"Give me the coordinates," Lu Yin said.
The black Unknown Entity was delighted. "You're willing to trade?"
"We'll talk about it later." Lu Yin received the coordinates and left.
Trade?
How could it be that simple? This black Unknown Entity had even dared to kill Red Hero and ignore the existence of the Eight Colors. Lu Yin couldn't help it rashly before determining whether it was friend or foe.
That wasn't right either; it was practically an enemy. Aside from human civilization, 99% of the creatures outside the Area were enemies.
The reason why Lu Yin wanted the coordinates was to leave a possibility open and only use it when he had no other choice in the future.
He had the Six Stars Unknown reward, and now he had the five-star reward of exchanging it for the black Unknown Entity. He had more and more trump cards.
The premise was that he had to complete the star chart.
A five-star mission corresponded to a huge star chart, far more than a Three Stars mission.
The coordinates were also quite far away, and it was a dangerous mission. No one knew what would happen during the process.
Lu Yin found Lu Suan and gave him the choice.
Lu Suan chose to do it without hesitation. He didn't know the reason, but since Lu Yin had said so, then there was a reason to do it.
He knew what Lu Yin had done for human civilization, but Lu Yin wasn't the only one.
Once this mission was over, he would be able to call Lu Yin Seventh Bro in an official manner.
Lu Yin went into seclusion. Ever since the Meteor Realm had been severed, he had wanted to go into seclusion to pave a path for human civilization. However, too many things had happened. War after war, accident after accident, and he wasn't sure if his seclusion could accomplish what he wanted, so it had been delayed until now.
Now that the universe of death was near, he had to try.
He wanted to try the Nine Clones Technique.
He still remembered how he felt when he first learned about the technique. The universe actually had the power to split one's body into nine. At that time, he had yearned to obtain this technique so that he could be like Progenitor Chen, splitting himself into nine and cultivating nine different powers. Finally, he could fuse them and become invincible.
However, when he obtained the technique, he hesitated. Because of Xia Luo's experience, he had some misgivings.
Splitting into nine clones and cultivating at the same time sounded tempting. However, as time passed, the consciousness of the clones would gradually become independent. The better ones were like Ancestor Chen, who could suppress the consciousness of the clones and fuse with them. The most tragic one was Xia Jiuyou, who was directly fused with Xia Luo's clone and died.
Even though both of them had their consciousness split into nine, Xia Jiuyou and Xia Luo weren't the same person. They had different thoughts, different personalities, and different hobbies. How could they be considered the same person?
It was precisely because of Xia Jiuyou's fate that Lu Yin had delayed his cultivation of the Nine Clones Technique.
Over the years, he would occasionally think of this cultivation technique. In fact, if one could maintain the uniqueness of one's consciousness, one could cultivate it. However, if one's consciousness was unique, how could one's clone cultivate it?
The biggest advantage of the Nine Clones Technique was that one could split into nine. While others were cultivating alone, one could directly cultivate nine different types of energy. Even if one cultivated the same type of energy, the efficiency would be nine times that of others. This was the biggest advantage.
Without this advantage, what value did the Nine Clones Technique have?
Maintaining the uniqueness of one's consciousness meant losing the greatest value of the Nine Clones Technique. This result had caused Lu Yin to give up on cultivating it in the past, but now, his goal was different. He didn't want to cultivate it, but rather to carve out a different path.
A path that was right under his nose.
The three universes were too obvious, and he was too obvious as well. His every move was being watched, which meant that the three universes would forever be trapped in a cage. Just as the black unknown had said, he couldn't break free, escape, or win.
Ever since the collapse of the Nine Bases, the human civilization had become a thorn in the side of the various powerful civilizations in the universe.
Lu Yin's path from the moment he had stepped into the cultivation world had been dazzling, but the process hadn't been as eye-catching. The current situation was also inconsistent with his personality.
Thus, he urgently needed to escape, both for himself and for the sake of human civilization.
The Nine Clones Technique had finally come in handy. It was a pity that he had lost the advantage of cultivating it, but if it could help him escape, then it would be of great value.
Cultivating the Nine Clones Technique was very simple. One just had to sense one's consciousness and form it into a nearly corporeal state. Then, one could split into nine and use one's own blood to reconstruct the physical body. The eight consciousnesses would then be fused into the eight bodies. This was the Nine Clones Technique.
It seemed simple now, but in reality, the first step had stumped countless people back in the Tian Yuan Universe. How many people in the Xia family had been able to learn the Nine Clones Technique?
Too few, far too few.
Sensing one's consciousness and forming a corporeal state required one to have an extremely high degree of control over one's consciousness or be born with it. Most of the Xia family members who cultivated the Nine Clones Technique were of the latter type. If one didn't have the latter type of talent, then completing the first step would have been as difficult as ascending to the heavens. That was an era where even Half-Ancestors were rare.
However, things were different now, as many cultivators could do it.
The difficulty lay in the first step. The first step was the key to the Nine Clones Technique, and what Lu Yin was trying to do right now was to erase this first step. Instead of splitting his consciousness into nine clones, he wanted to set his consciousness as the only one in the universe. Only his own consciousness could exist in the universe, and there would be no second consciousness.
