In the secret room, there is a circle of moonstone on the walls, flickering with soft light, making the entire room bright and clear.
The spiritual energy in the room is so rich that it is enviable. You can almost see them dancing and jumping under the moonstone with your naked eyes, like specks of dust in a column of sunlight, only they are more lively.
At this moment, there were two middle-aged men sitting cross-legged facing each other in the secret room!
They were dressed in loose robes, had dignified looks, and their robes were embroidered with totem-like patterns.
Both of them had long braids that reached down to their waists.
But what is even more amazing is that the two people's facial features are exactly the same. Even the most similar twin brothers in the world cannot look so alike.
Apart from the colors of their robes, one black and one purple, there was no other difference between the two.
"It's a good opportunity. Go and take a look. As soon as I go out, I will attract the attention of those two old guys from Tingyun Country!"
The middle-aged man in purple robe looked at the middle-aged man in black robe and spoke calmly.
"Dead or alive!"
The middle-aged man in black robe looked back calmly.
"Bring back the monks who were alive and could have injured Wutudu and investigate their origins carefully!"
This time, the middle-aged man in black robe said no more. He slowly stood up, and then with one step, his figure disappeared from the secret room.
After the middle-aged man in black robe left, the man in purple robe looked at some remaining materials on the high platform not far away, and felt heartbroken again.
After a while, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"After spending so many precious materials and hundreds of years of hard work, the ritual has finally paid off! The one who can seriously injure Wutu and Tielianggu is a perfect whetstone!"
Thinking in his heart, the middle-aged man in purple robe slowly closed his eyes again. As for Tie Lianggu, only the golden elixir was left, and he didn't seem to be in a hurry.
This person is none other than the Tianlan clan’s great Taoist priest, a powerful cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul stage.
The Qingqing Continent is just like the Huangyue Continent. It is almost impossible to see cultivators in the God Transformation stage, and even cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage are just legendary.
The Tianlan clan currently has two mid-Nascent Soul cultivators and has long dominated the region. Apart from being wary of a few top sects, few other clans dare to provoke them.
After all, it is very rare for a sect to have a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Since the middle-aged man in purple robe is the great Taoist priest of the Tianlan clan, his strength is much stronger than that of another Taoist priest of the Tianlan clan who is at the same level.
The Tianlan clan's great Taoist priest has already touched the threshold of a late Nascent Soul cultivator, and his strength is even more powerful.
The injuries this great Taoist priest suffered in the great war with the Tingyun Kingdom more than 370 years ago were fully recovered a hundred years ago.
The reason why he had not come out was that he was secretly watching the actions of Tingyun Kingdom.
Before the racial war broke out, if he went out, he would not only fail to intimidate the other side, but would also arouse the vigilance of the other side's Nascent Soul monster.
The second reason is that when their cultivation has reached this level, the thing they lack the most is time. It is extremely difficult for them to make any progress in their cultivation at this point.
He needs to seize every moment to practice. Even if he can improve his cultivation a little bit in decades, it will be worth it.
At the same time, the Tianlan clan's Grand Master had a more important thing to accomplish. He had been preparing for hundreds of years and had spent countless efforts to gather the materials he wanted.
That is to refine an avatar. If it weren't for the war more than three hundred years ago, he would have started to refine an avatar long ago.
Before cultivators reach the realm of refining emptiness, they cannot transform their spiritual consciousness into divine thoughts.
Like Dong Fuyi and Qianzhong Zhenjun, the incarnations formed by a wisp of divine consciousness have the ability to shake the world.
If you want to greatly increase your strength in a short period of time, in addition to finding rare materials and treasures to refine rare elixirs or magic weapons that can improve your cultivation, there is another method.
That is, after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, you can try to refine a clone.
Refining an avatar is difficult, but compared to practicing for a hundred or a thousand years without necessarily making any progress, it is relatively easy.
First of all, to refine an avatar, one needs a spiritually pure carrier.
This thing can be the unique plants, rocks and water that are naturally born, or it can be some kind of monster with a naturally pure physique, or a zombie that has existed in an extremely dark place for more than ten thousand years.
The best carriers here are the unique plants, rocks and water born between heaven and earth. They are the essence of heaven and earth, and their intelligence and essence are extremely pure.
It is easier to erase their original consciousness during refining, and easier to merge with the original soul.
The next choice is the zombies that have lived in the extremely yin land for more than ten thousand years. Because they have been nourished by the extremely yin energy for ten thousand years, their bodies have long been cleansed and purified.
And since memory disappears at death, the soul will slowly reshape itself in the future, which is also a good choice.
Finally, there are the monsters that are born with pure physiques, but because of their bloodline inheritance, their soul consciousness is more complicated.
During the ritual process, one will encounter fierce resistance from the body's consciousness and soul.
And in the end, the great Taoist priest only got a monster with a pure physique.
That was when he accidentally got a "Water Cloud Beast".
This monster lives in the clouds and practices every day by breathing in and swallowing moisture and clouds between heaven and earth. Therefore, its body is extremely pure.
It has become a rare material for cultivators to refine their clones. Because of this, the "Water Cloud Beast" has almost become extinct in this world, and most cultivators believe that this monster has been captured and killed.
The great Taoist priest traveled all over the mountains and rivers and finally found a "Water Cloud Beast".
Although this monster is not a phantom cub, it is not yet an adult, so it can be sacrificed by the great Taoist priest.
