Becoming a Deity, Clone Technique

"All right, I'll send you back to the Material World first. Once you've mastered the Clone Technique, send a clone to Space-Time Island."

As the Space-Time Island Lord spoke, a ripple of Space-Time enveloped Qie Qiong.

It felt just as it had on the way here. Before Qie Qiong could say anything, he was sent back to the Thunder Sacred Land.

"Space-Time, give him those little things first."

Qie Qiong's figure solidified once more above the ruins of the Thunder Sacred Land. Two Space-Time transfers in such a short time had left him somewhat dazed.

The instant he returned, the indifferent voice of the Space-Time Temple's artifact spirit rang out in his mind:

"Qie Qiong."

Qie Qiong replied at once, "Senior Artifact Spirit."

He could now be considered a member of the Space-Time Temple, so his attitude toward the artifact spirit was naturally different from before.

"Master has prepared what you need." The artifact spirit's voice was as cold as ever. "The Clone Technique, the resources needed to cultivate it, and the Deity Crystals to help you break through to the First Firmament World Deity realm in the future have all been prepared for you."

As soon as it finished speaking, a Space Ring of ancient design appeared before Qie Qiong, floating quietly in front of his eyes.

The Clone Technique was not complicated. It was standard equipment for the World Deities of this world.

Even some Deities or Transcendents who feared death could cultivate it.

It was only that splitting the soul in two would diminish one's talent.

But this flaw existed only for those who had not comprehended a Grade One True Meaning.

For a Transcendent like Qie Qiong, who had comprehended a Grade One True Meaning, there was no need to worry about damage to his soul.

The nine Grade One True Meanings and Deity Hearts all touched upon the essence of Heaven and Earth and had an unparalleled effect on soul recovery.

Qie Qiong had already comprehended the True Meaning of Extreme Point. Not cultivating the Clone Technique would be a waste of resources.

After all, the Clone Technique could be considered one of the very best life-saving methods in the universe.

As for Deity Crystals, enough to break through to First Firmament World Deity might be far more precious than the Clone Technique in the Divine Realm.

But to Qie Qiong, the Clone Technique was more important.

Qie Qiong reached out and took the Space Ring in his palm.

"Thank you, Master." Qie Qiong's voice was steady. These were indeed things he lacked.

"Master told me to tell you that you needn't worry about secret techniques. They will all be there when you come to Space-Time Island." With that, the Space-Time Temple's fluctuations vanished.

Qie Qiong waved his hand, and the Heavenly Execution Thunder Spear flew into it. Although he had already taken the Space-Time Island Lord as his master, even a mosquito was meat, no matter how small.

As for the three Divine Realm War Soldiers, Qie Qiong sensed that they were no longer in the Thunder Sacred Land world.

But as long as they could not escape to the Divine Realm, it made no difference where they ran.

After leaving the Thunder Sacred Land world, Qie Qiong saw Qie Yunzhou waiting outside for him.

"Father." Qie Qiong walked up to Qie Yunzhou. "It's been dealt with."

"Hahaha, good, good, good," Qie Yunzhou said with a laugh. If not for this son, who knew what would have become of their family?

"Let's go back first. The war needs to end soon too." Qie Qiong looked at the Thunder capital before him, ravaged by war.

Once he became a Deity, all of this would be his property, including the Transcendents of the three nations. He couldn't let his property fight itself.

Qie Clan, quiet chamber.

Qie Qiong sat cross-legged.

"True Body Deity Heart."

Within his sea of consciousness.

Rumble...

His soul underwent a tremendous transformation as the intangible mysteries of the rules began merging into it.

His soul had once gathered and dispersed at will, changing in countless ways, but now it began to transform. As the mysteries of the Deity Heart of Space's rules began to merge with his soul, Qie Qiong's soul began to change, gradually solidifying into the form of a tiny person.

The tiny figure sat cross-legged in his sea of consciousness, its entire being like space itself.

After condensing his True Body Deity Heart, Qie Qiong immediately sensed the difference.

He felt as though he were space itself, more attuned to it than when he had condensed his Deity Body of Space.

Moreover, the mysteries of Space-Time in Heaven and Earth immediately felt much closer to him. Though he had never gained any insight into the mysteries of time before, understanding now came to him one revelation after another.

Condensing a True Body Deity Heart really does help with cultivation. At this rate, I'll probably comprehend the Space-Time True Meaning soon too.

Next, I'll open up my world sea.

Qie Qiong's Dou Qi had already reached the Demigod Limit during the past twenty years.

Within his dantian's qi sea, thunder roared. It was his materialized demigod Dou Qi.

With a thought, he acted.

The countless currents of Thunder Battle Qi began to spread under the control of the Deity Heart of Space, slowly filling his entire dantian's qi sea.

