Chapter 255: Cloning [PART 2]
After selecting the ten palm techniques and the three refined scriptures, Xiang Yu activated the fusion function. The process itself wasn’t particularly dramatic or flashy. Instead, a simple notification appeared on his screen, confirming that the fusion had been completed successfully.
Xiang Yu’s eyes immediately focused on the newly created ability that had emerged from this merger.
[Divine Ability: Elemental Clone]
The moment he read those words, a flood of understanding rushed into his mind. Knowledge about how to use this new technique, its capabilities, and its limitations all became clear to him instantly.
As he absorbed this information, Xiang Yu noted that the core concept wasn’t that much different from what he had been doing manually before. However, the new ability streamlined and simplified almost every aspect of the cloning process, making it far more efficient and practical to use.
Eager to test his creation, Xiang Yu stretched out his right hand in front of him.
His outstretched hand began to expand and stretch outward. Almost instantly, the extended arm had grown and transformed, producing a complete, perfect clone of his entire body. As soon as the clone had fully formed, his original hand began returning to its natural size and shape, separating cleanly from the newly created duplicate.
The clone stood before him, looking exactly like Xiang Yu in every detail. To test its responsiveness, the clone raised its own hand and flexed its fingers. Xiang Yu nodded in satisfaction as he thought to himself about how remarkable this ability was.
The technique handled every complex aspect of clone creation automatically—constructing a physical body, partitioning a portion of his consciousness to control it, splitting off a fragment of his void flame to serve as the clone’s core, and injecting that fragment into the new form to animate it. All of these intricate processes were now completed almost instantly through the divine ability.
Carefully inspecting the body that had been created, Xiang Yu had to admit that it was significantly more perfectly crafted compared to the one from before.
As for the clone’s actual capabilities and what it could accomplish, Xiang Yu decided to run a quick test. The clone stretched out its own hand, and immediately, flames appeared on its palm. This wasn’t the void flame but rather ordinary flames created from qi.
Xiang Yu smiled broadly in satisfaction as he observed this. His experiment had worked, though perhaps not exactly as he had originally hoped. Initially, he had been optimistic that merging the elemental palm techniques together might somehow grant his clones their own spiritual roots, allowing them to cultivate independently. That outcome would have been incredibly valuable, but he now realized such a result was probably asking for too much.
Still, although his original goal hadn’t been achieved, he had received something else that was equally as impressive. The way the Elemental Clone ability functioned was: when he decided to create a clone, he could choose what specific element that clone would be specialized in. At his current level of mastery with the technique, he could create up to ten different clones, which aligned perfectly with the ten different elemental techniques he had incorporated into the fusion—fire, water, earth, wind, wood, metal, lightning, ice, light, and darkness.
When he selected a particular element for a new clone, the clone would be physically constructed and assigned a partitioned segment of his consciousness, carried within a fragment of his void flame. But additionally, his qi would undergo a transformation, converting into the specific elemental type he had chosen. This converted elemental qi would then be injected directly into the clone and stored within a makeshift core structure that served as the clone’s energy reservoir.
This meant that each clone could actively use techniques and abilities related to whatever element it had been assigned. A fire clone could manipulate flames, a water clone could control water, an earth clone could shape stone and soil, and so on for each of the ten available elements.
The primary disadvantage of this system was that each clone essentially operated like a device running on a battery. The elemental qi stored within the clone’s core couldn’t be naturally replenished by the clone itself through meditation or cultivation since it still lacked a spiritual root. If the clone exhausted its qi reserves through extensive use of elemental techniques, Xiang Yu would need to personally recharge it by transferring more of his own qi that had been converted to the appropriate element.
Even with this limitation, the clone wouldn’t become completely useless if its qi ran out. It could still function normally without any problems. The clone simply wouldn’t be able to use any qi-based techniques until its energy reserves were restored.
Xiang Yu didn’t consider this to be a major drawback for his intended purposes. He hadn’t planned to create an army of clones for combat anyway. His primary goal was to have them handle secondary professions and various miscellaneous tasks that consumed too much of his time, freeing him up to focus on his own cultivation.
For activities like alchemy and blacksmithing, his clones could easily rely on the void flame fragment that each one carried as part of its core consciousness. This fragment was all they really needed for these crafting professions without requiring any qi at all. For other secondary professions that needed access to spiritual energy—such as creating talismans or setting up formations—the clone could tap into the void flame fragment as well, since it represented a portion of his actual soul and maintained full access to his spiritual sea and all its accumulated energy.
As he was thinking of this, he suddenly sensed someone approaching the spirit vein entrance.
"Junior sister?" the fire elemental clone spoke aloud, turning its gaze toward the entrance.
A mischievous smile slowly spread across its face...
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Author’s Corner
This is what I came up with, what do you guys think?
Also, just to elaborate something, all the clones are Xiang Yu, they think simultaneously, he always has access to all this thought process because he’s the one thinking. There is no alternate personality stuff. Just like your pc having multiple monitors (not the best analogy but yeah...) felt I had to clarify this.