After resting for a few days, Gu Zheng began to refine his doppelganger again. When he stopped this time, the doppelganger would have the Five Elements Immortal Sphere inside it. It would take about seven years.
In the eyes of Meow Meow and the others, Gu Zheng seemed to be asleep while refining his doppelganger. In reality, Gu Zheng didn't dare to be careless about refining his doppelganger at all. He was busy in a world where Meow Meow and the others couldn't see.
Time flew by and in the blink of an eye, another seven years had passed.
Gu Zheng opened his eyes again. His doppelganger now had the Five Elements Immortal Sphere inside it.
"Master!"
"Mister!"
Seeing Gu Zheng wake up, Die Ling and Meow Meow called out.
Nothing special happened in these seven years. Meow Meow and the others didn't make much progress in their cultivation. The only thing worth mentioning was that they went out many times to collect ingredients for Gu Zheng.
"Gu Zheng!"
Sensing that Gu Zheng had woken up, the weapon spirit who hadn't entered a deep cultivation state called out happily.
Gu Zheng was naturally very happy to see the weapon spirit. In the blink of an eye, he hadn't talked to the weapon spirit for more than ten years. This had never happened since he had the weapon spirit.
Compared to Die Ling and Meow Meow, the weapon spirit's cultivation progress was more obvious. According to her, if she could cultivate like this for another hundred years, she would be able to enter a state where everything would be ready. All she had to do was wait for Gu Zheng to master the Dao of Space and then try to take her out of the chaos dimension.
"Master, how many days do you plan to rest this time?"
Die Ling asked Gu Zheng after chatting for a while.
"What's the matter?"
Gu Zheng didn't read Die Ling's mind, but he could see from her eyes that she seemed to have something to say.
"I want to learn the Dao of Space Concealment," Die Ling said.
The Dao of Space Concealment was a very useful Space God Art. When Gu Zheng searched Ning Cui's soul, he learned it by chance. Later in the Scarred Canyon, he used it to avoid a lot of trouble.
After learning the Dao of Space Concealment, Gu Zheng wanted to show Die Ling what he saw when he searched Ning Cui's soul. He wanted to see if Die Ling could learn the Dao of Space Concealment by chance. After all, Die Ling was good at sneak attacks and had the foundation of the Elementary Dao of Space. She had a high chance of learning the Dao of Space Concealment.
However, when Gu Zheng wanted to teach Die Ling the Dao of Space Concealment, Die Ling felt that she wasn't in the right state of mind so this matter was left until now.
"Now that you want to receive the teachings of 'Spatial Concealment', is it because you feel that you can comprehend it, or do you need to use this divine ability?" Gu Zheng smiled.
"Firstly, I can feel it. Secondly, I want to use this ability."
Die Ling smiled and told Gu Zheng something.
Previously, Gu Zheng knew that the world outside the circle might be larger than the Primordial World. After all, it was a higher level plane than the Primordial World.
In the past few years, Die Ling and the angry man had traveled very far in the outside world. They found a ruin, but felt that it was dangerous. Die Ling wanted to see if she could learn Space Concealment, so she went in alone to observe.
After hearing the butterfly spirit's description, Gu Zheng felt his heart itch. There were many monsters in this plane, but to be precise, these so-called monsters could only be called ferocious beasts. They didn't have much intelligence, let alone high intelligence lifeforms that could create ruins. Unfortunately, Gu Zheng had an appointment with Qixuan fairy. He needed to refine his large success avatar to perfection. He didn't have much time. Therefore, he could only stay in the cave and continue refining his avatar.
"If it was just fierce beasts, I wouldn't be too worried even if this was a higher level plane. But since it's a ruin, you have to be careful! "
Gu Zheng warned Die Ling and then sat cross-legged facing her. He replayed the scene he saw when he searched Ning Cui's soul.
Whether or not Die Ling could comprehend the Dao, Gu Zheng could only say that she had a high chance of succeeding. However, the final result would depend on her own luck.
