Coldlight Island was where Luo Chen had first encountered a Blood God Clone. Back then, Blood Nightmare had seized control of He Yuan's body and approached him with an offer of recruitment. Yet the clone that remained clearest in his memory belonged not to Blood Nightmare, but to Blood Hermit. At Withered Wood Ridge, Blood Hermit had turned a Sage from the devil sect into a Blood God Clone and sent it to capture a fifth-tier Withered Blood Vine. Its strength had been terrifying enough that Luo Chen had never forgotten it.

Despite being controlled by different masters, the two clones possessed the same traits. Each body carried two wholly distinct auras, one belonging to its original owner and the other to the cultivator controlling it. By all logic, such an obvious weakness seemed out of place in such a profound art, but that was indeed how they manifested. 

Thus, the moment crimson light erupted from the Wu family Adept and two separate auras emerged from the same body, Luo Chen instantly understood what stood before him. 

Is it Blood Hermit or Blood Nightmare?

As far as he knew, these two were the only people in the Northern Sea capable of refining Blood God Clones. Luo Chen immediately signaled for Heavenjade and Sang Jinghe to retreat. Before they could get far, however, the wretched clone raised its head and fixed its empty eye sockets on him. "Why have you come to disturb me...