The next moment, Sun Xiaowu leaped high into the air as gold-attuned genetic energy radiated from him like a second sun.

"[Blinding Flash: Thousandfold Echo]!"

Sun Xiaowu's body split into over a thousand clones, so many they seemed to fill the sky. Each was simultaneously real and illusory.

 The thousand clones all used [Golden Divide] simultaneously, coloring the sky in gold and raining down golden feathers in such numbers that it seemed as though a thunderstorm had just formed out of thin air.

The humanoid bug punched all around itself in a flurry in an attempt to defend against the golden feathers. So great were its physical abilities that it actually succeeded in surviving the...