Mei Xuan fell silent at his words.
She had witnessed everything Li Chen had been through and understood that his actions had always mingled the conflicting impulses of lofty ambition and meticulous caution.
How much helplessness lay within that seemingly ordinary remark?
"That's true. Who can do absolutely everything?"
Even so, in Han Li's eyes, Li Chen remained her all-capable master. Just one day after she came to him, he produced a detailed modification plan, laying out her future with perfect clarity.
This was because Li Chen had long been prepared for this. All he needed to do now was follow the changing circumstances and make a few adjustments.
Han Li was a diehard loyalist rarely found even among his direct lineage, and Li Chen was willing to invest in her. That very day, he formally began her conversion into a puppet, raising her mechanical body's capabilities beyond five-star strength in one go while leaving ports for further enhancements.
The cultivation Han Li had failed to advance despite years of painstaking effort instantly broke through its bottleneck, reaching a level comparable to a Spell Dao Core Formation Expert.
Li Chen also took the opportunity to perform precise spirit-particle memory meme modifications on her, implanting a wealth of general knowledge.
The Puppet Dao attainments that had once troubled Han Li also instantly rose beyond the craftsman level. But her foundation in this field was so weak that, for many things, she knew what happened without understanding why, and could not properly connect everything into a coherent whole.
Even so, these results, comparable to ten or twenty years of arduous study for an ordinary apprentice, were enough to leave Han Li overjoyed.
She had never imagined that knowing so much could itself be a kind of happiness.
"Master, I finally understand..."
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