Invisible Security Guard
Chapter 923 - 922: Nine Avatars

Chapter 923: Chapter 922: Nine Avatars

Special abilities, Doppelganger!

"Having a Primordial Spirit, by bestowing the body with the essence of blood, bestowing spirit with the dew of merit, and bestowing the divine with the spirit of the Soul Beads, one can achieve the paramount technique of Shadow Doppelganger."

This was the opening explanation of the new superpower, a general introduction, followed by detailed operating methods below.

"Having a Primordial Spirit" means that if you could cultivate a Primordial Spirit, you could complete the first step of cloning.

But what is Primordial Spirit? The Primordial Spirit is the Nascent Soul of cultivators; Earth Immortals do not have it, only those below the stage of Crossing the Tribulation have one. This is because, upon reaching the Earth Immortal Realm, the Nascent Soul merges with the physical body, making it impossible to achieve a Doppelganger!

Yusuf Zuck was very grateful that he hadn’t rushed into becoming an Earth Immortal and had always held his cultivation level at the Early Mahayana Stage without advancing an inch!

If he had become an Earth Immortal, then this technique of Doppelgangers would no longer exist.

"I have nine Nascent Souls, that is, nine Primordial Spirits, could it be possible to achieve nine great Doppelgangers?" After reading and rereading all the content, all the steps, Yusuf Zuck suddenly closed his eyes and, upon opening his mouth with a ’puff’ sound, a Nascent Soul escaped from it.

Though his cultivation was Mahayana, he hadn’t paid much attention to the nine Nascent Souls in his body all this time. That’s because his power was bestowed by the Blood Beads, and if he relied on the Mahayana cultivation level and those few Nascent Souls, he would have been killed a million times over.

All this time, he had thought that the Cultivation Realm was nothing more than a trifling matter for him, but now it seemed like it could be of great use.

After one Nascent Soul emerged, he vomited eight more times, and then nine Nascent Souls were orbiting around him nonstop, each Nascent Soul the size of a palm, flesh-colored, vividly alive, and looking exactly like him.

The Nascent Soul is the Primordial Spirit and also the purest form of energy.

"To bestow the body with the essence of blood!" This essence of blood refers to one’s own vital blood.

"Come, let’s see if I can achieve this!" Without any hesitation, he made a deep gash on his chest, and then all nine Nascent Souls rolled over the cut.

"Hoo—" The nine Nascent Souls, now drenched in blood, were all bathed in blood, yet there was no change.

He knew he must bestow spirit next!

"Dew of merit, come forth!" He fiercely condensed a drop of dew of merit on his fingertip and flicked it onto one of the Nascent Souls.

With a ’pop’ sound, as the dew of merit touched one of the Nascent Souls, the blood-soaked Nascent Soul suddenly started to tremble and then grew rapidly, transforming into a full-grown man as tall as himself in almost a single breath, lively and a complete replica of himself.

However, after the growth, his gaze carried a sense of bewilderment, as if he were a child who was yet to understand the world!

"Let’s continue." He flicked eight more drops of the dew of merit onto the other eight Nascent Souls.

His dew of merit had also tripled in volume with the activation of his Blood Beads.

"Pop pop pop pop pop..." In Yusuf Zuck’s daze, nine people who looked just like him appeared, all standing naked before him like nine brothers, except they were expressionless. Although they were bestowed with body and spirit, they were lifeless.

The Nascent Souls were independent entities, his Primordial Spirits, but they did not inherit his memories. He had always neglected them, and unlike other cultivators, Yusuf Zuck couldn’t be bothered to cultivate them as he always considered such cultivation levels insignificant.

The third step, bestowing the divine with the spirit of the Soul Beads, is the most crucial one. Once they’re endowed with the divine, they will become independent entities with their own Divine Sense, thoughts, memories, and so on. They will even inherit all sorts of his Divine Skills because he and the nine Nascent Souls are one and the same.

"Enter!" With a thought, his nine doppelgängers simultaneously entered his soul bead; including himself, who also vanished on the spot.

Others couldn’t enter the soul bead, but that didn’t mean his doppelgängers couldn’t. Since they were also him, there were no barriers, and all nine doppelgängers dove in at once.

Right as they entered, the energy phantom originally in the soul bead swiftly burrowed into the heavenly spirit of one of the doppelgängers.

All along, there had been another version of him in his soul bead—an image, an energy mass, Call it a ’Spiritual Body’. Up until now, he had no idea what its purpose was.

Now he understood—it was there to enable the embodiment of doppelgängers!

The Spiritual Body stayed inside the first doppelgänger for nearly the time it takes an incense stick to burn before coming out. And upon exiting, the Spiritual Body had become fainter, seemingly exhausted a great deal.

However, the first doppelgänger was full of vigor. After glancing at Yusuf Zuck, it burst into laughter with him!

Both were Yusuf Zuck, sharing the same body and memories, so the doppelgänger was him, and he was also the doppelgänger.

The Spiritual Body began entering the heavenly spirit of each doppelgänger one by one to endow them with life, and by the time the last doppelgänger was imbued, the Spiritual Body was near the brink of collapsing and dissolution, shrinking to the size of a palm—a tiny phantom.

"Go back," Yusuf Zuck sighed, unsure of when the phantom would recover to its original state.

All nine doppelgängers, standing naked before Yusuf Zuck, said nothing, yet their smirking expressions were identical to his.

Yusuf Zuck examined them, knowing that though these doppelgängers looked just like him, there was still a primary and secondary distinction. He could control everything about them. Essentially, with a single thought, the doppelgängers could be no more.

After contemplating for a short while, he suddenly waved and two identical robes flew toward two of the doppelgängers, "Only you two stay, the rest of you come back!"

"Whoosh–" As his words fell, the other seven doppelgängers, who did not receive garments, turned into a white light and burrowed into his Dantian, transforming back into Nascent Souls, where they breathed in and out.

"Well, go about your business," Yusuf Zuck waved his hand.

Since the nine shared his thoughts and intellect, he knew what they were thinking, and he knew what he himself thought. When he said to go about their business, the two clothed doppelgängers, much like himself, donned the robes. One sat across from Yusuf Zuck, while the other disappeared into thin air and left the Spirit City, heading southeast.

Yusuf Zuck glanced at the doppelgänger sitting opposite him, smiled, then immediately entered the soul bead and disappeared.

Moments later, the seated doppelgänger stood up, flicked his garment casually, and sauntered downstairs with a swagger.

Meanwhile, Yusuf Zuck, having re-entered the soul bead, took out a top-grade spirit jade and held it in his hand.

"Snap–" The twenty-third Blood Bead was activated without any surprise.

"Hm? Nothing?" As the twenty-third Blood Bead opened, Yusuf Zuck suddenly realized that there was no feedback information. Instead, as the twenty-three Blood Beads merged into the soul bead, the palm-sized phantom grew another palm’s length, stretching to nearly a foot long.

Of course, his consciousness expanded threefold, and everything tripled in size, except no new special abilities emerged.

"Phew–" Yusuf Zuck exhaled a breath of turbid air. Blood Beads were unpredictable; he could never guess what the next activated Blood Bead would bring.