Unbeatable! Invincible! Unparalleled!

"You... you want to call yourself the Utmost Being?" Liu Sheng Juan that was always composed almost choked on himself.

Isn't this clone a little too overbearing with its naming?

Usually, formidable experts in the world would want to be nicknamed uniquely so that they can be differentiated from the others such as, Night Monarch, Blood Emperor, Red Devil Hand, Tribunal Emissary and others. Although all their names sounded domineering and scary, this clone is on an another higher level!

To think that it dared to call itself as the Utmost Being... didn't that practically meant that he stood above all existences in the entirety of the Tian continent?

Is it not scared of incurring the wrath and ire of others?

Heck, I felt like I want to pummel him right now!

Turning his head slightly to glance at Liu Sheng Juan by the corners of his eyes, he replied with a frown, "Is there anyone else that deserves to be called as such? If so, let me meet that person and challenge him or her to a life and death duel!" he said as he puffed his chest proudly.

Pu!

Duan Li could no longer take it and and made some dry coughs to interject the other party.

"Hey! Let's focus on the objective here shall we? You can call yourself whatever you want, but don't make troubles out of empty air and implicate me and my image!" Duan Li said sternly.

This clone... he was only formed just recently, but as if born from a bad egg, he wanted to cause ruckus right off the bat!

What life and death duel?

Sure, you might be the strongest existence right now in the Tian continent, but you can only be this smug and cocky because you copied my overbearing prowess that can shatter the Heavens and implode the nine skies!

Shouldn't that nickname belonged to me instead?

Cough! Cough!

Duan Li's clone harrumphed and closed his eyes when he read Duan Li's thoughts.

A chick follows the chicken after all!

"By objective, do you intend to make this clone of yours replace you?" Liu Sheng Juan asked directly.

"En! Although his personality and attitudes are not as humble as mine, I can guarentee that he is at least a perfect copy of myself in physiology and strength! Furthermore, we can exchange thoughts almost instantly so you can relay important information to me via him." Duan Li answered with a nod.

Hearing this, Liu Sheng Juan cupped his chin and pondered for a while before nodding as he ignored Duan Li's humble bragging. "Fine. Even my senses could not detect anything out of ordinary from him. With that being the case, I'm sure that others wouldn't be able to sense anything as well."

Duan Li could finally sighed in relief. What he said was all true and that this clone of his do really possess all of his combat capabilities and skills! In fact, the clone was actually even stronger than him right now by a huge margin!

After all, when the clone made a copy of himself via his spiritual Qi, through their thought sharing process, he was able to understand that his clone was literally him in his perfect uninjured state!

To give a perspective as to how strong that was, he was already able to fight on par with Cao Tengfei who had stepped into the Early Stage of the Escaping Mortality realm with only 30 percent of his full capabilities. In his hundred percent stable condition, he had conquered Queen Levy which was at the Pinnacle stage of the Escaping Mortality realm before!

"Alright, wait for a moment as I construct a spatial portal for you..." Liu Sheng Juan said. But right after he finished that sentence, Duan Li's clone, the Utmost Being snorted, "You are saying?"

With a flick of his finger, a spatial portal appeared right before them.

Weng!!

This had Liu Sheng Juan's eyes almost popped out from its sockets.

"S-Spatial arts? When did you..." he stuttered in between his words with his expression in disbelief.

Spatial arts has always been both elusive and exclusive skill arts that not just anyone could learn!

Take for example the Jiu Empire, how many people was able to use the spatial arts? To date, according to the people Duan Li met, only Bian Tianyu - the Principal of the Jixue Knights Academy, Jiu Xian Ping - the Emperor, Ancestor Zong - the Millennium Yidara Tree and himself!

To his knowledge, the other party hadn't yet learned any skill related to the spatial arts!

Thus, how could this possibly be?

"Ah! From the Wisdom Stone that the Principal lend to me, I was able to search for the manual books of this particular skill!" Duan Li replied.

