Chapter 363 : : Refining A Clone - 1

Several days later...

In an endless desert where the sky is covered by a layer of clouds, the temperature so high that normal wood can turn into charcoal if it is kept under the exposure of the sun all day.

Three big skyships were flying across the desert under the cover of the clouds. The one in the lead was an elegant swan-like ship in the control of Cold Heaven Sect, the one following it from behind was like a second-hand pirate ship but was bigger than the first, it was the ship under the control of Black Scorpion Sect, as for the last one at the rear, it was a long elegant ship with a green mantis theme on its surface, it was once under the control of Green Mantis Sect but right now it was the property of Frozen Flame.

A few days ago, due to the grievance between Black Scorpion Sect and Green Mantis Sect, they fought under the cover of the night until one of them perished.

Normally it wasn't easy for Sung Suyin and Sung Huang to defeat fully alerted Green Mantis Sect in their continent but after being used as cannon fodder by Spirit Mountain Sect, their strength was nowhere near their prime. By the time, their sect master figured out that how they were being used without getting paid it was already impossible to escape from their clutches.

As respected seniors, Rex and Spirit Mountain Monarch paid no heed to this child game, but out of respect, the sect master of Black Scorpion Sect gifted the newly obtained skyship of Green Mantis Sect to Rex.

It truth, it was impossible for Black Scorpion Sect to take the ship from a sect at Myriad Beast Continent and get away with it, many could use this reason and attack them to rob them, but it isn't the same with Rex and Sung Lee can't use his name without paying, can he? Especially when Rex gifted him a spirit rank treasure as a meeting gift before, moreover Rex was long eyeing the ship so it was a given that he would gift it to him.

Green Mantis Sect had fallen, their sect master and elders died, but the guest elders and runaway disciples were sparred. Rex was wondering as to why he hadn't cut the roots but Sung Lee told him that they had already collected inner information about the sect and knew that the disciples don't have real loyalty towards the sect.

The sect followed the power system, if you are stronger you can gain a higher position no matter when have you joined the sect, low talent disciples are just used as cannon fodders.

When the sect was strong, no one from the sect dared to betray them because the ones who tried to flee had been used to set an example, they were executed in cruel and gruesome ways in front of the newbie disciples.

Once the seed of fear was planted in their heart it will only grow bigger with time.

This was the way of the Green Mantis Sect to cultivate loyalty, a loyalty based on fear rather than attachment to the sect. The advantage was they could make the disciples loyal faster and after using the weak ones as cannon fodders and nourishment to the strong, they didn't worry about numbers as they can just recruit new homeless disciples after sending bandits to destroy villages and small sect around their territory.

The green skyship was under the control of newly made Working Bots, during their travel to Myriad Beast Continent, Mr. Black had observed everything on the skyship of Black Scorpion Sect and hence he had the data on how to pilot the ship.

Rex was standing on the deck of the ship, he was without a doubt the person with the most gains from the trip.

'A mortal man desires money, fame, and cough... I got all three of them, the last one was more than I could chew through. My body had now fully recovered but there is still quite some time before we reach Golden Bird Continent, should I start to refine the clones now?' Rex thought.

He had left the continent, as soon as he got the things he wanted, he wanted to wait and enjoy things like dishes from expert chefs, roam around the market of different kingdoms, meet some elves...., but the appearance of Shaun gave him a sense of urgency.

He was still thinking when he suddenly felt the soft touch of two jade-like hands swirling around his waist.

"You aren't reading books?" Rex turned to look at Lerna.

"Reading alone... Feels boring," Lerna said while resting her head on his back.

'it's way better than you turning me into history,' He thought but didn't show it on his face.

"I see, don't worry I wan planning to build an Online Novel App in the future, where you can not only read novels and books but also write them, members can get level by doing a task like giving reviewing, reading and trollin- cough I mean commenting, etc. At that time, you can discuss about the novels you like with others and can get a lot of interested authors to write different genre novel for free," Rex said.

[I have a feeling, you are either going to be censored or get some copyright issues soon,]

Rex didn't mind the comment, he noticed that Lerna's interest was piqued.

'My plan is perfect, something like this would make her happy while I have also thought of adding real money transaction setting, I will add a privilege system which will target the authors with the most readers instead of those with good works, the readers then have to use coins to read the novels that can be bought with real money, while the authors would turn the interesting novels into filler filled books..., Wait who cares, there is bound to be one or two good books in thousands, how?' Rex thought.

[Profiteer,]

'It's human nature dude, you give them the equal opportunity with equal status and not many would like it, instead give them hope to rise in ranks and everyone will strive for it, that aside...' Rex was thinking when an idea hit him.

"My loving Lerna, why don't you have some talk with Little Qing, she should be getting bored just like you, I have just gotten some insights so I will go into seclusion for now," Rex said.

Lerna pursued her lips in dissatisfaction. She was fine with such a thing before but now she loved getting some attention.