The angry man and the others all held their breaths. The surroundings were terrifyingly quiet. No one knew what Die Ling was thinking in the Mysterious Realm. Even Gu Zheng was the same.
Time slowly passed. The atmosphere was so quiet that it made people panic.
Suddenly, Gu Zheng's eyebrows twitched. He opened his eyes and a smile appeared at the corner of his lips. As the person who taught Dao to Die Ling, he might not know what Die Ling thought about the things she saw in Mystical Realm, but he could immediately know whether Die Ling had comprehended Dao or not.
"Great, I comprehended the Dao of Space Concealment!"
Die Ling opened her eyes and cheered. Comprehending the Dao of Space Concealment was like adding wings to a tiger.
Everyone couldn't help but congratulate Die Ling. After a small gathering for half a day, Die Ling and the angry man went to explore the ruins. Gu Zheng rested for another seven days before starting to refine his avatar again.
After entering the refining state, Gu Zheng couldn't feel the passage of time. All he could feel was the exhaustion in his body.
His body was getting more and more tired. His avatar was getting closer and closer to perfection. All the preparations were done. Now, Gu Zheng just needed to put his Divine Sense into his avatar and it would be perfect.
The amount of Divine Sense he put into his avatar would affect how much Divine Sense Ability the avatar could use. Of course, there was a limit to how much Divine Sense he could put in. It had to be determined by Gu Zheng's overall situation.
The amount of Divine Sense Gu Zheng put in his avatar was the same as when he became a cultivator. This was the most suitable amount for his avatar.
After separating a part of his Divine Sense from his main body, Gu Zheng slowly guided it into his avatar. This was a very careful process and there were many things he had to pay attention to. After all, this was the final stage of refining his avatar. As long as he could perfectly guide his Divine Sense into his avatar, it would exist like a spring. Even if his avatar couldn't cultivate on its own, his Divine Sense would be like a normal cultivator's Divine Sense and would automatically recover. At the same time, his avatar would have the ability to think and truly become a second Gu Zheng!
Finally, the Divine Sense separated from Gu Zheng's main body completely entered his avatar. The avatar's aura was completely different at this moment. It had the exact same aura as Gu Zheng and looked no different from a normal person.
From the time Gu Zheng started refining his avatar until now, it had taken a total of 29 years. The avatar, whose eyes had been closed for 29 years, finally opened them at this moment.
As soon as his clear black eyes opened, the avatar first looked around and then his gaze fell on Gu Zheng. He smiled and said, "Main body."
It was a simple greeting, but Gu Zheng's heart was filled with countless emotions. Looking at his avatar, he really felt as if he was looking at himself in a mirror.
Gu Zheng didn't say anything. He reached out to his avatar and the avatar reached out to him. The two shook hands.
"Congratulations, Mister!"
Meow Meow cheered from the side. The two identical Gu Zhengs gave her a very strange feeling.
"How should I address Mister's avatar in the future?"
Meow Meow asked curiously as she rubbed Gu Zheng's shoulder with her little hands. She looked at the avatar moving around in the cave and asked Gu Zheng.
"He's another me. You can call him Mister," Gu Zheng said.
"Mister, is it really impossible for an avatar to do that?" Meow Meow's eyes were filled with worry.
"Don't worry, he won't!"
Gu Zheng understood that Meow Meow was worried that the avatar would betray its master. Since ancient times, there had indeed been such cases of avatars refined by cultivators. After the avatar gained the ability to think independently, as time passed, it no longer regarded the main body as its master and even wanted to kill the main body to take over. However, such cases were extremely rare. Every cultivator who refined an avatar would set up some measures during the refinement process to prevent such a situation from occurring.
The Earth Embryo avatar was different from traditional avatars. It wouldn't betray its master because the source of its consciousness was provided by Gu Zheng. Its mission was to act as a backup for the main body. If it had any unusual thoughts, even if the main body wasn't in the same space as it, it would still be able to sense it. It could be said that the Earth Embryo avatar's safety was even higher than a master contract.
