Half a month after Li Qi had prepared to go into secluded cultivation to break through to the Harmonious Dao stage in one go.
He emerged from seclusion.
Of course.
This didn't mean Li Qi had directly broken through.
Half a month wasn't even enough time for his pre-seclusion warm-up.
There was no other reason than the long-absent thousand-point notification from the system had reappeared.
[Congratulations to the Host for surviving one day, Random Attribute Point Puppet Crafting +1]
[Congratulations to the Host, your "Puppet Crafting" attribute points have accumulated to one thousand points, rewarding the active talent "Natal Spirit Puppet"]
[Natal Spirit Puppet: Simultaneously generate up to three controllable puppet clones with intelligence, and the clones possess half of the本体's strength. Current number of puppet clones 0/3]
Seeing the Puppet Crafting attribute points break the thousand mark, Li Qi couldn't help but be a little surprised.
Since obtaining the system.
It had been seven to eight hundred years, apart from occasionally paying attention to his four basic attribute points.
There were too many other obscure attribute points, and Li Qi couldn't keep track, so he rarely paid attention to them.
However, he had actually paid a little attention to the Puppet Crafting attribute points before.
After all, he, Li Qi, was a cunning strategist.
After obtaining the first Puppet attribute point, he had thought about whether he could make a puppet to replace himself when he went out in the future.
The result, naturally, was a failure.
At that time, the puppets he figured out himself were too rudimentary, only capable of simple tasks.
Even when Li Qi was in secluded cultivation deep in the mountains, when he asked that puppet to fetch water to irrigate the fields, it made mistakes.
It directly poured all the fetched water onto his own poultry, almost making Li Qi speechless.
And even when his strength grew and he gained more insight into puppet making, and the functions of the puppets became more numerous.
Even so, it still didn't meet his requirements.
Thus, these "Puppet" attribute points were directly forgotten by Li Qi.
But now.
Seeing the reward obtained after the "Puppet Crafting" attribute points broke the thousand mark.
Natal Spirit Puppet, controllable, possessing intelligence, and having half of the本体's strength.
What kind of puppet is this?
This is clearly a clone!
And being able to possess half of his本体's strength.
Even without the cheat's buff, just with the enhancements from those extra attribute points.
A puppet with only half his strength wouldn't be weaker than a normal peak Void Returning stage.
With a thought, he activated this new talent.
A strange sensation arose in Li Qi's heart.
Immediately after, a phantom human form appeared before Li Qi.
But this human form was only an outline, with the face and body blurred.
As if understanding something, Li Qi's eyes widened, revealing a hint of surprise.
Because Li Qi discovered.
This Natal Spirit Puppet seemed to be able to have its facial features and body shape customized! It could even be made male or female.
Li Qi willed it, and the blurred Natal Spirit Puppet before him began to change.
Before long, under Li Qi's control, it transformed into the appearance of Xu Tianzong.
This was completely natural, without any trace of using special means such as disguise or altering facial muscles for concealment.
"This Natal Spirit Puppet is much more useful than a clone!"
A clone was still just a clone, still having a source. If no means of concealment were used, the clone and the本体's appearance and height would be identical.
Even with concealment, if a powerful being wanted to investigate, they would likely immediately expose their true appearance.
But this puppet was different.
Everything about this puppet was set by Li Qi to its most primitive state when it first appeared.
Li Qi glanced at the "Natal Spirit Puppet" talent in his system panel.
[Natal Spirit Puppet: Current number of puppets, 1/3]
With a thought, Li Qi prepared to generate the second puppet.
And this time, the facial features of the puppet to be created were...
Miao Suyao, the female plane lord who had sought refuge earlier.
Before long.
A Natal Spirit Puppet, identical to Miao Suyao, with no differences, appeared before Li Qi.
Hmm... Now, there was even less need for women.
Then came the third Natal Spirit Puppet, the appearance of which was finally his own.
At this point, all three Natal Spirit Puppets had been generated.
Li Qi wanted to try again if he could generate a fourth.
Unfortunately, as expected, he failed.
Unless Li Qi chose to cancel one of the three already generated puppets, he could not generate a new one.
After roughly testing the effect of the Natal Spirit Puppet, he roughly understood how to use it.
With a wave of his hand, the Xu Tianzong version and the Miao Suyao version of the two Natal Spirit Puppets were canceled, leaving only the puppet of his own version.
At the same time, he regenerated two more Natal Spirit Puppets of his own version.
Three Natal Spirit Puppets of his own version stood quietly before him.
Originally, Li Qi intended to stay in secluded cultivation without bothering with worldly affairs.
But now, with the surprise of the Natal Spirit Puppet.
During the interval of his breakthrough to the Harmonious Dao stage, the matter of setting up formations that had been put aside could be brought up again.
He would go and break through to the Harmonious Dao stage, and let these three Natal Spirit Puppets continue setting up formations.
Although their efficiency was not as fast as his own, three cobblers were better than one Zhuge Liang.
Thus.
After Li Qi gave the order to the three Natal Spirit Puppets to set up new formations.
He finally entered true secluded cultivation.
In a flash, ten years passed.
The three Natal Spirit Puppets, like the most diligent machines, steadfastly adhered to Li Qi's command, setting up formations 24/7.
In ten years, more than a hundred more formations were added to the Boundless Void Realm.
As for Li Qi, he remained motionless in the Heavenly Dao Space.
However, his aura of peak Void Returning stage became even more profound.
Li Qi was still undergoing the long process of secluded cultivation and breakthrough.
Twenty years...
Thirty years...
Fifty years...
This was the longest time Li Qi had spent breaking through a major realm.
Perhaps it was because he had been too quickly upgraded by the Heavenly Dao of the Boundless Void Realm before, so he was still refining his previous realm.
The number of formations in the Boundless Void Realm successfully surpassed one thousand at this point, proving how diligently these three Natal Spirit Puppets had carried out Li Qi's orders.
During these decades, the Boundless Void Realm remained peaceful.
The plane lords in the Minor Expansion Zone also lived in peace, with no attacks from plane lords in other regions.
Until the sixty-fifth year!
Outside the Boundless Void Realm.
An incredibly terrifying thundercloud suddenly began to brew at a certain moment.
This terrifying thundercloud even made the Heavenly Dao will of the Boundless Void Realm tremble.
The plane lords of many areas in the Minor Expansion Zone also felt the appearance of this thunder tribulation.
Xu Tianzong's figure flashed out from the Minor Expansion Realm, looking towards the Boundless Void Realm from afar.
His eyes moved slightly, revealing a hint of joy from the bottom of his heart.
"Fellow Daoist Li, he is about to break through!"
Ever since the Harmonious Dao stage plane lord of the other Minor Expansion Zone was jointly hunted and killed by multiple regions,
The top-tier combat power of the Minor Expansion Zone and its neighboring regions had become quite similar.
But now, if Li Qi broke through to the Harmonious Dao stage again, the Minor Expansion Zone would once again have two Harmonious Dao stage experts.
And at this moment, within the Boundless Void Realm.
Li Qi's eyes also opened slightly, looking at the Harmonious Dao thunder tribulation outside the Boundless Void Realm.
With a flash, Li Qi had already appeared outside the Boundless Void Realm.
Above his head, the oppressive thunder tribulation rumbled, and then, it struck down fiercely.