Family Cultivation: Rise of the Wilderness

Chapter 535 Clone
The man in the Taoist robe finished introducing the Great Dream Jade Planting Scripture in just a few words.

Li Xiangming was confused, but he roughly understood that this was a cultivation technique specifically designed for the soul.

Generally speaking, only Nascent Soul cultivators are qualified to study the divine soul.

That statement is actually not quite right!

Because the improvement of one's realm is essentially a change in magical power, not a change in the soul.

If a cultivator never pays attention to training his soul, then even if he cultivates to the Nascent Soul stage, the strength of his soul will be no different from when he was in the Qi Refining stage.

Of course, the probability of such a thing happening is very small.

The Daoist canon states that the dantian is the foundation of cultivation, the spiritual aperture is the source of cultivation, and the spirit is the root of cultivation.

Which is more important?
It can only be said that neither can be missing!

A cultivator with a weak spirit will have their cultivation efficiency greatly reduced, no matter how high their talent is. Others can meditate for six hours a day and feel refreshed; you can only meditate for four hours and you will be exhausted. How can you compare with others?
The further one progresses on the path of cultivation, the greater the difficulty becomes, and the higher the requirements for the soul become. Cultivators who have never practiced soul cultivation techniques are virtually unable to surpass others.

The training of the spirit and soul is a long process that takes decades or even hundreds of years.

To put it bluntly, even after targeted training, you still need to reach a certain level of proficiency before your spirit and soul can be truly utilized.

This is why it is extremely rare for someone below the Nascent Soul stage to have their soul leave their body.

Of course, the emergence of soul cultivation accelerated the research progress of the divine soul. Later generations summarized the experience of their predecessors and were able to make some use of the divine soul at the Golden Core stage or even the Foundation Establishment stage.

The Great Dream Jade Seed Scripture is the pinnacle of these experiences. It can even separate the souls of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators, and even Qi Refining cultivators!
The soul is not the same as consciousness! Once it leaves the body, it cannot regenerate.

Low-level cultivators are completely unable to control the complex and fragile soul; a slight misstep can result in their soul being scattered. Even if they are lucky enough to survive, they will face the nightmare of an incomplete soul, and their path to cultivation will be hopeless.

But what if it succeeds?
What if we only sever a tiny wisp of the soul that has no effect on the main consciousness?
Then this cultivator can refine this wisp of his divine soul into a divine thought avatar, and seal the divine thought avatar and some of his magical power in a specific container to protect his children and grandchildren.

Alternatively, one could send someone to deliver the container to the enemy, killing them from a million miles away. Or one could simply inscribe a terrifyingly powerful restriction on the divine avatar, perishing together with the enemy.

In short, the function of divine thought avatars is very extensive. In many situations, it can be considered a trump card for high-level cultivators.

This is not enough!

A divine incarnation is merely a wisp of divine soul, and can do very little.

The cultivation world hopes to expand its applications, such as allowing divine thoughts to possess the bodies of lower-level cultivators and become their clones.

However, ordinary divine avatars are too weak to accomplish such a crucial task as "body possession." Furthermore, severing more souls would pose a fatal threat to the original body—even Nascent Soul cultivators dare not do such a thing.

The Great Dream of Planting Jade provides a perfect solution.

This technique, which transforms the mundane into the miraculous, initially followed the traditional route, even aiming only to separate weaker divine souls. However, it creatively proposed the hypothesis of infusing divine thoughts into dreams to experience the reincarnation of all beings.

All spiritual cultivation techniques, especially visualization techniques, are essentially about activating the spirit and soul. In dreams, what is the difference between the various things that the spiritual manifestation participates in and the content of visualization?

There are no dreams in the Purple Shade Cave.

But in the desert, there is a mirage-like illusion.

After Su Qing cultivated the Great Dream Jade Seed Scripture, she put a wisp of her divine soul into the illusionary imagery. Twenty years later, it has far surpassed an ordinary divine thought incarnation!
That is to say, there were no living people in Ziyin Cave, so she used the puppet made by the fake Miaoyin as a container.

