He entered the World Ring he had obtained earlier without hesitation.
He quickly flew to the side of the Space Worm.
Other than the corpse of a Space Worm avatar, there were also many broken fragments scattered here.
He picked up one of the smaller pieces.
[Mission: Nurture a Space Worm as a clone. Reward: Full Enhancement of the Space Worm Clone.]
"System, nurture the clone!"
Luo Fan silently recited.
In the next moment, the lump of blood in his hand floated up.
A mysterious, chaotic-colored light shot out from Luo Fan's body.
The blood lump struck by the chaotic light began to slowly enlarge.
However, its form remained shrouded by the chaotic radiance.
Very soon, the blood lump transformed into the shape of a Space Worm.
Only, its outer appearance was still covered in chaotic light.
The Space Worm grew larger and larger.
Gradually, its length reached ten kilometers.
The next moment, the chaotic glow dispersed, and Luo Fan sensed another perspective.
But right now, Luo Fan had no time to bother with that.
He directly placed the Space Worm clone outside the spaceship.
Even though the clone he had nurtured possessed the same strength as him, merely Planetary Level, Eighth Rank.
Because the Space Worm originally lived within spatial rifts, it experienced no discomfort at all.
He immediately cast the secret art, Wormhole.
This was his innate ability, just like moving his own arm, he could use it the moment the Space Worm was nurtured.
In the next instant, a wormhole ten kilometers in diameter appeared before him.
Dumpling didn't hesitate and went straight inside.
The Space Worm clone followed in as well.
They instantly appeared tens of billions of kilometers away.
Just a little farther ahead was the Original Universe.
Luo Fan did not hesitate and once again cast Wormhole.
The next moment, he finally saw the distant starry sky.
At this moment, tears nearly flowed from his eyes.
Never before had he found the starry sky so beautiful.
"Finally… I escaped."
"What kind of damn luck is this?!"
"Over two hundred thousand luck value, yet I've faced life-and-death crises multiple times."
Only now did Luo Fan have the chance to examine his clone outside the spaceship.
Fortunately, the clone nurtured by the system could be birthed within seconds.
Otherwise, he would already be dead.
As for nurturing the Space Worm, he had no regrets.
After all, with a Space Worm, even if he wanted to die, it would be difficult.
At this moment, he finally had the chance to carefully comprehend the talents of the Space Worm.
First were the three innate gifts of the Space Worm.
Just as recorded in the Cosmic Galaxy Bank's data.
The three innate talents of the Space Worm were Wormhole, Clone, and Transformation.
As for Wormhole, right now he could create one that reached up to a maximum of ten billion kilometers away.
The farther the wormhole connected, the greater the consumption.
At present, he could only use the farthest-range wormhole ten times.
Of course, if his cultivation realm broke through, he would be able to connect to even farther places.
Each breakthrough to a higher major realm would increase the maximum distance tenfold.
That meant, when he reached the Immortal stage, he could open a wormhole up to one hundred light years away.
When he became a Universe Master, he could even open one reaching ten thousand light years away.
This distance was even farther than teleportation.
Though entering a wormhole required time and was less convenient than teleportation, the distance covered was far greater.
Next was Clone.
Right now, he could divide out a single clone.
At the Stellar Level, he would be able to split ten.
At the Cosmic Level, one hundred.
At the Domain Lord Level, one thousand.
At the World Master Level, ten thousand.
Of course, each clone's strength was only one ten-thousandth of the true body.
However, they could still use the other two innate secret arts.
After all, this was meant as a life-preserving ability.
As long as a single clone survived, even if the true body died, the clone could absorb energy and slowly transform back into the true body.
As for Transformation, that was even simpler.
It allowed one to turn into any creature or object.
It was even stronger than Luo Feng's Demon Killer Clan clone's transformation ability.
Luo Fan could only sigh, worthy indeed of being a life-preserving species with maxed-out survival skills.
However, the Space Worm clone did have some influence on his personality.
Mainly, the Space Worm clone's nature tended to be lazy.
At the same time, it was also somewhat cautious (cowardly).
Just as the Golden-Horned Beast's nature leaned toward bloodthirst,
Luo Fan's Space Worm clone also possessed its own disposition.
For now, though, Luo Fan could still overcome it.
At present, he only felt he had encountered the greatest enemy since obtaining the system.
His own clone.
This clone actually made him not want to keep striving!
That was truly terrifying.
Luo Fan resolved that in the future he must strengthen his cultivation of mind and willpower.
Only then could he overcome this laziness.
Afterward, he also discovered that a new module had appeared on the system template.
[Clone (1/4)]
[First Clone: Space Worm (Genetic Level: 50x, Innate Secret Arts: Wormhole, Clone, Transformation)]
At this moment, he was somewhat astonished.
The Space Worm's genetic level had actually reached fiftyfold.
That was no small number!
He began to test out the other two innate secret arts.
First was Clone.
By consuming about one-thousandth of his energy, he nurtured a clone.
This clone was only one kilometer long.
When he tested it, the clone's Wormhole could at most connect two points a million kilometers apart.
After finishing the experiment, he stored the clone into the World Ring.
After all, dividing out a clone consumed energy, it would be wasteful to leave it out.
Next, he began to cast Transformation.
The first thing he chose to transform into was himself.
The ten-kilometer-long Space Worm clone began rapidly shrinking.
In no time, it had compressed into a human less than two meters tall.
Its appearance and even aura were completely identical to Luo Fan.
At this moment, Luo Fan looked at the self standing before him in surprise.
It truly was exactly the same.
Even he himself could not tell the difference.
He was confident that even if he stood in front of Fang Xueyi, she would not be able to recognize that this was his Space Worm clone.
It could only be said — this secret art was extremely powerful.
Even the aura was exactly the same.
After trying out a few other transformations into different creatures, Luo Fan then stored his Space Worm clone into the World Ring.
Since the clone was nurtured by the system, he did not have an internal space or primal core to store it within his own body.
After instructing Dumpling to fly toward Earth, he sent a message of safety to Fang Xueyi and Luo Feng.
Then, he entered the World Ring, preparing to claim the rewards for the two missions he had just completed.
First, he claimed the reward for nurturing the Space Worm as a clone.
In the next instant, another chaotic-colored radiance appeared.
However, this time it directly manifested within the Space Worm clone's body.
Luo Fan immediately felt a warm current flowing throughout the entire worm body of his Space Worm clone.
Gradually, the clone's form expanded again.
Previously, the Space Worm's length was ten kilometers, with a body diameter of about five hundred meters.
But very soon, its length reached one hundred kilometers, and its body diameter swelled to five kilometers.
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