Seeing that Gu Zheng was serious, Meow Meow's worries were put to rest.
"Mister, what level of cultivator is the avatar equivalent to?" Meow Meow asked curiously.
"Even with the Five Elements Immortal Ball and the Yin-Yang Immortal Ball in his body, he's still only at the early stage of Qi Condensation. If you want to raise him, you'll need a lot of luck." Gu Zheng sighed.
"What about Die Ling and Rage Man?" Gu Zheng asked.
"Mister, ever since they left that time, they haven't returned." Meow Meow said worriedly.
"That time? That time when they learned Space Concealment? "Gu Zheng frowned.
"Yes!" Meow Meow smiled wryly.
It had been eleven years since Butterfly Spirit had comprehended 'Space Concealment'.
In the ruins that Die Ling and the angry man went to, after Gu Zheng taught Die Ling the Dao of Space Concealment, he asked for Die Ling's Spirit Sense Map just in case. He didn't expect it to come in handy today.
From the map, with Die Ling and Rage Man's speed, as long as the exploration of the ruins went smoothly, six years would be enough for them to make a round trip. Most of the time would be spent on the road.
Ten years had passed, but Die Ling and Rage Man still hadn't returned. This meant that something had happened to them! Luckily, Gu Zheng and Die Ling didn't have an ordinary relationship with each other. Gu Zheng could sense their life and death situations, and the two of them were still alive.
"Let's go out and get some exercise." Gu Zheng said.
"Fellow Daoist, can I go with you?" Sun Cheng asked.
"Forget it, you can stay here and cultivate!" Gu Zheng said.
Although Sun Cheng had used Commander Starlight, a few decades wasn't enough for his cultivation to increase greatly. He was still in the early Daluo Jinxian stage. Since Die Ling and Rage Man were trapped, it wouldn't be of any help to him.
Gu Zheng didn't know what Die Ling and Rage Man's predicament was like, but he knew that he had to return in five months. Five months later, the spatial rift would open, and he had to return to the wilderness to fulfill his promise with Qixuan Fairy.
After putting Meow Meow into the Chaos Pagoda, Gu Zheng left the cave and used Meteor Overtaking Moon to rush towards the ruins.
Using Meteor Overtaking Moon, Gu Zheng soon arrived near the ruins.
The ruins were in a huge mountain range. The surroundings were barren, and there were traces of battles from who knew how many years ago.
The architectural style of the surface was different from that of the wilderness. Gu Zheng knew that Die Ling and Rage Man had discovered a different world below the ruins, and then returned to learn Spatial Concealment.
According to Die Ling's description, Gu Zheng found the entrance to the underground of the ruins and entered a huge underground city-like building.
Not feeling any danger, Gu Zheng continued forward. He paid attention to the surroundings, and understood that the person who could build this kind of ruins, according to the standards of immortal cultivators, was an outstanding figure in the Quasi-Sage stage! There were some formations and restrictions left behind in the ruins, and they could still affect ordinary Quasi-Sages.
The underground city was very large, and Gu Zheng spent some time to walk into the most luxurious hall.
The originally luxurious hall was now in ruins. Gu Zheng found traces of Die Ling's Darkmoon dagger on the brutal walls.
Reaching out with his hand, Gu Zheng brushed the void and ripples appeared in the air within the hall. Under Gu Zheng's control, time began to reverse.
One day.
One month.
One year.
Five years.
In the time it took to brew a cup of tea, Gu Zheng returned time to the day of the incident, and saw what happened in the hall.
Die Ling and Rage Man were fighting a group of demons outside the circle. There were eight of them, and they were all Quasi-Sages. Die Ling and Rage Man were no match for the demons, and in the end, the demons worked together to cast a spell, causing an immortal formation to appear in the air, and Die Ling and Rage Man were sucked into it.
With a thought, Gu Zheng stopped time, and the scene in the hall froze at the moment Die Ling and Rage Man were sucked into the light.
"The Dao of Space."
Gu Zheng murmured after staring at the light for a while.
