He Ran still remembered how Li Chen had once said that, once he became more proficient, he could swap heads for him and Wu Ding as well.
For one thing, he wanted to look after his brothers; for another, he wanted to build up experience in puppet conversion.
But He Ran had never imagined that day would come so soon.
Li Chen had truly mastered the art of replacing Qi Refining cultivators' bodies while keeping them alive, and could now put it into practice.
Li Chen said, "This will still take some preparation. I can use this time to purchase materials and decide exactly how to proceed."
He Ran asked, "What makes it difficult?"
Li Chen said, "The greatest difficulty is that Qi Refining cultivators and Foundation Establishment cultivators have different bodily foundations. Although those in the Qi Refining realm have already embarked on the path of cultivation, their bodily functions and the circulation of their magic power fall far short of those of Foundation Establishment cultivators. They cannot do without a mechanically assisted life-support system, whereas Foundation Establishment cultivators have formed a Dao body and can survive normally even without mechanical life support."
"So I need to build a Puppet Chassis with certain life-support functions beforehand."
Li Chen added, "That said, cultivators are still cultivators. Switching to living through qi feeding is something they can manage."
These words came from his reflections. The people of this world truly were different from ordinary mortals.
Over the following days, Li Chen shut himself away in the Magic Cube Maze to work in isolation and began keeping himself busy.
As he had said, the difficulty in performing He Ran's head-swapping conversion lay in the life-support system.
He needed to create a stable, reliable artificial life-support organ to supply everything He Ran's brain