Incubating a Clone

"I choose you." Yang Hao flew to the center of his vast divine kingdom, a drop of salamander whale blood floating in his hand.

Though it was called a drop of blood, it measured a meter across. Yet before his enormous, ten-kilometer divine body, it was still utterly insignificant.

"The innate secret technique, Clone, incubates clones under the influence of the original body. If the life gene multiplier is too high, incubation can fail." Yang Hao sank into thought.

"But my original body has a gene multiplier of 6,000. I should be able to incubate anything below perfect genes, right?"

"Let's begin." Yang Hao controlled the entire divine kingdom with his will.

"Innate secret technique, Clone! Incubate!"

As the innate secret technique activated, the entire divine kingdom trembled faintly. Boundless energy from the divine kingdom was siphoned into the drop of blood.

The blood vanished instantly, leaving only the most fundamental trace of living matter enveloped by the power of the divine kingdom.

"It should... be fine, right?" Yang Hao felt a little nervous now. It would certainly be something if incubation failed. But the system wouldn't screw me over, would it?

The clone's incubation had already begun. Yang Hao kept monitoring it with his consciousness, and a moment later...

"Haha, it worked!" Sensing what had happened, Yang Hao could not help laughing. "All the living matter has been fully analyzed. The actual incubation has begun."

"Soon, I'll be a powerhouse with a clone too!"

"Good thing my divine kingdom is powerful, with an astonishing diameter of eight light-years. If it weren't big enough to supply sufficient energy, who knows how long incubation would take?" Yang Hao sensed the egg that had appeared at the center of his divine kingdom, frantically absorbing endless amounts of its energy.

The more powerful the life being incubated, the longer incubation would take.

"Just how powerful is this salamander whale? My divine kingdom is eight light-years across and contains such immense power, yet it'll still take a thousand eras to finish incubating it!" Yang Hao had never expected this clone to take so long.

"A thousand eras isn't much to me. Besides, the longer it takes, the more powerful the life will be. I'm starting to look forward to it." After reconsidering, Yang Hao felt at ease.

A thousand eras would pass with a little cultivation. To a powerhouse, it was not quite the blink of an eye, but neither was it a particularly long time.

After the salamander whale blood became an egg, it grew visibly, reaching a diameter of ten kilometers in a very short time.

And it kept growing. Yang Hao watched from the side for two years, by which point the egg had reached a thousand kilometers across.

"Just how big is this life form?" Excitement stirred in Yang Hao's heart.

In just two short years, a meter-wide drop of blood had ballooned into a gigantic egg a thousand kilometers across.

All he could say was that the life soon to emerge would have an enormous divine body.

With nearly a thousand eras still to go, even Yang Hao did not know how things would turn out.

"Once this clone is born, it'll already be at the Universe Overlord level, just like me. No wonder it takes so long." Yang Hao sensed this with his consciousness.

"A divine body like that at such a level requires an immense amount of energy. Even with my vast divine kingdom, it's normal for it to take this long."

As for any other specific details, he would only know once incubation was complete. When his consciousness entered the incubating egg, he could sense nothing.

He studied it from the side for a long time but could make no sense of it, and his excitement over incubating a clone gradually faded away.

"Forget it. I'll head back to the secret realm and take a look." Watching the giant egg continue to grow, Yang Hao decided to leave after all.

He had discovered something interesting.

The Universe Strongest, Sitting Mountain Guest, had transformed a thousand-light-year stretch of space somewhere in the Qian Wu Universe Country into a special region, using a planet as its core.

In the future, this place would be known as Earth, but for now, it was still called the Mountain Sea Realm.

"A genius has emerged from the Mountain Sea Realm. Could he be the first candidate?" Recently, when Yang Hao grew bored watching his clone incubate, he had split off a portion of his consciousness to browse the Virtual Universe, where he discovered that a genius had emerged from the Mountain Sea Realm.

