Within the Azure Billow Immortal Abode, Li Chen personally cast the art and modified Han Li by coating her skin. From then on, her skin also possessed the formidable properties of the nine-star grade, comparable to a Primordial Spirit.
This fell within the scope of Shape-Stealing Skin-Painting. Afterward, there would be a second, third, and even fourth and fifth phase of further modifications, involving methods from the Creation-Promotion Secret Art such as Melt Gold, Temper Bone; Gather Essence, Condense Marrow; and Knead Clay, Transform Flesh.
Once her inner and outer body were brought into harmony and her tendons and bones strengthened, she could attain a Dao Fruit comparable to a Primordial Spirit fleshly body. Her combat capabilities would then undergo a qualitative leap. With Li Chen protecting her True Spirit and backing up her Primordial Spirit, she would not be at the slightest disadvantage even in a head-on confrontation with a genuine Primordial Spirit Great Power.
Next, Li Chen upgraded the Combat Puppets he had used throughout his early years, the Puppet Sisters.
Again, he used his enhanced power of law to replace their substance, exchanging their formerly mediocre spirit materials for nine-star treasured materials. This sent their durability soaring straight to the nine-star grade as well.
Although their size and energy levels prevented them from being compared to a floating fortress like the Giant Kun, they were more than capable of contending with Primordial Spirit experts.
This was the change brought about by an improvement in their intrinsic nature, and its effects were immediate.
However, due to the limitations of his abilities, Li Chen still began by modifying them with Shape-Stealing Skin-Painting. Once their skin had been upgraded, he would slowly transform their interiors.
The limitations of this new ability were laid bare here. It was nowhere near as