"Mister, what is the use of the Dao of Space?" Meow Meow asked.
"There are two possibilities. Either he used this technique to send Die Ling and the angry man to another plane, or he used this technique to send Die Ling and the angry man into a space similar to an immortal artifact," said Gu Zheng.
"Mister, what do we do now?" Meow Meow asked.
"Now? Let's make a good meal first. "Gu Zheng said.
Now that he knew what kind of enemy Die Ling and Rage Man encountered, Gu Zheng's next step was to find where the enemy was. Although he could use the Dao of Time to turn back time, it wasn't realistic to use the Dao of Time to find the enemy! Thus, Gu Zheng decided to make a good meal to see if he could attract any demons, and then try to get relevant information from them.
Gu Zheng killed an immortal bear he was raising in the void space, and added some supplementary ingredients to roast it.
As the roasted bear started to emit oil, the aroma spread in all directions.
By the time Gu Zheng finished roasting the bear, many fierce beasts had gathered around. They looked at the roasted bear, and their saliva dripped onto the ground.
Ordinary fierce beasts were useless to Gu Zheng. Even if they had memories, as long as it wasn't something major, their memories wouldn't be retained for too long. Gu Zheng couldn't be bothered to waste time soul-searching them. Thus, Gu Zheng had already set up a few rings of restrictions on the ground. He would only soul-search fierce beasts that broke through a certain number of rings.
Gu Zheng had set up a total of five rings of restrictions. Currently, most of the fierce beasts were isolated outside of the five rings. A dozen or so fierce beasts had entered the fourth ring, and one fierce beast had entered the third ring.
According to Gu Zheng's original plan, he wanted to search the soul of a Ferocious Beast that had entered the second ring. This kind of Ferocious Beast already had the strength of a Golden Immortal. Even if its intelligence was not high, at least its memory would be preserved for a longer time, and the possibility of finding useful information would be higher. Unfortunately, he had already started eating, but no fierce beasts that could enter the second ring had appeared.
"Mister, why don't I soul-search the fierce beast in the third ring first?" Meow Meow asked.
"There's no rush. Let's eat first!" Gu Zheng said.
After eating another piece of roasted bear meat that was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, Gu Zheng drank a mouthful of immortal wine and stood up. Although there were still no ferocious beasts in the second ring, he discovered a little thing wandering around the fifth ring.
The little thing looked like a puppy. It wasn't like other fierce beasts that were attracted by the aroma and recklessly charged forward. It seemed to be somewhat restrained, anxiously circling around the perimeter a few times. Although it was drooling quite a bit, its eyes were still alert.
It was a simple roasted bear, but it contained Gu Zheng's understanding of food and drink. Its aroma contained the power of Tao! A fierce beast that could resist the power of Tao was definitely equivalent to Daluo Jinxian in strength, and its intelligence wasn't low either.
"I won't kill you. I just want to find some useful information from you, and then the rest of the roasted bear meat is yours."
Using telepathy, language wasn't a problem at all. As long as the other party was intelligent enough, they could understand even if the language was different.
Gu Zheng's telepathy had a suppressive force, and the puppy was intelligent enough to understand Gu Zheng's intentions.
The puppy was very frightened, but it didn't run away. It whimpered at Gu Zheng, indicating that it was willing to cooperate.
"Not bad."
Gu Zheng smiled, reached out and pulled the puppy to his side, then soul-searched it.
Unfortunately, Gu Zheng didn't find any particularly useful information in the puppy's memories. This guy had only settled down in the area three years ago, so it naturally didn't know much about the things that happened in the ruins. However, Gu Zheng still found some indirect information. There was a so-called 'Beast King' here, and it had lived here for hundreds of years.
Gu Zheng didn't kill the puppy. After leaving the roasted bear for it, he appeared outside the cave where the Beast King was.
The Beast King's cave was only a few hundred miles away from the ruins. In the puppy's memories, the toad-like Beast King had jurisdiction over an area of a thousand miles.
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