Chapter 549: Curse Technique! Gathering Blood-Malevolent qi! clone Technique Complete! Twin Sisters!

“What gift?” Prince Qing asked.

“Do you remember the training ground I used for the blood sacrifice?” Prince Qing’s heir said with a smile.

In response, Prince Qing nodded.

“I erased the formations there, but gathered the blood-malevolent qi, making it several times stronger than usual and extremely conspicuous! Those self-proclaimed righteous cultivators will definitely attempt to dispel the blood-malevolent qi. Otherwise, over time, something strange will inevitably be born.”

“I laid a curse technique there. Even if a Yang Spirit expert intervenes, the curse will weaken their Dao cultivation! For anyone below the third realm, any second-realm cultivator trying to dispel the malevolent qi there would instantly die, suffering backlash.”

Prince Qing’s heir smiled slightly, his expression cold.

“I naturally trust your methods, but why not set up a grand formation directly in Liang County, like the previous city-slaughtering formation?” Prince Qing asked.

“That would be too obvious and easy to detect. The talisman I used comes from a tomb and can manipulate malevolent qi. Right now, the malevolent qi within hundreds of li is likely being drawn there,” Prince Qing’s heir said calmly.

Prince Qing, not a cultivator himself, deeply admired his heir’s abilities.

He smiled and said, “The world should be yours to command. Alas, I am only a prince.”

“The world is nothing. Father, don’t say that. I’ll gladly conquer it for you, forever and ever. You’ll be the founding emperor then,” the heir replied with a smile.

It was as if the vast world were just a game in his eyes. The rise and fall of dynasties, power struggles, and battlefield contests were mere trivialities for their amusement.

Prince Qing brightened at this, but said nothing. The father-son relationship was indeed peculiar.

Suddenly, Prince Qing’s heir scowled.

“What’s wrong?” Prince Qing asked.

However, his heir fell silent, his face darkening. “The curse I set did not take effect, and the gathered malevolent qi has vanished!”

𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Just moments ago, they had been boasting to each other, and now the truth had slapped them in the face.

Prince Qing’s heir furrowed his brow.

“Strange! How could this be? I clearly used methods targeting both the Buddha and Dao. Any form of exorcism should have triggered the curse! Could it be Xu Tiannan? No... his primordial-spirit force cultivation is also a Daoist tradition.”

Prince Qing’s heir looked toward the distance, his eyes dark and unsettled.

***

That evening, Li Yanchu and the others arrived at a large city in Donglin Prefecture, Mianzhou City. Mianzhou was wealthy and populous, and had not previously suffered from rebel disturbances.

However, if Qingfeng Ridge fell, Mianzhou would be the first to face danger. It was the nearest city and could easily become the third city to be massacred.

Li Yanchu was assigned to a spacious courtyard. The pavilions, terraces, waterside corridors, and the fengshui layout were excellent, and the environment was exceptionally beautiful. It belonged to the wealthy Wei family of Mianzhou.

The head of the Wei family was overjoyed that a young celestial, a Daoist prodigy, had been assigned to stay in his residence. Meeting such a figure was extremely rare for a merchant of immense wealth like him.

Xu Tiannan of the Great Xiangguo Temple controlled military and political affairs in Donglin Prefecture, acting like an imperial commissioner. Indeed, his power was awe-inspiring, and thus the officials of Mianzhou all showed obvious respect for Xu Tiannan. Even more so, the Wei family, as prominent merchants, treated him with utmost deference.

Since Xu Tiannan valued this young Daoist highly and spoke with him as an equal, it was clear that the young Daoist’s status was astonishingly prestigious.

The Wei family was one of the top clans in Mianzhou. Half of the city’s commerce was controlled by them; their financial resources were abundant. Their business extended throughout Donglin Prefecture.

Yet the Wei family head treated Li Yanchu with extreme respect, practically wishing to cultivate a connection with the young celestial.

***

At this moment, Li Yanchu sat in his room, meditating and circulating breath to cultivate the clone technique. This spell was exceedingly subtle; the clones produced possessed the same strength as the original.

Unlike those ordinary “trick” clone techniques, this one was different. Once fully cultivated, after forty-nine days of training, the clone’s strength would be almost equal to the original, and this could massively boost combat power! It was especially suitable for someone like Li Yanchu, who possessed numerous magical artifacts.

In a battle, just two Li Yanchus wielding their artifacts could easily force an opponent to their knees.

He traced the flow of his magical power according to the clone technique and continued cultivating.

Suddenly, a mysterious aura emanated from him. Li Yanchu, wearing his Daoist robe and sitting cross-legged on the bed, saw a figure step out from his own body; it was an exact duplicate of himself!

Li Yanchu slowly opened his eyes and met the gaze of the other him, then a broad grin spread across his face.

“It worked! I did it!” He was overjoyed!

After forty-nine days, the clone technique would double his combat power. This was not a simple one-plus-one-equals-two scenario. His cultivation speed would also double, and his understanding of divine techniques and spells would accelerate.

He examined the clone and realized it was a partial spirit projection, not an independent entity, entirely controlled by his mind. The sensation was extraordinarily subtle and profound.

Testing it, he found that the clone only had the physique of a second-tier martial cultivator and an intermediate Qi Cultivation Realm cultivation; basically, it was quite weak.

Yet it could wield numerous powerful artifacts, such as the Lightning Pool Sand, the Gengjia Skyneedle, the Earthbreaker Pearl, and so on. Its burst combat potential was astonishing.

After forty-nine days, it will reach full maturity. Jia’s gift is really impressive

, Li Yanchu thought.

After all, he had gone to great lengths to kill Jia’s previous incarnation, and yet Jia had given him such a special technique, along with the invisibility-granting Golden Radiance Crown. Jia was meticulous, indeed.

After familiarizing himself with the clone’s nuances, Li Yanchu withdrew the divine technique and stored it in his dantian’s energy sea for nurturing.

Knock, knock, knock!

Suddenly, there was a knock at the room’s door. Li Yanchu went over and opened it.

Standing there were two stunning young women, both voluptuous and exquisitely beautiful, each with captivating features. Most importantly, they were identical twins.

“Greetings, Daoist Master Li,” the twin sisters said in a sweet, delicate voice.

“Hmm, what’s the matter?” Li Yanchu asked.

“Our master sent us to serve you, Daoist Master,” one of the young beauties replied.

This Wei really knew how to pick women...

Li Yanchu raised an eyebrow.

“No need. I must cultivate,” he said, putting away any strange thoughts and firmly declining.