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Chapter 1053: Chapter 1056: Clone Incubation_1 Chapter 1053: Chapter 1056: Clone Incubation_1 A Soul Guardian refers to the secret manual for cultivating soul power.

If there is something that Lin Zhen relies on and takes immense pride in his cultivation, it is his soul power.

His soul has traversed black holes, exhibiting tenacity and robustness beyond compare.

He can endure any pain and no hardship can shatter his soul.

However, his understanding about souls is still minimal.

After letting Chris analyze the chip of the Soul Guardian, the chip was discarded and the secret manual appeared within the Dimensional Universe.

The very first sentence arouse considerable interest in Lin Zhen.

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“True Strong Ones definitely possess a powerful soul!”

Lin Zhen firmly agrees with this statement.

Without sufficient soul power, it’s impossible to reach the peak.

Without a strong soul, he would have died a hundred times over.

“Soul power, the origin of all cultivation, does not directly manifest as combat power, but its uses are limitless.”

“The soul is an energy entity with consciousness.

It possesses willpower and perceptual power, and it is composed of four types of dark matter: gravitons, weak bosons, super quarks, and super electrons.

The more the quantity of each type of dark matter, the more active they are, and the stronger the soul power they confer.”

“Every soul has a basic value of dark matter content before cultivation.

The higher the basic value, the greater the potential for future cultivation.”

“Cultivators can use intelligent life forms to measure their soul power and rate it accordingly.”

Within the Dimensional Universe, there is a data table for soul power values corresponding to each level of Martial Artists.

For ordinary people, the value of all four types of dark matter is 1.

Once dead, their soul power could dissipate into nothingness.

On the contrary, the soul power of Martial Artists strengthens progressively as they grow in power.

The stronger the soul power, the more beneficial it is to cultivation.

Lin Zhen immediately asked Chris to evaluate his soul power.

During this process, he read up on the Elemental Doppelgänger Technique.

Lin Zhen’s cultivation of elemental power is near perfect.

Specifically, his Ice Element power has been cultivated to its utmost potential.

As for Flame and Light elements, Lin Zhen’s cultivation has also reached significantly high levels.

With soul power as the foundation and complemented by elemental power, an elemental doppelgänger can be formed.

This doppelgänger is not like the previous ones which could be discarded at will.

Once cultivated, it will grow along with its main body and can be used to draw power from.

This doppelgänger even possesses its own independent consciousness, becoming a wholly distinct living entity that is both a part of, and yet separate from, the main body.

When Lin Zhen saw that doppelgängers could be used to draw power from, he felt greatly pleased.

Once an elemental doppelgänger is successfully cultivated, it will surely form a formidable combat force.

Lin Zhen can even use a God Crystal to make the doppelgänger ascend to godhood like himself.

Simply being able to draw power from it would provide Lin Zhen with a great boost of supplementary power.

The stronger the doppelgänger, the stronger the main body.

The nurturing of a doppelgänger will take place in the God Realm.

During this period, the main body must communicate with the external elemental powers for cultivation, something that is rather challenging.

Moreover, each doppelgänger requires a portion of soul power to nurture.

To compensate for this, the main body must constantly cultivate Soul Guardians.

These two techniques are complementary.

The strength of a successfully nurtured elemental doppelgänger is determined by the intensity of the elemental power at the moment of pregnancy.

The strongest doppelgänger could even have strength nearly on par with the main body.

Lin Zhen now needs a doppelgänger capable of guarding Falling Star Lake on his behalf.

As Lin Zhen was studying the Elemental Doppelgänger Technique, his soul power was evaluated.

Lin Zhen’s soul power with values corresponding to the four levels of dark matter is 188, 175, 164, and 150 respectively.

This value is considered quite high.

Nurturing a doppelgänger requires a dark matter value of over a hundred for each type.

Ordinary people without cultivation would not possess a dark matter value above a hundred.

This implies that untrained individuals cannot even nurture a single doppelgänger.

“This must be related to my soul crossing through black holes, endowing me with such high base values.”

“Even if I don’t cultivate my Soul Guardian now, I already have the power to nurture my first doppelgänger.

However, if I want to nurture a second doppelgänger, I need to increase the values of all four types of dark matter up to 200.”

As for how to cultivate a Soul Guardian?

It’s done within a Virtual World.

The term Soul Guardian is derived from the term “Soul does not guard Home”, in which “Home” refers to the human body.

When a person loses focus and can’t maintain his original intentions, even near death can occur.

During cultivation, one needs to let one’s soul withstand the attacks of illusions, developing steadfast willpower and hence achieving the goal of forging the soul.

These illusions take the form of a high platform, named Heavenly Platform.

One would have to climb this platform in one’s spiritual consciousness.

For each level one climbs, the levels of dark matter will improve significantly, with each dark matter level increasing by 10 units.

Lin Zhen did not immediately start cultivating Soul Guardians.

First, he needed to decide on the type of elemental doppelgänger to cultivate.

Lin Zhen is proficient in numerous elements; light, thunder, ice, and fire should be his top choices.

