387: Visualize a double

“In other words…”

“Reshaping carries a risk; if it fails, a treasure will be directly lost.”

Xiao Shi pondered this.

If it were a treasure below Saint Grade,

even if it was lost, he wouldn't feel much.

But if a Saint Grade treasure was lost due to a failed reshaping,

then Xiao Shi would feel pained.

Although with his current strength, his demand for Saint Grade items was no longer very high.

After all, he was already the strongest Saint Grade.

Even without relying on any Saint Grade items, no Saint Grade would be his opponent.

And even with Saint Grade items, he couldn't rely on them to defeat a Dao Lord Level.

This made Saint Grade items somewhat useless to him.

Of course, functional items like the records of the upper three realms of martial dao were an exception.

Such functional items were still very useful to him.

Now with the treasure reshaping ability,

Xiao Shi mused that he might be able to reshape combat-oriented items that he didn't use much into functional items through this reshaping.

However, the prerequisite was that the reshaping wouldn't fail.

With Saint Grade items being extremely difficult to obtain, and not many Saint Grades to kill on the Tianwu Continent,

Xiao Shi faced considerable difficulty in acquiring Saint Grade items.

Even in the Myriad Treasure Pagoda, there were only three Saint Grade items.

“In other words…”

“Currently, I only have three chances to reshape Saint Grade items.”

Xiao Shi thought to himself.

However, after carefully experiencing the Myriad Treasure Pagoda's treasure reshaping, he discovered that it wasn't an unconditional or cost-free process.

If one wanted to reshape a Saint Grade treasure,

it required using all Martial Demon Grade treasures on the tenth floor of the Myriad Treasure Pagoda as a reshaping condition.

That is to say,

each time a Saint Grade treasure was reshaped,

all Martial Demon Grade treasures on the tenth floor would be consumed.

Although the Myriad Treasure Pagoda had the function of automatically replenishing treasures,

the higher the floor of the treasure,

the slower the replenishment speed, and the more time it required.

For example, the Saint Grade treasures on the eleventh floor

were only replenished after a long interval.

However, now, in addition to the Myriad Treasure Pagoda's replenishment capability,

Xiao Shi himself could also place items from his person into the Myriad Treasure Pagoda for replenishment.

It was just that he didn't have many Martial Demon Grade items either.

He couldn't support multiple reshapes.

“It's best to succeed in one go!”

Xiao Shi took a deep breath.

His current idea was very simple.

That was to use the Myriad Treasure Pagoda's item reshaping to transform a Saint Grade treasure in his possession into a special “clone.”

Let this clone wear the Martial Emperors Royal Robe.

This way, on one hand, the clone formed by the martial emperors cloak could be taken to The Primordial Martial Era together, and on the other hand, it could free his main body, so that even if he returned from The Primordial Martial Era afterward, he would not be continually confined within the Imperial Domain due to the restrictions of the Martial Emperors Royal Robe.

At that time, his main body could also leave the Imperial Domain at any time, without restriction.

However, Xiao Shi wasn't sure if his method would definitely work.

He began to further understand the Myriad Treasure Pagoda's item reshaping.

He quickly discovered that

the Myriad Treasure Pagoda's item reshaping was mainly divided into two types of reshaping.

One was random reshaping.

This reshaping primarily preserved the original appearance of the item while randomly reshaping its other characteristics based on its existing foundation.

For example, if a battle saber with fire abilities were to undergo random reshaping,

then this battle saber with fire abilities might very likely be reshaped into a battle saber with ice abilities, or it might be reshaped into a battle saber with corrosive abilities.

But no matter how it was reshaped,

it would still remain a saber.

It wouldn't transform from a saber into a sword, or into a shield, due to this reshaping.

This random reshaping was more about reshaping the item's abilities.

It would not affect the item's appearance or type.

At the same time, the consumption brought about by random reshaping was also the smallest.

It only required consuming all Martial Demon Grade treasures on the tenth floor to perform random reshaping.

The other type was visualization reshaping.

This reshaping allowed Xiao Shi to freely reshape items through visualization, according to his own ideas.

It could not only change the item's abilities but also its appearance and type.

A saber could be turned into a sword, and a sword could be turned into armor.

Everything could be reshaped according to Xiao Shi's own ideas.

However, the conditions and restrictions for this visualization reshaping were relatively more stringent.

