When dawn broke, Li Yao was reluctantly dragged back to perform her administrative duties by the empress, and Xiang Yu was finally left alone. He settled into position with a smile spreading across his face—now he could finally get to work…
He activated his cloning ability and created the remaining eight clones, bringing the total to nine. He didn't create a dark elemental clone since he had already given the last mind partition to the small Li Yao. Well, he supposed it was fine since he didn't know if a dark clone might be mistaken for a demonic cultivator or something equally troublesome.
He then decided to assign specific roles to each of the clones.
First was the metal clone, which he assigned to blacksmithing. While the elements didn't technically matter much when assigning tasks, it just felt right to match them appropriately.