The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

"If I were the God of a Thousand Faces, do you think you could still be sleeping peacefully right now?"

"Or rather, will you be able to wake up and speak?"

Wu You remained silent for a moment, then responded in his mind.

The hoarse voice hesitated for a moment, but still said, "That's true. If you were that Thousand Faces guy, I'd probably be the main material for the fixed passage by now..."

"However, the blood-soaked, flesh-and-blood power you're wielding now seems to be the same kind that Thousand Faces possesses?"

He keenly grasped the word: possession.

It's not about 'owning' or 'controlling', but about 'possessing'.

This word carries much more weight than the previous two, implying that authority is something that has ownership and can be occupied. It also means that once it is occupied by another entity, it cannot be automatically restored and is a non-renewable resource.

This means that every unit of authority plundered from the projection of the Thousand-Faced God was directly taken from the total authority possessed by the other party!

This also means that he, having plundered the power of the God of a Thousand Faces, now has a real enmity with the other party for obstructing his path!

The next time we meet, you'll most likely see a berserk version of the Thousand-Faced God!

However, with many thoughts flashing through his mind, Wu You did not directly answer the God of Beasts' question. Instead, he looked at the flesh and blood aggregate that was about to be completed and nodded.

Judging from its aura, this flesh and blood aggregate, which was 'mutated' from a fifteenth-tier rune sword, already possesses the strength of someone who has just entered the thirteenth tier.

With the added boost from the 'Mask', he should be able to maintain a stable 13th-tier combat power, but he probably still won't reach the 14th tier.

After all, there is still a big difference between the thirteenth and fourteenth orders.

"Yes, it's the authority of the God of a Thousand Faces." Then, while answering the question from the God of Beasts, Wu You activated the second authority on himself: [Authority: Thousand Faces].

Divinity: 25 (Fusion: 73.5) → Divinity: 20 (Fusion: 73.5)

Activate [Authority: Thousand Faces]!

Designate the target being as himself!

The moment the Thousand Faces Authority was activated, a peculiar fluctuation, neither real nor illusory, overflowed from the void and then rushed into Wu You's body.

"What! It really is that Thousand Faces' authority?!"

"How could you steal His authority—"

Before the hoarse voice could finish speaking, it sensed that strange and peculiar fluctuation and couldn't help but pause for a moment.

A hoarse voice: "..."

He naturally recognized this extraordinary fluctuation: it was the second authority wielded by the Thousand-Faced God! It was also His specialty!

The God of a Thousand Faces possesses a unique power that allows him to replicate the appearance, aura, abilities, and even the rules and authority of others, giving him combat power that almost crushes other gods!

Even the Sinful Dragon God, renowned for his combat prowess, could only manage a 60/40 split against Him!

But now, the special authority of the God of a Thousand Faces, with its heaven-defying effects, has appeared in a human being.

The hoarse voice fell silent again: "...So this seems to be one of Thousand Faces' powers as well?"

Wu You has now merged with the divine essence of the God of Beasts, becoming one with him. They are now in the same boat, so there is no need for them to hide anything.

Moreover, he might activate the power of the God of Lust or the powers of other gods later. He couldn't keep trying to fool the God of Beasts every time, so he directly admitted, "Yes, this is also the power of the God of a Thousand Faces."

The hoarse voice paused again: "..."

You have the flesh and blood authority of the Thousand-Faced God, and you also have the replication authority of the Thousand-Faced God!

You still say you're not the God of a Thousand Faces?!

Of course, the hoarse voice also understood that the person in front of him was indeed not the God of a Thousand Faces, otherwise He could have already begun preparing for His own seventh day memorial.

Besides, how could He not know what kind of person the God of a Thousand Faces was? He would never speak to Him so politely!

"...So you stole both of His powers?"

As Wu You carefully felt the strange sensation of that special fluctuation flowing through his body, he hummed in agreement.

A hoarse voice: "...Okay then."

"If there's nothing seriously wrong, I'll continue sleeping."

