Dongfang Mao said, "Li Chen, your words have swept away the weeds blocking my understanding!"
Hua Wucuo could not help saying, "I never understood why battle puppets and the like were superior to cultivators. So it was the effect of fractal decomposition all along."
In a sense, what Li Chen considered the proper path for cultivators was also orthodox Xuanmen: subtracting to attain emptiness.
Although mighty divine abilities were like tools, and could be lost or cause other troubles once they no longer resided within oneself, cutting them away was still better than having every tool and component grow on one's body.
When needed, one could naturally seek them out, or turn them into magical treasures and artifacts to benefit others. This was a more efficient approach.
For puppet masters, what truly mattered was the ability to create and use tools.
But Li Chen added, "Battle puppets are tools, firearms are tools, and all kinds of magical treasures and mechanism components are tools as well. How exactly should we choose among them so that we can use them whenever needed, as smoothly as our own hands? This is a question the Puppet Dao has explored throughout its million years of development."
"Another question is how to extract them."
"How can we successfully extract the spiritual root aptitude, magic power, and even laws originally possessed by cultivators?"
"I chose magical treasures of the Artifact Dao as my point of entry, embracing the principle of seizing the creative power of heaven and earth, combining it with traditional cultivation methods, and making full use of spiritual essence in hopes of achieving results."
"The Divine Gang Spear and other items I advocate here, recently included in the Creation Sect's thousand technology development support projects, make full use of black box thinking. They replace sword