The Puppet Dao's Divine Ability Mechanism Devices had always been spell machines built for dedicated purposes. Each had its own corresponding energy and control systems, so even users without spiritual root aptitude could operate them.
The same principle applied to rune formations and magic arrays. Spirit-Gathering Formations, energy-storage crystals, and other artifacts-even Magical Treasures already widely used in the Ancient Cultivator Era-could all unleash the corresponding divine abilities and spells.
But these were all extremely narrow, single-purpose systems. A Seal Magical Treasure, for instance, might contain the powers of gravity and magnetic origin and possess the Size Manipulation function, but it could do little beyond using those functions.
A Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation equipped with the Mystic Thunder Formula to bewilder enemies and bombard them with lightning could only deploy its bewildering array and unleash mystic thunder bombardments.
They could not be like people, learning one art today and another tomorrow. As long as people had the time and energy, along with the necessary spiritual root aptitude and comprehension, they could continually master new formulas.
Humans were called the spiritual pinnacle of all things because they possessed intelligence, as well as this capacity to grow by continually mastering new divine abilities and spells.
"Puppet Masters have always hailed their Divine Ability Mechanism Devices as great inventions, but in reality, Divine Ability Mechanism Devices are Magical Treasures, and Magical Treasures are Divine Ability Mechanism Devices. There is no essential difference."
"It's like the boilers, Steam Engines, Internal Combustion Engines, and even nuclear-powered machinery that mortals use. At their core, they're all still boiling water. There's no difference."
"But the five elements spiritual root touches upon the very essence of spiritual energy and magic power, granting living beings the ability to command heaven and earth."
"It could almost be called the foundation of