Chapter 653: Chapter 650: Flesh and Blood Avatar
Jiang Jichen had already merged his Divine Thought with the dark void, extending it forward to connect with the nearest altar.
The nearest altar was the Dragon Clan’s altar in Ice Dragon Valley.
As long as his Divine Thought could communicate with it, he could use his Space Technique to teleport there and return to the Mortal World.
Ever since Jiang Jichen obtained the subsequent Cultivation Technique from the Ancient Source Character Scripture, his Seven-Colored Divine Soul had been further refined.
Now, his Seven-Colored Divine Soul had grown to a terrifyingly powerful level.
Therefore, his Seven-Colored Divine Thought easily connected with the Dragon Clan’s altar in Ice Dragon Valley.
Now, with but a single thought, he could cross the endless void and appear in Ice Dragon Valley in the Mortal World.
However, Jiang Jichen did not leave immediately. Instead, he retracted his Divine Thought.
’I need to leave an avatar here in the Six Paths Illusion Realm!’
Jiang Jichen thought to himself.
Creating an ordinary avatar wasn’t difficult, and there were several types of them!
The most common was the Divine Thought Avatar, like the one belonging to Chang Xian’Er that Jiang Jichen had obliterated earlier.
This type of avatar had limited strength and very little room for improvement.
But there was also the Divine Soul Avatar, which was imbued with a wisp of one’s own soul, like the Holy Mountain Saint Venerable’s, which Jiang Jichen had destroyed with a single punch.
Then there were the avatars of the Feng Family’s Young Master, Chang Xian’Er, and the Heavenly Sword Alliance’s Young Master Tianyao, all of whom Jiang Jichen had killed back in the Mortal World.
Divine Soul Avatars were more high-level than Divine Thought Avatars. They could cultivate on their own and had room to grow stronger.
Finally, by merging the Divine Soul Avatar back into the true body, one could enhance their own Cultivation.
However, one could only create a single Divine Soul Avatar.
Only Divine Thought Avatars had no limit on their number.
Of course, creating either a Divine Thought Avatar or a Divine Soul Avatar required an enormous price.
This was especially true for a Divine Soul Avatar, which could even directly consume several years of the true body’s Cultivation.
Furthermore, the more powerful the Cultivator, the greater the cost in Cultivation to create an avatar.
That’s why after reaching the Saint Realm, most people wouldn’t casually create a Divine Soul Avatar unless it was absolutely necessary.
However, besides these two types of avatars, there was another, legendary type: a flesh and blood avatar!
Using one’s own flesh and blood, imbued with a Divine Soul, to shape an existence nearly identical to the true body.
But this required a corresponding Secret Technique.
It was just that such Secret Techniques were thought to be lost to the world.
As it happened, Jiang Jichen’s collection of Azure Heaven Secret Skills contained such a Cultivation Technique.
It was called the Blood and Flesh Soul Fusion Self Method!
’Creating a flesh and blood avatar has three benefits. First, it can act on my behalf in the Six Paths Illusion Realm. Second, it can cultivate and enter seclusion in place of my true body. Third, it serves as an extra trump card. Even if my true body is destroyed, with the help of the Demon Phoenix Technique and the flesh and blood avatar, I can definitely achieve a true self rebirth.’
Jiang Jichen mulled this over and made his decision.
One thing that set a flesh and blood avatar apart from other avatars was that even if the true body was destroyed, the power it released would be fed back to the flesh and blood avatar through a Secret Technique.
Depending on the person’s specific Secret Technique, constitution, and other factors, the amount of power fed back would vary.
Some could feed back fifty or sixty percent!
Some could even achieve a one-hundred-percent restoration of their true self, their strength completely undiminished.
But the most terrifying possibility was reaching the legendary Fusion Realm, where the avatar’s Cultivation and the true body’s Cultivation would merge into one. Not only would their power not decrease, it would become even stronger!
In contrast, if the true body of a Divine Thought or Divine Soul Avatar died, the avatar would die with it.
Once he made his decision, Jiang Jichen no longer hesitated. He directly condensed a drop of his Blood of Origin.