First, to perform visualization reshaping,

not only would all Martial Demon Grade treasures on the tenth floor be consumed, but also all Saint Grade treasures on the eleventh floor.

In other words, it required consuming all treasures on the top two floors of the Myriad Treasure Pagoda at once to perform visualization reshaping.

Secondly, because visualization reshaping itself didn't have many restrictions,

it could easily lead to the reshaped item exceeding the capabilities of its original stage.

For example, using this visualization reshaping to reshape a Saint Grade item,

it would be very easy to visualize an item with capabilities comparable to Dao Lord Level, or even demigod level, during visualization, because there were no restrictions.

After all, without any restrictions,

it was difficult to rein in thoughts and grasp the proper scale, and one would uncontrollably visualize to the maximum extent.

This would easily lead to visualizing abilities that exceeded the item's own level.

Once the visualized item's abilities exceeded its original level, the reshaping would fail.

Of course,

the visualized item's abilities under visualization reshaping also couldn't be too weak.

If the abilities were weaker than the item itself, the item would also experience a drop in rank.

It would directly fall from Saint Grade to Martial Demon Grade.

However, this situation was not common.

After all, when performing visualization reshaping, one would always visualize toward powerful abilities; no one would visualize toward weaker ones.

When Xiao Shi had a detailed understanding of the Myriad Treasure Pagoda's item reshaping,

he understood that the most suitable for him was definitely visualization reshaping.

Only through visualization reshaping could he have a chance to reshape a clone capable of wearing the Martial Emperors Royal Robe.

However, to perform visualization reshaping,

he still needed a Saint Grade item.

After all, visualization reshaping required consuming all treasures on the eleventh and tenth floors of the Myriad Treasure Pagoda at once.

That is to say,

the three Saint Grade items he currently possessed

all had to be used for the consumption of visualization reshaping.

He couldn't reshape these three Saint Grade items.

Xiao Shi thought for a moment.

He decided to first ask one of the Saint Grades of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect to borrow the Saint Grade treasure in his possession.

Through their previous encounters in the Imperial Domain,

he had already discovered that two of these Saint Grades from the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect possessed Saint Grade treasures.

Strictly speaking,

these two Saint Grade treasures actually belonged to the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect.

As the current Sect Master of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect, Xiao Shi

could completely commandeer these two Saint Grade treasures in their hands.

However, Xiao Shi still chose to borrow them.

Regarding this,

the Saint Grade whose treasure was borrowed by Xiao Shi did not show any hesitation or reluctance.

Even though Saint Grade treasures were already extremely rare on the Tianwu Continent,

the other party was a smart person.

He knew that with Xiao Shi's current status and position, there would be no situation where something was borrowed and not returned.

Borrowing one Saint Grade treasure from him now might very likely result in him returning two, or even three Saint Grade treasures later!

He had no doubt that Xiao Shi possessed such ability and magnanimity.

Being able to have his treasure borrowed by Xiao Shi

was undoubtedly a good opportunity for him.

If the other Saint Grade who possessed a Saint Grade treasure knew, he would probably even contend with him to lend his Saint Grade treasure to Xiao Shi.

That day,

after Xiao Shi borrowed the Saint Grade treasure,

he immediately began to perform visualization reshaping on the Saint Grade treasure in his hand through the Myriad Treasure Pagoda's item reshaping.

He knew very well that

he only had one chance to reshape.

If he failed… there would no longer be enough items to be consumed for reshaping.

Therefore, no matter what,

he had to ensure that this reshaping succeeded!

Immediately, Xiao Shi took a deep breath.

He quickly entered a state of visualization.

According to his own idea,

the item he intended to reshape would be a mirror.

Its purpose was to reflect a special clone through this mirror.

Suddenly, as he visualized in his mind,

the Saint Grade treasure in his hand directly transformed into a mirror.

And now came the most crucial step.

Xiao Shi knew that

the clone he needed to form had to be different from other ordinary clones.

If it was just an ordinary clone, it would certainly not be able to wear the Martial Emperors Royal Robe.

It had to be like the clone formed by the martial emperors cloak, inheriting Xiao Shi's own aura, soul, and so on.

Even a demigod would not be able to distinguish that it was a clone.

Only such a clone could wear the Martial Emperors Royal Robe.

