Chapter 2919: Chapter 2919
After learning about the situation, Tang Fengkuan offered Ye Liuyun some words of comfort.
"It’s great that it worked—every little bit of progress counts! Next, you should take on some missions to earn points and exchange them for cultivation resources. This is the best I can do for you!"
Tang Fengkuan had already done all he could to help Ye Liuyun. The rest would depend on Ye Liuyun’s own efforts in cultivation.
Ye Liuyun sincerely expressed his gratitude to Tang Fengkuan.
This visit to the Tang family had yielded tremendous gains, all thanks to Tang Fengkuan’s assistance.
Afterward, he left the training hall and headed straight to the mission hall, where he exchanged all his remaining points for cultivation resources before returning to his quarters.
Once back, he used the slave mark to contact Tang Xinyao, Tang Hao, and Tang Lie, instructing them to gather the others and set off immediately.
Tang Xinyao and the rest had already informed the exploration team and made preparations for departure. As soon as they received Ye Liuyun’s message, they left the Tang family separately, regrouped in the void, and boarded a flying vessel bound for the An family.
"Did you go to the Blood Spirit Pool?" Tang Qianyu asked Ye Liuyun the moment she saw him.
She had always considered their strengths to be roughly equal, but if Ye Liuyun had enhanced his power of bloodline, he might now surpass her.
"Yes, but the bloodline energy in the Blood Spirit Pool was a bit disappointing. I didn’t gain as much as I’d hoped," Ye Liuyun replied with a hint of regret.
Tang Qianyu nodded in agreement. "Indeed, the power in the Blood Spirit Pool has been weakening over time. Still, any improvement is good! I suspect your current strength might even exceed mine now."
Ye Liuyun humbly deflected the praise with a few modest words. In truth, if he unleashed his full power, he had already surpassed Tang Qianyu—though she remained unaware of this.
Meanwhile, the two male disciples eyed Ye Liuyun with curiosity. They had been puzzled from the start about why a mere seventh-level Dominator was included in their group. Now, hearing Tang Qianyu’s remarks, their confusion only deepened.
Without delay, they sent mental messages to Tang Qianyu and Tang Xinyao, pressing for an explanation of what she meant.
However, the responses they received all confirmed that Ye Liuyun was indeed powerful enough to rival Tang Qianyu.
This left them utterly astonished. One disciple even grew eager to test his skills against Ye Liuyun. But the others objected, not wanting to waste their true essence or deplete their energy prematurely, so they had no choice but to hold back for the time being.
Their flying vessel was relatively slow, and since Tang Qianyu and two other disciples were aboard, Ye Liuyun couldn’t bring out his own Spirit Cat battleship.
Seizing the opportunity, he and the Tree Demon retrieved the Ten Thousand Transformations Golden Spirit Fruit and entered the spatial world of his clone to begin refining a new doppelgänger.
Following the method taught to him by the Azure Dragon, he infused the new body with traces of his bloodline, soul force, flames, poison source, demonic energy, and other foundational powers, nurturing it with his own advance energy.
At first, everything proceeded smoothly—the new doppelgänger quickly took shape. However, its demand for advance energy was immense. Ye Liuyun immediately had his first clone step in to continue supplying energy while he himself began absorbing primordial forces, converting them into advance energy. He even utilized Conversion Stones to stockpile vast amounts of energy, continuously replenishing the new body.
After more than ten days, the new doppelgänger finally stopped absorbing energy, its cultivation level catching up to both the original body and the first clone.
Ye Liuyun and his clone both let out a long sigh of relief. By then, the advance energy in both their core elixirs and storage stones had been completely exhausted. The Conversion Stones were still transforming new energy, but they could barely keep up with the new doppelgänger’s needs.
In the end, the quality of the converted energy was far inferior, yet they had no choice but to use it as a stopgap. As a result, even though the new doppelgänger had reached the required cultivation level, the quality of its advance energy still fell far short of Ye Liuyun’s own. It would require extensive refinement over time.
Moreover, the second doppelgänger’s soul force, flames, and other powers lagged far behind the original and first clone. It would need an enormous amount of resources to build up its strength.
Without delay, Ye Liuyun handed over a vast quantity of resources to the second clone, urging it to elevate its various powers as quickly as possible. The second clone immediately set to work.
First, it carved out its own spatial world. Ye Liuyun transferred a planet into it and replenished its world with the primordial forces of dozens more, assigning Ling’er to assist in integrating all the foundational energies.
Then, the second clone began refining advance energy while absorbing flames, demonic energy, and other forces—there was simply too much to replenish.
As for soul force, it would have to wait until Ye Liuyun finished devouring some before receiving a share.
Fortunately, thanks to the miraculous effects of the Ten Thousand Transformations Golden Spirit Fruit, the second clone’s bloodline and physical strength matched Ye Liuyun’s original body, saving it an immense amount of cultivation time and resources.
The other women and demonic beasts, upon hearing that Ye Liuyun had cultivated a second doppelganger, all came over to take a look out of sheer curiosity.
This left some of the lower-realm women feeling envious. They couldn’t help but think that despite their own long years of cultivation, their progress still paled in comparison to the doppelganger transformed from the Ten Thousand Transformations Golden Spirit Fruit.
Ye Liuyun chuckled and reassured them, "Actually, this doppelganger is just a vessel—it carries a fragment of my divine soul and some of my power, allowing it to assist me with certain tasks. Only when I recall them will their strength merge with mine. And even then, the exact effect is hard to predict.
"If I had used all these resources on myself, the outcome wouldn’t have been much different. So there’s really no need for envy. Just focus on improving your own strength—it’s just as effective."
After some thought, everyone agreed with his reasoning. While Ye Liuyun having an extra doppelganger might seem like he gained more cultivation time, the truth was, he had far more responsibilities outside. Factoring everything in, his actual cultivation time was still less than theirs.
Within the spatial world of the doppelganger, they already had ample extra time for cultivation. If their strength still lagged behind Ye Liuyun’s, it simply meant they hadn’t pushed themselves hard enough.
With that realization, they immediately joined the second doppelganger in cultivation. Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun and his first doppelganger set out to replenish their Profound Qi reserves.
Fortunately, time flowed faster within the doppelganger’s spatial world. By the time they arrived at the An Family’s territory, both they and their storage stones had fully recovered their Profound Qi.
With a little time to spare, Ye Liuyun took the opportunity to ask An Ran—who was inside the spatial world—about the details of the An Family’s secret realm.
"That secret realm is called the Golden Source Realm," An Ran explained. "Our An Family guards it extremely tightly. From the outside, it might seem like there aren’t many elders stationed there, but that’s only because outsiders have no way of moving the realm itself.
"In truth, there are many elders hidden within the realm, lying in wait. Sometimes, they even deliberately lure people in—either to kill or control them. Leaving flaws in the formation arrays is a common tactic to bait cultivators from outside.
"If those who enter are weak or deemed worthless, the elders might even notify An Family disciples to hunt them down."
