Chapter 698: Top-tier Spirit Stones, Five-Element Clones

The materials for refining the clones were divided into two parts by He Pingsheng and placed in the void before him.

Then, he began to strengthen them!

Two sets of ordinary materials were strengthened by him into top-tier.

After strengthening, these materials became four sets.

Next, it was time to refine the clones.

Refining clones was a very troublesome matter!

Each clone had to be refined for forty-nine days.

Moreover, before refining, He Pingsheng also had to familiarize himself with the refining method.

The refining method wasn't unfamiliar; it was recorded in the 【Western Extreme Puppet Technique】 and 【Supreme Profound Immortal Artifact Method】.

Theoretically speaking, when refining a clone, the higher the tier of the materials used, the higher the cultivation of the clone after it took form.

For example, He Pingsheng's cultivation now was at the first layer of Void Refinement.

Then the highest cultivation of the clone he refined would be the first layer of Void Refinement.

The lowest would be the first layer of Soul Transformation!

The gap in between was very large.

If the materials were good enough, then the clone's cultivation would be the first layer of Void Refinement.

But this was very difficult; in this world, it was almost very hard for a clone to catch up to the true form's cultivation from the beginning.

But it didn't matter!

Even if the clone's cultivation was a bit lacking when it was just refined, it could be slowly made up for with time, because the true form had already walked the path of cultivation once, so when the clone went to cultivate, it had neither bottlenecks nor the need to break through Dao barriers.

Just directly raise the cultivation.

It just consumed a bit of time.

However...

There was another situation.

For example, He Pingsheng now; he was at the first layer of Void Refinement, and after his clone was refined, the cultivation was Soul Transformation stage; when it reached the first layer of Void Refinement, it didn't need to break through Dao barriers and bottlenecks.

But if the clone's cultivation exceeded the first layer of Void Refinement in the future, it would still need to comprehend Dao laws itself to break through Dao barriers.

He Pingsheng casually took out a handful of low-tier spirit stones and threw them into the Treasure Gathering Basin, then began to study the method of refining clones.

A month later, the method of refining clones was familiar to him.

Next, it was time to refine!

He Pingsheng took out a set of materials, then supported the 【Green Profound Cauldron】, controlled the alchemy fire well, and began to refine the clone.

This process was very long.

It took a full forty-nine days for He Pingsheng to refine the first clone.

The first clone didn't look similar to He Pingsheng, just the image of an old man.

He Pingsheng didn't want the clone and the true form to be similar either; this way, even if his clone walked alone in the Heavenly Fire Continent or the Spirit Realm in the future, no one would be able to recognize He Pingsheng's existence from the clone.

This way, there was an extra bit of safety.

After refining was completed, He Pingsheng threw this clone directly into the Treasure Gathering Basin.

Strengthen it first, then fuse it with the Glazed Infant!

However, when he saw the Treasure Gathering Basin, He Pingsheng was instantly dumbfounded.

In the Treasure Gathering Basin, there were actually over a hundred head-sized crystals?

"This..." He Pingsheng took a deep breath, and with a thought, he took out these head-sized crystals.

A vigorous and majestic spiritual power rushed toward him.

He Pingsheng determined in almost one breath that these were top-tier spirit stones.

It turned out that the low-tier spirit stones he had thrown into the Treasure Gathering Basin before had all been strengthened into top-tier spirit stones.

He Pingsheng took a few deep breaths, letting himself slow down for a while.

Because these top-tier spirit stones were different.

Top-tier spirit stones and other spirit stones were completely two different things.

Top-tier spirit stones possessed all the attributes of other low-tier, mid-tier, and high-tier spirit stones, contained majestic spiritual power inside, could be used as an energy supply source for everything, and could also be used as currency throughout the Spirit Realm.

The difference was that top-tier spirit stones had a terrifying, even heaven-defying function: absorbing spiritual energy.

If the spiritual power inside them was consumed, they would spontaneously absorb spiritual power from the surrounding heaven and earth to replenish themselves.

For example, a grand array supported by spirit stones.

If top-tier spirit stones were used, there was no need to worry about the energy being exhausted.

Because once the energy was consumed, it would go and absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to replenish itself.

The reason top-tier spirit stones had this ability was because all top-tier spirit stones contained a type of rule.

This thing was even the currency used for transactions between high-level cultivators in the Spirit Realm.

Many times, trading societies had a rule: they didn't accept spirit stones, and must trade goods for goods, but 【Top-tier Spirit Stones】 were an exception.

Top-tier spirit stones were just that heaven-defying.

Moreover, it was said that burying a top-tier spirit stone underground was equivalent to a large spirit vein, which could supply energy to sects at the level of the Supreme Void Gate or the Li family.

The terror of this top-tier spirit stone could be imagined.

Let's put it this way, if you had enough top-tier spirit stones, you could almost buy everything in the Spirit Realm.

"Splash..."

He Pingsheng threw out all the spirit stones from the Treasure Gathering Basin.

Although top-tier spirit stones were good, right now, the most important thing was the 【Clone】.

Strengthen the clone first!

After one night, the clone was strengthened into two.

Both were top-tier!

After strengthening, He Pingsheng threw some spirit stones into the Treasure Gathering Basin again.

Then, He Pingsheng's attention returned to the clone.

Now that there were two clones, the next period of time could be used to fuse with the Glazed Infant.

"Shed..." He Pingsheng gave a light shout.

Within his body, the five Glazed Infants that had been shed during his breakthrough to the Void Refinement stage tribulation flew out one by one and landed before He Pingsheng.

Five Glazed Infants.

Belonging to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth!

Golden, green, cyan, red, and earth-yellow.

He Pingsheng thought for a while, first took out the golden metal-attribute and green wood-attribute Glazed Infants, and put them into the two clone bodies respectively.

Then began to fuse!

The fusion process was very slow.

But He Pingsheng didn't need to worry; the Glazed Infant and the body would fuse by themselves.

He Pingsheng put away the remaining three Glazed Infants and continued to refine clones!

Time was hazy!

About a year later, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth—all five clones were refined, and all were fused successfully.

Five people stood before He Pingsheng and bowed to him.

Among them were two identical old men, two identical middle-aged men, and one, which He Pingsheng had directly refined into a female body.

From their appearance, they didn't have any similarity to He Pingsheng at all.

Five-element clones, each was at the twelfth layer of the Soul Transformation stage; as long as they cultivated a little, without needing a Nascent-Shedding Pill, they could break through the Soul Transformation stage and advance to the Void Refinement stage.

But after reaching the first layer of Void Refinement, if these clones wanted to progress further, they would have to be like He Pingsheng's true form—not only comprehending Dao laws but also swallowing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

"Go!" He Pingsheng took out spirit stones, storage rings, magic treasures, etc., distributed some to each person, and then chased these clones out, letting them go and cultivate on their own.

Because they were clones, their spiritual sense was connected, so He Pingsheng could also capture their locations at any time.

No matter how far away they were, He Pingsheng could also transmit messages to them in a single thought. ===== CHAPTER 699 =====