But just condensing this single drop of blood made Jiang Jichen’s face turn as pale as paper in an instant. He immediately became incredibly weak, as if he had just endured a terrifying life-and-death battle.
With the drop of Blood of Origin, Jiang Jichen’s hands became a blur as he unleashed the Secret Technique.
The Blood and Flesh Soul Fusion Self Method, step one: Condensing Flesh and Blood!
Jiang Jichen formed a sealing technique with his hands, sending an endless stream of Seven-Color Secret Light into the drop of Blood of Origin.
Gradually, the drop of Blood of Origin blossomed with a brilliant light. A figure that looked identical to Jiang Jichen began to transform from illusory to solid.
This was another him, made of real flesh and blood!
The powerful heart in its chest beat like a war drum.
With that, the first step—forming the body of flesh and blood—was complete.
Step two: Fusing the Soul with the Body!
Jiang Jichen needed to separate a sliver of his Divine Soul and then merge it into this physical body.
Separating one’s soul was an excruciatingly painful process.
It was like taking an invisible blade and slicing off a corner of a complete soul.
The tearing pain that came from the soul was not something an ordinary person could endure.
But Jiang Jichen was a Body Refiner, and his willpower was abnormally strong. This amount of pain was not enough to faze him.
Without so much as furrowing his brow, Jiang Jichen sliced off a corner of his soul.
At that moment, his Sea of Consciousness trembled as if a tsunami were sweeping through it.
If Jiang Jichen’s Divine Soul hadn’t been powerful enough, it would never have been able to withstand it and would have surely collapsed.
Therefore, even with the Secret Technique, not just anyone could create a flesh and blood avatar.
If one’s willpower wasn’t strong enough or their soul wasn’t resilient enough, the only outcome would be the complete annihilation of their soul.
Even someone like Jiang Jichen, with his Divine Soul now damaged and his physical body weakened, was on the verge of collapse.
However, Jiang Jichen still didn’t stop.
The severed corner of his Seven-Colored Divine Soul floated into the body of flesh and blood.
"Soul Fusion!"
Jiang Jichen let out a cold shout, and the corner of his Divine Soul began to fuse with the physical body.
However, this was not something that could be completed in an instant. It needed to merge bit by bit, to truly become one indivisible entity.
Fortunately, Jiang Jichen cultivated the Ancient Source Character Scripture, which allowed the fusion of Ten Thousand Spirits without rejection, so the process went very smoothly.
「Three days later.」
Jiang Jichen’s flesh and blood avatar was complete.
It looked identical to him and was completely under the control of his true body.
As for its power, it currently possessed thirty percent of his true body’s strength!
This was already astonishing, and it could continuously raise the avatar’s Cultivation Realm and power through cultivation.
After completing the flesh and blood avatar, Jiang Jichen’s true body was left incredibly weak.
He first had the flesh and blood avatar return to the Luochen Domain to watch over the Luochen Sect.
With that done, he no longer needed to worry about the Six Paths Illusion Realm and could leave with peace of mind.
Next, Jiang Jichen’s true body began to recover.
Recovering from creating a flesh and blood avatar was generally very difficult.
This was because it required using one’s Original Essence Blood and a corner of their Divine Soul.
Damage to the Divine Soul, in particular, was the hardest to recover from.
But this didn’t pose a problem for Jiang Jichen. He possessed a vast number of Ghost Soul Stones, so recovering his soul was not difficult.
「One month later.」
Jiang Jichen’s Divine Soul, power, and Cultivation returned to their peak.
He then once again infused his Divine Thought into the ancient altar, communicating with the altar in Ice Dragon Valley across the dark void.
Following that, he activated his Space Technique, and the Teleportation Altar was triggered.
The next moment, secret patterns flowed across the altar, and a strange runic light erupted, enveloping Jiang Jichen.
The runic light carried an ancient, weathered aura, making Jiang Jichen feel as if he had traveled back to the era of Primordial Chaos.
WHOOSH!
Jiang Jichen’s figure vanished from the ancient altar.