After He Ping cast the great art "I Am the Cleaver, Men Are the Fish," a mark within Venerable Kongming's Primordial Spirit was absorbed deep into the brow of his Primordial Spirit Dharma Body, where a Ten-Thousand-Oracle Machine Brain was concealed.
Within that crystal brain condensed an Other-Mind Heaven that simulated the myriad phenomena of existence. Kongming's mark was situated within it.
Although the great art "I Am the Cleaver, Men Are the Fish" could simulate a virtual world, it was not especially realistic.
Fortunately, after attaining Manifest Divinity, he had cultivated the Immortal Puppet Sect's "Sixty Mind Aspects." Together with the Ten-Thousand-Oracle Machine Brain, a powerful auxiliary calculation device, it could enhance the virtual world's degree of realism, making every NPC in that world vividly lifelike rather than stiffly designed.
The cultivator who had created the Ten-Thousand-Oracle Machine Brain in the past had also been a genius for the ages. One of this thing's functions was "Soul Transcription," which could draw mortal souls into it and transcribe them.
Mortal souls were exceedingly fragile, nowhere near as condensed as cultivators' divine souls. Once a cultivator's divine soul reached Great Cheng, their consciousness could leave the body, wield objects with divine-soul Dharma power, and after entering the Dao, they could even seize another person's body.
As for mortals, once their souls left their bodies, they would vanish like smoke within a short time. Only the divine souls of powerful cultivators could endure for long periods. Thus, preserving mortal souls could only be done through storage; consciousness uploading was fundamentally unworkable. Yet the cultivators of the Immortal Puppet Sect had invented a way to upload mortal souls' consciousness into the Ten-Thousand-Oracle Machine Brain.
He Ping felt that this function could be extended into Other-Mind Heaven. Thus, he absorbed the souls of some