This sort of change to the Nine Clones Technique was something that Lu Yin would not have been able to do in the past, even when he was still a Progenitor. However, things were different now, as his consciousness was so strong that it was rarely seen in the world.
The establishment of the Will Manor was enough to allow a group of cultivators to participate in external battles in the form of consciousnesses without dying themselves.
This was actually a kind of cultivation path for a civilization. The Will Manor could gather the consciousness of the entire human civilization, and it could even become an absolute method of advancement.
Lu Yin went into seclusion, and the Dao of Causal Heaven continued to envelop the three universes. As long as the Dao of Causal Heaven existed, outsiders would know that he was definitely there.
Currently, human civilization was still relatively peaceful, and Lu Yin's seclusion lasted for more than ten years. After more than ten years, he opened his eyes and raised a hand. A drop of blood appeared at his fingertip and slowly dripped down, causing the void to continuously tear apart. As the blood gradually dripped down, blood-red lines continuously condensed at the location where the drop landed, followed by white bones and flesh. Finally, a figure stood in front of him. It was another Lu Yin, an identical Lu Yin.
This was another body that Lu Yin had created using his own flesh and blood. Although it was far from being as strong as his own body, this body's strength came from a single drop of blood. However, even just a single drop of his own blood was unimaginable.
Back then, Progenitor Chen's blood had blasted open the door to the Sixth Mainland, and now, Lu Yin's blood was enough to light up the entire sky.
Even a powerhouse who had crossed Bitter Adversity would not be able to withstand a single drop of blood.
Lu Yin was the strongest rogue in history, and he was able to fight against an Eternal Realm cultivator who was compatible with two universal laws. This single drop of blood was enough to give him the strength of a rogue.
Lu Yin felt that something was off when he looked at the identical Lu Yin in front of him, and he casually waved his hand.
The figure in front of him once again turned into a drop of blood and fell to the ground.
He condensed another drop of blood and remolded it. Another figure appeared, and it was still Lu Yin. However, this figure's face had been changed, and it looked like a stranger.
Lu Yin looked at the stranger in front of him. He was just experimenting. This clone only had physical strength, and the nine clones could strip their innate gifts, techniques, and so on from their clones. He had not yet decided what kind of power to give this clone, and he would have to change it according to the situation.
It was not difficult to create a clone from his own flesh and blood, but the biggest problem was maintaining the uniqueness of his consciousness. When the clone was not in the three universes, the main body's consciousness would be asleep. Once the main body's consciousness woke up, the clone's consciousness would disperse. What would happen to the clone then?
If this was not handled well, then this attempt would be a joke.
In the past, Lu Yin had used various disguises and relied on his die's six pips to almost be omniscient about certain people, allowing him to roam freely among the various major powers and play with his enemies. However, the battlefield had now changed. Eternal Realms were not easy to fool, and his disguises would definitely be seen through. Furthermore, he could not leave the three universes.
Once the clone joined the other powers, the distance between it and the three universes would not be so simple. With such a long distance, how could this single consciousness protect both sides?
He had to awaken the main body's consciousness while keeping the clone safe.
Lu Yin pondered this, as this was not easy to solve.
He materialized his consciousness and integrated some of it into the clone. The clone's consciousness was actually similar to the consciousness on the Pathfinder Stone. It could only see its surroundings and did not have the ability to think on its own.
Lu Yin closed his eyes and opened them again. His vision changed, and his consciousness appeared in the clone's body.
This clone was now himself, and he looked at his hands. They were so weak, and he was not used to feeling so weak.
He felt like he had returned to the time when he had faced the humanoid Green Immortal. At that time, his physical strength had been similar to this. He had struggled to fight against the humanoid Green Immortal and the droplet Green Immortal, and he had had to rely on various methods, especially willpower, to fight against the most ordinary Eternal Realms.
Fortunately, he was not as strong as when he had first encountered the hexagonal monster. Otherwise, he would not have been able to defeat the most ordinary Eternal Realms.
As long as this clone obtained one of his powers, it would be enough to become a rogue.
He looked at his main body and then at his clone before looking for Long Xi.
Long Xi looked at Lu Yin and the doppelganger, "The Nine Doppelgangers Technique?"
Lu Yin shook his head, "I changed it, but not so many. The consciousness is also unique, so it will not devour the self."
Long Xi heaved a sigh of relief, "That's good. Although the Xia family's Nine Clones Technique is powerful, it has many drawbacks. As far as I know, Xia Shenfei spent a lot of effort to suppress his clones. If not for the help of Shenwu Sky, he would not have been able to find some of his clones."
Lu Yin fought with Shenwu Sky and fought against Xia Shenfei. At that time, Xia Shenfei had already merged his nine clones into one and could use Shenwu Qi. He did not know anything before that.
"But the biggest advantage of the Nine Clones Technique is the clones' cultivation. You have only one consciousness, how can you cultivate your clones?" Long Xi did not understand.
Lu Yin had nothing to hide from Long Xi, "I just want to find another path."
Long Xi pursed her lips and nodded silently. She did not say anything more.
"Help me awaken the main body."
"How?"
"Just shake it."
Long Xi walked to Lu Yin's main body and shook it.