The hoarse voice didn't ask Wu You how he stole the power of the Thousand-Faced God. He knew that even if he asked, he might not get the answer, and it might even cause a rift in their relationship. Rather than asking too many questions, it was better to keep things in check and maintain their tacit understanding.

Moreover, from another perspective, if He had previously doubted whether this human named Wu You could help Him regain His divine position, as more and more strange things were revealed about this human, His heart was rekindled with hope.

"He even stole Thousand Faces' authority; perhaps he really can help me regain my divine status?"

Wu You was currently focused on creating his clone, whose existence was crucial to his later plans and could not be neglected. So he said somewhat absentmindedly, "Go to sleep, go to sleep. I'll call you if I need anything."

The hoarse voice did not reappear, indicating that it had clearly fallen asleep again.

Wu You continued to feel the peculiar fluctuation that had flowed through his body, then emerged again, and gathered in front of him.

Once that fluctuation gathered, it began to condense and take shape.

A moment later, a pale mask with only a few empty holes in its face took shape!

Wu You reached out and took the pale mask that was floating silently, savoring its unique charm, and raised an eyebrow: "This is the 'Mask'?"

At this moment, the flesh and blood aggregate 'mutated' by the crimson rune sword had fully formed, and the exposed flesh and blood on its body no longer surged.

Without any hesitation, Wu You flipped his hand and directly covered the head of the flesh-and-blood aggregate with the pale 'mask', then carefully observed the changes in the flesh-and-blood aggregate.

The moment the pale mask came into contact with the flesh aggregate, it dissolved like a puddle of liquid and merged into the flesh humanoid form.

Then, a hazy, pale halo emerged from the inside out of the previously hideous flesh and blood humanoid form, like a humanoid moon.

A moment later, the pale halo dissipated, and what appeared before Wu You was a humanoid figure wearing a black trench coat and Bureau of Investigation standard combat boots.

"The Thousand Faces Authority can even automatically generate clothes and shoes? That's really convenient!" This thought flashed through his mind.

But then, just as Wu You turned his gaze to the figure's face, he froze.

What came into his view was a head of medium-length black, choppy hair, a face with no sword mark between the eyebrows, delicate features, and closed eyes!

He was not unfamiliar with this face; in fact, he could say he was very familiar with it!

This is the face he had when he transmigrated, before he was affected by the [Lihentian] and divinity, not his current face, which is so monstrous and heaven-defying, and filled with a divine indifference!

After a moment's thought, he roughly guessed what was going on: [Lihentian] was a special sword technique provided by the Sword Canon, and the divinity he absorbed had also been filtered by the Sword Canon. Both were inseparable from the Sword Canon.

While the Thousand Faces Authority's ability to replicate is abnormal, its abnormality clearly does not include the Sword Codex.

Therefore, under these circumstances, this 'mask' can only replicate his face before he was affected by [Lihentian] and divinity!

Wu You stared at those familiar features, lost in thought for a long time, then, as if remembering something, sighed: "...That's fine too, it saves me a lot of trouble."

One of the main purposes of creating his clone was to explain things about him to his parents and Wu Jing, and then this clone would stay by their side to accompany and protect them.

Only then can he completely put his mind at ease.

The fact that the clone now looks like the previous "Wu You" makes it easier to explain.

However, the thought of seeing his family again soon made him feel a little apprehensive, even though he had already grasped the essence of "the way of the sword is unique to me" in the path of swordsmanship.

As images of blaming, scolding, and complaining that might occur when they met flashed through Wu You's mind, he sighed again.

However, this sigh was not because of the possible blame, scolding, or complaints, but precisely because he knew that even though he had been "missing" for so long, his family would still not blame, scold, or complain!

Yes, most likely they're relieved and excited, and they'll just say, "It's good that you're back."

A moment later, Wu You, sitting on the blazing golden throne, rubbed his temples, shook his head, and brought his scattered thoughts back to focus on creating clones.

