"Then I’ll trouble you!" Great Power Luo Yuan sighed deeply.

Getting a half-step great power whose life span is about to end to take action, such a thing could not have been proposed if not coincidentally timed.

"The sect nurtured me, I should also repay the sect, this is my final repayment!" Lian Lei said with a calm smile.

Three days later, a Great Cultivator from Yuqing Sect, Su Tong, quietly left Yuqing Sect. He concealed his identity and purchased a long-distance flying boat ticket from Central State Commerce, using it to leave the West Yan Continent.

Li Shiming’s phantom clone was currently seated in the Treasure Lotus Hall of the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven, utilizing the environment where the original body, Li Shiming, cultivated.

After a period of adjustment, the phantom clone with a Nascent Soul, his energy-based body was undergoing a strange transformation.

Upon discovering this, Li Shiming allowed the phantom clone to enter the Treasure Lotus Hall, using its most concentrated Spiritual Energy environment to provide more energy support for the phantom clone’s transformation.

The body of the phantom clone sitting there felt completely like a real flesh body, devoid of the previous ethereal sensation of an energy-based body.

Since the Nascent Soul entered the body, apart from providing the phantom clone with Spiritual Power support, it also generated a special energy.

This energy nourished the phantom clone’s body, causing the entirely energy-based body to undergo substantial change.

This was a transformation that had never appeared in any ancient texts. While it was well-known to Li Shiming that the Nascent Soul could promote the enhancement of the flesh, changing the energy nature of a phantom clone and turning it into a real body was a first-time discovery.

As the Nascent Soul within the phantom clone absorbed the surrounding Spiritual Energy, more and more special energy nourished this body.

However, the substantial body brought troubles previously non-existent; the phantom clone used to be able to manifest robes through energy transformation, but now it could no longer manifest robes as the body bore the characteristics of a cultivator’s flesh body.

For this reason, Li Shiming found a top-level fourth-grade robe for the phantom clone to avoid the embarrassment of having no clothes to wear.

The phantom clone opened his eyes, stood up, and took out a flying sword from the soul crystal ring, using it to make a cut on his arm.

A fine wound appeared on his arm, with blood seeping from it.

He dabbed the blood and scanned it with his Divine Sense; this blood, produced through the special energy transformation of the Nascent Soul, contained the energy of a Peak Great Cultivator.

However, he could be one hundred percent certain that this blood was entirely different from the original body’s blood, and was not blood he was supposed to have.

According to IBMz15’s analysis, this blood was that of Great Cultivator Hua Ying, and indeed, the entire body had transformed based on Great Cultivator Hua Ying’s flesh body.

If the phantom clone’s appearance had not been solidified in the image of the original Li Shiming, perhaps even the face would have transformed into that of Great Cultivator Hua Ying at this time.

"Such a marvelous transformation!" Li Shiming exclaimed with amazement.

Although these changes in the body deviated from his expectations, the clone becoming a real body held more benefits for him.

Once the clone becomes a real body possessing a Nascent Soul, it becomes a Peak Great Cultivator.

At least while his clone Li Yuanba was still in secluded training, this phantom clone could substitute for him in myriad tasks.

"Clone, how have you changed?" Yin Shilan met the phantom clone and immediately recognized it was not the original Li Shiming.

"Lan’er, how did you recognize it?" Li Shiming was a bit surprised; ever since the phantom clone gained a real body, he thought the clone and original had few differences in appearance, yet Yin Shilan recognized it at once.

"Shiming has an aura akin to nature, while the clone does not. However, this time when meeting the clone, it had a trace of Water Element aura, akin to a true cultivator!" Yin Shilan responded with some perplexity.

Li Shiming could only commend Yin Shilan’s perceptiveness, though given that Yin Shilan was likely the person who understood him best in the Cultivation World, it was natural for her to discern the difference between the phantom clone and the original Li Shiming.

As for the phantom clone possessing that trace of Water Element aura, it was likely the aura from the fleshed body created by Great Cultivator Hua Ying’s Nascent Soul.

Great Cultivator Hua Ying is a Water Element Great Cultivator, so the enhanced flesh body energy created by the Nascent Soul is naturally Water Element as well.

To verify this notion, Li Shiming had the phantom clone interact with Master Hu and several other Great Cultivators of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect; none of these Great Cultivators, including Master Hu, discovered the true identity of the phantom clone.

Perhaps it was due to the phantom clone’s idle demeanor that Master Hu found an opportunity.

Master Hu requested the phantom clone to explore various places in the Dongqi Continent, and with Li Shiming’s presence, they could suppress any disloyal cultivators.

The current three branch sects were located at the sites of the previous three main sects.

Some cultivators originally belonging to the three major sects were incorporated into the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, which, although helping the sect develop in a short period, also introduced some hidden dangers.

In the past, Li Shiming would never involve himself in such affairs, as he viewed these matters of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect as trivial.

As long as his own strength was sufficient, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect wouldn’t encounter major trouble.

But now things were different; the phantom clone could entirely replace the original, and as even the high ranks of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect believed the phantom clone to be his original body, having the clone undertake tasks only required him to allocate one out of his 191 brains to control the phantom clone.

Great Cultivator Su Tong arrived at the Dongqi Continent, with Yuqing Sect preparing an identity for him as an Independent Cultivator.

This identity indeed existed, though this Independent Cultivator was a member of Yuqing Sect’s peripheral forces.

Disembarking from the long-distance flying boat of Central State Commerce, due to its good relations with the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, he did not attract much attention.

Of course, this also related to the lack of manpower within the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, especially the scarcity of Great Cultivators preventing them from giving full attention to the Dongqi Continent after occupying it.

Managing the Dongqi Continent is a long, gradual process, potentially taking hundreds of years to fully control and integrate the Ten Thousand Beast Sect with the Dongqi Continent as one.

Great Cultivator Su Tong took out a communication tablet; on it was a contact person, the only intelligence point left by Yuqing Sect here.

Soon, he obtained some information from the tablet, one piece of information causing his eyes to light up.

Li Shizhen would be heading to the Sun Concealing Branch Sect with Master Hu, and he invited some small and mid-sized forces nearby to meet at the Sun Concealing Branch Sect.

Great Cultivator Su Tong felt everything was proceeding smoothly, as if even the heavens were aiding him.

He had checked Li Shiming’s files before coming, knowing Li Shiming was an exceptionally elusive cultivator.

He had considered several ways of approaching Li Shiming, though the chances of success were uncertain.

Reportedly, even when Guiyuan Sect met Li Shiming, it was merely his clone, let alone ordinary Great Cultivators.

"This is an opportunity you’ve delivered yourself!" Great Cultivator Su Tong murmured to himself.

He immediately set off flying toward the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s Sun Concealing Branch Sect, needing to prepare before Li Shizhen arrived.

In fact, once he appeared on the Dongqi Continent, he was detected by the drone satellite surveillance system.

However, as Li Shiming no longer required vigilance against ordinary Great Cultivators, even the emergence of a new Great Cultivator did not trigger any warnings.

This wasn’t Li Shiming’s fault; not to mention ordinary Great Cultivators, even Peak Great Cultivators in the Cultivation World were no match for him; aside from Great Powers, he had almost no adversaries to be wary of.

Most of Li Shiming’s brains were focused on comprehending realms, while over ninety percent of IBMz15’s computing resources were dedicated to analyzing the ’Divine Perception Stele’.