32: Replicas and Dimensional Fragments

In the bedroom, Lin Chen began to perceive the professional skill library.

After half a minute, Lin Chen successfully sensed the existence of the Mirror Master professional skill library.

His consciousness blurred for a moment, and his consciousness body appeared in a space filled with countless mirrors. A professional mentor, composed of mirror images, stood before Lin Chen, observing him without joy or sorrow.

"Hello, Mentor, I want to learn skills."

The professional mentor remained silent, only flicking a point of spiritual light into Lin Chen's mind.

Subsequently, countless professional skill messages exploded in Lin Chen's mind. The volume of this information was immense, and it took Lin Chen a full half hour to barely absorb it, transforming it into rigid knowledge he had mastered.

The Mirror Master profession has existed for 380,000 years. Countless professionals have trailblazed, and along the way, countless skills have emerged and been recorded in the professional database.

The entire professional skill library contains over a hundred million types of skills, most of which are below Tier 6. The number of skills at Tier 6 and above is very small, only about one hundred thousand.

The Mirror Master profession alone could serve as the primary extraordinary inheritance for a small race, yet within the Human Race, it is merely a supplementary means and not mainstream.

Compared to martial artists and psychics, professionals ultimately have a known upper limit in their extraordinary paths. Laziness in the early stages requires hundreds or thousands of times more effort later to compensate for the missed lessons caused by that early laziness.

Currently, in the Mirror Master professional skill library, the highest-grade skills are divine skills. Their number is small, with only a mere 50 types.

Lin Chen cannot yet learn divine skills; he can only learn skills up to Tier 4.

Based on his own situation, Lin Chen ultimately chose three Tier 4 skills to compensate for some of his deficiencies.

Mirror Shield (Tier 4): A simple and unadorned defensive skill that can deflect enemy attacks. It can be maintained indefinitely by consuming mental energy.

Mirror Shatter (Tier 4): An ultimate offensive skill that can achieve the effect of slaying enemies by applying mirror properties to them and then shattering the mirror.

Mirror Soul (Tier 4): Condenses a false Mirror Soul to bear soul attacks on behalf of the main body, a life-saving skill.

These three skills compensated for the deficiency in Lin Chen's professional combat power.

Learning skills and upgrading them to the current tier are time-consuming endeavors. Therefore, it is better to have a few refined skills than many, and new skills can be learned at any time to deal with various situations.

Professionals do not need to learn too many skills, wasting their time and slowing down their cultivation speed. They can learn them when needed, acting on the spur of the moment.

The profession is only one of the powers possessed by Human Race martial artists, not the only one. It can be developed, but not at the expense of the primary path, otherwise, professionals could become an independent extraordinary path and not be tied to martial arts.

Lin Chen's main body stayed at the Lin Family Villa, beginning to practice and master professional skills, integrating them into his combat system, harmonizing various powers to form a stronger combat system.

The Copy Body Lin Chen, on the other hand, went to school. Along the way, except for martial artists at Tier 6 and above who noticed something, martial artists of other tiers could not discern any difference between Lin Chen's Copy Body and his main body.

Mirror Master, a legendary profession, is highly rare. At least in the current federation, the total number of Mirror Master professionals does not exceed one hundred thousand.

Every Mirror Master is a figure who stirs up trouble in their hometown, as the Mirror Master's life-saving ability can be said to be extremely strong, and they are well-balanced in all aspects.

Balance means versatility, versatility means not easily dying, and not easily dying naturally means it's easier to cultivate to a high tier. Any high-tier martial artist, when young, was an existence capable of stirring up local events, inherently possessing a certain legendary attribute.

"Brother Chen, you're a bit off today."

The Copy Body Lin Chen walked into the classroom as usual.

Soon after, Lin Fan and Oriental Red Sleeve entered the classroom.

Their gazes swept over the Copy Body Lin Chen, sensing something amiss, yet they couldn't pinpoint what was wrong; they just felt that the Copy Body Lin Chen seemed somewhat fake.

But whether it was his aura or anything else, there was no change, and being within Blue Star, a place enveloped by Human Race luck, basically eliminated the possibility of accidents.

"Dongfang, tell me what's wrong with me."

The Copy Body Lin Chen was no different from the main body; only some unique traits could not be replicated, and these traits would not take effect or have any impact at lower realms.

"Brother Chen, you seem a bit fake. The sense of reality about you is very weak."

As the strongest among the three, Oriental Red Sleeve's bloodline had fully awakened, and her strength was improving daily. Her bloodline inheritance encompassed everything, making it entirely reasonable for her to detect the problem with the Copy Body Lin Chen.

"Brother Chen, you're not the main body, are you?"

Lin Fan even had a cheat device: the Spirit of the Ancient Book.

As time passed, the Spirit of the Ancient Book within Lin Fan gradually recovered some of its power. With its insight, it naturally knew about the doppelganger abilities possessed by professions like the Mirror Master.