Rex smiled, he gently kissed on her forehead and left the ship's deck.

'Sorry my love, but life is more important,' He inwardly thought.

Rex quickly used Instant Transmission and appeared in a private room on the ship.

The room had many glass cases housing various types of plants inside them, they had different colours, types, structures, and needed a different kind of environment to grow. The glass cases were the device Rex had used in the laboratory where Project Life was going on.

When he appeared in the room, his eyes first landed on a glass pot placed at the corner, the glass pot was a little filled with golden liquid at the bottom and a heap of tiny leeches was lying inside it.

'I have already used Elixir Of Life on you so don't you dare die on me,' Rex thought, he then took out one of the thee Sacred Blood Baby Seed and walked to the empty area.

[What are you thinking?]

'Hmm... What are your thoughts about using Gene Coding on the clone while making it? I'm pretty sure that my bloodline can have a strengthening effect on others so it should be able to handle it. Furthermore, it's my clone so although it should be able to get my bloodline abilities but it cannot get all of them.

I want then to be strong and capable to reduce my workload and I cannot achieve that using normal ways.

The biggest problem is balancing Yin and Yang Qi in their body so I thought about altering the bloodline and only giving one type of energy to the clone, they don't need to be an all-rounder as long as they can master one field it's fine with me,' Rex said.

[It's quite difficult, using Gene Coding on plants was one thing, while on the living is differed, the good part is that we have accurate information on your body compared to others so it would be easier as they are your clone compared to doing it on other people, but you sure? We only have three Sacred Blood Baby Seed, and I don't think it would be easy to quickly refine more even with the Sacred Blood Baby Seed Formula,]

'When did I haven't taken a risk? We will put Calm Mind to the limits this time,' Rex thought, he made a small cut on his finger and dropped some blood on the oval blood-red stone.

He then sat cross-legged on the ground and started nourishing it with his spiritual energy and blood like it was an egg he was trying to incubate.

Refinancing a 'Sacred Blood Baby Seed' into a clone wasn't a one day task.

It would normally take at least three days even for just completing the first stage but Rex wanted more than just completing the stage, he slowed down the process while he observed every single change in it from the Inner World.

When Rex had dropped his blood on it, the seed had absorbed and moved it to the innermost part, it didn't let the blood cells die but started to nourish them, an unnoticeable change occurred in them under its nourishment. The inner structure of the seed was changing every moment.

The seed lay dormant for the first day but on the second day, a faint rhythmic heartbeat started to come from it.

At the moment, inside the Inner World...

Rex was sitting cross-legged on the floor. Several holographic windows showing different information starting from the heartbeat, temperature change, structure change and the cell molding inside the seed was showing on the screens.

He opened his eyes and looked at the main screen in front.

The screen had the 3D image of a man with a similar structure to Rex on it, but he didn't have the usual colour for skin representation.

A row of similar windows was present on the right and left of the main screen but they didn't belong to humanoid creatures.

The rightmost screen contained the image of an eight-legged spider, adjacent to it was a window with the image of a wolf on it, the screen just after it had the image of a centipede.

The ones on the left were also the same, they all had the image of a certain type of creature.

Suddenly the rightmost window containing an image of the spider moved and touched the main window from the side, a few notification alerts then popped up in front of him.

[Testing DNA compatibility...]

[Synchronization rate..1%..24%..45%... Error!]

[Synchronization failed]

[DNA not compatible]

The window with the image of the spider on it disappeared, soon after the next window with the image of the wolf moved to the main screen and the same things happened again, the process continued.

'How many?' Rex asked.

[I have tested compatibility with 4789 creatures, the highest one was 83% which had met the requirement, we can try it as long as the compatibility is at 80% but as you said, I'm checking the compatibility with the rest,]

'Which one reached the 83% synchronization?' Rex asked after some thinking.

[It's the Ice Wolf's DNA signature we got from the valley around Cold Heaven Sect,]

'Hmm... Keep searching,' Rex said then again focused on the seed.

But just then...

[Wait, another compatible DNA found, it's synchronization rate reached 92%,]

Rex opened his eyes in surprise.

'Which one?' He asked.

[It's... The DNA of a unique race Royal Sky Drakon, in other words, it's Little Aru,]

Rex's lips twitched.

He was trying to find a DNA with high compatibility with his own, to fuse them when making the Clone, the clone cannot gain all his abilities but this way it can become stronger.

Actually in a way, rather than fusing it was altering the clone's DNA in accordance or reference with the compatible subject's DNA.

Meaning in his current situation, he was faced with an option to alter his clone's DNA with his... Son's.

Rex was quiet for a while. The feeling was a little weird, it was not unusual for kids to inherit traits from their parents but now it was the other way around.

'It's just a clone, after all, strength is the priority, we will go with it,' He concluded.

Rose was always happy to comply.

'Calm Mind'

Rex activated Calm Mind, it was time for him to use the true potential of Gene Coding talent.