Strongest Replication

Sure enough, the expert from the Wang Family disintegrated into a pile of ashes under the energy beam in less than a minute.    

    

Witnessing the death of the Body Refining Cultivator from the Wang Family, Chu Zhongtian heaved a heavy sigh of relief.    

    

Figuring that the Wang Family limited the number and strength of the experts sent to hunt him down, he reckoned that the Body Refining Cultivator was most likely the strongest person in their assassination team. Thus, the expert's death relieved a lot of pressure from him.    

    

At that moment, Chu Zhongtian saw that the Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon was slowly guiding Yan Jinghong away from the lake with the Cyan Heart Lotus. However, he did not act rashly for the time being as he laid still on the ground, playing dead.    

    

After waiting for about ten minutes and no longer detecting the presence of both the Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon and Yan Jinghong in the area, he finally stood back up.    

    

Instead of running away, Chu Zhongtian dashed towards the side of the lake at extreme speed and approached the corpse of the Earth Shifting Dragon.    

    

In face of the energy beams shot out by the Crimson-Eyed Dragon, apart from the corpse of the Earth Shifting Dragon, the other Tenth and Ninth Grade Strange Beasts had already disintegreated into a pile of ashes, which prevented Chu Zhongtian from absorbing energy from their corpses.    

    

Fortunately, the corpse of an Eighth Grade Strange Beast at the scene was enough for him to replicate the pills and spirit fruits that he needed.    

    

With that, Chu Zhongtian drew out his top grade ten refinements steel knife and slashed down at the Earth Shifting Dragon's lower abdomen with all his strength.    

    

Although the Earth Shifting Dragon was dead, it was still an Eighth Grade Strange Beast with a tough body and rough skin. Only after slashing down more than ten times was he able to finall split open its lower abdomen.    

    

Sticking his hand into its lower abdomen and fumbling around for a while, he lifted out an Inner Core the size of a walnut.    

    

Since the Earth Shifting Dragon was instantly killed by the Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon before it even had the chance to react or fight back, its inner core was still completely filled up with energy. Chu Zhongtian joyfully stored the Inner Core away and began to replicate the Red Sage, Wolfberry, Meridian Enhancing Pills, and Dantian Enhancing Pills.    

    

With all of the Earth Shifting Dragon's energy still in its corpse, Chu Zhongtian managed to replicate seven Red Sages, three Wolfberries, as well as a large number of pills. Even so, the corpse still had more than half of its energy left.    

    

Not wanting to waste even a single drop of its energy, he took out the Rough Gentian from his Storage Bag and replicated it.    

    

However, even after replicating three Rough Gentians, the corpse of the Earth Shifting Dragon still had around a quarter of its energy remaining. Looking at the corpse, he began thinking about what else he could possible replicate.    

    

He had already duplicated more than enough Red Sages, Wolfberries, and Rough Gentians. Any more would simply be a waste of the energy. Moreover, it would take up even more space of his Storage Bag unnecessarily.    

    

But other than these treasures, Chu Zhongtian did not know what else he should duplicate. At this time, he suddenly thought of something he wanted to duplicate. However, he was worried that the remaining energy within the corpse would not be enough.    

    

Even so, he was extremely unwilling to waste the remaining energy within the corpse. After all, the corpse of an Eighth Grade Strange Beast was not easy to obtain.    

    

At that moment, he took out all the Spirit Stones and both the Inner Cores of the Jade White Python and Earth Shifting Dragon from his Storage Bag. Then, he placed them on the ground.    

    

He was going to bet everything on this!    

    

Looking at the Spirit Stones and the Inner Cores on the ground, Chu Zhongtian gritted down on his teeth and roared aloud. This time, he was planning to duplicate a Low Rank Eighth Grade Yang Opening Fruit.    

    

The Yang Opening Fruit was a rare spirit fruit that could allow a cultivator in the Peak Tenth Layer of the Body Refining Realm to break through to the Qi Transformation Realm. If he wanted to duplicate it, he would need an enormous amount of energy.    

