Today!

I'm uploading today. I would like to upload more, but I've had some health issues, the tiredness and nausea have made writing difficult. I will recover eventually, at which point the daily uploads will return.

I will do my best

Awe but I really wanted to write a powerful character who's just completely and genuinely insane! Also, I foreshadowed everything about Shi from her very first introduction, but nobody has pointed it out yet...

I'll never say never but for now, no more clones, it gave me a headache -_-

I'll be honest - not sure. Sorry, lol. I know what major plot points I'm going to include, but plans change, and I have no idea how long it will take to complete everything, or how long it will end up being. I don't plan on making it crazy long though (1000+).

Technically speaking, the Primordial Devil can be considered the 'Fragment of Blood'. Since Yaan has not devoured the Primordial Devil, there is no Dao Clone of Blood.

Just about. Keep getting sick -_- I'm posting today so I'll explain why I keep vanishing in the post note.

Yeah I'm still recovering from the infection. I'm trying to upload every other day but another migraine hit me yesterday and I couldn't write anything.

Hey guys, unfortunately I’m back in hospital and they’re making me stay for a couple of days this time, so probably no uploads until I’m out, or until I feel better.

I mentioned in a post note at some point, my kidney ruptured and became infected, and I'm still recovering. It keeps flaring up, giving me pain, fever, migraines, exhaustion, etc., making it difficult to write at the moment. Once I'm fully recovered I'll return to uploading every day :)

Just curious, what chapter did you reach when you made this review? Just asking because this is a long novel and a bit of a slow burn. The MC changes constantly throughout the novel.

As for the 'protective part', I assume you mean the Dao Clone of Qi? Remember that the Dao Clone of Qi was born from Yaan's mortal human emotions. Again, although he is calling himself Yaan, he is not the true complete Yaan. Anyway, you'll see what I mean soon enough.

This will be explored as the volume progresses, don't worry, I'm not just ignoring all that he's been through :). Also, remember that the current Yaan (main body) is still not his 'complete self', since he basically used portions of his dao heart to create the other Dao Clones. He is vicariously experiencing those parts of his dao heart through the Dao Clones, but he can't be considered the 'complete Yaan' at this point.

Maybe the Dao Clone of Qi was actually born from the hidden cringe in Yaan's dao heart

Unexplained as of yet

Ok, fixed it. Go read Chapter 218 - Rank 6 Medicine, that was the missing chapter. Fortunately updating the sequence on webnovel is easy...it's not easy on RR

It should be in the chapter before, chapter 217?

Shhh, don't talk about my abysmal naming sense, most people somehow haven't realised how bad I am at naming characters yet...anyway, his surname pretty much never comes up again lol

If you're asking specifically about body tempering, then it's split into two paths from Rank 1 to Rank 3; 1-Star, 2-Star and 3-Star vital energy cultivation, and Iron Class, Bronze Class, Silver Class, Gold Class, Mythril Class, Obsidian Class physical body cultivation. These levels are much below Yaan at this point so they won't have much relevance in this arc anyway. At Rank 4, the two paths can be fused, which results in the 4-Star Realm (body temperer with Vital Core). At Rank 5, body temperers form the Primal Soul, but they're still typically called 5-Star Realm cultivators. As for Yaan himself he follows the Four Paths Cultivation Technique, so although he is also Rank 4 here, his realm is unique, and is called the Vital Qi Core Realm.