Chapter 250: Rigging A Model
For this particular problem, although it was quite hard to think of a solution at first, Xiang Yu finally managed to come up with something after drawing inspiration from the cultivation novels he had read in his previous life. He remembered reading about techniques that allowed someone to manifest avatars using qi, particularly used by Buddhist cultivators.
He thought to himself that creating such a manifestation should be straightforward enough—it merely required precise qi control and perhaps some artistic skill to maintain the desired shape. How difficult could it possibly be?
How wrong he was.
Xiang Yu had been struggling for almost an entire hour with absolutely no success. The process proved infuriatingly complex, far beyond his initial expectations. The manifestation part wasn’t a problem, it was quite easy actually. But even though he could control his spiritual energy precisely and shape it into exactly the manifestation he envisioned, the created avatar was still connected to his body through energy threads.
This connection represented the exact problem he was trying to solve. The moment he attempted to sever the link, everything would collapse into scattered wisps of dissipating qi.
This was because when he cut off the connection, he could no longer maintain the precise qi control needed to maintain the avatars shape and basic functionality, thus it fell apart quickly after due to interference from surrounding qi.
How was he supposed to control something without maintaining direct contact?
After countless failed attempts, Xiang Yu finally achieved a breakthrough. He carefully manifested a small, fluffy creature resembling a spiritual fox, its form composed entirely of concentrated qi.
With extreme caution, he began slowly severing the direct connection, allowing the qi manifestation to drift away from his body. His expression grew increasingly strained as the creature floated further and further from his position.
When the manifestation reached roughly ten meters away, Xiang Yu finally exhaled in relief. It was actually working, the cute fox continued floating peacefully, responding to his mental commands despite the lack of physical connection.
The solution was actually quite simple. He employed his telekinesis ability to maintain control over the distant manifestation. Although telekinesis was traditionally considered the signature ability of Core Formation realm cultivators, Xiang Yu’s refined qi had reached Golden Core quality levels, granting him access to this technique.
[Sacred-Grade Avatar Manifestation]
With these three complementary scriptures now developed, Xiang Yu felt genuinely confident about the viability of his approach. The generated clone "body" could be "rigged" using the manifestation technique, then he could assign a partitioned segment of his consciousness to control the "rigged body" through telekinetic manipulation.
This wasn’t truly traditional cloning in the strictest sense, it was more like puppet control. However, Xiang Yu had one final innovative idea in his mind that would complete the entire process and transform this crude puppet technique into something approaching genuine duplication.
Speaking of...
[Calculating Settlement]
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Day 59:
[Body Refining: 20th Layer (4500/20,000) (+2500/20,000)]
[Foundation Establishment: 6th Layer (4000/16,000) (+2000/16,000)]
[Mind: Level 7 (300/20,000) (+300/20,000)]
[Soul: Nascent (100/200,000) (+100/200,000)]
[Spiritual Root: Superior-Grade Omni-Element (1000/4000) (+1000/4000)]
[Transcendent Dao Body: Level 2 (20/2,000,000) (+20/2,000,000)]
[Chaos Body: Level 3 (500/30,000) (+500/30,000)]
[Bloodline: Dragon, Phoenix: True Blood (3000/4000) (+400/4000)]
[Enlightenment: Divine (100/10,000) (+100/10,000)]
[Spirit Flame: Abyssal Void Flame: 4th Grade (50/60,000) (+50/60,000)]
[Sacred-grade Soul Spike: Intermediate (150/300) (+50/300)]
[Sacred-grade Ten Seasons Sword Art: Major Success (300/400) (+100/400)]
[High-grade Lightning Strike: Great Completion (500/1000) (+500/1000)]
[High-grade Elemental Palms: Great Completion (500/1000) (+500/1000)]
[Cook: 1st Grade (290/900) (+50/900)]
[Appraiser: 2nd Grade (780/800) (+100/800)]
[Alchemist: 3rd Grade (100/700) (+100/700)]
[Runesmith: 4th Grade (500/600) (+100/600)]
[Blacksmith: 4th Grade (420/600) (+20/600)]
[Formation Master: 4th Grade (300/600) (+100/600)]
[Medicine: 6th Grade (230/400) (+30/400)]
[Spirit Farmer: 6th Grade (104/400) (+100/400)]
[Teacher: 7th Grade (50/300) (+50/300)]
[Experience Points Doubled]
[Teacher: 7th Grade (50/300) → 7th Grade (100/300)]
[Spirit Farmer: 6th Grade (104/400) → 6th Grade (208/400)]
[Medicine: 6th Grade (230/400) → 5th Grade (0/500)]
[Formation Master: 4th Grade (300/600) → 3rd Grade (0/700)]
[Blacksmith: 4th Grade (420/600) → 3rd Grade (0/700)]
[Runesmith: 4th Grade (500/600) → 3rd Grade (0/700)]
[Alchemist: 3rd Grade (100/700) → 3rd Grade (200/700)]
[Appraiser: 2nd Grade (780/800) → 1st Grade (0/900)]
[Cook: 1st Grade (290/900) → 1st Grade (580/900)]
[High-grade Elemental Palms: Great Completion (500/1000) → Perfect]
[High-grade Lightning Strike: Great Completion (500/1000) → Perfect]
[Sacred-grade Ten Seasons Sword Art: Major Success (300/400) → Completion (0/500)]
[Sacred-grade Soul Spike: Intermediate (150/300) → Major Success (0/400)]
[Spirit Flame: Abyssal Void Flame: 4th Grade (50/60,000) → 4th Grade (100/60,000)]
[Enlightenment: Divine (100/10,000) → Divine (200/10,000)]
[Bloodline: Dragon, Phoenix: True Blood (3000/4000) → High Blood (0/5000)]
[Chaos Body: Level 3 (500/30,000) → Level 3 (1000/30,000)]
[Transcendent Dao Body: Level 2 (20/2,000,000) → Level 2 (40/2,000,000)]
[Spiritual Root: Superior-Grade Omni-Element (1000/4000) → Superior (2000/4000)]
[Soul: Nascent (100/200,000) → Nascent (200/200,000)]
[Mind: Level 7 (300/20,000) → Level 7 (600/20,000)]
[Foundation Establishment: 6th Layer (4000/16,000) → Foundation Establishment: 6th Layer (8,000/16,000)]
[Body Refining: 20th Layer (4500/20,000) → 20th Layer (9000/20,000)]
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Author’s Corner
For those who don’t know, "rigging" is kinda like how when you are making 3D models, you can rig them with a skeleton structure that allows you to control and animate the model. Like creating a bone system inside a character model to make it do stuff. Do you guys watch vtubers? Like that
Xiang Yu is doing the same thing here creating a "skeleton" with the manifestation technique to control the created "body" that’s why he says its like a puppet.
For the techniques, I felt that they were advancing quite slowly, part of the reason why I made the gap between the sacred and divine grade enlightenment so large, like a kid to an adult. That was why he was able to advance the techniques so fast.
What do you guys think about this?
I think it’s quite reasonable since I had established that the divine realm is quite different by how you can’t gain any divine ability exp without having divine enlightenment. (the gap is simply that big)