novelapdf Chapter 514 Paper Dolls! Qingyun City!
Chapter 514 Paper Dolls! Qingyun City!
With a thought, Chen Fan subtly twitched his sleeve.
Ten extremely faint gray-white rays of light flew out from his sleeves and silently disappeared into the dry, cracked earth beneath his feet.
Those were his external avatars created using the secret technique of paper dolls. Each one contained 30% of his original cultivation, enough to simulate the same aura fluctuations as him in a short period of time.
After doing all this, Chen Fan vanished from the spot in a flash!
The golden bowl, which had transformed into a speck of dust invisible to the naked eye, was swept away by the wind amidst the swirling yellow sand.
Just as the golden bowl disappeared, ten figures identical to him shot out from the ground and flew off in all directions: east, west, south, north, up, down, left, and right!
Visible to the naked eye, each of these figures wore a bamboo hat, carried a long sword at their waist, and exuded Chen Fan's unique causal aura!
"What?! There are ten?!"
A startled cry came from the horizon.
The six beams of light paused almost simultaneously.
Wang Zhennan stood in mid-air, his divine sense sweeping over the eleven figures that had scattered and fled, and his face immediately darkened.
"A clone technique?"
He snorted coldly, and his vast divine sense, at the Nascent Soul stage, surged outwards in ten directions like a tidal wave.
However, the next moment, his expression turned even more unpleasant.
Because in his divine sense, all eleven "Chen Fans" exuded an aura that was real and authentic, each with the cultivation fluctuations of the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm, each seemingly genuine.
The concept of cause and effect!
This old eunuch actually incorporated the concept of cause and effect into his clone technique, using the power of cause and effect to confuse the secrets of heaven, making the causal line between the clone and the original body blurry and indistinguishable.
"Impressive tactics!" Wang Zhennan laughed angrily. "A mere mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator possesses such skill; no wonder Wang Xuan fell into your hands!"
He raised his hand and pressed down sharply.
The terrifying pressure of the Nascent Soul stage descended from the sky as if it were a tangible force, causing the ground within a radius of dozens of miles to sink three feet. Two of the ten paper doll clones were directly crushed by this pressure, turning into paper scraps that scattered in the air!
However, the remaining eight clones had already taken advantage of this opening and escaped more than a hundred miles away.
"Split up and chase after him!" Wang Zhennan shouted sharply. "This old eunuch must be hiding inside one of his clones! Don't let him escape!"
The five Nascent Soul late-stage Great Perfection cultivators behind him responded with a roar, each locking onto a clone and giving chase.
Wang Zhennan himself chose the clone with the most solid aura, which transformed into a dark golden rainbow and tore through the sky in pursuit.
His escape speed was more than twice as fast as the paper doll clone. In just a few breaths, he caught up with the clone and struck it down with a palm.
Even a casual strike from a Nascent Soul cultivator is enough to obliterate a late-stage Core Formation cultivator.
Before "Chen Fan" could even turn around, he was blasted into countless fragments by the force of the palm strike.
Paper scraps fell, but there wasn't a soul in sight.
Wang Zhennan's face turned ashen as he chased after the second clone.
A few dozen breaths later, he caught up with it again and smashed it with a single palm strike.
It's still a paper figure.
The third, the fourth, the fifth...
Within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Wang Zhennan chased after five clones, all of which were paper figures.
The clones that the other five Nascent Soul cultivators chased were also proven to be illusions.
The six people reunited, and each of them looked grim.
"Ancestor...none of them are true!" the Nascent Soul cultivator from the Wang family said in a trembling voice.
Wang Zhennan remained silent, but pushed his divine sense to its limit, frantically sweeping in all directions.
However, within a radius of several thousand miles, apart from the sound of wind and yellow sand, there were no other unusual fluctuations.
That old eunuch seemed to have vanished into thin air.
Wang Zhennan took a deep breath and his withered fingers made a grasping motion in the air.
A faint wisp of aura was extracted from the air by him; it was the last trace of aura left behind by Chen Fan himself.
But this wisp of energy was pointing in... every direction.
Cause and effect are confused, and the secrets of heaven are obscured.
He was completely unable to track the location of the true body through its aura.
"Ancestor... what should we do now?" the Zhao family cultivator asked cautiously.
Wang Zhennan slowly closed his eyes, his chest heaving violently several times.
When he opened his eyes again, the calmness and depth that a Nascent Soul stage cultivator should have returned to his gaze.
"This kid is truly remarkable for being able to manipulate us with his mid-Nascent Soul cultivation, especially considering his understanding of cause and effect and his ability to create such lifelike paper dolls..."
Wang Zhennan's voice was low and solemn.
"If this person escapes back to the Southern Region, he will surely become a major threat."
He paused, a cold glint flashing in his eyes: "Send messages to all the major families, sealing off all teleportation arrays and checkpoints in the Great Yu Cultivation Kingdom. Also, spread this person's portrait and aura characteristics throughout the four major cultivation kingdoms of Tiannan Star, as well as the Boundless Sea and the Great Desert Grasslands."
"I'd like to see how long this old eunuch, a mere mid-Nascent Soul cultivator, can hide on Tiannan Star!"
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Three days have passed in the blink of an eye!
For the next three days, Chen Fan did not activate the golden bowl to fly, but let it float with the sand and dust.
Any fluctuation of spiritual energy, any choice of direction, could be detected by the divine sense of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Three days later, the golden bowl dust finally left the barren land and entered a desolate mountain range.
The mountains finally showed some signs of life, with sparse shrubs peeking out from the cracks in the rocks, and occasionally a few grayish-brown lizards could be seen crawling on the rock walls.
Inside the golden bowl.
Chen Fan sat cross-legged, with a jade slip map he had obtained from Baicaotang in front of him.
The jade slip shows the general layout of the Arisaema constellation.
There are four cultivation kingdoms in Tiannanxing: Zhao, Dayu, Chu, and Wei.
Among them, the Zhao Kingdom is a second-level cultivation kingdom, with a Void Refinement Elder overseeing it, making it the strongest force on Tiannan Star!
The Great Yu Cultivation Kingdom is the closest to the sealed land, and it was also the place where he landed this time.
The Great Yu Cultivation Kingdom governs a territory spanning hundreds of thousands of miles, with thirty-six prefectures, each containing dozens of cities.
His current location is the desolate state at the southernmost tip of the Great Yu Cultivation Kingdom.
Huangzhou, as the name suggests, was the most barren and remote prefecture of Yu the Great.
This place is devoid of spiritual energy and resources, and is plagued by sandstorms year-round.
Within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, there are only three cities: Wasteland City, Sand River City, and Qingyun City at the southernmost point.
Qingyun City.
Chen Fan's gaze fell on this name.
The city is the closest to his current location, about two days' journey away.
More importantly, Qingyun City is a city where rogue cultivators gather, a mixed bag of people, and loosely managed, making it a good place for him to temporarily settle down and gather information.
He put the jade slip away and slowly closed his eyes.
Time passed within the bowl, while two more days passed in the outside world.
As the golden bowl floated out of the mountains, signs of human habitation finally appeared before them.
It was a drab little town.
The city wall was not high, only about three zhang (approximately 10 meters), and was entirely constructed of yellowish-brown earth and stone, appearing rough and dilapidated. The array patterns on the wall had long since faded and lost their luster, clearly indicating poor maintenance. The city gate was wide open, and the number of pedestrians coming and going was sparse, mostly dressed in coarse linen clothes, carrying medicine baskets or shoulder poles.