    

But since this was his first attempt to duplicate an Eighth Grade Spirit Fruit, he had no idea how much energy he needed!    

    

When he was repairing his meridians a few months ago, in order to duplicate a Meridian Herb, he had nearly been sucked dry and turned into a dried corpse by the replication system. Thus, in order to prevent that from ever happening again, he needed to prepare in advance.    

    

Staring at the Spirit Stones and Inner Cores before him, Chu Zhongtian took in a deep breath and activated the replication system. At that moment, the remaining energy left in the corpse of the Earth Shifting Dragon began decreasing as a Yang Opening Fruit gradually appeared in his hand.    

    

Having used up the remaining energy within the corpse of the Earth Shifting Dragon, the Yang Opening Fruit in his hand had already reached 70% of its completion.    

    

Without any hesitation, Chu Zhongtian directly placed his hand on the pile of spirit stones and began absorbing the spiritual qi stored within them. When the Yang Opening Fruit finally finished replicating, only three spirit stones were left on the ground.    

    

Looking at the remaining Low Rank Ninth Grade Spirit Stone amidst the pile of white powder, he could not help but feel his heart aching.    

    

All the spirit stones that he had accumulated in the past had essentially been exhausted!    

    

Setting the pain in his heart aside, Chu Zhongtian picked up the remaining three Spirit Stones and the two Inner Cores on the ground and stored them into the Storage Bag. With that, he turned his gaze towards the Cyan Heart Lotus in the center of the lake.    

    

Staring at the Seventh Grade Cyan Heart Lotus, Chu Zhongtian felt a little worried and uncertain. Although both the Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon and Yan Jinghong had already left the vicinity, he was still afraid of the possibility that it might have set up a trap in the lake just in case.    

    

As a Seventh Grade Strange Beast, any of the traps set up by the Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon could easily take away his life.    

    

Moreover, even if it did not set up a trap, when it finds out that the Cyan Heart Lotus had gone missing after coming back, it could very easily track him down in the Endless Forest.    

    

But in the case that the Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon fails to track him down, it would definitely attack the human settlements out of anger. As the closest town to the Endless Forest, Luolin Town would definitely be its first target.    

    

However, if he gave up on a Seventh Grade Cyan Heart Lotus that he could easily obtain now, Chu Zhongtian felt that he would regret this decision for the rest of his life.    

    

What should he do?    

    

Should he take the Cyan Heart Lotus or not?    

    

In a dilemma, Chu Zhongtian paced back and forth anxiously in his original position. Stepping into the pile of spirit stones that had turned into powder, a sudden thought popped up in his mind.    

    

For the time being, he could copy the Low Rank Eighth Grade Yang Opening Fruit and replicate it later on when he breaks through to the Qi Transformation Realm or when he finally has enough energy.    

    

Upon thinking of this, Chu Zhongtian hurriedly took out the Earth Shifting Dragon's Inner Core and dove into the lake.    

    

The reason he chose the Earth Shifting Dragon's Inner Core was that he did not know how much energy was needed to copy the Cyan Heart Lotus. Moreover, since he had already consumed two-third of the energy within the Jade White Python's Inner Core, he was afraid that he might run out of energy during the copying process. As such, he chose to use the Earth Shifting Dragon's Inner Core for now.    

    

When the Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon was guarding the Cyan Heart Lotus during the middle of its growth period, it made sure to clear up all the obstacles around it to prevent anything from affecting the lotus' growth. Thus, Chu Zhongtian easily made his way to the Cyan Heart Lotus.    

    

Seeing that the Cyan Heart Lotus had already bloomed fully, Chu Zhongtian gently touched it with his left hand and gripped onto the Earth Shifting Dragon's Inner Core with his right before starting the copying process.    

    

With the abundance of energy contained with the Eighth Grade Inner Core, there was still a considerable amount of energy stored within even after he copied the Cyan Heart Lotus. Seeing this, Chu Zhongtian secretly heaved a sigh of relief.