Chapter 388: Clone Secret Technique

Zhang Nuo woke up the slumbering Xuan Jin, who opened his eyes and looked at Zhang Nuo with extreme reluctance, reached out to wipe the drool from the corner of his mouth, and then said in a milky voice:

"Master! What is it?"

Looking at the little fellow's somewhat resentful expression, Zhang Nuo sighed softly. During his great battle with Wu Jian, Xuan Jin hadn't sensed a thing and had remained in a sound sleep! This was truly a heartless Mysterious Heaven Spirit Insect!

"When will you be able to produce White Profound Crystal Stones? I need them urgently!"

The several Magic Treasures in Zhang Nuo's body had all sustained varying degrees of damage. Although the injuries were not serious, if he were to repair them using ordinary methods, it would take too long; it wouldn't be as fast as using Mysterious Crystal Stones!

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Xuan Jin stood up from the ground, though he kept clutching that egg in his hand!

"White Mysterious Crystal Stones are easy! Give me a few days and I can get them out!"

The little fellow patted his chest with extreme confidence and said.

"Since that's the case, hurry up and go!"

Hearing this, Zhang Nuo was overjoyed. He hadn't expected that a Spirit Insect that had fully reached the Transformation Stage could produce White Profound Crystal Stones so quickly!

Xuan Jin nodded heavily, then leaped into mid-air, transformed into a streak of Golden Light, and with a 'swish', he drilled into the room's wall and disappeared in the blink of an eye!

Zhang Nuo was slightly stunned. He hadn't expected that the advanced Spirit Insect could now use Earth Escape, no longer needing to dig a hole in the ground like before!

Just as Zhang Nuo was about to turn and leave, a burst of excited laughter suddenly came from the Nine Dragon Sword Case within his body, and then Chunyangzi's figure flashed and appeared before Zhang Nuo!

"Haha! Kid Zhang, you're in luck! I've finally cracked this Taixu Palace Secret Technique for clones!"

"Really! Let me see it quickly!"

Zhang Nuo almost jumped for joy. If he could learn this secret technique, his strength would rise to another level! However, Chunyangzi's expression changed, and he said with some embarrassment:

"Don't get happy too early! Because the information the Hell Butterfly gave me consisted only of fragmented memories, there were several places I couldn't understand while organizing them. Later, through my own experience, I finally managed to fill them in, but there are still some discrepancies with the true Taixu Palace Secret Technique!"

At this moment, Zhang Nuo didn't care about what Chunyangzi was saying; his only thought was to see the deciphered secret technique. Helpless, Chunyangzi had to find a Jade Slip and hand over what he had researched during this time to Zhang Nuo!

Unable to wait, Zhang Nuo took the Jade Slip and his Divine Sense sank into it immediately. After a long time, he withdrew his Divine Sense, the excitement on his face having diminished significantly.

"This... Senior, is this what you came up with?"

His expression turned somewhat bitter. After carefully reading through the Jade Slip, he discovered that several of the most critical parts of the Taixu Palace Secret Technique recorded inside had been mangled by Chunyangzi, and the practice method was extremely awkward; it was hard to say whether it could even succeed!

"Kid Zhang, just make do with it! No matter what, that is a sect's secret technique. If it were so easily deciphered by me, it wouldn't be worth a damn as a secret technique!"

Shaking his neck a few times, Chunyangzi insisted on coming up with a pile of reasons. Zhang Nuo was also helpless; after all, if it weren't for Chunyangzi, he wouldn't even have obtained a glimpse of the secret technique!

"Alright! I'll try it!"

Holding the attitude of giving it a try, Zhang Nuo left the room and found a room in the deepest part of the Purple Mansion Immortal Cave to walk into! This room was not very large and was specifically for sect cultivators to contemplate cultivation techniques!

Zhang Nuo sat cross-legged and earnestly practiced the Taixu Palace Secret Technique from the Jade Slip. At the beginning, everything went very smoothly, as the early stages of this secret technique were all just Qi Refining methods, which were not too difficult!

However, two months later, Zhang Nuo finally got stuck at the most critical point! What point? It was the step of condensing the clone! This step was extremely important; if he couldn't condense a clone, even if he finished practicing the entire secret technique, it would be completely meaningless!

Slowly opening his eyes, Zhang Nuo transmitted his voice to Chunyangzi:

"Senior! The part about condensing the clone is too vague! I have no way to practice it at all!"

With a flash of a figure, Chunyangzi appeared, a faint red phantom with an embarrassed look on his face.

"I didn't understand this part either. Why don't you try practicing it first while I think about it!"

Zhang Nuo was speechless. Try practicing it? What kind of talk was that? If such a profound secret technique could be practiced just by 'trying', wouldn't every cultivator in the world have secret techniques?

However, seeing Chunyangzi's troubled expression, Zhang Nuo understood in his heart that he had already done his best, but the most critical part of the secret technique must have been damaged too severely!

