Chapter 467: Killing the Chicken to Warn the Monkey

"Is this really a clone?" Aiweier looked with some surprise at the man standing in front of her wearing a Dragon Mask. A surging aura spread out from the man, enveloping the location where everyone present was.

Although there are things like clones on the Continent, most of these clones are one-time use items and cannot exist for long. Most importantly, there is no significant difference between such clones and a Puppet; one can tell just by looking closely.

If she hadn't watched with her own eyes as this man separated from Lingyun, she wouldn't have dared to believe this was a clone. After all, no matter how one looked at this clone, there was no difference between him and a real, living person.

"In a sense, I really cannot be considered a clone; perhaps calling me an External Incarnation would be more appropriate!" The man suddenly turned his head and said to Aiweier.

"Ah!" A light cry escaped Aiweier's lips; she was clearly startled. "You, you can talk?"

"An External Incarnation, in a sense, can also be considered another me, a me that has inherited a portion of my power!" Lingyun explained.

"A you that inherited a portion of your power?" Aiweier looked at the clone, who was unscrupulously radiating his own aura, then looked at Lingyun on the side, and said with an expression of disbelief, "I have never heard of a clone that inherited a portion of power being stronger than the original body!"

"When did you get the illusion that what you saw was my full strength?" Lingyun asked with a half-smile.

The Array on the ground had long since vanished, leaving only Chen Jing, who was constantly adapting to her brand-new physique. Specks of starlight gathered around her, setting her off as if she were a goddess from the nine heavens.

"Hmm, someone is coming..." The clone suddenly looked toward the sky, where a figure was rapidly approaching.

"Holy Domain Peak?" An old man hovered in mid-air, looking at the clone with a solemn expression. "Hmm? Is that... a physique awakening?"

There is a legend on the Continent that among the Human race, there are some special people who are born with special physiques, and this kind of physique will be activated under certain specific circumstances. The process of activating a physique is incomparably dangerous, but once the awakening is successful, few people of the same rank will be their match.

"Stop right there!" The clone gave a cold shout, and an invisible aura swept toward the old man in the sky like a whirlwind.

The old man's expression changed slightly, and he then stopped abruptly in the sky. Although that aura merely swept past him, it made him feel an aura of death. He believed without a doubt that if he took one more step forward, he would definitely suffer a fatal blow from the opponent.

However, remembering that behind that person was someone possessing a rare physique, the old man understood in his heart why the other party was so nervous. After all, every physique awakening is an extremely perilous affair; if any unexpected situation occurs, the person awakening the physique might not even have scraps left behind.

"Hmph, courting death!" Suddenly, a voice filled with anger erupted.

The old man was horrified to discover that the clone standing in place slowly turned into an afterimage and vanished. At the same time, a terrifying fluctuation erupted behind Chen Jing, blasting a trench over a zhang wide behind her.

The clone stood behind Chen Jing; from the aura on his body, which was like a volcano before an eruption, one could feel that he was very angry now. In front of Lingyun was a thin man, and in the man's hand, he clutched a black dagger. The malice on the dagger had almost condensed into substance; it was clearly a dagger that had been cursed. The thin man's body was covered in wounds, and blood kept spilling out; he had clearly been severely injured by Lingyun's strike just now.

The clone extended his right index and middle fingers to clamp the dagger. The curse on the dagger kept boiling, but it could not cause the clone a single bit of harm.

"Holy Domain assassin?" Cold sweat could not help but bead on the old man's forehead.

Assassins are one of the most difficult professions to advance to the Holy Domain; among one hundred Holy Domains, there are at most three or five assassins. However, a Level 1 Holy Domain assassin is absolutely terrifying; their stealth techniques and instantaneous lethality are top-tier among the same rank. Especially their stealth ability, which can even deceive the Divine Sense perception of some Half-step Heaven Realm powerhouses.

The old man looked at the situation on the field with a stunned expression, completely unable to understand what was going on. A hidden Holy Domain assassin had actually been dragged out before he even made a move, and the Cuzhouzhiren in his hand had been clamped by someone's fingers—could this Cuzhouzhiren be fake?

On Lingyun's fingers, light faintly flowed; it was precisely because of the existence of this Protective Qi Shield that the curse on the Cuzhouzhiren could not invade Lingyun's body. Feeling the power of the curse on the Cuzhouzhiren, the chill in the clone's eyes deepened, and the power around his body began to riot.

Discovering that his Cuzhouzhiren was clamped by the clone, the Holy Domain assassin did not have any hesitation and directly abandoned the dagger in his hand, wanting to hide back into the darkness. Lingyun's Divine Sense had already shrouded this area when Chen Jing was transforming toward the Star Body; although the assassin's stealth technique could deceive most Mental Power probes, it could not deceive his Divine Sense.

"Thinking of something beautiful?" The clone suddenly released the Cuzhouzhiren he was clamping, wind and thunder power roared in his hand, and he slammed it heavily into the assassin's chest.

"Crack, crack," the teeth-aching sound of shattering bones came from within the assassin's body. His body flew backward like a broken rag doll and crashed heavily into the deep trench.

Watching the thin man whose aura was constantly weakening, the old man could not help but shake his head. In his mental perception, the bones inside the man's body were completely shattered, and even his internal organs had become a paste; needless to say, he was definitely dead.

"This trick of playing dead is really quite good!" A cold sneer appeared on the clone's face, and a golden-red Light Ball appeared in his hand, which he then smashed heavily toward the corpse on the ground.

The moment the Light Ball approached the corpse, the corpse that had been lying on the ground suddenly moved, sliding dozens of meters across the ground in an instant, narrowly avoiding the Light Ball's attack. Afterward, the person sprang up from the ground and immediately hid into the darkness.

"What, not playing dead anymore?"

Looking at the thin man who had vanished into the darkness, Lingyun grasped the Void with one hand, and a longbow slowly appeared in his hand. Lingyun reached out and drew the longbow; invisible star power gathered on the longbow, eventually forming an arrow shining with starlight.

"This is... Battle Qi solidification? This person has already obtained the pass to the Heavenly Domain!" Looking at the bow and arrow in Lingyun's hand, the old man could not help but secretly rejoice that he hadn't made a move just now, otherwise, he would probably be a corpse by now.

In the perception of Lingyun's Divine Sense, the thin man hiding in the darkness was fleeing frantically outward. This person seemed to have activated some kind of secret technique, sacrificing his own foundation to increase his speed, and his movement speed had increased by more than double.

"Hit!" Lingyun's Divine Sense locked onto the thin man hiding in the darkness, and he released the bowstring.

A stream of light flashed past in front of Lingyun and plunged into the darkness; even with the old man's eyesight, he had not seen the trajectory of the arrow.

"Thump—" The sound of something falling came from the darkness; the thin man's figure flew forward for more than ten meters due to his own momentum before crashing heavily onto the ground.

Having suppressed and killed a Holy Domain assassin with a powerful method the moment he made a move, the clone's gaze swept coldly around the surroundings, and he let out a cold snort, full of warning. Clearly, he was killing the chicken to warn the monkey, and this unlucky assassin had just happened to become the chicken that was killed.

Feeling the formidable aura on the clone, quite a few people in the shadows began to retreat, but there were still some who lurked, quietly waiting for an opportunity to be able to wipe out a genius. After all, no matter how strong the clone was, there was only one of him; if someone could hold the clone back, others would have a chance to achieve their goal.