of Quanzhen could form the Heavenly Dipper Big Dipper Formation. Perhaps his five-element clones could form a Heavenly Dipper Five Elements Formation. Surpassing the original creator was not impossible.

When the time came, each of the five great Externalized Clones would specialize in cultivating one type of mutated spiritual power, then return the fruits of their cultivation to him. As the main body, he would not need to cultivate at all. Every day, he would only need to peacefully conduct research and live out a retirement lifestyle.

He would be responsible for invention and creation, while all the dirty work, exhausting labor, and arduous cultivation would be handed to the five clones. He could grow stronger while lying down. Just thinking about it made such days seem wonderful.

Long Xuan revealed a blissful smile and continued flipping through the later sections.

Unfortunately, the Sun-Moon Heart Scripture was far too severely incomplete. The beginning, middle, and end all had missing portions.

He could not find even a single one of the accompanying spirit arts in the final section.

Fortunately, although the divine ability section in the middle was incomplete, its contents were relatively intact. That was already enough for him.

Next, Long Xuan entered another long period of grinding away at a cultivation method.

Condensing clones was absolutely an extremely profound field of study. Long Xuan discovered that, with his current experience, he simply could not understand it. Every word looked like heavenly script to him, leaving him lost in the clouds and mists, utterly bewildered.

It gave him a terrible headache.

But all writing under heaven was one great act of copying; it only depended on whether one knew how to copy. Since he could not understand it, he would just copy and paste it over.

Of course, considering its compatibility with the Ten Absolutes Scripture, many places needed alteration. Blindly copying everything over was absolutely impossible.

Fortunately, his cheat could point out errors. If the cultivation method's progress disappeared, that proved adding that section was wrong. He would delete it and keep guessing until he guessed right and the progress rose.

And so, Long Xuan ground away through countless days and nights. After spending an entire year, he finally succeeded in researching the divine ability section of the Ten Absolutes Scripture. At the same time, this marked the complete success of the first layer of the Ten Absolutes Scripture.

He was probably the only oddball who did not understand the principles behind condensing clones, yet could still create a clone cultivation method.

At this point, the cultivation method's progress had reached 12.5%. Naturally, there was no limit to the number of accompanying spirit arts, so they were not included in the count.

This number also represented one-eighth, meaning that this cultivation method had a total of eight layers and could be cultivated to the eighth realm. It was a cultivation method with an extremely high ceiling, and Long Xuan was quite satisfied.

The first layer of the Ten Absolutes Scripture was for completing cultivation in the Spirit Gathering Stage. The second layer was for cultivating the Marrow Cleansing Stage.

Long Xuan still had a long way to go before reaching the Marrow Cleansing Stage, so there was no need for him to hurry with researching the second layer of the Ten Absolutes Scripture. It was time to go out, clear his mind, and take a little vacation.

Long Xuan lazily got to his feet and stretched hard.

At this moment, he was not staying at that inn. He was in his home in Great Stone Village. He had stripped the Qian Clan's Treasure Pavilion bare, so unless a large shipment of new goods arrived, there was no need for him to go there.

Long Xuan lazily looked again at the quintuplets cultivating with their eyes closed in the room, his expression filled with satisfaction.

The five of them looked exactly alike, as though they had been carved from the same mold. And they had been carved according to his own mold, giving him the feeling of having biological brothers. His emotions were rather complicated.

These five were the five Externalized Clones condensed through the first layer of the Ten Absolutes Scripture.

They were Metal Clone, Wood Clone, Water Clone, Flame Clone, and Earth Clone.

Each clone specialized in cultivating one kind of mutated spiritual power. Each performed his own duty and focused on cultivation, then returned the hard-earned results of his cultivation to Long Xuan, allowing him to level up easily without even moving.

There were a full five clones. The spiritual power cultivated by five people flowed into him at once. He was effectively enjoying five times the cultivation speed and five times the joy.

It was enough to let him make rapid progress every day, allowing him to reap the rewards without lifting a finger even though his main body did not cultivate at all.

This was practically cheating, activating hacks. Activating hacks once felt good for a moment; activating hacks forever felt good forever. Long Xuan was thoroughly exhilarated.

Of course, even with five times the joy, because of the special nature of the Ten Extremity Physique, his cultivation speed was only much faster than before. Compared to geniuses with heaven-grade aptitude, he was still quite a bit slower.

He was destined to walk the path of longevity—the last one standing would be king.

But with this divine ability, along with the aid of the Hundred Flower Pill, there would be no problem at all in bringing his cultivation speed up to this world's average. At this point, the cultivation method he had tailored specifically for the Ten Extremity Physique could be considered a complete success.

Long Xuan was so excited that he wanted to throw back his head and laugh aloud. No matter what the future held, this achievement alone was enough to make his name endure through the ages and be recorded forever in history.

"Now that I have a cultivation method, the next step should be preparing to increase my combat strength."

After his excitement subsided, Long Xuan's eyes flickered as he began considering his next plan.

There was no need to rush the creation of the second layer of the Ten Absolutes Scripture. After all, he had no use for it yet, and his own realm had not reached the Marrow Cleansing Stage. Researching a Marrow Cleansing Stage cultivation method across realms would be fraught with difficulties and immensely challenging.

Creating a cultivation method also required realm and experience. Once he had accumulated enough in the future, it would naturally come together as water flowed into a channel. Thus, he was in no hurry at all to deduce the later portions of the cultivation method.

His most urgent task now was to quickly improve his combat strength. This was his current weakness. Aside from the Five Elements Jade and the Origin Realm, he currently had no means of injuring enemies.

Yet the Origin Realm had major limitations. The idea of pulling everyone in an entire region into an Illusion Realm was something he could only imagine. With his current abilities, he simply could not accomplish it.

Copying a world required time. Even if the Eye of Heavenly Secrets was a supercomputer, it still needed time to download. He could not instantly complete the replication of a vast world.

Unless the villain talked too much, this ability might very well be useless in sudden encounters where battle erupted in an instant. At that point, the Five Elements Jade would be his only usable method.

Of course, once he was given the chance to use the Origin Realm, whoever came would die. Even Jesus would be useless if he came. Long Xuan said so.

His Origin Realm was simply unsolvable.