By this point, the intelligence under Li Chen's command had breached a corner of the Sword Dao domain and acquired some of its techniques.
Had any Sword Dao prodigy at the Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment realm witnessed this, they would certainly have refused to accept it.
They might have struggled to accept that, in just a few days, the Puppet Doll sisters had retraced the history of Sword Dao, taught themselves without a master, and developed something worthy of founding a school. They would have assumed Li Chen had stolen their secret manuals and cultivated their methods.
In truth, the entire Puppeteer Dao Path had indeed plundered their secret manuals and methods for research and analysis.
But Puppet Masters had never intended to join their schools and genuinely practice those arts.
It was like programmers obtaining Go records. They would not choose to become true Go masters; only by creating a powerful tool like AlphaGo could they overturn a thousand years of Go history.
Only through such a Creation Art could they force every national champion and Go sage of the past into a corner. Relying solely on one's own brainpower was far too limiting. No matter how gifted someone was, they could never achieve that.
If those Sword Dao experts were clever, they should not dwell on such matters. Instead, they should follow the example of the Puppeteer Dao Path and use Investigating Things and Extending Knowledge to redefine their own Dao Path.
Unlike this world, mortals on Earth in his previous life had been nowhere near evolving brainpower comparable to computers, allowing them to act with such abandon. They had been helpless and could only treat Go-related artificial intelligence as a tool for supplementary training.
But cultivators in this world possessed unparalleled divine sense, and some had