Mortal: My divine sense has mutated.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a year has passed since Chen Liang arrived at the Jinguyuan defense line. His cultivation has finally broken through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

Moreover, nowadays very few people ask Chen Liang to refine weapons. On the one hand, those who need him to refine weapons probably already have suitable magical artifacts in their hands.

On the other hand, with the losses on the battlefield, the number of cultivators in Yue Kingdom is becoming increasingly scarce, so where would he find someone to ask him to refine weapons?

Therefore, Chen Liang had some free time. Feeling restless after a long period of quiet, he decided to go to the battlefield.

He originally wanted to go with Chen Qiaoqian and Mo Caihuan, but after looking around, Chen Liang found that they were all in seclusion.

It seems they must have been on the battlefield not long ago and then went into seclusion to cultivate, so Chen Liang went back to the battlefield alone.

Unlike the early stages of the battle where large armies of cultivators clashed and bombarded each other, since the battle entered its middle stage, various other forms of combat have emerged on the Golden Drum Plain battlefield, in addition to the normal encounters between groups of cultivators.

Some cultivators rely on formations or traps to play the strategy of waiting for prey to come to them;

Some powerful cultivators prefer to travel alone and hunt down weaker groups of cultivators.

Some cultivators who are skilled in stealth techniques will carefully select their targets and then kill them with a single blow.

In this regard, Han Li, Dong Xuan'er, and the Murong brothers are undoubtedly representative examples.

With the Hidden Spirit Veil in his possession and Dong Xuan'er by his side to coordinate, Han Li could be more than comfortable carrying out his sixth act of stealth and sneak attacks.

After the Murong brothers were nearly killed by Lu Yunfeng, they became more cautious. In addition, they became disciples of Lei Wanhe, who, for the safety of his disciples, asked Chen Liang to forge two life-saving magical artifacts for them.

Those two life-saving magical artifacts were invisibility cloaks made primarily of chameleon hide, possessing remarkable concealment effects. This allowed the Murong brothers to seemingly unlock their full potential, making them adept at using stealth and ambush tactics.

Chen Liang also liked to use this tactic, after all, the terrifying concealment ability of the Primordial Spiritual Power was undeniable, and it was not worth wasting.

Thus, before the demonic cultivators knew it, the battlefield of Golden Drum Plains welcomed the most terrifying hunter.

He never misses, but he is also very measured, and he will not hunt too many demonic cultivators frequently or at once.

In this way, even if the demonic forces discover that their losses have increased, they will only consider it a normal counterattack by the Yue Kingdom cultivators.

Chen Liang earned a large amount of cultivation resources through this method, which greatly increased his already substantial wealth.

It's fair to say that Chen Liang's current wealth is so immense that even Nascent Soul cultivators would take notice. However, unless one truly reaches the end of the path of cultivation, cultivation resources will always be scarce, so Chen Liang simply tries to earn as much as he can whenever he has the chance.

On the other hand, Chen Liang had a new idea after encountering some demonic cultivators on the battlefield who liked to hide their true forms and fight using puppets.

He wanted to leave behind an avatar to retreat to the Nine Kingdoms Alliance with Huangfeng Valley, and then use the massive amount of malevolent energy accumulated by the Nine Kingdoms Alliance through years of war to cultivate a powerful avatar.

Moreover, this clone can stay by the side of Mo Caihuan and the other two women, protecting them, which is truly killing two birds with one stone.

However, ordinary clone techniques, including the Sha Dan clone technique in the "Mysterious Yin Manual," are essentially about refining other people's bodies and using them as tools.

The clone Chen Liang wanted should be able to merge with his main body in the future, so naturally he couldn't use these ordinary clone techniques.

For this reason, Chen Liang pondered for a long time and turned his attention to the Resurrection Technique, a forbidden and wondrous technique in the world of cultivation.

The Resurrection Technique is a forbidden art that allows the spirit of the deceased to be reborn and regain a physical body.

This kind of magic that can bring the dead back to life sounds wonderful, and it is indeed the best choice to heal relatives and friends.

However, performing the Resurrection Technique requires cultivators at the Core Formation level or above to voluntarily contribute a large amount of true essence and soul essence, which will cause the cultivator's cultivation level to regress. In severe cases, it may even be difficult for the cultivator to make any further progress in their cultivation in this lifetime. Therefore, the Resurrection Technique is regarded as a forbidden technique in the cultivation world.