One clone isn't enough! He has a lot to do, so he needs to create a few more!

Moreover, the extra clones can be sent out day and night to clean up the corpses and continuously earn experience points; naturally, the more the better.

An avatar requires activating [Authority: Crimson] and [Authority: Thousand Faces] once each, and activating each of these two authorities requires five points of divinity, meaning that creating an avatar requires 10 points of divinity.

If you use up the remaining 20 points of divinity, you can still create two clones.

Including the ones already made, there are a total of three clones, which is barely enough.

Of course, Wu You could also choose not to use the Thousand Faces Authority and directly use the terrifying blood-red humanoid monster as a clone, thus creating two more clones.

However, considering that his clone still needed to appear in human society, he abandoned the idea.

Otherwise, it would be bad if you scared someone or were mistaken for a corpse and disposed of by the investigation bureau.

Of course, in addition to the two types of crimson and thousand-faced authority, two level 15 rune swords are also needed as raw materials for the 'mutated' flesh and blood aggregate.

Without any pause, a vast expanse of crimson energy appeared in Wu You's hand, beginning to compress, condense, and shape.

More than four hours later.

Three handsome figures with identical facial features, all dressed in the same black trench coats, appeared before Wu You.

His gaze swept between the three figures twice, then he nodded:

"Now, only the last step remains."

The final step was for Wu You to personally operate these three clones.

The moment Wu You made up his mind, one of his three clones suddenly opened his eyes.

Then, the clone, which had just taken a step, tripped and fell flat on its face.

Wu You: 。 。 。 。 。 。

Over the next period of time, in the passage filled with golden light, a figure in a black trench coat, whose movements were not very coordinated, began to try various actions.

Although the perspective and feeling of controlling a clone were strange and unfamiliar, Wu You quickly adapted and mastered the method of controlling a clone under the influence of his powerful mental strength.

Next, he simultaneously controlled two clones... then three clones...

Although it took some time, Wu You, with the help of his powerful mental strength, learned how to divide his thoughts to control the three clones at the same time.

However, during this practice of controlling the clone, he still discovered a minor flaw in the clone: ​​controlling the clone required him to do it himself, which occupied his total mental processing power!

This also means that if he needs to control his clone to perform some extremely complex operations, the mental computing power available to his main body will be greatly reduced.

For example, right now, if these three clones are all performing some highly difficult and complex actions, then his main body probably won't even be able to make a higher-level talisman sword.

The same applies if you switch places. If Wu You's main body is performing some high-difficulty operations, the mental computing power available to the clone will be greatly reduced.

Of course, even when Wu You's main body is performing a high-difficulty operation such as creating a fifteenth-order rune sword, it is still not a problem for his three clones to retain the mental processing power to react normally like normal people.

As for why this problem is not considered serious...

Because his main body cannot leave the divine throne, Wu You has prepared to have his main body cosplay as "General Manager Wu, the AAA Rune Sword Wholesaler". Unlike making fifteenth-tier rune swords, making seventh and eighth-tier rune swords is just a matter of opening his hands and hardly requires any mental processing power.

In this way, he can put most of his mental computing power into his various clones, and even if his main body needs to perform some difficult operations, he can always return the mental computing power to his main body without any impact.

Finally, Wu You controlled his three clones to test their specific strength.

After the test, he nodded in satisfaction: "With the strength of a strong 13th rank, not to mention in the real world, even in the deep dark domain, it should be enough to handle most problems."

All three clones possess the strength of the 13th level, and because they are controlled by Wu You, they can also use sword manuals and techniques, including the Seven Tribulations Sword Chapter.

With the enhancement of the Sword Manual and Sword Techniques, the clone can even put up a fight against some level 14 beings.

However, it's something we can only try, since clones cannot inherit important characteristics of the original body such as [immortality] and [swordsmanship as one's own], so fighting against opponents of higher levels is still very risky.

However, within the thirteenth rank, these three clones should be invincible.

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