A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu Transmigrates into a Book, the Dao Ancestor of Rein

Chapter 114 External Avatar, Fiend Core, Encountering Core Formation
Immersing himself in the jade slip, Han Li repeatedly pondered the cultivation method.

According to records, one of the basic requirements for cultivating this secret technique of external incarnation is to reach the Foundation Establishment stage.

The principle behind this technique is to split off a portion of one's divine consciousness and then place it in a body with a cultivation level below the sixth level of Qi Refining, thereby obtaining a clone that can cultivate on its own.

Manipulating this clone is like controlling a high-level puppet.

The benefits are undeniable.

It's like having an extra thug.

However, one must also bear a risk.

That is: once the process of refining the clone fails, the divine consciousness transplanted into the clone will be destroyed on its own and cannot be retrieved.

Those with strong primordial spirit and divine sense are relatively unaffected; they only lose a portion of their divine sense and can recover in a few months to a few years. However, for someone with weaker divine sense, the sudden loss of this significant portion of their divine sense can have severe backlash.

At best, they will fall into a prolonged state of frenzy, like a mad dog.

In severe cases, it can lead to inner demons causing suffering and a miserable death.

Furthermore, an external avatar is not actually a second self.

When the physical body dies, the consciousness and thoughts within the external avatar will also perish.

Therefore, it certainly cannot compare with the "Second Nascent Soul Secret Technique" of the demonic path or even the "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones" secret technique, the first clone technique of the Taoist sect.

but.

It's quite useful if you're just using it to train Core Formation stage cannon fodder.

“Normally, it would take me a long time and a lot of effort to refine a late-stage Foundation Establishment clone, but Emperor Yue saved me that step. It's a clone close to the Pseudo-Core Formation stage directly. There's no need to start cultivating it from the sixth level of Qi Refining…”

"As long as I can successfully refine this clone, I will soon be able to obtain a Core Formation stage fighter by using the Blood Condensation Five Elements Pill."

"At that time, even without relying on the Invisible Needle Talisman and the Qiankun Tower Talisman, which have limited uses, I will have a great deal of self-protection against cultivators in the early stages of Core Formation..."

"By converting wealth into various cultivation resources in the Chaotic Star Sea, it won't be easily coveted by others..."

Thinking about the future, Han Li couldn't help but grin.

After that, he calmed himself down and adjusted his state to its best, with his primordial spirit at its strongest, before he began to formally cultivate his external avatar.

He summoned the eunuch clone from the high-level spirit beast pouch and sat facing it, his eyes slowly closing.

Soon, his face began to glow green.

Fine beads of sweat condensed on his forehead before sliding down and wetting his clothes.

While the methods of refining and manipulating external avatars are similar to those of the Great Evolution Technique's method of splitting divine consciousness to control puppets, they are also quite different.

Spiritual puppets are merely inanimate objects.

Controlling the beast puppets such as cheetahs, lizards, giant wolves, and giant tigers requires only a very small amount of divine consciousness. The divine consciousness does not need to precisely control every moment of the beast puppets' exertion.

Because of this, the second level of the Great Evolution Technique can even help him split into hundreds of divine consciousness fragments to simultaneously control hundreds of beast puppets.

But the external incarnation is different.

An external avatar is ultimately a living, breathing body of flesh and blood.

It encompasses the five senses: hearing, sight, smell, and touch; it includes the mobilization of magical power and true essence; it includes daily cultivation; and it also includes activating magical treasures and talismans, etc.

To perfectly control an external avatar, the split divine consciousness naturally involves far more than simply controlling a few or a dozen puppets.

"drink!"

With his eyes tightly closed, Han Li suddenly formed a strange hand seal and let out a loud shout.

The next moment, a ball of green light the size of a thumb came out of his nostrils. As soon as the ball of light appeared, it quickly disappeared into the nasal cavity of the eunuch clone.

At this moment, Han Li's face had turned slightly pale, and large beads of sweat were rolling down his body.

"Is it really that difficult to create an external avatar?"

For the next few months, he recuperated and recovered from the trauma to his consciousness.

After all, it involved splitting off a large portion of one's divine consciousness, which put considerable pressure on the original spirit. It was like cutting flesh from one's body, and a large chunk of it at that. It was a pain that came from the depths of one's soul.

During the process, he wanted to give up many times and cut less, but in the end, he gritted his teeth and successfully completed this step.

When the cave entrance reopened, a gaunt figure quietly appeared beside him.

This gaunt figure was none other than the eunuch's alter ego.

With the help of the Great Evolution Technique, he succeeded without any surprises, although the process was a bit painful.

In fact, he had already completed the initial refinement of this clone four or five months ago.

However, it's not something that can be accomplished in just one or two months for the separated divine consciousness to perfectly control a new body.

For the next four or five months, his main focus was on recuperating and restoring his damaged energy. Secondly, he gradually gained control of the new body through his divided spirit, so as to make this clone body as easy to control as possible.

The result is not bad.

