Journey to the West: A clone sacrifices to the heavens, possessing boundless magical power.

Chapter 141 Planning

He then tried to extend his spirit out of the roof and expose it to the faint starlight.

The starlight caused a burning pain to the soul, and the golden light on the body surface began to dim at a visible speed.

"return!"

Fan Yuan dared not be careless, and immediately manipulated his divine soul to transform into a golden light, which then returned to his clone body and went back to his sea of ​​consciousness.

Once the soul returned to its place, the stinging and burning sensation vanished instantly, replaced by an unparalleled sense of security brought by the physical body.

Fan Yuan let out a long sigh of relief and withdrew his divine sense back to his physical body.

That brief experience of his soul leaving his body just now will be of immeasurable benefit to his future path of cultivating clones.

Fan Yuan sat there, his mind racing, trying to process the insights he had just gained.

"In the Refining Void Realm, the illusory image of the soul has been completely solidified; in the Harmony Realm, the soul can leave the physical body and leave the body."

Fan Yuan recalled the feeling of the wind being like a knife and the starlight like fire, and secretly speculated.

"However, although the soul of a Dao Integration Realm cultivator can leave the body, it is still very fragile and afraid of strong yang energy such as strong winds, thunder, and blazing sun. The physical body is still indispensable."

"Since the Dao Integration Realm allows the soul to leave the body—"

A flash of understanding crossed Fan Yuan's eyes.

"Then, going further up, presumably, would mean making the soul of this being no longer afraid of the power of heaven and earth, or even allowing the soul to interact with a certain kind of heaven and earth."

By integrating the rules, one can truly achieve harmony with the Dao and open the door to the realm of immortals!

Solidify the illusory image of the soul, let the soul leave the body, and solidify the soul to merge with the Dao.

Although this was just a speculation based on his brief experience, Fan Yuan intuitively felt that this was the right path.

"However, speculation is just speculation. The path of cultivation allows no room for error."

Fan Yuan glanced at the night view outside the window.

"Wuzhuang Temple has a profound history, and its library must contain detailed records about the Refinement of Emptiness and even the Dao Integration Realm."

"In the future, I will find another opportunity to have my clone Shen Feng go to the library to confirm and verify my speculations today."

Fan Yuan sat back on the futon, slowly gathering his scattered thoughts. For the next ten days or so, he did not leave the meditation room.

Once his cultivation was stable, he immediately set about creating a new clone.

He collected various monster skeletons, ancient spiritual herbs, and magical artifacts from the Wave Moon Cave and put them into the [Primordial Myriad Appearances Mirror] in batches.

In just over ten days, with the support of the massive blood and qi provided by the Blood Spirit Pill, Fan Yuan condensed five new clones in one go.

At this point, he had counted his clones, and there were a total of nine.

His divine sense swept over each of the current clones, and he began to make the next arrangements.

First, there's the fox clone that tricked the Golden Horn and Silver Horn Kings at Pingdingshan.

Golden Horn and Silver Horn were not fools. With so much time having passed since the Purple Gold Gourd went missing, they must have noticed something was wrong. The fox demon's appearance and aura must have already landed it on Lotus Cave's kill list.

Fan Yuan did not hesitate at all.

"burst."

Hundreds of miles away, in a desolate, uninhabited deep mountain swamp, the fox clone that had been lurking there received an order, and its demon core instantly reversed.

The fox clone's physical body, along with its soul, exploded into a cloud of blood mist deep within the swamp, before being completely swallowed by the foul-smelling mud.

All cause and effect are severed here.

Fan Yuan's divine sense turned to a human figure within the "Primordial Myriad Appearances Mirror".

This clone is a pure human, possessing the rudimentary form of the [Nine Heavens Gale] supernatural power.

"You shall be called Shen Han."

Fan Yuan decided on the name for it.

Shen Han will serve as a potential clone, similar to Shen Feng of Wuzhuang Temple, and will temporarily retreat into seclusion within the [Primordial Myriad Appearances Mirror] to cultivate the Nine Heavens Gale.

