Taking history as his mirror, Li Chen carefully studied the million-year entanglement between the Puppet Dao and the Spell Dao. He concluded that one day, traditional Dao Paths would inevitably be swept aside, just like the Primordial Remnants and the Shaman Folk of old.
Long before the Spell Dao flourished, the Witch Dao had enjoyed its own golden age. All manner of gods, devils, ghosts, and monsters roamed the land; only afterward did notions of the Immortal Dao, Heavenly Tribulation, and Ascension arise.
Yet once the Spell Dao flourished, all these became relics of the past, legends of the previous epoch.
The Spell Dao gave rise to tools that aided cultivation, such as Artifact Refining, Pill Refining, and Formation Arts. Later came the Puppet Dao, which borrowed the power of external things.
Even the Puppet Dao itself had not remained unchanged. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, it too had undergone a transition, moving from the arts of Mechanism Puppets to the Dao of Creation, which explored the mysteries of nature. Without that shift, it could never have developed to its present level.
Yet even now, a cloud of uncertainty still hung over every cultivator's head: what exactly were the true natures of Spiritual Energy and Spiritual Roots? And what created the True Spirit, enabling it to commune with the principles of Heaven and Earth and nature, and wield the transformations of Divine Abilities and spells?
Only by solving this riddle could they master all Divine Abilities and spells, and even the Power of Law.
Clearly, if the cultivation world truly ushered in such an age, traditional Puppet Masters would also be swept aside.
Traditional Puppet Masters had to rely on their cultivation and Magic Power to conduct research, tightly binding their own cultivation to their attainments in the Puppet