I believe that with a few more years of practice, we will be able to achieve the same level of freedom of movement as the main body.

"I am currently at the Pseudo-Core Formation stage..."

"He has cultivated the second level of the Great Evolution Technique..."

"Completed the first transformation, and it was a transformation cleansed by the pure spiritual energy of the Spirit Eye Spring..."

Compared to his current foundation, he is definitely far superior to the original owner of this body at the same time.

Logically speaking, the success rate of cultivating another avatar should be very high.

But he did not take the risk to challenge it.

"Considering the timeline, I'm only 40 years old now, so I still have plenty of time..."

"Besides, I don't lack cultivation resources..."

Furthermore, because he completed the third stage of cultivation within a golden treasure chest, he made excellent use of resources, directly saving a large amount of precious pills.

The extra pills were more than enough for him to cultivate one Demon Core clone, and even more than enough to cultivate two other clones at the Pseudo-Core stage.

Who told him to prepare the premium and rare pills based on the standard of the third stage of the four-element pseudo-spiritual root?
too much.

There are far too many.

With so many resources, he certainly couldn't let them sit idle and gather dust.
"However, now is not the time to risk continuing to split my divine consciousness and delay the progress of my main body's core formation. It's not too late to cultivate the wind spirit root clone and the curved soul after my main body has formed its core."

"At that time, my divine sense will undergo a qualitative leap! It will be several times stronger! Not to mention splitting into two groups of divine sense to control two avatars, even four or five groups would be very safe."

In other words, he only needs to do two things now.

First, complete the second transformation as soon as possible, and incidentally master the third level of the Great Evolution Technique.

Secondly, it helps the eunuch's clone condense the evil pill.

Anyway, when he left the battlefield of Jinguyuan many years ago, he had accumulated a lot of necessary auxiliary materials for condensing golden pills through his merits.

He prepared five portions of similar aids for pill condensation, such as Heavenly Fire Liquid and Snow Spirit Water.

It has a high tolerance for error.

So, after relaxing completely for half a month, he once again entered a period of intensive seclusion.

He lay down inside the golden treasure chest again.

In fact, when he lay down in the treasure chest this time, he did attempt to condense a golden core.

But it still felt a little lacking. The amount of magic power was definitely enough; however, the quality of the magic power was still slightly lacking.

It was just a hair's breadth away from solidifying into a solidified elixir.

"No rush, take your time, time is on my side."

"I haven't gone through the second or third stage yet, and I haven't maximized my profits."

"I can use the resources at my disposal and the golden treasure chest to rebuild my power multiple times, thereby greatly increasing the upper limit and quality of my magic power until this body approaches its limit."

I believe that once you reach the pinnacle, there will be many benefits.

Even if his combat power is limited by his natal magic weapon and he may not be able to kill people of a higher level instantly, other Core Formation cultivators can no longer think of taking advantage of him by bullying the weak.

Dissipate your energy, dissipate your energy.

Seclusion, seclusion.

Fifteen years have passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, the once cloudless blue sky over this nameless island suddenly changed color.

A large, dark cloud had appeared and loomed over the area directly above the cave dwellings.

Dark clouds, stretching twenty or thirty miles overhead, loomed overhead, with lightning flashing and thunder roaring within them. Silver arcs of electricity resembled roaring thunder dragons, and the thunder was deafening. As time passed, electric snakes danced wildly within the dark clouds.

At the same time, the primordial energy of heaven and earth over the entire island and the surrounding dozens of miles began to rotate and resonate, rapidly converging and quickly forming a huge vortex several miles in diameter under the dark clouds.

The spiritual energy within a radius of dozens of miles around the island vanished completely in a mere hundred breaths, absorbed entirely by the vortex of primordial energy, then swirled and refined, before finally pouring down into the island's underground.

Such a commotion could be roughly sensed or even seen from a distance over a vast expanse of sea.

This is not.

Hundreds of miles away, a scarred-faced cultivator who happened to be passing through this desolate sea area suddenly stopped his escape and turned to look at the nameless island in astonishment:
"Huh? That's... a Core Formation celestial phenomenon?"

"How could someone achieve Core Formation in such a remote place?"

He immediately fell into deep thought:
This person preferred to form his core here rather than go to the spiritual vein of Tianxing City's sacred mountain to do so, or to form his core within the gates of any major or minor sect. His identity is probably somewhat suspicious.

"A rogue cultivator?"

Regardless, as a veteran Core Formation stage cultivator, he wanted to try his luck.

"This person has just begun to form his core, and his foundation is not solid. If he forcibly engages in combat, he is very likely to fall from his cultivation level."

"Furthermore, this kind of rogue cultivator has no roots, no support, and having just formed his core, he doesn't even have a suitable magic weapon, let alone a natal magic weapon that's vital to his life. In other words, he's an easy target, with combat strength at the bottom among core cultivators..."

If you encounter a newly promoted Core Formation cultivator like this, it would be a waste of your good fortune not to extort or rob him.

