With an easy, carefree smile on his face, Yun Che moved like a phantom toward the stone chamber, deftly avoiding one mechanism after another.
A few breaths later, he reached the stone platform, extended his hand through the final restriction protecting the Heaven and Earth Pearl, gently grasped the black-and-white jewel, and took it out without any resistance.
[Heaven and Earth Pearl (unique top-grade): The holder of this pearl gains a thirty percent increase in the success rate of pill refining, forging, and realm breakthroughs; contains the Heaven and Earth Asura Formation, which, once activated, can simulate the holder for combat. Each successful defeat of oneself grants one clone. Note: Only one clone can be obtained per major realm, and the clone possesses only fifty percent of the original body's strength.]
"This Heaven and Earth Pearl doesn't seem quite as useless as I imagined!"
Yun Che was delighted. He had thought the pearl was only suitable for natives like Feng Chu and the others, but it turned out to be extremely useful to him as well.
The clone in particular, even with only fifty percent of his original body's strength, would absolutely be able to crush anyone at the same realm.
He had just put the pearl away when his vision blurred, and he was inexplicably teleported to an unknown location.
"What happened? How did I get out?"
Somewhat bewildered, Yun Che quickly rose into the air and activated the Dragon Grievance Evil Eye to investigate, but no matter how he searched, he could not locate the Great Emperor Ruins.
"What the hell! Why was I teleported out for no reason?"
Meanwhile, in a secluded paradise somewhere within the Demon Emperor Ruins, the white-bearded old man who had issued Yun Che the compulsory mission was drinking tea and