Before this,

Xiao Shi had considered directly imitating the martial emperors cloak and visualizing an item with a similar function to the martial emperors cloak.

But this idea was quickly rejected by him.

Because he knew that

if he were to visualize by imitating the martial emperors cloak,

this item would definitely fail to reshape!

Although the martial emperors cloak was only Martial Demon Grade,

as Emperors Armor, even the Entering Martial Rank martial emperor mask could not be measured by ordinary grades.

After all, the Martial Emperor's aura formed by the martial emperor mask would even affect demigods.

This was certainly not something an ordinary Entering Martial Rank item could achieve.

Therefore, visualizing and reshaping an item by imitating the martial emperors cloak

would definitely result in failure.

The standing of any piece of Emperors Armor was far above that of ordinary Saint Grade items!

“Although I can’t completely imitate the martial emperors cloak, I only need a similar clone…”

“This clone doesn’t need to inherit my strength and cultivation; I also don’t need to use this clone for combat. I just need this clone to be able to replace me…”

“Or, to be precise, what I want isn’t a clone at all, but… a substitute!”

A sharp glint flashed in Xiao Shi's eyes.

His entire line of thought suddenly became clear.

If he were to form a clone similar to the martial emperors cloak, it would obviously be very difficult to succeed.

This was not something an ordinary Saint Grade treasure could achieve.

But to form a substitute… there shouldn't be too big of a problem.

Immediately,

as Xiao Shi visualized in his mind,

the mirror in his hand was directly endowed with the ability of a substitute.

In addition, Xiao Shi felt that if this item only possessed a substitute ability, its standing might not reach Saint Grade.

It might fall to Martial Demon Grade.

To stabilize it at Saint Grade, he would still need to endow this mirror with a sufficient ability.

“Since it's a substitute…”

“Then let it have the ability to die once for me.”

Xiao Shi felt that as long as this substitute had the ability to die in place of him,

then this item could basically be stabilized at Saint Grade.

With this thought,

Xiao Shi quickly reined in his thoughts,

thereby preventing himself from uncontrollably having more ideas.

In this state of visualization, his entire mind became more active than usual; if he didn't rein in his thoughts, one idea after another would continuously emerge in his mind.

At that time, he would uncontrollably continue to visualize more abilities for the item… This was probably one of the reasons why visualization reshaping was prone to failure.

Fortunately, Xiao Shi understood the principle of knowing when to stop.

After visualizing two abilities, he immediately reined in his thoughts and exited the visualization state.

Xiao Shi took a deep breath.

He looked at the mirror in his hand with some apprehension.

Although according to his own estimation,

he felt that the two abilities he had visualized this time should not exceed the scope of Saint Grade.

But he was still a little nervous.

Fortunately, as the light emanating from the mirror continuously contracted and converged entirely behind the mirror surface,

the entire mirror remained intact.

It did not break as a result.

This indicated that he had successfully completed this visualization reshaping.

“It succeeded!”

Under Xiao Shi's excited gaze,

relevant item information immediately appeared in his vision.

【Name: Mirror of Substitution】

【Type: Mirror】

【Grade: Saint Grade】

【Description: This is a mirror reshaped through the Myriad Treasure Pagoda's visualization reshaping. Through the mirror's reflection, a substitute can be formed.】

【Note 1: The substitute formed by the mirror's reflection, in addition to being able to die once for the main body, can also use all items that only the main body can use, but will not inherit the main body's strength and cultivation.】

【Note 2: Once the substitute dies for the main body, it will disappear directly.】

【Note 3: This item can only be used once.】

...Xiao Shi was very satisfied with this treasure reshaped through visualization.

Although it could only be used once, it was enough.

Immediately, he used this mirror to reflect a light image, which then converged into a substitute identical to himself.

He then had this substitute attempt to wear the Martial Emperors Royal Robe, thus successfully putting on the Martial Emperors Royal Robe.

Although the substitute did not inherit any of Xiao Shi's strength or cultivation,

as long as the substitute remained in his Imperial Domain,

then there was no need to worry about anyone threatening or harming the substitute.

Next, the substitute only needed to maintain the operation of the Nine Dragons Divine Sky Formation of the Martial Emperors Royal Robe within the Imperial Domain.

“This way, I can carry the martial emperors cloak and go to The Primordial Martial Era with my strongest combat power!”