The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

Song Feng's words surprised the clones.

"you……"

Song Feng smiled.

"I have always regarded Song Guaguozu as my idol. In the years of struggling and surviving in the poor areas, Song Guaguozu's deeds can be said to be my spiritual pillar."

His life was incredibly brilliant, yet very short.

If he had lived, perhaps Earth would not have experienced the subsequent invasion by alien races, and our Chinese Empire would not have lost so much territory to aliens.

Furthermore, the upcoming Celestial God Clan is unlikely to pose any threat.

"If we can gather all the stone statues and resurrect Song Gua before the arrival of the Celestial Gods, that would truly be a meritorious deed."

The clones can all read Song Feng's memories.

Therefore, they knew very well that Song Feng truly thought that way.

A calm and composed voice rang out from within the clone.

"Whether collecting all the statues can completely resurrect the old thief, and whether the consciousness of the old thief and the new thief will still exist after the old thief is resurrected, are all unknowns, so there is no need for everyone to worry too much."

The one speaking is Brother Xuezi.

On the very night that Song Feng fell into a coma, the newly born clone was none other than Blood Brother.

Song Feng had just finished dismantling all the gangs in Baiyun City when Brother Xuezi appeared.

Blood Brother expressed great regret about this.

That should have been his stage.

Song Feng looked at the new clone wearing a white hood and nodded slightly.

"That's right, the whiteboard is right. The future is uncertain. Let's work towards that goal first. After all, collecting all the statues is no easy task..."

Song Feng witnessed the division of the Song Gua stone statue on the island that very night.

Those machine gods, powerful beings in the clouds, and strangely shaped alien warriors.

None of them were easy to deal with.

Song Feng and his clones are currently only at the sixth level of the Acquired Realm, and the number of clones increases by one per day, which is relatively slow.

The only trump card is the Song hexagram, which contains some uncontrollable evil thoughts.

Moreover, it's clear from last night's battle that even the seemingly superhuman ability of Xie Nian Song Gua to forcibly borrow power cannot be used against those whose cultivation level is too high.

Blood Brother stood with one foot on a rock, one hand in his pocket, striking a pose, and said.

"I investigated that woman from last night through the metaverse. She comes from 'Basso Detective Agency,' which ranks among the top ten of similar companies in the Chinese Empire."

Song Feng was taken aback.

"I've never heard of this company before. When did I offend them?"

"You, us, and I have no grudge against this company. They are clearly an outsourced investigation organization. The real people investigating you and trying to assassinate you are someone else."

"It's a pity we didn't leave any survivors last night, otherwise we might have been able to get any information out of them."

"There's no need to feel sorry. Even if we left someone alive, we wouldn't be able to get any information out of them. Outsourcing organizations that do this kind of business have no way of knowing who the client is."

Song Feng was puzzled once again.

Who exactly wanted to assassinate the person suspected to be Song Gua?

Blood Brother continued.

"Until we are strong enough, and before we figure out who the enemy is, you should not show your face again. We may need to lie low for a while, wait for the number of clones to increase, and improve our cultivation level."

The more clones Song Feng has, the more realms he can cultivate simultaneously, and the faster his realm will advance.

Song Feng felt that he had gained a wise advisor by his side, and the road ahead suddenly became clear.

"Bai Ban is right. Acquired Spirit Warriors are too weak. We need to at least reach the level of Innate Spirit Warriors before considering our next move. We also need to carefully consider which fragment to start collecting."

Four people raised their hands and said.

"I have a question~ If we cultivate together, even if we can sleep in the wild, how will we solve the problem of food and drink? Will we hunt?"

Song Feng pondered for a moment.

"To be honest, it's dangerous in the wild."

A thousand years ago, we used neutrino detonation technology to unleash the Earth's energy source, bringing the entire globe into a state of abundant energy.

This process is similar to a spiritual resurgence.

This allows the source energy that was previously hidden and even unable to be released to continuously supply the global environment, enabling spiritual martial arts cultivation to move from theory to reality.

However, at the same time, it also caused a type of spiritual substance to appear on Earth.

Spiritual matter can be used for alchemy, weapon crafting, array formation, and so on, serving as a cultivation resource for spiritual warriors.

However, spiritual substances have also caused spiritual mutations in plants and animals around the world, resulting in the emergence of many spiritual beasts that dominate the wild and have their own territories and activity areas.

For those who have acquired spiritual martial arts skills, spirit beasts are still very dangerous.

If you encounter a high-level spirit beast, you'll be devoured on the spot in a single encounter.

Of course, in this era of advanced technology, if we have individual soldier equipment such as machine guns or armor, we don't need to worry too much about being in too much danger in the wild.

Huozi had a sudden inspiration.

"This problem is easy to solve! We've recruited so many unofficial bandits; surely we can let them play a role, right?"

Song Feng frowned and said.

"I originally planned to find the two direct murderers who killed my parents during the cleanup of the gangs in Baiyun City. After that, I would dismiss all the gang members and had no intention of actually joining them."

Huo Zi patted Song Feng and said.

"We know more about gangsters than you do."

Do you really think these people, who used to be idle and lazy, will change their ways and start supporting themselves through legitimate means just because we intimidate them?

No, they'll either become more discreet than before, or they'll find a different place to prey on other poor people.

The best solution is to keep them under the control of us bandits, give them tasks, and make them do legitimate work. Only then can we gradually change them!

Song Feng was still very obedient to advice.

"I see."

After some discussion, Song Feng and his clones decided to make the more than three thousand unofficial bandits recruited from the gang into the bandits' logistics department.

After the bandits went into seclusion to cultivate their skills, they were responsible for providing them with supplies.

But where does the money come from?

We definitely can't let them go back to their old ways and collect protection money.

It's actually not difficult.

There were so many of them, all of them were spiritual warriors. Although their cultivation levels weren't high, even ants can kill an elephant if there are enough of them.

Let them go to the wild areas near the city and hunt some low-level spirit beasts to exchange for money.

Of course, there are certain risks involved in such matters.

That being said, collecting protection money also carries the risk of being killed by competitors.

In addition, they are encouraged to take on missions from the Spirit Warriors Association.

However, the latter may not be easy to implement because many of them have criminal records and are unable to take on the task.

And so, Song Feng, along with his clones, began secluded cultivation in a dilapidated old building in the suburbs, attempting to break through to the Innate Realm.

Meanwhile, the news that "all the gangs in the poor areas of Baiyun City have been purged and incorporated by the bandits" has been rapidly fermenting and spreading in the metaverse.

The world quickly recognized one thing and reached a consensus.

It's still uncertain whether Song Gua has returned.

But the bandits are definitely back!