Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 116 Experimental Capabilities, Targeting Extraterritorial Battlefields

"Hahaha, I never thought I'd actually get the clone I've been longing for so long, just like that."

Qi Yuan's laughter echoed joyfully within the Heavenly Craft Tower space.

Two years ago, he gave the inheritance crystal containing the secret technique of "Possession" as a gift, originally just wanting to try and see if he could get a disciple with the talent of the law of time.

Unexpectedly, during the process, the consciousnesses of the Time-Soothing Worm and the disciple became entangled while they were fighting for control of the body, which caused the notification of successful return to arrive two years later.

Moreover, by sheer coincidence, even the gift changed from the 'Crystal of the Secret Technique of Body Seizure' to a 'Body Seizure Opportunity'.

And that's why he ultimately achieved this incredible gain!

This return of rewards is definitely a major opportunity that could change the course of his life!
The powerful talents of his three clones in time, space, and spirit alone were enough to benefit him immensely.

Not to mention their unique abilities, which are the envy of countless cultivators!

"Even with just this talent for creating clones, it's enough to form the foundation for my rise in this world. With the added assistance of the return system, my future looks very promising!"

At this moment, Qi Yuan was filled with pride, as if he could already see the magnificent scene of himself dominating the primordial universe and roaming the cosmic sea with his three clones.

However, this longing only lasted for a moment before Qi Yuan suppressed it, and even his restless mood gradually subsided.

"Now, I have laid the foundation for my rise, but whether I can truly grow and join the ranks of the world's strongest still requires my own persistent efforts and hard work!"

"Let's first carefully study the abilities of my three clones, so we can make targeted arrangements for the upcoming plan."

Thinking this, Qi Yuan lowered his consciousness and quickly focused it on the chaotic-colored life core in his body, which had a pattern of three auspicious clouds of clear energy.

Previously, when receiving the reward for the innate secret technique, his life core was injected with an incredibly mysterious energy.

Not only did he acquire the miraculous talent and secret technique of 'One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones', but his life core itself also underwent some mysterious change.

"This feels like the foundation of my life core has been strengthened?"

"That's true. Without a powerful life core as a foundation, how could such a powerful Three Pure Ones clone be born? But I mustn't let this lead me down the same path as Comrade Luo. It would be embarrassing if I couldn't break free from the life core's shackles when I wanted to break through to immortality."

However, although he had some concerns in this regard, they were not very strong.

The reason why Luo Feng's breakthrough to immortality was so difficult in the original work was not only due to the mysterious energy transformation he received from the strongest secret technique, but also largely because the Golden Horned Beast's original core was exceptionally strong compared to the 'life core' of ordinary cultivators.

No matter how much one's life core is strengthened, it shouldn't reach such an exaggerated level.

He temporarily put these worries aside and began to focus on familiarizing himself with the abilities of the three clones he had just acquired.
The inner world.

Three towering figures stood majestically, each reaching a height of 99,000 feet.

His figure and face were exactly the same as Qi Yuan's, but his temperament was obviously different.

The Jade Purity clone wore a robe with chaotic cloud patterns and held a chaotic pearl in his hand, exuding a majestic and vast aura; the Upper Purity clone wore a robe with yin and yang stars, with a sharp and aggressive aura; the Supreme Purity clone wore a robe with auspicious clouds, but with a peaceful and benevolent aura.

"The three avatars were each 99,000 zhang tall, approximately 300 kilometers."
Compared to ordinary human cultivators, it's not small, but compared to those behemoths that span tens of thousands or even millions of kilometers, it's still a bit lacking.
However, my Three Pure Ones avatars are actually flesh-and-blood beings; I thought they would be energy-based beings.”

Qi Yuan's consciousness quickly sensed it.

"In terms of life gene level, it's about three times. Is that based on my original life gene level? Let's also look at my innate abilities."

The three clones stood quietly, each carefully sensing their own bodies. They quickly sensed that their bones, muscles, blood, and so on all contained a faint aura of law.

Under Qi Yuan's careful sensing, a great deal of information emerged from this trace of aura.

Qi Yuan's consciousness absorbed this information and soon gained some understanding.

"So it turns out that these clones, despite their seemingly incredible abilities, all have significant limitations."

Yuqing's two secret techniques for creating clones: time stillness and creation.

The ability to freeze time can cause a temporary standstill in a certain area, and even affect the thinking of life in that area.

However, the duration and effects of time freeze are greatly related to the strength of one's soul.

Moreover, if the enemy's soul is extremely powerful or their understanding of the laws of time is strong, they may be able to break free from the effects of time stillness even faster.

The ability to create is somewhat similar to the ability of Luo Feng's Nether Sea clone in the original work.

However, whether analyzing or creating, Yuqing's clones require consuming a certain primordial energy accumulated in the accompanying 'Chaos Pearl'.

The energy required to analyze and create simple inanimate objects like rocks and plants is relatively small, but the energy required to analyze and create real life is astonishing.

The two abilities of Shangqing's clone are: spatial freezing and spatial transformation.

The effect and limitations of spatial freezing are similar to those of Yuqing's clone's time freeze.

