Nine Clones Secret Technique

## Introduction

The Nine Clones Secret Technique (九分身秘术) is the Xia family's signature secret technique that allows the user to create up to nine clones. The main body cultivates the technique and creates the clones, with the clones able to merge back into the main body, allowing the clone's experience in cultivation to become one with the main body.

## Description

The Nine Clones Secret Technique was the Xia family's signature technique and if it weren't for the Lu family being invincible, the Xia family would have been the ones who ruled over the Fifth Mainland. The Nine Clones Secret Technique allowed a cultivator to cultivate up to nine clones but did not mean that a person actually had nine clones, nor that each clone had the same level of power. Otherwise, the Xia family would have become invincible long ago. The advantages to the Nine Clones Secret Technique is the clones themselves have independent thoughts, experiences, and cultivation that is separate from the main body. The clones could be used as undercover identity, cultivate another power, or be used as a form of accumulation of experience which the main body can merge with the clones to gain. The clones can be merged and separated at will from the main body during combat, allowing for more flexible ways of battle. Another advantage to the Nine Clone Secret Technique was that if the main body has clones with the main body and is killed, it is the life of the clone which would be consumed instead, allowing the main body to survive. If the main body dies however, the clones will all die as a result. If a clone gets killed outside the body, the main body will suffer injuries.

Although the cultivation is separate from the main body, the main body's cultivation realm does influence the clone's realm. For example, Xia Jiuyou was at the Hunter realm which allowed Xia Luo to quickly cultivate to the Cruiser realm. The clones are not afraid of death and have no resistance to merging back into the main body. The main body can get a general sense of direction of where the clone currently located but the perception can be blocked.

There are downsides towards the Nine Clones Secret Technique was that normally clones do not have the will or the ability to resist the main body to merge with the clones but the clones could gain their own free will through varies ways, or due to cultivating the Nine Clone Secret Technique incorrectly. Xia Jiuyou for example suffered trauma from his father's cruel and bloody upbringing, which lead to complications and amplifying of the fatal flaw of the Nine Clones Secret Technique, allowing Xia Luo to exist as a separate clone that had his own free will to resist the urge to merge and want freedom from the main body. Usually the case of Nine Clone Secret Technique the main body absorbs the clone's experiences for themselves but if the main body is weakened and the clone has the will to resist, it is possible for the clone to replace the main body.

The Nine Clones Secret Technique was brought to fame due to the existence of Progenitor Chen who managed to cultivate all nine clones to the Progenitor realm and was deemed an invincible progenitor whose power had been unmatched in both the ancient and modern times. He was able to combine all nine clones into one because he was a straightforward man with no deceit. The true benefit of the Nine Clones Secret Technique is not one becoming nine but nine becoming one meaning nine separate cultivations and beings could be fused into one.

The first step of the secret technique required a person to sense their own subconscious and then condense it to the point where it almost took on a physical state. After that, the person would need to split their subconscious into nine parts and then use their own blood and bone to create various bodies that the eight subconscious fragments could enter. Once the fragments of the subconscious merged with the sub bodies formed from the original’s blood and bone, a person would have successfully cultivated the Nine Clones Secret Technique.This was why each of the nine clones would have a different and unique personality; each was formed from a unique fragment of a person’s subconscious. This was also why there was never any possibility of them betraying the main body, as the eight clones were never true bodies, but rather portioned off bits of a person’s body and subconscious. This was also why the eight clones could merge back with the main body. This was the foundational concept behind the Nine Clones Secret Technique. As long as a person understood this foundation, they would be able to follow the secret technique and split their mind apart and create the sub bodies.

## Known Users

* **Progenitor Chen**: Known as the invincible Progenitor who was unmatched due to his strength and all nine of his clones being at the Progenitor realm.
* **Xia Jiuyou**: Cultivated the Nine Clones Secret Technique which Xia Tian that ranked #1 on the Top 100 Rankings was used to challenge all the Arbiters to gain info on them. Xia Luo was also a clone but became resist to merge back due to Xia Jiuyou cultivating the Nine Clones Secret Technique with a flaw in his mindset.
* **Starsibyl**: Starsibyl was able to gain the Nine Clone Secret Technique by when she help assist Xia Jiuyou to get the Nine Clones Secret Technique and managed to peer into it's mysterious and gain the technique.
* **Xia Ji** : Xia Ji was one of the Seven Semi-Progenitor of the Fifth Mainland, and he had a clone who was God of Magenta from the Gods' Origin. His clone, God of Magenta had cultivated Truesight and due to Xia Ji himself being a Semi-Progenitor realm, the God of Magenta clone had a power level of over a million.
* **Marquis Wang:** Marquis Wang was one of the Twelve Marquis of the Aeternals, and she managed to cultivate up to five clones which were used to battle against the Semi-Progenitors of the Heavens Sect and the Fifth Mainland Semi-Progenitors.
* **Xia Xing**: Sect master of the Xia family, he had sent a clone to the Middle Realm to negotiate with 'Yu Hao' (Lu Yin), but was captured by Lu Yin.
* **Xia Shenfei:** A Junior Progenitor of the Xia family.
* **Xia Shenji:** Progenitor ancestor of the Xia family. He had cultivated the Nine Clones Secret Technique with one of his clones at the Progenitor realm (but barely considered a Progenitor). One of his clone was locked up and had connection towards the banishment of the Lu family.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 2022
2. ↑ Chapter 1313
3. ↑ Chapter 2213
4. ↑ Chapter 2384