However, in order to cultivate an elemental doppelgänger, one must understand the true essence of an element.

The method to test whether one understands the true essence of an element is rather simple: becoming one with the element.

Only by embodying the element can one be considered as truly mastering it.

No matter how attuned you are to all elemental molecules, atoms, particles, photons, and ions, you can’t claim mastery without this.

The first element Lin Zhen tested was Fire.

As Black Hole Beast has fire as its innate property and it is a variant of the Fire Kirin, coupled with Lin Zhen’s extensive experience in alchemy, his mastery over flame is naturally high.

He intended to test if he could nurture fire elementals.

As he followed the embodiment process indicated on the test, Lin Zhen concentrated his mind!

A surging force of Flame Power emerged.

Lin Zhen twisted a few times, a layer of flame appearing on his skin, but it quickly subsided.

“I failed!

I have not grasped the true essence of the Flame Element.”

Lin Zhen had anticipated this outcome.

His comprehension of Flame was not adequate yet, even though he was a Fire Kirin and even carried the bloodline of the Fire Phoenix in his veins.

It was still not enough.

“If the Flame won’t suffice, let’s try the light.”

With a mere thought, a burst of Holy Light radiated from his body.

Lin Zhen appeared like a glowing entity, incredibly spectacular.

However, he was still not able to transform into light.

“Let’s try thunder next.”

Even with explosive flashes of Thunder at his disposal, his body only twisted a few times before gradually returning to calm.

“None of them worked, Light, Flame, and Thunder all failed.

There’s no need to experiment with Wind, Earth, Wood, etc.

My understanding of these elements is inferior to the others.

The only one left is the Ice Element.”

Having mastered Absolute Zero, Lin Zhen felt confident in his understanding of Ice surpassing that of other elements.

If this didn’t work, he didn’t know what would.

With a simple thought, Lin Zhen started to transform.

Freezing air spread throughout the room, causing all movement in the vicinity to halt.

Every object in the room seemed to lose its vitality, as if space itself had solidified.

Meanwhile, Lin Zhen’s body had transformed into an Ice Sculpture.

Starting from the outside, his body gradually became transparent.

“I almost made it!

If it can entirely solidify, it would prove that my understanding of Ice is complete.”

But when only the area around his heart was left to be transformed into ice, Lin Zhen felt a slight stagnation.

“Something is wrong!

I don’t fully understand it yet.”

“What am I missing?

I have mastered Absolute Zero!”

A sudden anxiety overcame Lin Zhen.

His gaze wandered instinctively, hoping to find something that could give him an epiphany.

Outside the window in the river, a Golden Dragon seemingly unable to bear the chill of the room erupted from the water.

Splash!

Water splashed everywhere, and droplets near the window instantly froze into pearls of ice and clattered down onto the ground.

Having witnessed this scene, a lightbulb went off in Lin Zhen’s mind!

“That’s it!

Water!”

“I was too narrow-minded, focusing solely on the transformation into Ice while forgetting that Ice originates from Water.

Water can be Ice, and they are intrinsically the same.”

With a laugh, Lin Zhen’s body stirred and transformed into a cloud of mist that quickly dashed into the river outside the window.

Upon his mental command, the flow of the river stirred into a whirlpool.

A Water Dragon emerged in the air and directly pursued the fleeing Golden Dragon.

The Golden Dragon couldn’t understand why the Water Dragon had appeared and panicly tried to evade it but was unable to dodge.

Gradually, the animal instinct made it sense a familiar aura.

Its slender body entangled with the Water Dragon, the Golden Dragon seemed very pleased, it recognized Lin Zhen.

Splash~~~~~~!

The Water Dragon danced once more, transforming into an ice dragon, its crystalline body shimmering brilliantly in the sun.

After twirling in the air, the Ice dragon transformed into a Kirin, standing on the water surface, roaring towards the sky.

The surrounding animals, following Lin Zhen, all let out a collective cry.

They could all sense Lin Zhen’s jovial mood.

He had finally mastered it.

Lin Zhen had understood Ice, comprehended the true essence of the Water Element.

He could now use the God Realm to conceive his own initial elemental incarnation.

With a thought, Lin Zhen returned to the Peaceful Heart Pavilion.

The next moment, he was in the God Realm.

The mainland within the God Realm had already formed.

With a diameter of ten light-years, the God Realm was boundless.

Lin Zhen hovered above the God Realm, preparing for his first transformation – the creation of his initial elemental incarnation.

In the center of the God Realm, there was a vast ocean area.

The ocean was tremendous, with a clear blue stretching to about a million kilometers in diameter, considerably bigger than the Pacific Ocean on Earth.

However, Lin Zhen, standing in the air, shook his head slightly.

“This won’t work.

It’s too small.

An incarnation emerging from such a small ocean certainly won’t be powerful.

I need a massively larger ocean.”

An ocean within the God Realm wouldn’t expand randomly, Lin Zhen would need to guide it, assimilating more water into it to make it bigger.

This process required his active involvement and considerable time.