Infinite Clone System Made Me Too OP!
Chapter 73: Another Whoopsie, Commiting Seppuku!?

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Nom Nom

While stuffing her face full of strawberry pies, Li Yan turned her face up from the snacks. "Wants shom yumms?" She asked with a stuffed mouth.

"..."

It was in that moment that Lucifer decided it was more worthwhile to just go through with the next step of the plans. So, after picking up the munching Li Yan, he blink-stepped and reappeared at a remote corner of the Devilduke Household Territory.

It was in between a rock and a hard place that Lucifer found the man he had been searching for.

The man in question was an old man. From appearances alone, he was definitely someone on his last legs.

With his gray hair sparce on his round, shiny head, and the blood leaking from multiple parts of his body, he looked similar to a beaten-up zombie.

'It's quite clear that he just experienced an extremely tough battle. But what I'm curious about is just who could reduce an Early Nascent Realm Expert to such a state-'

In the process of thinking that thought, Lucifer noticed a large one-horned beast from the corner of his eye.

With numerous shiny blue scales, four legs, and a horse-like body, it deserved its title as a Qilin hybrid Spiritual Beast in the Nascent Soul Realm!

"Umu? To have such powerful existences fight each other under the noses of countless experts, just what sort of concealment spells did this old man use?"

With Li Yan on his shoulders, Lucifer started to take off all precious parts of the 800-meter-long Qilin Hybrid.

After everything of value had been scavenged, he looked toward his grandfather's corpse with dollar bills floating around inside his eyes.

Just as he was about to reach his hand into the old man's robe pocket, a gasp of air suddenly escaped the old dude's mouth. Then, like a zombie, he came back to life and grabbed Lucifer's arm!

"!?!?"

"My grandson, you have come here… I am about to die. But, before I pass on, please take this… You are our future-"

While in the midst of his dissonant mumbling, a sudden sword flash appeared in the cave's interior!

SHING!

Promptly and efficiently, Lucifer slashed off not only the old dude's arm but also his head, Nascent Soul, and Core.

In the span of a nanosecond, his grandpa died wide-eyed and in disbelief!

"Dude, you shouldn't go around jump-scareing people like that. You could get somebody seriously hurt." Lucifer patted off his crimson-colored robes with a slight look of disgust strewn across his face.

After which, he walked up to the old dude's corpse and picked up whatever he was trying to give him.

What he saw from the pile of blood and bones was a small, shiny, golden talisman in the shape of three long swords crossed over one another.

"Hmm… From this old man's memories, this appears to be some form of Entrance Token for an Academy called the Golden Ascendancy. Nice, will definitely pop up when I have some free time."

The Golden Ascendancy Academy was an illustrious Academy for Heavenly Geniuses of the Tianwu Continent, and it was chalk full of every kind of talent there was.

However, the minimum requirement to enter the Academy was to be in the Soul Transformation Realm and main in at least two different Cultivation Paths.

Furthermore, you had to have more than 100 Sources and possess a Cultivation Talent in or above the Earth Rank!

Of course, Lucifer would have no issue accomplishing any of these things. But in the end, it just simply wasn't the time.

"I will give it a few weeks, drain the Elemental Nations of everything they have, and then head on over to this Golden Ascendancy Academy. As for why I plan to go… Well, for loot, of course!"

"..."

Li Yan once again heard her big brother creepily giggling to himself.

While wondering if he had problems with his frontal lobe, she continued to munch atop his head without a care in the world.

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After a little bit of self-monologue, Lucifer let go of his grandfather's head. Then, with complete ruthlessness, he absorbed the corpse's cultivation base.

He also did the same with the corpse of the Qilin.

While his cultivation broke the gap between the Early and Middle Foundation Establishment Realm, a particularly lucrative system notification rang out inside his head.

BLING!

[Ding! You have killed an Early Nascent Soul Realm Expert of the Devilduke Family. The reward is 4.50 x 10⁴⁹ Clone Essence!]

"Hot damn, such a steep incline in Clone Essence!? I just knew that higher-level mobs were where the real benefits could be obtained!"

"???"

Upon hearing her big brother shout so loudly out of the blue, question marks went off in Li Yan's head. But what attracted her attention more were the chocolate-covered pretzels she found at the bottom of the storage ring.

"Mhmm… Yumms…" She mumbled with a slight look of satisfaction on her stoic face.

"Holy hell! My cultivation broke through into the Middle Foundation Establishment Realm!? This is the shit!"

Lucifer was once again made the center of attention as he felt his cultivation skyrocket.

{[Initial of Middle Foundation Establishment]}

{[Early of Middle Foundation Establishment]}

{[Middle of Middle Foundation Establishment]}

By the end of the rapid cultivation advancements, Lucifer further understood just how much more he could gain from higher-level enemies.

"Demon Assimilation, this will be one of the Techniques that will assist me on the Path to Infinity! This is very nice—very nice indeed." Lucifer repeatedly bobbed his head, marking this moment down in the historical notes.

With his cultivation in the Middle of the Middle Foundation Establishment Realm, he just needed to consolidate his cultivation, and he was guchi!

Of course, he could also increase his Source count and his Body Cultivation-

"Wait…" Lucifer's complexion suddenly turned ashen as he recalled something ridiculously stupid. "I forgot to cultivate my Body past the Initial Copper Rank… This entire time, I could've been passively refining my body…"

At this moment in time, he felt like a complete idiot!

Who just forgets to do something that can quite literally be done passively!?

Thud!

Lucifer fell to the ground with a loud thud. Distraught over the most recent revelation, he muttered, "...This folly of mine is worthy of Seppuku."

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