Under the mysteries of the Deity Heart of Space's rules, it continued to solidify, its power gradually changing.

It began transforming into another kind of power-divine power!

It was more powerful and wondrous than Dou Qi.

It formed a vast, surging Divine Power Ocean.

He opened up his divine sea.

As the divine sea opened up,

A phantom ocean spanning a hundred thousand li appeared in the sky above the Qie Residence, its waters vast and surging.

The moment the phantom appeared, everyone in the Cang Yun Material World could see the enormous ocean simply by looking up.

"What's going on?"

"Never seen anything like it."

Though countless mortals saw the phantom ocean, they did not think of someone becoming a Deity. After all, Deities were far too distant from them.

Even ordinary Transcendents had no idea what it meant.

"Someone's become a Deity?"

"Opening up a divine sea—is someone opening up a divine sea?"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The Transcendents still in the mortal world, whether in seclusion or in battle, all stopped what they were doing at that moment.

One after another, they soared into the sky, staring at the enormous phantom ocean in the distance, somewhat dumbstruck.

Someone of their generation had actually become a Deity?

This was the first person to become a Deity in the Cang Yun Material World in ten thousand years.

Unlike ordinary Transcendents, the Transcendents of the three great empires and the Bloodshed Tavern had the backing of Deities from the Divine Realm, and naturally knew much more about them.

"Opening up a divine sea. A divine sea this large is even bigger than those of the three great Deity ancestors back then."

"It's that one from the Qie Clan, isn't it?"

"He's only in his fifties, isn't he?"

"It looks like we'll be in this Transcendent World for the next ten thousand years."

The three great empires—no, the two great empires-had information about Deities, but their two ancestors were, after all, only Grade Three Deity Heart Deities.

"A Grade Two Deity Heart, becoming a Deity."

"It seems this Cang Yun Material World has found its master."

The speaker was the current master of the Bloodshed Tavern.

As one of the foremost powers in the Divine Realm and the Abyss, the Bloodshed Tavern might not have much strength in the Cang Yun Material World, but its intelligence was still far better than that of the two great empires.

Meanwhile, in a county city.

Underground, in the county city lord's residence.

Countless black-robed figures were adding precious Transcendent materials to a pool of blood.

At the very center of the blood pool lay a body two meters tall. Apart from being taller and larger, he was no different from a normal person, and he breathed faintly, with long, slow breaths.

Beside the blood pool stood a man in golden robes.

"Damn it, a Deity has been born." The golden-robed man's expression was grim.

A hundred years ago, he had already begun laying plans to occupy this Material World in preparation for another Material World afterward.

As it happened, the Deity ancestors of the Cang Yun Material World were not very strong, so it could not have cost him many resources.

But who could have imagined that, twenty years ago, a Demigod with a Grade Two True Meaning would appear in the Material World?

He had increased the resources he invested in this Material World then, and only thus had the blood pool come into being.

But he had not expected that the Grade Two True Meaning Transcendent would become a Deity so quickly.

"A sea of consciousness a hundred thousand li across, and he's only fifty years old. It looks like he's going to become the lord of this Material World." The golden-robed figure sneered. "But becoming a First Firmament World Deity is still fraught with difficulty."

Evolving a Grade Two Deity Heart into a Grade One Deity Heart was far too difficult. Among ten million Grade Two Deity Heart Deities, finding even one who managed it would be fortunate.

"Still, this one comprehended the Deity Heart of Space in his fifties. At most, in hundreds of millions of years, or as little as tens of millions, he'll probably have a chance of becoming a First Firmament World Deity."

Becoming a World Deity was difficult. In the golden-robed figure's eyes, though Qie Qiong had caused many of the resources he had invested early on to go down the drain, he still acknowledged that Qie Qiong had a good chance of reaching the same realm as him.

Like him, Qie Qiong could refine the World Heart within ten thousand years and become a First Firmament World Deity after a long passage of time.

"There's no need to keep working." The golden-robed figure spoke to the busy black-robed figures, and his body dissolved.

The moment Qie Qiong became a Deity, he had given up on this world. After all, occupying it had merely been preparation for the world nearby.

It was naturally acceptable when it cost few resources, but now, dealing with a Grade Two Deity Heart Deity would consume far too many, and success was not even guaranteed.

As Qie Qiong became a Deity,

The Golden Light manual in his sea of consciousness gave off waves of radiance, then turned into countless motes of light that merged into his sea of consciousness. His soul continued to grow stronger, quickly reaching the level of a Fourth Firmament World Deity.

At that moment-

Boom.

A vast flood of memories, far more than he had accumulated in his fifty-odd years, came pouring in. Qie Qiong could only rein in his joy and begin absorbing them.