Thinking of this, the middle-aged scarred man activated his full speed and headed straight for Han Li's secluded cultivation location.

Han Li is here.

They were busy collecting the inverted five elements array.

Fifteen years have passed, during which he not only completed his second transformation with the help of the golden treasure chest, but also made great progress in his cultivation of the Great Evolution Technique.

In addition, the Demonic Core clone successfully formed its core.

Although he lacked the relatively unimportant auxiliary pill "Dust-Subduing Pill," he still achieved a success rate of over 50% in condensing the Fiend Pill clone thanks to the Blood Coagulation Five Elements Pill. Furthermore, he provided a portion of pure spiritual energy, necessary auxiliary spiritual items, and some miraculous elixirs.

There are also two "Blood Spirit Diamonds"!
The Blood Spirit Drill is a secret technique from the Mysterious Yin Scripture.

During cultivation, one can condense and compress their true essence tenfold and store it within their body. When needed, it can be unleashed all at once. Not only is it extremely fast, making it difficult to defend against, but it is also incredibly powerful.

Originally, this was a powerful and deadly move against the enemy.

Conversely, isn't it also a great aid to cultivation?

The body of the Yue Emperor left nothing behind back then, but it did leave behind a Blood Spirit Diamond.

This Blood Spirit Diamond and the true essence and magic power of the eunuch clone can be said to share the same origin.

Emperor Yue can absorb the magical power and true essence of the eunuch clone to improve his own cultivation. How come the eunuch clone cannot devour Emperor Yue's magical power and true essence to increase his cultivation?

He did indeed hand over the body of the Yue emperor in exchange for merit.

But he had kept that Blood Spirit Diamond in excellent condition.

In addition, over the past ten years, he has arranged for his Fiend Core clones, which are in the False Core stage, to compress their own true essence and condense another Blood Spirit Diamond, giving the Fiend Core clones two additional energy sources.

Just as it was breaking through the bottleneck, this eunuch clone stopped compressing its true essence to maintain the Blood Spirit Diamonds. Instead, it did the opposite, dissolving the two Blood Spirit Diamonds and stabilizing the previously compressed mana and true essence! Having two Blood Spirit Diamonds compressed ten times more than usual to help it during the Core Formation stage is like having two powerful tonics.

Most importantly, his divine sense far surpasses that of others of the same level. The strength of his divine sense not only greatly helps his own core condensation, but also greatly helps the core condensation of his clone.

He and his clone are currently in perfect harmony.

Using the power of divine consciousness to condense the elixir is not a particularly difficult task.

Additional spiritual energy.

Auxiliary spiritual objects and elixirs.

The Blood Spirit Diamond's feedback.

Powerful divine sense and meticulous micro-management…

Due to various factors, even without the Dust-Subduing Pill, the Demonic Pill clone was still created.

Interestingly, after the Sha Dan clone successfully condensed its core and completed its transformation in terms of its split consciousness, the divine consciousness that was split off actually grew much stronger, more than ten times stronger than when it was first split off.
It is only slightly weaker than the ordinary early stage of Core Formation, but much stronger than the Foundation Establishment stage and the Pseudo-Core Formation stage.

This was an unexpected discovery.

Just as he was digging rapidly, about to retrieve the array plate of the Inverted Five Elements Array and then intend to dig out the array flags along with it, suddenly, his mentally connected avatar, the Fiend Core, noticed something and immediately warned him.

"Has a Core Formation cultivator arrived from fifty or sixty miles away?"

"What a coincidence?"

How could a Core Formation stage expert even settle in such a remote, godforsaken place?

He doesn't want to confront a Core Formation cultivator head-on for the time being.

In reality, the risks far outweigh the rewards.

"The Demon Core clone has just formed its core, and the other party has come uninvited; they must have ill intentions!"

"How to do?"

Han Li was frustrated.

If they were decisive enough to abandon the Inverted Five Elements Formation and escape through the underground passage, there wouldn't be any problem. After all, during the more than ten years they'd been here, the Fiend Core clone and the Iron Arm Beasts hadn't just been focused on cultivation.

Over the years, several underwater tunnels have been carved out by more than a dozen Iron-Armed Beasts and their avatars.

The Iron-Armed Beasts were responsible for digging, while the avatars were responsible for casting spells to reinforce the structure and for transporting and processing the materials.

Any secret passage could be chosen to force him to make a strategic retreat.

But if he leaves, wouldn't this inverted five elements formation, which is 70% complete, be given to the other party?
"Let's check their cultivation level first. If they're in the late Core Formation stage, we can discard this formation. We can always come back and demand an explanation later when our cultivation level has improved. But if the newcomer is only in the early Core Formation stage..."

Han Li narrowed his eyes, his gaze icy cold.

Having made his decision, he immediately took advantage of the remaining time to re-bury the array plate of the great formation.

The clone of the Demonic Core flew out of the great formation with four treasures to test the opponent's strength.

"Fellow Daoist, please stop."

(End of this chapter)