The land was scorched transforming most of the tree trunks into charcoal. The village remained standing unharmed. Outside of this village. A man was fighting two people! Who was this man?

  Anos! As for his opponent? It was his clones.

  Anos hadn't simply mastered spells made by others. He had created quite a few of his own. Besides the four he had learned from his sect. There were those he created from scratch.

  Flame Shield, Fog Explosion, Ice Domain, Magic Shield, Fly, Undying Body, I am Immortal, Create Five Elements Blood Clone, Full Howl, Transfiguration, Conjure Element, Mind Blast, Mirror Mirage, Magic Hand, Invisible Body, Ice Shard Explosion, Physical Nullficiation, Buff, Immovable Body, Dispell Illusion, Curse, Conjure Clothes.

  Anos had tried to create a 'teleport' spell. But he had no talent with space.

  Anos remembered in his past life. Having a talent with space often had nothing at all to do with cultivation. It was a form of enlightenment acquired from comprehending the dao of space.

  Despite everyone being on equal footing in regards to this 'comprehension'. There was a bias. Those with higher cultivation often had a better understanding simply due to the fact that they had countless years to ponder the dao.

  Every now and then. You'd have an anomaly. Someone that was simply in qi condensation that somehow comprehended a dao. They would then jump out of the water and become like a dragon.

  The most difficult daos were space and time.

  Anos thought that spending these decades in an isolated space would help him understand space. But he failed to gain anything despite spending all his time cultivating and running essentially simulations using his blood clones.

  You have to understand. His blood clones comprehension had him beat. They could perform mental exercises in a flash. But since they were controlled by him. It was as if he had multiple brains and his thinking power surpassed even those in foundation establishment.

  This 'feature' of his clones would only become stronger with the more clones he created. But the burden on his original body seemed to increase as well.

  Anos had success in reaching the tenth level of qi condensation. Within minutes. His avatar had reached the nineth level, his clones the eighth level.

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  "Now I just need to reach perfection..."

  To a normal person. Sitting in one place without stimulation would drive them insane. Even Anos struggled with this at first. But over the years, he came to enjoy the process of growth!

  By the time he was 47. He had reached the perfection of qi condensation.

  He felt at any moment. He could make his attempt to foundation establishment. But he held back this instinct. Instead he continued to compress his spiritual energy.

  But the God-Eye sutra was very limited. It assumed the person would stop at the tenth level. Not only that, this technique could only take you to the late stage of foundation establishment.

  Anos had reached a dead end.

  The main problem was his avatar was still at the ninth level of qi condensation. So he couldn't use it to simulate forming a pill. There was no way for it to break through to foundation establishment.

  Anos could try to breakthrough by himself. But what if he failed? His potential in his REAL body would be ruined and his lifespan would drop dramatically.

  It wasn't worth it.

  "Perhaps I have been looking at things in the completely wrong way..."

  Anos started to think about creating his own cultivation technique. He would use the foundation set by the God-Eye sutra and his own insights to make a technique tailored to his needs. One that could allow him to go beyond the minimum requirements!

  Anos controlled the processing power of his clones and started to work on this technique.

  A year later...

  "Hahaha!"

  Anos was quite happy. He had managed it! He had created his own cultivation technique. It was more then a simple modification to the God-Eye sutra. It had infinite potential as he was the creator.

  It was tailored to his body and meant to bring out his full potential. He called this technique:

  Mind of the Puppeteer

  Just like how the God-Eye cultivated the 'eyes of god'. This technique matched the secret etched into his soul. It cultivated the mind. But not for what you might think.

  It cultivated the brain and allowed one to become comfortable controlling multiple bodies at once. This part of the technique was useless for those under nascent soul.

  But Anos had blood clones! His test revealed that this couldn't increase his upper limit. But the uncanny valley effect that his clones had vanished and he could now control them as easily as his own limbs.

  He felt the connection between them improve. It was a change in quality.

  Anos had watched his avatar die countless times in order to make this technique. But it was worth it! He now could feel himself slowly progressing to the 11th level of qi condensation.

  Even though Anos had abandoned the God-Eye sutra. He still retained the eyes of god. Anos however didn't plan to abandon it completely.

  His clones would still practice it. While he alone would practice his self-made technique.

  The reason? There can be only one master!

  Despite his sea of incarnations only have two dimensions. Anos felt it was time to make another clone. While he could only control two at the moment. He felt it was good idea to make some 'extra lives'.

  Anos pinched his fingers and blood began to drip.

  "Create Five Elements Blood Clone!"

  The blood floated in the air.

  "Here we go again..."