Lu Yin opened his eyes, exhausted. He lifted a hand and stared at it as he clenched his fist. Right now, he felt completely helpless; he could not cultivate the Nine Clones Secret Technique.

The first step of the secret technique required a person to sense their own subconscious and then condense it to the point where it almost took on a physical state. After that, the person would need to split their subconscious into nine parts and then use their own blood and bone to create various bodies that the eight subconscious fragments could enter. Once the fragments of the subconscious merged with the sub bodies formed from the original’s blood and bone, a person would have successfully cultivated the Nine Clones Secret Technique.

This was why each of the nine clones would have a different and unique personality; each was formed from a unique fragment of a person’s subconscious. This was also why there was never any possibility of them betraying the main body, as the eight clones were never true bodies, but rather portioned off bits of a person’s body and subconscious. This was also why the eight clones could merge back with the main body.

This was the foundational concept behind the Nine Clones Secret Technique. As long as a person understood this foundation, they would be able to follow the secret technique and split their mind apart and create the sub bodies. However, the seal on Lu Yin’s back prevented him from separating his blood and mind.

Not only had the seal tried to stop Lu Yin from progressing with his cultivation, but it also prevented...