Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1597 - 845: Clone

Inside the Treasure Lotus Hall of the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven, Li Shiming readied himself to form an energy clone on this day.

Numerous Great Cultivators engage in this practice; such an energy clone can handle nearly half the responsibilities of its creator and stand in for them effectively.

The ’Heavenly Human Technique’ lacks a dedicated Secret Technique for creating energy clones, yet Li Shiming had gathered plenty of options, from Daoist cultivators, Devil Cultivators, to Buddhist Practitioners.

He selected the ’Phantom Clone’ method from the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s Clone Secret Techniques.

Though ’Phantom Clone’ isn’t among the elite Secret Techniques, the outcomes of most energy clone methods tend to be quite alike in the end.

Cultivators at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage can employ ’Phantom Clone,’ but the spirit division hampers their later progress, so hardly any at that stage bother forming such a clone.

Things differ for Great Cultivators; with their robust spirits at this realm, advancing by grasping rules takes precedence, and the spirit split barely hinders them.

The divided spirit, naturally, merges back into the main body once the energy clone is recovered.

Should the energy clone perish elsewhere, however, that portion of spirit vanishes for good.

Recalling the ’Phantom Clone’ Secret Technique’s details, Li Shiming opted not for his main brain’s spirit but for another brain, from which he drew the necessary spirit slice.

Since the spirit came from a secondary brain rather than his primary one, the toughest part of dividing the spirit in the ’Phantom Clone’ Secret Technique left him unscathed.

Typically, even Great Cultivators must withstand agonizing soul torment during spirit division; it’s a torment that sears right into the soul’s core.

Dividing the spirit amounts to carving up the soul itself.

Thanks to the brain derived from his life-bound artifact IBMz15’s CPU, functioning as a simulated soul, and with its perceptions sealed off, he severed the spirit without suffering any consequences.

From the brain emerged a chunk of spirit, and this tangible split didn’t disrupt its ongoing mental link to the brain.

Li Shiming drew forth ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ from his Nascent Soul and infused it into the spirit portion, allowing the ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ to blend with the spirit and create a fluid akin to Nascent Soul Infant Fluid.

Next, he triggered the ’Phantom Clone’ Secret Technique, gradually reshaping the blend of ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ and spirit into a humanoid form.

Within it, bones, muscles, and organs materialized in sequence, all crafted naturally from the spirit power fusion, complete with their proper roles.

For the clone, Li Shiming had severed one-fifth of a brain’s spirit, and post-division, he’d truly forfeit that fraction unless he recalled the ’Phantom Clone.’

The ’Phantom Clone’ Secret Technique caps spirit division at this amount; seldom do Great Cultivators commit so much.

Understand that parting with one-fifth of the spirit equates to a permanent loss of that share from the whole.

Whatever measures taken to bolster the spirit afterward, only the remaining four-fifths can grow stronger.

Should a Great Cultivator sever one-fifth of their spirit and have the ’Phantom Clone’ obliterated abroad, their power would plummet sharply.

This could lead to enduring harm, which is why Great Cultivators avoid such extensive spirit division.

Li Shiming, though, remains unconcerned, since forfeiting this one-fifth of spirit barely touches his capabilities.

Before him materialized a semi-transparent figure almost exactly like his own.

That one-fifth spirit portion now proved its worth; by concentrating on the divided brain, dual perspectives emerged, one from the ’Phantom Clone’ itself.

The ’Phantom Clone’ glanced at its form and felt unhappy with it.

During the ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ alteration, some converted to Body Refinement energy, reducing the transparency and swiftly solidifying the body.

A trace of ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ on the ’Phantom Clone’s’ exterior shifted once more, generating a robe.

The ’Phantom Clone’ seldom employs magical artifacts; made purely of energy, it loses mobility benefits if not bearing an energized life-bound artifact.

After a brief consideration, Li Shiming flung an unused soul crystal ring to the ’Phantom Clone,’ and for artifacts, he picked a superior fourth-grade ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’—a former life-bound artifact of a Yuqing Sect Great Cultivator.

The Heavenly Ghost’s consumption had completely wiped out the ownership mark inside the life-bound artifact.

He assessed the ’Phantom Clone’s’ limits next, embedding the ’Divine Foot Skill’ Divine Power Rune and ’Thunder Rule Imprint’ within it.

Such was the utmost the ’Phantom Clone’ could hold; any extra rune imprint would make it unstable and break apart.

Luckily for him, with the ’Phantom Clone’ built from one-fifth spirit and ’Chaotic Spiritual Power,’ his potent spirit and the unique qualities of ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ permitted housing both a divine power rune and a rule imprint.

Remarkably, even among Great Cultivators, plenty possess just a single rule imprint in their Nascent Soul.