If she were outside, she could even use this powerful divine soul to possess a body, forming a clone in a real sense. Of course, this clone would also have some problems.

Through trials in illusory imagery and after possessing another's body, the separated soul has a chance to give birth to a consciousness independent of the original body.

This is undoubtedly a risk.

However, it will take a long time for this independent consciousness to truly take shape. If it truly threatens the main body, then simply kill it! A Nascent Soul cultivator can already clearly see the whole form of a soul, and can distinguish between an arm and a hair. At worst, they can separate out a "hair" and cultivate it into an avatar.

To be honest, Li Xiangming was deeply shocked when he heard this.

How many things can a clone with its own consciousness and some memories, capable of cultivating and moving independently, do?
If you just think about it, there are countless examples, right?

The Wind Escape Technique, the Soul-Crossing Scripture, and the Great Dream Jade-Planting Scripture are all among the most prestigious and secret inheritances in the Heng Kingdom's cultivation world.

This is the true value of the Purple Yin True Lord!
On the other side, the man in the Taoist robe continued, "The original body told me about Old Demon Xuan Chang, and then every now and then, he would have Xiao Cai remind her to come and exchange information with me. Old Demon Xuan Chang didn't mind the original body leaving the underground palace and was very lenient with Xiao Cai. But now, the deadline has passed, and the original body hasn't come yet, so it's likely that Old Demon Xuan Chang has already seen through it."

According to the original's instructions, if anything happens to her, I need to find you and Liu Xiong Yu. Only the key you possess can open the Purple Yin True Lord's cave. And only the Thousand-Faced Sorrowful Flame within the cave can deal with Xuan Chang Old Demon. Now that you entered the underground palace and emerged unscathed, the Thousand-Faced Sorrowful Flame must be in your hands, right? I hope you can hand it over to me!

"this."

Li Xiangming looked somewhat embarrassed.

Su Qing's idea was actually correct. Although the Thousand-Faced Sorrowful Flame could only control sorrow, its strength was extremely powerful. The Black Fortune Imitation Dao Crow's Devouring Master and its rule over the Purple Yin Cave were enough to prove that its heart was chaotic and it could not bear loneliness.

Such an existence could not possibly remain unmoved in the face of the Thousand-Faced Sorrowful Flame.

Especially since it currently only has the Foundation Establishment cultivation level!

However, after fighting the evil Green Robe and the Enlightenment Spring, the Thousand-Faced Sorrowful Flame was half-dead and even after being humiliated in front of him, he was too weak to teach him a lesson.

How could they possibly deal with the Black Lucky Crow?

Seeing that Li Xiangming remained silent, the Taoist-robed man frowned and said, "I know you are quite strong, and I am no match for you, but if my true form dies, you will never be able to leave this world."

"What do you mean?"

Li Xiangming's expression changed slightly, but he hadn't had a chance to speak yet.

The Taoist-robed man added, "I'm not afraid to tell you, in the past ten thousand years, only a few people, such as Patriarch Manzhu, have left the Purple Yin Cave. The others didn't not want to leave, but they simply couldn't leave, including Old Demon Xuan Chang!"

Upon hearing this, Li Xiangming couldn't help but touch the stone tablet key in his storage bag.

This thing can enter the secret realm, but it doesn't have a fixed landing point. This actually says something. After all, the landing points are different; which one is the exit?

Now it seems that none of them are an option.

This is a one-way pass!
Li Xiangming raised his head slightly and said, "The Thousand-Faced Sorrowful Flame is still there, but it has fallen into a deep sleep and may not have a chance to deal with Old Demon Xuan Chang. Since things have come to this, I will go with you to the underground palace and steal Su Qing out."

The man in the Taoist robe shook his head: "Your wind escape technique is no good. Let Liu Xiong Yu do it."

Li Xiangming was stunned for a moment before realizing that Su Qing was unaware of Liu Xiongyu's death.

He suddenly realized something, and his face stiffened: "Su Qing... didn't actually intend to kill Liu Xiong Yu, right? Her sword strike deliberately missed, and when she chased me, she deliberately mentioned the Cliff of No Return!"

(End of this chapter)