For a special purpose, the Universe Strongest, Sitting Mountain Guest, had first nurtured the Flame God Race lineage. Though powerful, this lineage had an innate flaw: their souls were lacking.

Moreover, the Flame Emperor, leader of the Flame God Race lineage, was arrogant, contemptuous of others, and utterly selfish.

The Flame God Race had once been a powerful branch of the Human Race. Yet the Flame Emperor had ruthlessly killed powerhouses of his own race over treasures, ultimately falling out with the Human Race. He had led the Flame God Race away from humanity and found a territory in the universe where they established themselves as a dominant power.

Despite the careful guidance of a mighty being like Sitting Mountain Guest and possessing three of the finest Peak Supreme Treasures, the Flame Emperor had only reached the strength of a Third-Order Universe Master.

Sitting Mountain Guest had made no comment on whether he left the Human Race. But his mediocre mental state and insufficient strength were hardly satisfactory.

After becoming utterly disappointed in the Flame Emperor and the Flame God Race lineage, Sitting Mountain Guest had paid an enormous price to create the Earth Lineage, though at this time, it was still called the Mountain Sea Realm.

"The Earth Lineage is ordinary in strength, but their souls are exceptionally pure. Their geniuses, in particular, possess extremely strong wills," Yang Hao recalled. "If this is the first candidate, then his will already approached that of a Universe Venerable when he was a World Lord."

Not only that, this fellow's luck was downright heaven-defying. His opportunities ranked among the very best in the Primal Universe, with Heavy Treasures and Supreme Treasures practically coming to him by the wholesale lot.

However, his path to becoming a powerhouse had been too smooth, leaving his will far weaker than that of the second successor.

His will is nowhere near strong enough to become the Star Tower's master. Even if I help him temper it, he probably still won't succeed, Yang Hao thought, sinking into contemplation.

The second successor, the one from Origin Star, had lived a tragic life full of hardships. At the King Level, he already possessed the will of a Universe Overlord, yet even he had failed to become its master.

Thus, Yang Hao believed that even if he took this successor from the Mountain Sea Realm as his disciple and helped him temper his will, success would still be extremely unlikely.

Sitting Mountain Guest had prepared many things for the Earth Lineage, including the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, which could significantly increase their life gene multiplier. As a result, the Earth Lineage's innately weak bodies were no longer a disadvantage.

However, a successor would perish after failing to become the Star Tower's master. Even if revived, the increase in life gene multiplier gained from cultivating the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual would disappear.

"This genius from the Mountain Sea Realm is only at the Universe Level, yet he's already shown extraordinary talent." Through the Virtual Universe, Yang Hao found all the information on Li Hao, the genius from Origin Star.

Li Hao came from an obscure little place, which he called the Mountain Sea Realm.

While still at the Planetary Level, he had gotten hold of a D9-class Spaceship and ventured into the universe.

Normally, even an ordinary Domain Lord Ninth Stage powerhouse would have to pay an enormous price to purchase a D9-class Spaceship. How could a Planetary Level "native" possess a spaceship of that caliber?

Of course, just like Luo Feng when he first entered the universe, he had fabricated an identity, claiming to be a descendant of an Immortal God's family.

And the Immortal God he mentioned had truly existed.

"This Immortal God died while exploring a Cosmic Secret Realm. Before entering it, he left his wealth and inheritance somewhere, and Li Hao eventually obtained them." After investigating, Yang Hao confirmed what had happened.

"A Planetary Level being obtained the inheritance and wealth of an Army Master Level Immortal God. That's pretty good luck, isn't it?"

At the Planetary Level, one could merely survive in the universe. Most could only do odd jobs and barely scrape together a living.

Li Hao's claim to be a descendant of this Army Master Level Immortal God had gone unquestioned. Even a prince of a mid-sized Universe Country had tried to curry favor with him.

The more information Yang Hao read, the more heaven-defying Li Hao's luck seemed.

"Fuck, what kind of insane luck is this? I have to take him as my disciple. Share some of that luck with me!" Yang Hao had made his decision.