The ability to change is far more powerful than it literally means.

In addition to simple physical transformations, it can even simulate the effects of arcane spells cast by the target.

Of course, this kind of simulation cannot exceed one's own level of understanding of the laws, and it also depends on the depth of the other party's secret techniques.

Simple secret techniques can be performed after one viewing, while profound ones may require ten viewings to replicate. As for the two talents of the Shangqing clone: ​​survival and education.

The educational ability it provides is definitely Qi Yuan's most unexpected and delightful gain this time!

As his strength improves faster and his realm rises higher, the disciples he has already taken in will soon be unable to keep up with him.

If the gap in skill levels becomes too large, the feedback received when imparting experience will be significantly reduced.

Besides constantly seeking out and recruiting disciples with higher levels of cultivation, enabling existing disciples to continuously break through their limits is also an essential approach.

Therefore, this ability to educate is a perfect match for him!

Especially in the future, when he has the opportunity to establish a sect in the Chaos City of the Human Race, he will surely be able to quickly make a name for himself as a "good teacher" by virtue of his teaching ability.

Then I won't have to go through all the trouble of recruiting disciples; those geniuses will come to me on their own!
As for the other ability of the Taiqing clone, 'existence,' Qi Yuan cannot yet see its special features.

After all, whether it's a clone or the original body, as long as the life core remains intact, it can be reborn with a single thought, making such a life-preserving method completely unnecessary.

However, since it can be ranked alongside other abilities, it is naturally not too ordinary. Perhaps Qi Yuan still needs to further comprehend and develop it.

Next, Qi Yuan tested the abilities of each of his clones in his inner world.

After experiencing and trying them out, Qi Yuan gained a deeper understanding of the abilities of each clone and made a more detailed plan for the development in the coming period.

Compared to the enhancement of his talent, the improvement in his ability to survive after obtaining a clone is what he values ​​more!
He used to only have one life, and even with the return system at his disposal, he always tried to play it safe during his development.

They were terrified that they might be targeted by someone with malicious intent and have their accounts shut down.

But now it's different.

He now has a total of 'four lives', and as long as the life core is not destroyed, he can be resurrected indefinitely.

Their ability to save their lives is completely incomparable.

One could easily leave one's main body or one of one's clones in a safe place with the life core, while letting the other clones go out and explore.

It's safe, and you can quickly acquire more rare resources or find more outstanding disciples.

"To quickly improve with the help of the return system, there are two most important factors: a disciple who is good enough and a resource that is rare enough and suitable for the disciple to use."

"With my current level of cultivation and understanding of the laws, only a disciple at the Domain Lord level or even the World Lord level could provide me with sufficient experience rewards or gifts..."

"Among my disciples, the one with the highest cultivation level, Liao Li, is only about to break through to the Domain Lord level, while the others are far behind..."

Qi Yuan pondered silently and quickly realized his most pressing need: the 'upgrading' of his disciples and the acquisition of resources for their corresponding realms!

Long Yun, whom I met not long ago, is a good target, but with my current strength, I have no hope of success at all.

After all, Long Yun is a genius who has been to the Primal Secret Realm and "seen the world." It's hard to imagine that he would be willing to become the disciple of someone who isn't even an Immortal.

It wasn't just him; if Qi Yuan's guess was correct, most of the geniuses in the core secret realm of the Virtual Universe Company, especially those with slightly better aptitude, would probably have the same attitude.

"In that case... we'll have to go to this place first!"

Qi Yuan quickly came up with a perfect place for him to go—

Extraterritorial battlefield!

The extraterritorial battlefield, as a super battlefield where all races fight together, is also an arena for some outstanding individuals to compete!

Many of the top geniuses from the core human forces, as well as some from second-tier forces or other lone geniuses, choose to go to the outer battlefields for training.

In the past, Qi Yuan would not have considered coming here.

After all, I have the return system with me. As long as I stay safe and secure, I can keep improving. There's really no need to risk coming to such a dangerous place.

But it's different now.

Now that he has a clone, he can keep his main body in a safe place and send the clone to venture into the outer battlefields.

Having reached the Realm Lord level, I really need to gain practical experience and quickly transform my understanding of the laws into actual combat power.

Secondly, it could also be an opportunity to see if they could scout out a few outstanding disciples from the extraterrestrial battlefield where geniuses gather.

Third, the battlefields outside the region are fraught with danger, and those who roam these battlefields in order to survive must have a lot of good stuff in their hands.

You can also take this opportunity to gather a batch of suitable gifts for future returns.

Qi Yuan thought about it more and more and felt that the plan was reliable, and he couldn't help but feel a little restless and expectant.

The battlefield beyond the realms, where all races fight together and countless geniuses compete, is such a magnificent and exciting place that it is impossible not to yearn for it!
"By the way, the extraterrestrial battlefield isn't just home to human geniuses; there are countless geniuses from other races as well."

"Could I try capturing a bunch of alien geniuses and having them act as NPCs to generate reward payouts for me...?"

"Hehe, this seems to have some potential..."

(End of this chapter)