Satisfied with his stats, Xiang Yu closed the system interface.
His expression imdiately turned serious. Without hesitation, he dove into his spiritual sea, appearing in his soul form.
He concentrated intensely on his void fla, causing the fla mark on his forehead to spread its darkness around him until the darkness swallowed his soul completely. In the next mont, Xiang Yu found himself standing inside the void space.
It was exactly as he rembered—an endless stretch of absolute nothingness extending in all directions. In this vast emptiness, only a single being existed: the small, round, fluffy creature floating motionlessly in the dark.
Xiang Yu floated over to it. He crouched down and inspected the creature closely. Just like before, it showed no signs of life whatsoever. No breathing, no movent, not even the faintest twitch. It simply existed there as if frozen in ti.
Xiang Yu thought to himself that for his clone technique to work the way he wanted it to, he was still missing a crucial component. Even if he managed to get his current implentation to function properly, it would essentially be nothing more than a puppet technique. He didn’t want that at all. What he craved was the ability to control a clone natively while still maintaining complete independence from physical contact.
The only thing he knew that could achieve such a feat was his void fla. He could always control his fla perfectly, even when the fragnts were completely disconnected from his body and scattered across vast distances.
At first, he had tried using a split fla as so sort of makeshift brain, embedding it within a constructed body to control the vessel remotely. But that approach had failed. Well, technically it had worked, but it wasn’t what he had intended—it was still essentially rigging the body like a marionette, just substituting the spiritual manifestation technique with fla fragnts instead of telekinetic control.
Another approach he had experinted with involved partitioning his mind and attempting to carry that partitioned consciousness through the fla, then implanting it directly inside a clone body. But that thod had also proven impossible.
It seed he simply couldn’t get his consciousness—even a partitioned segnt—to leave his original body. The only way consciousness could separate from the physical form was when it was properly housed within a soul, which brought him right back to his original fundantal problem.
No wonder even soone as powerful and knowledgeable as the Empress had stated it would be impossible without reaching the Soul Formation realm. It seed this core limitation simply couldn’t be bypassed, unless you possessed a special dao body like the demon twins.
Xiang Yu was on the verge of abandoning this entire project when suddenly, an absolutely insane idea struck him. He stretched out his hand and placed it directly on the fluffy creature’s motionless form.
Xiang Yu’s idea was audacious beyond reason: he was going to possess the creature. That’s right—he planned to beco the Abyssal Void Fla himself.
Part of what drove him to consider such a drastic asure was fear. Ever since he had first discovered this mysterious creature dwelling within his fla, he had lived with constant anxiety gnawing at the back of his mind.
He wondered endlessly when that creature would finally wake up from its eternal slumber. And when it did awaken, would it view him as an enemy? Would it try to destroy him from within?
When his void fla had advanced just the day before, the very first thing he had done was frantically check whether the creature inside had shown any signs of stirring. Based on his calculations, he had predicted that it would most likely awake during the very next upgrade.
Xiang Yu absolutely refused to take such a monuntal risk. He figured it would be infinitely better to seize control of the entire situation before the creature had any chance to develop its own consciousness.
If he successfully took over the fla’s essence, there were two possible outcos he could envision. First, his soul might beco the fla’s new consciousness entirely, essentially gaining a completely new body made of pure fla energy.
This transformation would an his original physical body would be left without any soul of its own, but Xiang Yu didn’t consider this particularly problematic. He reasoned that he should still be able to cultivate and eventually form a golden core, which would naturally generate another soul for his original body. Though he wasn’t entirely certain about the feasibility of having two separate souls simultaneously.
The second possibility—and the one he was leaning toward as more likely—was that his soul would beco completely unified with the fla itself, essentially creating so sort of mutated soul hybrid. This would an he would retain his soul, but it would be transford into sothing special and unique, possessing properties of both the original soul and the void fla.
Either way, the end result would grant him the ability he sought. He would finally be able to split the fla into multiple fragnts and partition his consciousness into those separated pieces, since they would all be genuine parts of his essential being. This would allow him to create true clones exactly as he had originally envisioned.
So which outco would it be?
Well, there was only one way to find out...
...
Xiang Yu made his decision.
The hand that had been resting on top of the creature suddenly phased through it, entering inside. Without hesitation, Xiang Yu guided the rest of his soul forward, diving headfirst into the abyss...
As he dove deeper into the creature’s essence, Xiang Yu thought to himself that this really wasn’t like him at all. He was taking an extrely huge risk, the kind that went against every survival instinct he had carefully cultivated.
But he simply couldn’t resist the potential benefits that success would bring. With their enemies becoming stronger and more dangerous by the day, he desperately needed to fix his overly cautious nature and finally take decisive action. Otherwise...
Xiang Yu slowly regained consciousness, feeling disoriented and confused. "Did it succeed? Where am I?" he wondered, trying to make sense of his surroundings.
He looked around frantically, only to find himself floating in an endless dark void that seed sowhat similar to the void space he was just in.
"Did I fail?" he wondered, instinctively reaching up to scratch his head in thought. But sothing was wrong—he noticed with shock that he didn’t have hands. He didn’t even have eyes.
Finally realizing his transford state, he examined what his body had beco. He was now a small burning dark fla, barely noticeable in the endless darkness except for the tiny white sparks that flickered from within him like miniature stars.
"The fla?" he realized. He rembered that the Abyssal Void Fla had looked exactly like this when he had first acquired it. He wondered if what he was experiencing now were actually the fla’s mories.
As he pondered this possibility, he suddenly noticed sothing that made his heart almost stop. Well, not really but if he had possessed a heart, it would have definitely ceased beating entirely.
Because of the overwhelming darkness surrounding him, he hadn’t noticed it initially. But as his perception gradually adjusted to the absolute blackness, he finally saw "IT."
He didn’t know how to describe the entity except with one word: MASSIVE.
The creature extended as far as his senses could perceive, seemingly without any conceivable end. And from this incomprehensible being, dark flas of different shapes and sizes, similar to Xiang Yu, were constantly shedding, slowly drifting away into the infinite darkness.
As he stared in absolute terror and awe at this incomprehensible entity, sothing suddenly happened.
It opened its eyes.
The eyes were just as impossibly massive as the rest of the creature. Xiang Yu could see no end to them. But even with their overwhelming scale, they seed to lock onto him directly.
The creature then spoke, its voice reverberating through the void:
"Well, would you look at that..."
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Author’s Corner
Rip, it was nice knowing you.
Okay so at first, i wanted him to rge the three scriptures with the ten elental palms to create so sort of elental cloning ability where he can create clones of the ten elents (kinda like noah from infinite mana) but after so though, i figured soone must have tried sothing like this or similar and if so, then the empress would know or at least have an idea, not say that it was impossible. This is why I went in this direction where consciousness can either be housed by the original body, or the soul. I didn’t want Xiang Yu to make sothing impossible suddenly possible just like that.
What do you guys think?
Will he be stronger than Li Yao now? Place your bets...
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