Boom!
Suddenly!
A clone was impaled through the chest by a giant tentacle.
Then, the tentacle writhed slightly, and the clone was sucked into pieces.
If the clone were a true living being, it would have been reduced to a desiccated corpse.
"Roar~"
A massive roar erupted.
Then, from a fractured void, more tentacles emerged.
Dense and countless, it was impossible to tell how many.
"What's going on?" Lin Yu shouted.
"Main body, this fractured void hides this kind of monster. The monster is very powerful; a single clone is no match for it," said a clone that had just finished exploring the void.
Lin Yu's heart skipped a beat.
In this void of nothingness, there were countless fractured voids. If each fractured void contained such a monster, there would be an unfathomable number more than his clones.
"Go, kill this monster first!"
Fortunately, this monster's strength was limited. If one clone was not enough, send more.
Ten clones swarmed forward and engaged the tentacle monster in battle.
"Send a few more, let's finish this quickly!"
Boom!
Another hundred or so clones joined the fray. With over a hundred clones participating, the monster could no longer hold on and was killed by Lin Yu's clones.
A system notification chimed in Lin Yu's mind.
"Ding, you have killed a Fallen One (Great Luo Golden Immortal level), gaining upgrade points..."
"System, use upgrade points to probe the information of the Fallen One!"
Buzz!
A beam of light, visible only to him, scanned the corpse of the Fallen One for a moment. Then, a small, pale white text appeared.
Fallen One: Beings of a void that simultaneously fell at the same point in time, leading to world destruction and the descent of life. Souls aggregated to form a monster called a Fallen One.
Note: Fallen Ones possess the power of corruption.
"I wonder what they encountered back then to cause even the beings of a void to fall."
"Continue to investigate. Once a Fallen One is found, kill it directly!"
The command was given, and the clones continued their operations.
The subsequent actions were extremely dangerous.
New Fallen Ones were constantly discovered. Some clones, unable to dodge in time, were killed by the Fallen Ones and then avenged by a swarm of clones.
Lin Yu's upgrade points also increased rapidly.
Lin Yu breathed a sigh of relief and shifted his attention back to the system.
"System, confirm upgrade talent: Clone!"
"Ding, talent Clone is upgrading..."
"Ding, talent Clone has been upgraded to sssssss+ level!"
"Ding, the following three paths have been activated. The host can choose one!"
"Option one: Clone quantity increases tenfold!"
"Option two: Control distance increases tenfold!"
"Option three: Clones can inherit up to 500% of combat power!"
"Please make your choice!"
Lin Yu did not hesitate and chose the first option.
"Ding, you have made your choice. Your clone quantity has increased to 500 billion!"
"Ding, due to your clone quantity increasing to 500 billion, you have awakened a talent ability!"
"What talent ability?" Lin Yu asked instinctively.
"Ding, congratulations on activating talent ability: Damage Transfer!"
Damage Transfer: Upon taking damage, you can transfer the damage to a clone.
"System, is there anything else?" Lin Yu asked.
"Ding, that's all. Please keep up the good work, host!"
Lin Yu shook his head in disappointment.
It was becoming increasingly difficult to accumulate upgrade points.
He truly wondered how many upgrade points it would take to reach 10s level.
After all, they were only at 7s+ level now, and it already required a massive amount of upgrade points.
However, if others knew he was complaining about the slow upgrade speed, they would surely point fingers and call him ungrateful.
After all, it took him decades to upgrade his talent level once, and accumulating upgrade points for about a thousand years would be enough for him to break through to the Hunyuan realm.
If others knew this speed, they would be so envious they'd spit blood.
"Forget it, I'll continue to accumulate upgrade points. With 500 billion clones now, my strength has surged," he muttered to himself.
Clones!
In the next moment, all the clones reappeared. However, this time there were not fifty billion, but five hundred billion.
Ten times the previous number. Although still not as many as in the void, it was close enough for exploring the void.
"Brothers, go explore the fractured voids, and find all the monsters in them!"
"Once you find a Fallen One, immediately send a message, and surrounding clones will attack it together!"
"Begin!"
Boom!
All the clones sprung into action.
Time flowed by, and a month passed in the blink of an eye.
In this month, Lin Yu killed over ten thousand Fallen Ones.
However, the number of Fallen Ones hidden in the fractured voids remained inexhaustible.
"Damn it, that mysterious existence told me to come here to find the Nine Rings secret, not to kill monsters!"
"Damn it, there are too many monsters. Can I not find the secret without killing them all?"
Another month passed.
Lin Yu killed another hundred thousand monsters. He no longer thought about finding secrets and was completely engrossed in killing monsters.
These hundred thousand were all peak Great Luo Golden Immortal level monsters, providing him with an immense amount of upgrade points.
"Continue!"
Kill!
Time flowed, and ten years passed in the blink of an eye.
Lin Yu had been in this void for ten years.
During this time, the Blue Star had merged with large areas of void and had become increasingly powerful.
However, as the surrounding mergeable void diminished, Lin Yu began to transport the cleared fractured voids for the Blue Star to merge.
With countless fractured voids, the Blue Star no longer lacked void for merging.
In these ten years, he had no idea how many Fallen Ones he had killed.
Clones died in waves and were replenished in waves.
"Upgrade points have accumulated again. It was worth my ten years of effort here!"
At this moment, he had accumulated enough upgrade points to upgrade his talent Clone.
However, he still lacked the upgrade points to break through to the Hunyuan realm, so he decided to use them to upgrade his talent Clone first.
This would increase the number of clones and accelerate the rate at which he acquired upgrade points.
"System, upgrade talent Clone level!"
"Ding, detected that the host's upgrade points are sufficient. Do you confirm the upgrade?"
"Yes!"
"Ding, upgrading..."