But compared to Huanzai, the chance of backlash during the ritual is several times greater.
To refine an avatar, besides requiring a carrier which is hard to find, another difficulty is that one must also acquire the art of separating the soul from the spirit.
The practice of the clone is to separate one's soul and spirit, and then practice it into the clone, so that the main body and the clone share the same origin. The soul separation technique is a very high secret technique, or more precisely, a magical power. It is not something that a cultivator can naturally separate after being promoted to the Nascent Soul stage.
Doing that will most likely turn you into an idiot in an instant.
The soul-spirit separation technique is also very difficult to obtain. It is only available for a short time in major markets and is then snatched away at an astonishing price.
The Tianlan clan's great master also had this heaven-defying opportunity. The clone-refining technique he obtained already included the ability to separate the soul and the body.
Even with the two extremely harsh conditions mentioned above, it still does not mean that you can refine an avatar.
When the soul is separated and refined into the clone's body, the clone's original soul and consciousness must be erased at the same time.
And that was the time when the original soul and consciousness of this clone resisted most fiercely, and it was the most dangerous stage.
If one is not careful, the two consciousnesses will be mixed and the souls will merge.
The original body will also be trapped in it and will no longer be able to tell which one is itself. He may even mistake the carrier for the original body.
He has completely transformed into a monster or a zombie, completely lost himself, and has completely deviated from the right path.
In order to make the sacrifice successful, the Great Heavenly Master mobilized the entire clan to search for auxiliary materials for the sacrifice, and almost used up most of the clan's assets.
After everything was ready, he faced a great war with Tingyun Kingdom, and he was seriously injured in that battle.
It was not until more than a hundred years ago, after the Great Heavenly Master recovered from his injuries, that he finally entered the formal stage of refining his clone.
Although he had made sufficient preparations, the whole process was still full of dangers, and the great master almost lost his soul.
Whenever he thought of the process of separation of the soul, even a great Taoist priest who was a Nascent Soul cultivator would tremble in his soul. He did not want to experience that kind of pain again.
Even if there is still a clone for him to sacrifice, he will definitely give it up decisively.
Fortunately, everything was not in vain, and he finally succeeded in refining an avatar.
The main purpose of a cultivator's ritual to cultivate an avatar is to enhance his own strength. After the avatar and the original body are in tune with each other, the cultivator's original body can pass on his own cultivation insights.
Similarly, when the clone has some insights, it will also pass the new insights to the main body, which is equivalent to one person practicing two techniques at the same time.
But it only takes half the time.
To achieve this, of course, one must be of the same origin, that is, have the same soul.
When the clone was first sacrificed, its cultivation level was not very high, although the clone could gain the insights of the original body.
He quickly integrated his insights that others could not understand, but that also required him to cultivate this body bit by bit.
But even so, this process is still several times faster than normal practice.
In just a short period of about a hundred years, the Great Heavenly Master's clone had already reached the late Golden Core stage of cultivation.
The strength of his clone is so amazing that even cultivators at the False Infant stage are no match for him. He can easily kill cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage.
Because he has the understanding of various techniques of a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, it is simply not something that cultivators of the same level can understand overnight.
He used the same magic technique but it was several times more powerful, making it impossible for people to resist.
Judging from the true strength of this clone at present, he is between the false infant and the original infant. This is an extremely terrifying existence.
In the entire Tianlan clan, apart from the two Heavenly Masters, the False Infant Realm masters like Wutu would not be able to last long in his hands.
The fact that the clone is so good is, of course, an important reason why all cultivators want to have one.
But he has a fatal flaw, which is that the clone cannot be too far away from the original body, because every once in a while, the original body must assimilate with its soul.
Infuse the subject's consciousness into the other person's body.
Otherwise, over time the clone will slowly become more and more independent, with its consciousness and soul becoming increasingly distant from the original body, forming a truly independent creature.
At that time, any order from the original body can only serve as a reference for him. As for whether to execute it or not, he has made his own judgment and it depends on whether the clone himself agrees.
In the world of immortal cultivation, there have even been cases where a clone would kill the main body, then devour the main body's soul and reform itself into a completely different creature.
Therefore, if the original body wants to control the clone, in addition to assimilating the other party every once in a while, it must also ensure that its own strength is always higher than that of the clone.
Otherwise, the clone's cultivation will become stronger and its soul will become more powerful. When they are finally assimilated, the priority will be reversed.
After the Great Heavenly Master successfully refined his clone, he has been practicing in seclusion. Today, under the stimulation of the "Saving Manifestation", he already knew what happened before.
In his opinion, it was a good opportunity to "test the knife".
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On the grassland, just as the tall women and their companions were getting anxious as they waited and saw that the conditions of Wutu and Tielianggu were getting worse and worse, suddenly a figure appeared behind them.
And they were totally unaware of it!
"The injury is really serious!"
The figure frowned as he looked at the unconscious Wutu and his body which was beginning to rot from the bottom up.
The tall woman's body shook violently, then she turned her head and a look of surprise suddenly appeared on her face.
"Greetings, Master!"
"We are here to see the Great Heavenly Master!"
Bart, Baru and the blue-clothed guards around them also showed joy on their faces and bowed down to him one by one.
For a moment, a large group of people knelt down on the grassland.
This great Taoist priest has not appeared in public for hundreds of years. Unexpectedly, what happened today really alarmed him.