After an hour, a heavy suppression spread through the room, but the next moment the soul guidance devices on the walls lit up, containing the pressure inside the room. At the same time, the remaining sealed power of the snow empress inside his body was unlocked and absorbed by his cores.
Thirty-four-level spirit elder achieved.
Xiao Yi opened his eyes, and a bright light flashed in his pupil, and muttered,
"Heart Clone!!"
Instantly the bloody aura gathered in the shape of a heart on both sides, and two similar physical clones materialized beside him.
"I thought that I would get some kind of defense or enhancement skill again; I didn't expect it to be a clone."
Xiao Yi muttered thoughtfully and then glanced at the clones wearing the same clothes as him standing beside him; then he raised both his hands and shook them with his clones.
'One heart, three uses; they are most likely long-duration clones rather than short-period production of the skill.'
He thought to himself and then waited for a while, looking at his clone and sensing the soul power consumption in his body.
"Almost one percent energy consumed per minute; it means I can only maintain them for a hundred minutes," Xiao Yi muttered, and then he thought of something and activated the skill of his skull bone.
Restoration!
Instantly he felt his soul power restoration balanced with the consumption of the skill; a smile appeared on Xiao Yi's face.
"It's really a useful skill; now I can gang up on the opponent, who can fight one vs. three."
He muttered and then thought of something; his eyes lit up.
'Right, I can grant them the power of life and destruction in my soul and let them act as my bodyguards and then I can act like a young master with two god-king-level bodyguards,'
He thought, and a playful smile appeared on his face; then he glanced at the clones and pointed his finger toward their foreheads. Instantly the two purple and green dots on his soul flickered, and slowly green and purple veins appeared on both his arms.
At the same time, both clones shook, and purple and green marks appeared on their foreheads; one clone has a green drop mark, and the other has an eight-point octastar mark on the forehead. Both clones opened their eyes, revealing a green and purple pair of pupils.
Xiao Yi nodded satisfied and spoke, "The life and destruction power I injected in them is enough for them to deal with the normal god, although it's not replenishable, but it's enough for dealing with everyone in this world."
The clones glanced at him silently; they are now completely under his control, which is also one of the effects of his third soul skill.
Xiao Yi then waved his hand, and the clones disappeared; the skill was deactivated. If he wants, he can release it again and summon his god clones. Then he retracted his heart martial spirit and spirit rings.
"Next, I will absorb the brain spirit ring; anyway, my brain has no other use besides enhancing my calculations."
Xiao Yi muttered thoughtfully and then released his brain martial spirit; instantly a white light flashed, and runes flashed on his head in the shape of a brain. Two purple and black spirit rings appeared hovering around him.
Xiao Yi glanced at the black spirit ring and raised his hand. Two similar copied rings appeared, and then he fused them into a stronger black spirit ring with four red marks.
He then closed his eyes and attracted the ring toward his brain's martial spirit. Instantly heavy energy flashed through his body, but he didn't feel any pressure as his physique had already gotten used to it; his soul power, spiritual power, and physical power increased at an alarming rate.
Thirty-eight-level spirit elder achieved.
Xiao Yi opened his eyes, and a bright light flashed through his eyes. Looking at the surroundings, his brain calculation increased even more, and he felt the time perception slow down passively in his eyes.
Now, even without activating his brain's martial spirit, Xiao Yi can feel his brain is more active than before. He then activated the third soul skill; the third soul ring lit up.
"Virtual Lab!"
Instantly a virtual lab materialized around him, which only he could see, and then, according to his wishes, the lab started experimenting on the project. Countless virtual soul guidance tool parts appeared and merged one by one, creating different kinds of tools through different combinations. Some even failed, while others successfully virtualized in front of him.
"Amazing, it's like a real lab in my mind, and I can experiment and invent in my mind without any need of physical experimentation,"
Xiao Yi muttered in surprise, looking at different types of soul guidance tools invented in the lab. Although they are just first-grade soul guidance tools, they were invented in just a few minutes inside his virtual lab and didn't require years of research like those soul guidance masters.
"Now I am just two levels away from the spirit ancestor realm; it's time to increase the age of my other spirit rings."
Xiao Yi muttered, and then he glanced at the first and second soul rings of his brain martial spirit. He copied the three-thousand-year-old purple soul ring and fused it with his first spirit ring.
Instantly the color of his first spirit ring became denser, and extra energy passed through his physique and merged with his cores.
Then he copied it again and fused it, increasing the age of the first spirit ring to twelve thousand years and the second soul ring to twenty-four thousand years, while his third soul ring is forty-eight thousand years.
Thirty-nine level spirit elder achieved.
Xiao Yi then retracted his brain martial spirit and released the heart martial spirit and started copying and fusing the spirit rings, upgrading his first spirit ring to sixteen thousand, his second to thirty-two thousand years, and his third to sixty-four thousand years.
Forty-level spirit ancestor achieved.
Xiao Yi then opened his eyes and clenched his fist, feeling his physical strength increase a lot along with his soul and spiritual power.
"It seems tomorrow there won't be any problem in the competition." Xiao Yi muttered thoughtfully and then glanced at the outside dark sky through the window.
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