The other party calmly admitted to Yu Zao's circumstances.
But Li Qi had his doubts.
Even if the other party admitted that Yu Zao was an artificial human created by the Miscellaneous School with a third-rank as the template—
No... could such a thing truly be done?
Was Yu Zao really an artificial human modeled after a third-rank?
Hadn't they said that a third-rank's Dao resonance possessed copyright? If someone used it as a template, wouldn't the third-rank's will awaken within Yu Zao? In essence, that would only amount to the third-rank creating a dharma body. There was no real point to it.
But clearly, Yu Zao was more than that.
Yu Zao was not a third-rank's dharma body. Li Qi could confirm that much.
Then what exactly was Yu Zao?
As an artificial human, she was plainly connected to the third-rank before him. Yet that connection was so subtle that although she had received something akin to a "blessing," and possessed utterly outrageous talent, she had not become that third-rank's dharma body.
If artificial humans like this could be mass-produced, then the Human Path truly would no longer need to waste time on mortal battlefields.
The most important purpose of mortal battlefields was to hold high-ranks in check. Moreover, mortal battlefields were necessary for incubating high-ranks. There was no shortage of people who broke through amid war, at any time and in any place.
And to high-rank beings, "higher intelligence" itself held value.
Something capable of thought, with a unique worldview, capable of self-awareness and objective awareness, was the greatest wealth of the universe itself.
Material resources were not truly so important. Rather, the mortals who had experienced all manner of different things were the most precious.
To abandon mortal battlefields was equivalent to abandoning the foundation of every