"Truly, only today do I know that I am myself." Qie Qiong soon opened his eyes.

Once he had absorbed those memories, he remembered everything. This was already his second transmigration.

Still, I didn't expect that choosing a cultivation technique would lead to me becoming a Deity so quickly, Qie Qiong thought with feeling.

Meanwhile, in the Swallowed Star World.

In Chaos City, at Qie Qiong's residence.

After waiting more than fifty years, I've finally succeeded, Qie Qiong thought with feeling. System...

As the system appeared, a ball of golden light slipped unnoticed into Qie Qiong's true spirit.

Qie Qiong then fell into a deep sleep.

Lord Xue Ying World.

"I never thought that, through a chance coincidence, I'd take the righteous character who most resembled a villain in the original story as my master." Qie Qiong chuckled. "But the Space-Time Island Lord is, after all, the Ruler of the Space-Time Dao. For me in the Devouring World, he might be the most useful."

After all, when it came to other resources, other Rulers might be wealthier than the Space-Time Island Lord. But when it came to instruction and resources concerning Space-Time, no one could compare to him.

As Qie Qiong's memories returned, his understanding of the mysteries of space and time in this world was being restored at an astonishing speed.

He discovered that if the Space Law he had fully comprehended in the Devouring World were completely converted in this world, he would probably be just one step away from becoming an Opening Realm Venerable.

Of course, that final step was harder than all the others combined.

After all, if he really wanted a comparison, it would mean Qie Qiong using only the Space Law in the Devouring World to create a secret technique comparable to a Universe Master's Strongest Secret Technique.

It was easy to imagine how difficult that would be.

Qie Qiong had also discovered something else, very good news for him.

In this world, time and space did not interfere with each other. Instead, they complemented each other.

In the Devouring World, because he had fully comprehended the Space Law, his comprehension of time had always been very slow, reaching only the pitiful level of the Heavenly Bridge's tenth level.

But in this world, because of the mysteries of Space-Time, Qie Qiong discovered that, under the influence of the Deity Heart of Space, his comprehension of the Time Law was being converted into the Time True Meaning at an astonishing speed.

By Qie Qiong's estimate, if he devoted himself fully to comprehending the Time True Meaning, the conversion might take less than a few years.

By combining the Deity Hearts of Space and the Deity Heart of Time, he could probably comprehend the Space-Time Deity Heart before long.

The Space-Time Island Lord said I could soon become the fastest to reach First Firmament World Deity, but why do I feel like I'm going to break the Second Firmament World Deity record too? Qie Qiong thought to himself.

"The next step is this Clone Method." Qie Qiong took out the Clone Method the Space-Time Island Lord had given him.

This was something that had never existed in the Devouring World before, but it would from now on.

Half a year later.

Underground in the Qie Clan, he had converted the space into a blood pool for nurturing a clone.

With the resources the Space-Time Island Lord had given him, preparing to nurture a clone was very easy.

Qie Qiong sat cross-legged beside the blood pool.

"Split."

A phantom flew from his body into the embryo beside him.

"Reincarnate."

As Qie Qiong's soul entered the embryo, it immediately began cultivating the Cosmic Body.

The embryo was born with a Transcendent body. As Qie Qiong cultivated, the elemental energy of Heaven and Earth in the surrounding space rapidly poured into it.

Qie Qiong's realm was now far higher than before. With his current realm, he cultivated the Cosmic Body to the third level.

This was because the conversion of the laws after his memories returned had made cultivating the Cosmic Body far easier than before. In Qie Qiong's current view, even the third level of the Cosmic Body was already comparable to a World Deity Rank secret technique.

Crack.

Soon, the embryo split open.

An infant's body flew out and rapidly grew, soon becoming identical to Qie Qiong, even down to the same silver robes.

With a thought from the clone, the robes quickly turned gold.

"This Clone Method really is rather different from the clones in the Devouring World." Qie Qiong sensed the changes brought about by the clone's birth.

In the Devouring World, clones born from an ordinary Clone Talent were of different races, whereas the Clone Method of the Snow Eagle World produced an identical body and an identical soul.

It did not amplify one's talent as the clones in the Devouring World did, and it would even damage one's talent if one had not reached the World Deity level.

But it had an advantage absent from the Devouring World: this clone could still be used all the way until one became a Universe Supreme Master. That was the greatest advantage of this Clone Method.

At that moment, the souls of both bodies were recovering rapidly.

Qie Qiong smiled faintly. "Now that the clone is complete, once my soul has fully recovered, it will be time to comprehend the Extreme Point Deity Heart and become a World Deity."

"I wonder what ultimate techniques are available to a personal disciple of the Space-Time Island Lord."