"Twenty-three?"
Lin Ke blurted out, his eyes filled with astonishment.
Lin Xuanji had twenty-three doppelgangers?!
"That's only the information I've gathered." Daoist Zhi He gave a cold laugh. "Lin Xuanji has done plenty of dirty work behind the scenes. Much of what my old man did was on Lin Xuanji's behalf, including killing my mother."
"What's more, my mother was killed only after Lin Xuanji violated her. Even my sister doesn't know about this, and I don't want her to know, lest it damage her Dao Heart."
"Did dogs eat the rites and laws he follows?" Lin Ke was at a loss for words. "He really did something like that?"
"Of course he did." Hatred flashed through Daoist Zhi He's eyes. "That's why I must kill those two villains."
Lin Ke nodded slightly and patted Daoist Zhi He on the shoulder.
"Anyway..." Daoist Zhi He continued, "most of his doppelgangers are now at the Great Confucian level. Only a few are in the third realm."
"That really is impressive." Even Lin Ke couldn't help clicking his tongue.
He only had these three doppelgangers because he had a great tree at his back to shelter him.
Without Wang Lin and Qi Tianxia, he wouldn't have had a damn doppelganger.
And even then, with Princess Tian's power, he hadn't managed to get twenty-three.
Lin Ke had never heard anything like this from anyone.
In fact, if Daoist Zhi He hadn't brought it up, Lin Ke would have forgotten about doppelgangers entirely.
That's right!
When Lin Xuanji did those things, it might not have been his true body. He could have sent a doppelganger instead!
That meant that although Lin Xuanji's true body was suppressed beneath Cloud Dream Marsh, his doppelgangers might be roaming the world!
Lin Ke suddenly thought of the Fierce