After dealing with Shen Han, he left his human clone, Wang Ke, who had reached the peak of Qi Refining, in the city to serve as his servants.

As for the five new clones created in the past ten days, some had demon bodies and some had human forms, and their cultivation levels varied, ranging from Refining Spirit to Refining Emptiness.

He did not name the remaining four, but sent them away, instructing them to try their luck by finding a nearby demon king.

If one dies in battle and receives a few insights into supernatural abilities or techniques, that would be a gain. Even without those insights, the cultivation boost alone would significantly improve one's strength.

The remaining one belonged to a cat demon, which was crafted using a long, narrow, curved spiritual weapon, and its cultivation level was at the mid-stage of the Void Refinement realm.

Fan Yuan planned to send him to infiltrate Pingdingshan to work with another weasel clone who was at the early stage of the Dao Integration Realm.

For the sake of the remaining four treasures in Pingdingshan, Fan Yuan gritted his teeth and finally sent out his highest-level weasel clone.

After setting up his clones, Fan Yuan turned his attention to two items on the stone table in front of him.

This is a magical artifact brought from the Wave Moon Cave by the fox's clone, and it has not yet been put into the [Primordial Myriad Appearances Mirror].

Fan Yuan extended his finger and infused a wisp of spiritual energy into the black shield. The black shield swelled in the wind, growing to half the height of a person. The shield surface was rough and engraved with strange skull patterns.

As spiritual energy was activated, a layer of solid dark light appeared on the surface of the shield, and a nauseating stench emanated from its interior. Fan Yuan probed into it with his divine sense and discovered that a century-old poisonous miasma was sealed inside the shield.

"Not only can it withstand magical and physical attacks, but it can also spew out this poisonous miasma the moment it is attacked, directly damaging the enemy's flying swords and magical artifacts."

A hint of admiration flashed in Fan Yuan's eyes.

In magical battles, once a magical artifact is contaminated by filth or poisonous miasma, it will lose much of its spiritual power and may even sever its connection with its master's consciousness. This shield, while providing defense, also harbors deadly intent, which is very much in line with his style of doing things.

"From now on, I will call you Black Shield."

What remained was a pair of bluish-gray leather boots.

The boots are made of neither gold nor silk, are extremely light, and have a surface covered with fine scales and feather patterns.

Fan Yuan put it on his feet and circulated his spiritual energy to the soles of his feet.

hum!

A ring of cyan light instantly appeared on the surface of the boots, and Fan Yuan felt his body lighten, as if he had lost his weight.

He simply infused a trace of spiritual energy and then instinctively took a step forward.

brush!

A gust of wind swept through the quiet room, and Fan Yuan's body instantly appeared in front of the door two zhang away. On the futon where he had been sitting cross-legged, there was still a lifelike afterimage that slowly dissipated after two breaths.

"Such explosive power."

Fan Yuan turned around, looked at the disappearing afterimage, and nodded to himself.

These boots were clearly crafted from the pelt of some kind of wind-attribute demonic bird; once infused with spiritual energy, they could unleash tremendous power over a short distance.

It moves at incredible speed, leaving afterimages to confuse the enemy.

While unsuitable for long-distance flights, it is an absolute lifesaver in close combat and dodging fatal blows.

"We'll call you the Divine Wind Boots!"

Fan Yuan handed the two magical artifacts to the cat demon. The cat demon's cultivation was not as good as the weasel's clone. The journey to Pingding Mountain was fraught with danger and unpredictable. With these two items, the chances of survival would be much greater.

His mind was made up. With a wave of his hand, two figures were released from the [Primordial Myriad Appearances Mirror]. One was a weasel, half-human and half-demon, with a calm and restrained aura at the early stage of the Dao Integration Realm. The other was a cat demon, with an agile figure.

The two sped off towards the direction of Wave Moon Cave and disappeared into the horizon in the blink of an eye.