Chapter 516: How to Efficiently Drain Your Doppelgangers Dry!

【Regarding how to efficiently consume doppelgangers, you thought of two things.】

【"Mr. Xun, does the Torch Society have a unique Spiritual Treasure called the 'Earthbound Ghost Chains'?"】

【You vividly recall that in the sixth simulation, Ma Bang sacrificed himself to activate the Earthbound Ghost Chains. With his Core Formation realm cultivation, he held back nine Extreme Terrain Realm enemies, buying you precious time to escape.】

【The Earthbound Ghost Chains are a legendary-grade Spiritual Treasure, extremely powerful in terms of control, but each use requires the sacrifice of at least one Core Formation realm cultivator.】

【"Correct, we do indeed possess such an item. Members of our Torch Society often face pursuit. When there is nowhere left to flee, rather than being captured and tortured by the enemy, it is better to use this item to perish together with them. Perhaps it might even buy time for our comrades to escape."】

【As Mr. Xun spoke, he produced one from his storage.】

【"If Mr. Chen is interested, I can give you one..."】

【"No need. I know that a Torch Society branch on a single planet can usually only be allocated one or two of these. I'll just take a look."】

【In the last simulation, when you saw this item, although you managed to see the blueprints and raw materials through 「Reverse Engineering」, this is a legendary-grade acquired Spiritual Treasure, and its related content is extremely complex.】

【At that time, you were holding Ah Dou in your arms, locked in fierce battle with the enemy, and didn't have time to memorize it.】

【Today, you can take your time to memorize it.】

【After committing everything to memory, you returned the item to Mr. Xun.】

【"Mr. Chen, if you like it, feel free to take it. It's no trouble."】

【"Strictly speaking, I am not a member of the Torch Society, so I shouldn't take your resources. It's better if you keep it. I hope you will never have to use it."】

【Many of the materials required to refine the Earthbound Ghost Chains are simply not produced on a Second-tier Star.】

【This item was not originally refined by Mr. Xun or You Keqing and the others; it came from a higher-level Torch Society branch, such as the one Ji Wuqing serves.】

【If you want to replicate this Spiritual Treasure, you'll have to wait until you reach a First-tier Star and gather all the materials.】

【"By the way, there's another thing. It's a spell called the 'Yuan Core Detonation'. Can I take a look?"】

【The Yuan Core Detonation, in the sixth simulation, Shen Yifeng used this technique to detonate his own yuan core, perishing together with several Extreme Terrain Realm enemies.】

【This self-detonation technique is incredibly powerful, capable of killing enemies across realms!】

【Perfectly suited for doppelgangers!】

【Although the doppelgangers' own realms aren't high, now with the 「Give Me the Power!」trait tag, whenever needed, each and every doppelganger can become an Extreme Terrain Realm bomb!】

【Blowing up Transcendent Realm cultivators wouldn't be a problem, and with some luck, they might even wound an Immortal Lord-level expert!】

【The key thing about these bombs is that you can use them all up each day, and they refresh the very next day!】

【Mr. Xun was extremely generous. Whatever you asked for, he gave, even presenting you with a copy of the manual.】

【"Many thanks!"】

【Now you can finally drain every last drop of value from your doppelgangers!】

【Year thirty-two, age fifty-eight.】

【You stayed in Mr. Xun's village and devoted yourself to cultivation for a period of time.】

【Your cultivation broke through all the way to the Middle Stage of the Extreme Terrain Realm.】

【Equippable trait slots +2!】

【Through the enhancement of 「Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages」, your apparent realm reached the Late Stage of the Extreme Terrain Realm.】

【Just one more breakthrough, and you'll have Transcendent Realm combat power!】

【"Last time, Ah Dou was born when I was eighty years old. This time, circumstances have changed, so he might not be born at that exact time. It's best to start searching for human newborns with heaven-born anomalies from now on."】

【Year thirty-three, age fifty-nine.】

【Extracting trait tags...】

【Extraction successful!】

【「Black Men Carrying the Coffin」(Purple Epic): You can summon a professional crew of black gentlemen at any time to perform a mysterious coffin-carrying ceremony for a deceased person.】

【Would you like to adjust your trait tags?】

【Yes/No】

"What kind of crappy trait tag is this? Why is it Purple-grade?"