"The Wisdom Stone?" Liu Sheng Juan furrowed his brows, unconvinced.

Even if that was the case, although the Wisdom Stone copied everything inside the library as a softcopy, the spatial arts contained within it was only theories at best!

As for the actual manual book for spatial arts, there exist only one right now in the Jiu Empire, which was currently stored in the Emperor's spatial ring for safekeeping!

Did this fellow stole it from His Majesty?

Noticing the suspicious look the other party was giving him, Duan Li explained, "Through the numerous theories depicted in the manual books regarding Spatial arts, I was able to analyze and deduce the correct method to at least be able to create a spatial portal two days ago when I was bored..."

"..." Liu Sheng Juan.

You learnt it when you were bored?

Peng!

A sudden headache assaulted his brain at this moment and he almost collapsed to the ground as his kneecaps were failing him.

The sheer complexity of learning Spatial arts was not for the faint-hearted. In fact, the requirements were actually pretty strict!

Firstly, unless one was at the Pinnacle Stage of the Nascent Soul realm, one would never be able execute even the most simplest form of Spatial arts! After all, it was said that Spatial arts was actually an exclusive skill of the immortals!

According to the legends, one day, a kind-hearted Immortal descended onto the mortal realm to cultivate his state of mind by observing the mundane life of the mortals. Throughout his journey, he eventually decided to become a servant of an expert while keeping his identity a secret. This Lord of his was very fond of his grand daughter and when she was sent to a Sect, the Lord would cry every night worrying about her.

Coming to an epiphany by watching this every night, this Immortal was able to conceptualize a certain mysterious skill. To thank that Lord, the Immortal gifted him a simplified version of Spatial arts!

From there, the Spatial arts was eventually disseminated throughout the Tian continent overtime, but only people that stood on the top of the power ranking in the world would be able to possess the means to obtain at least a partial true copy of the Spatial arts, while the rest could only dish out possible theories on it!

Liu Sheng Juan himself had to temper his state of mind and understand a few extraordinary conceptualization about space and time before he was finally able to use spatial arts, and it took him a good few years to be able create a spatial portal!

Yet, to think that this fellow in front of him was able to learn it a few days ago, not to mention that the reason was because the other party was bored...

Heavens! I know that he is the chosen one, but could you at least make the difficulty fair for us that are struggling everyday?

Hais!

Forget it! This person even dared to play around with his three dantians and successfully cultivated them without becoming a fool...

Exhaling a deep sigh, Liu Sheng Juan gestured, "Alright, then let's head over to the Imperial Palace first together. The Emperor must at least know about this." He then waved his hand to create a spatial portal of his own.

Duan Li scratched his head in embarrassment, "Clone, make a spatial portal for me!"

"Ah? You injured dog, this is why you shouldn't play with fire back then! You are embarrassing me with your handicapped abilities!" Utmost Being said with a displeased tone.

Why is his original so unreliable?

"Shut up! You are my clone! How dare you talk to me that way!" Duan Li barked out.

"Big deal, what can you even do about- ahh!!" Utmost Being was just about to scoff in disdain before a crushing pain struck at his crotch! It felt as though his b*lls were being crushed!

He forgot that Duan Li could punish him with a single thought as clones were derived from the spiritual Qi of their original. This was a countermeasure against clones that sometimes grew rebellious with their unstable and random personality upon birth.

Seeing this farce, Liu Sheng Juan slapped his forehead, "Can we go now? I don't have all day and have some business to attend to after this..." he said helplessly. He felt as though he was baby-sitting two children!

"Hmph! You are embarrassing us! Hurry up with the portal already!" Duan Li bellowed angrily.

"Fine!" Utmost Being replied indignantly before flicking his index finger, creating another spatial portal for Duan Li.

This original of mine is too uncouth and barbaric, to be so forceful with his means!

And so, the trio entered their respective spatial portal...

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