Chen Liang didn't actually intend to use the Resurrection Technique; his cultivation level simply wasn't high enough for it. However, he needed the Resurrection Technique's miraculous effect of regenerating the primordial spirit and restoring a physical body, so that his divided soul could possess a physical body of the same origin as the original.

Therefore, what Chen Liang needs to do is to create a clone technique based on the resurrection technique.

Moreover, he also had to solve the problem of the large amount of true essence and soul essence required to cast the spell.

Therefore, Chen Liang used his true essence, which already possessed some characteristics of the Core Formation level, to cultivate the true fire that only Core Formation cultivators could have.

It was a grayish-white flame that could be used for its own purposes, except that it could not use soul thoughts and soul essence as fuel for the time being.

Because its creation was closely related to the "Hun Yuan Zhen Jing" (Primordial True Scripture), Chen Liang named it Hun Yuan Zhen Huo (Primordial True Fire).

Afterwards, Chen Liang fused the gray-white Primordial True Fire, the blue-white Divine Consciousness Fire, and the increasingly crimson Soul Flame into one, condensing a three-colored fire lotus with gray-white as the main color and blue and crimson as secondary colors. He then fed this three-colored fire lotus with a large amount of baleful energy, as well as the corpses and remnant souls of the cultivators he had hunted.

In this way, the evil energy and the soul thoughts in the remnant soul of the cultivator will be devoured by the flames of soul thoughts, while the soul essence will be devoured and stored in the fire of divine consciousness.

The mixed essence of evil energy and the blood energy, yin energy, death energy, and even spiritual energy contained in the corpses of cultivators will be devoured by the Primordial True Fire cultivated by the Primordial True Scripture and transformed into true essence for storage.

In this way, the three-colored fire lotus became a huge storage device for soul essence and true essence, which could provide Chen Liang with a large amount of soul essence and true essence when he used the clone technique, so as to prevent Chen Liang's cultivation level from falling.

By the time the technique of creating clones was completed, the three-colored fire lotus had already stored up a great deal of soul essence and true essence, so Chen Liang immediately began his seclusion.

He first used a soul-splitting technique he had perfected to separate a fragment of his soul from his divine soul. This process caused Chen Liang some stinging pain in his divine soul, but it was much better than the excruciating pain of a typical soul-splitting technique.

Then Chen Liang placed his split soul on the opposite side and suspended the three-colored fire lotus above both of them, beginning to infuse the split soul with soul essence and true essence.

The split soul itself then took the opportunity to cultivate the "Primordial Chaos Scripture" in order to achieve a certain level of cultivation directly after the split soul was created.

This process lasted for about seven days, until Chen Liang's first clone was born after seven days.

He not only possesses the same soul and body as Chen Liang, but also all of Chen Liang's memories, emotions, and knowledge.

In other words, he is another Chen Liang. However, Chen Liang's true spirit is still in the original body, so when the original Chen Liang perishes, this clone will be severely damaged.

When this clone perished, Chen Liang's main body only suffered minor injuries.

When Chen Liang's clone opened his eyes for the first time, Chen Liang's main body was putting the three-colored fire lotus—one gray-blue that was somewhat dim, and the other crimson that was becoming increasingly vivid—into his dantian.

Chen Liang's clone looked himself up and down and at the original body in front of him, then laughed and said, "Hehe, from now on I'm Chen Liang, the guardian of the home. Speaking of which, since I'm a clone, you don't mind if I'm a little wild, do you, the original body?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Liang's face fell immediately, and he said, "You'd better be more cautious, otherwise even if we have a chance to start over, the taste of death will probably be very unpleasant."

And since you're in charge of guarding the house, don't be too conspicuous.

Chen Liang's clone, hands casually folded, said, "Don't worry, don't worry, I know what I'm doing..."

After a series of self-talking and bickering, Chen Liang himself handed a storage bag to his clone.

This is the initial asset that Chen Liang's main body prepared in advance for his clone. It includes some spirit stones, evil energy gourds, cultivation pills, and even the rare treasure, the Five-Light Pearl.

With these initial assets, plus the Foundation Establishment stage cultivation of Chen Liang's clone and the three-colored fire lotus seed separated from his main body, he had enough to grow smoothly.