"As expected, I couldn't hide it from you two. Last night, I awakened the Mirror Master profession. This is my Copy Body. If it weren't for you two being so familiar with me, you definitely wouldn't have noticed anything. This Copy Body of mine is good enough to pass for the real thing."

The Copy Body Lin Chen concealed a bit of information, a habitual concealment not directed at the two of them.

"Brother Chen, congratulations on awakening your profession."

"Brother Chen, I'm so jealous. Now, among the three of us, I'm the only one who hasn't awakened a profession. Waaah."

Lin Fan suddenly realized he had fallen far behind, being surpassed by Lin Chen without a sound.

With the Mirror Master profession, Lin Chen's combat power must have soared. Perhaps he already possessed the strength to defeat him, which gave him a sense of urgency.

Time was always insufficient, much of it flowing away inadvertently.

Three months passed in a flash, and school was out for summer vacation.

One-third of high school life had already passed, with barely two years remaining until the Federal Wu exam.

For these three months, Lin Chen's main body had stayed in the Lin Family Villa. School and external interactions were all handled by the Copy Body Lin Chen, as there was little difference between the two.

After three months of arduous cultivation, Lin Chen's cultivation successfully broke through to the Tier 5 Martial General level, and not just barely entering. His spiritual realm also broke through to the early Tier 5.

Furthermore, the output from the Copy Body's cultivation would also be superimposed on the main body. Two people cultivating naturally yielded much faster results than one.

With his Tier 5 Psychic and Tier 5 Martial General cultivation, plus the bonus from the Mirror Master profession, Lin Chen estimated he could contend with Lin Fan and Oriental Red Sleeve from three months ago, with a 50/50 chance of victory.

On the first day of summer vacation, Lin Fan and Oriental Red Sleeve found Lin Chen, ready to go make money.

Half a year had passed, and the hundreds of billions of federal currency they had acquired last time had been completely spent by the three of them, transforming into their own foundations and cultivation.

Now that they were out of money, they naturally had to go make more.

Regarding making money, Lin Chen had no resistance this time.

Copy Body: So, it's not you encountering danger, nor you dying, that's why you're not resisting. Speak for me!

Main body: If you die, you can revive. If I die, we're both screwed. Choose the lesser of two evils. Besides, going out to make money doesn't necessarily mean encountering danger.

Copy Body: (╯°Д°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Get lost!

The Copy Body Lin Chen merely complained a few words. He was still very willing to go on adventures. After all, he wasn't afraid of death and could revive infinitely, so his death-seeking heart was already stirring.

Lin Chen and the Copy Body were two sides of the same coin. The Copy Body, due to his characteristics, was more aggressive, forming a noticeable difference from the conservative main body.

Just like twins, there are always differences, and those who are familiar can spot them at a glance.

"Brother Chen, let's go make some money!"

"Let's do it. Xiao Fanzai, you must already have a place in mind. Tell me about the situation."

"Brother Chen, you really understand me. The place I've chosen this time is a newly descended dimensional fragment. According to the circulating information, the upper limit of this dimensional fragment is Tier 5, but it doesn't rule out the existence of beings who successfully broke through to Tier 6 after descending."

"Tier 6, that's a high tier, but all three of us are Tier 5. Dealing with ordinary Tier 6s won't be a problem. If there is a problem, I can use my Copy Body to cover our retreat, so it won't be too dangerous."

With the Copy Body, Lin Chen spoke with much more confidence, and his actions were a bit more aggressive. However, at Tier 5, he already didn't think much of Tier 6s.

"Brother Chen, without further ado, let's depart now. The sooner we arrive, the sooner we make money."

"Alright, you two go. I'll provide remote support. This is a mirror coordinate. If things become unmanageable, I can come and pick you up."

"Brother Chen, it's so good to have you."

Lin Fan and Oriental Red Sleeve took the mirror coordinate and integrated it into their left palms. Should they encounter an unfavorable situation, they would activate the coordinate, and Lin Chen would teleport them back home.

As for the Copy Body, he would cover their retreat when necessary, sacrificing his life for the two to escape.

Copy Body: Speak for me! Speak for me!

Lin Chen ignored the Copy Body's antics, sent the three out of the villa, and watched them board the unmanned vehicle to the spaceship landing site, heading to the dimensional fragment 50,000 kilometers from Feng City.

"Chener, your profession suits your talent very well. The future is promising."

"Grandpa, Grandma, I'm just lucky to have awakened a suitable talent. At least my safety is guaranteed from now on. If I don't court death, I won't die."

"Well said, if you don't court death, you won't die."

Lin Chen chatted with his grandparents for a while before returning to his cultivation room and entering a state of cultivation.

The main body cultivated in seclusion, raising his cultivation and accumulating his foundation.

The Copy Body went out on adventures, gaining experience and acquiring resources.

The two complemented each other; if he didn't succeed, who would?

In the future, his main body would stay on Blue Star, while the Copy Body would wander the Three Realms and the starry sky, being both cautious and brave, developing on two fronts without hindering each other.

This was the most suitable path of caution for him.

Lin Chen could now call himself a practitioner of the cautious path.