Chen Yi had seen some trait tags before where the quality and effect didn't quite match up.

But a trait tag this nonsensical reaching Purple-grade was truly a first. Talk about a bride riding a sedan chair for the very first time.

"I've got two extra trait slots now. Let's see what I can equip."

【You selected Yes.】

【You replaced 「Human Body Detector」 with 「Luckier with Age」.】

【You equipped 「Green Giant」.】

【You equipped 「Zilong! Zilong!」.】

【You bid farewell to Mr. Xun and returned to the Tiansha Sect.】

【To the outside world, you simply announced that your secluded cultivation had ended.】

【Ya Dada and the others did indeed feel that you seemed to have grown stronger.】

【But in their understanding, Si Duoduo was already at the Late Stage of the Transcendent Realm. If he improved further, shouldn't he be an Immortal Lord by now?】

【Clearly, you are not an Immortal Lord.】

【Being an Immortal Lord is a golden ticket to First-tier Stars. As long as one's cultivation reaches the Immortal Lord level and one is not of the Human Race, one can freely enter and exit First-tier Stars.】

【Within the entire Celestial River local galaxy, whenever someone breaks through to Immortal Lord, the Holy Dragon Society will sense it.】

【As long as you don't hide from the Holy Dragon Society, it won't be long before they come extending their olive branch.】

【You issue a new decree. While further advancing the unification process, you also order strict monitoring of all human newborns within your jurisdiction. Anyone found with heaven-born anomalies must be reported immediately without fail. Those who fail to report will have their entire clans executed!】

【Ya Dada and the others, seeing how much importance you place on the Human Race, felt considerably reassured.】

【"The Sect Master is truly wise! The prodigies of the Human Race are often born with anomalies. Strangling these people in the cradle is the best strategy of all!"】

【You smile without saying a word.】

【In your heart, you are already calculating the day of death for these high-ranking members of the Heavenly Calamity Alliance.】

In the following years of the simulation, Chen Yi basically only focused on three things.

The first was finding Ah Dou.

For this matter, he had his subordinates conduct a planet-wide search. As long as Ah Dou was born, news would definitely arrive.

The second was cultivation.

Although the concentration of Immortal Qi on the Second-tier Star was low, making cultivation efficiency poor for Extreme Terrain Realm cultivators.

However, after Chen Yi became a Guardian, his cultivation aptitude improved by extension. Combined with the natural enhancement effects of multiple trait tags, he could still feel the changes.

Moreover, he was the Alliance Master of the Heavenly Calamity Alliance, the Sect Master of the Tiansha Sect, the Demon Sha True Lord, Si Duoduo himself!

The cultivation resources Chen Yi now commanded were simply terrifying.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that every single blade of grass and tree on the entire Blazing Star was at his disposal.

Although some regions hadn't been fully conquered yet, that was merely a matter of time.

With the aid of various external treasures and reckless resource investment, Chen Yi's cultivation speed on Blazing Star was still quite respectable.

The third was stalling the pace of the war.

This unification war lost all its suspense the moment the Qingqiu Sect fell.

The reason it dragged on for so many more years was entirely because Chen Yi was deliberately slowing things down.

As long as he reduced his frequency of personal intervention, relying solely on the Heavenly Calamity Alliance to fight would naturally slow the pace.

The purpose of stalling was to buy the Human Race on Blazing Star time to develop.

The Tiansha Army was short on manpower and had no choice but to conscript humans.

But there were too few human cultivators, so the official powers had to invest resources into nurturing them.

Riding on this wave of benefits, the human cultivators who had been struggling with scarce resources on the Second-tier Star all seized this opportunity to accelerate their advancement.

Chen Yi forcibly stretched this war from the time a person was a child until they reached adulthood, allowing an entire generation of the Human Race to obtain cultivation resources.

He laid a deep and solid foundation for the dramatic shift in the situation on Blazing Star in the years to come.