Helpless, Zhang Nuo had to grope his way through the practice. This feeling of crossing the river by feeling the stones was truly not great. Zhang Nuo was like a headless fly, trying thousands of methods, yet still not succeeding!

On this day, just as Zhang Nuo was trying to condense a clone from his Divine Sea, a boom suddenly erupted from the two Divine Seas that had fused with the Skull Monk's two prayer beads! At first, he thought it was the Spiritual Qi inside rioting, but later, Zhang Nuo gradually felt that things were not that simple.

With every boom that occurred inside the Divine Sea, his body would tremble, and the booms always came from those two Divine Seas; the other Divine Seas remained calm!

Suddenly remembering the thing in his Divine Sea that was neither demon nor Buddha, Zhang Nuo raised his eyebrows slightly. Since he couldn't condense a clone, perhaps he could make use of those two!

Thinking of this, Zhang Nuo's Divine Sense probed into the Divine Sea. He saw that the faint phantom was still sitting quietly in his Divine Sea as before, the Demonic Qi and faint Zen intent swirling around it, making it look even more eerie!

Tentatively injecting strands of Spirit Power into the phantom according to the cultivation method he had in mind, Zhang Nuo was surprised to find that the phantom actually moved slightly!

Following this movement of the phantom, a massive wave of Spirit Power radiated from the surface of Zhang Nuo's body. This was not something he did intentionally, but something he couldn't help!

Chunyangzi was also startled by this wave of inexplicable Spirit Power. He appeared and looked at Zhang Nuo with a bewildered expression, his brows almost knitted together!

It was very clear that the wave just now was not emitted by Zhang Nuo himself, but was triggered from within Zhang Nuo's body! But inside Zhang Nuo's body, other than himself, there were no other living entities!

"Kid Zhang! What was that just now?"

Ignoring Zhang Nuo, who was meditating, Chunyangzi asked with a grim expression. After a while, Zhang Nuo quickly opened his eyes and looked at Chunyangzi with an equally puzzled expression, saying:

"It's that thing in the Divine Sea, the one that is neither demon nor Buddha!"

"Hmm?"

Chunyangzi widened his eyes. He had never thought that it would be that thing causing trouble! Ever since Zhang Nuo fused the Skull Monk's two prayer beads into his Divine Sea, they had always been at peace. Could it be that he had actively touched them?

"What did you do to them?"

"Actually, nothing much. I haven't been able to condense a clone these days, and I inadvertently thought of those two things, so I tried. I didn't expect there to actually be a reaction; they seem to have sensed the operation of the cultivation technique!"

Listening to Zhang Nuo's account, subtle changes occurred on Chunyangzi's old face. After a long while, he suddenly laughed twice, then walked up to Zhang Nuo and kept saying:

"Perhaps you can use them to cultivate two clones! The effect might be the same as the one you cultivate yourself!"

"I have the same intention, but I don't know the origin of those two phantoms. If something major happens, that would be troublesome!"

Zhang Nuo still felt uneasy in his heart; after all, those were things from the prayer beads, and he didn't know their specific origin! Looking at the Skull Monk's eerie appearance, he believed these two phantoms were definitely not ordinary objects!

"I also felt a trace of unease from the Spirit Power wave just now, but the most urgent matter now is to first cultivate the clone; otherwise, that Taixu Palace Secret Technique cannot be put to use!"

After lowering his head and pondering for a moment, Zhang Nuo finally made a decision. For the sake of the clone secret technique, even taking some risks was worth it!

Immediately, he discussed some details with Chunyangzi and then closed his eyes again! This time, Chunyangzi did not return to Zhang Nuo's body but stood by his side, carefully observing the movements!

After Zhang Nuo's Divine Sense slowly sank into the Divine Sea, he continuously used Spirit Power to strike the two phantoms. However, after casting like this for over a month, the phantoms seemed to have no change at all; other than occasionally moving, there was nothing else!

Looking at the two phantoms that were neither Buddha nor demon, Zhang Nuo gave them a name: Buddha-Demon. This name was quite apt, and even Chunyangzi praised it endlessly.

"Senior, so much time has passed, why is there no movement from them at all!"

When Zhang Nuo opened his eyes again, he asked Chunyangzi with a puzzled look!

"I say, kid Zhang, can you not be so impatient? Even if you use your true body to refine a clone, it is not something that can be completed in a moment! Have some patience!"

In truth, Chunyangzi was also completely unable to explain this matter, so he had to find a random excuse to brush it off. Letting Zhang Nuo use the phantom of the Buddha and Demon in his Divine Sea to refine a clone was, from the start, a desperate measure, and now it seemed this might be a futile effort!

However, Zhang Nuo viewed this matter as extremely important. Having witnessed the might of Wei Juren utilizing a clone back then, he felt an even greater longing for this secret art of Taixu Palace!