This time, Li Chen once again connected Flesh-and-Blood Modification with the material enhancement he had mastered, even glimpsing a sliver of the mysteries behind blood mystic gold modification.
According to legend, the earliest blood mystic gold had nothing whatsoever to do with flesh and tissue, yet when developed to an advanced realm, it displayed properties resembling them.
This reflected the wonders of life's creation and revealed that, in nature, the boundaries between life and nonlife, organic and inorganic, were seemingly not as clear-cut as people imagined.
It was only because human knowledge was limited, unable to fully grasp the mysteries of creation, that these two could not be unified at a higher level.
Only by reaching the level of the Divine Artisan Yan Shi, making blood mystic gold exhibit properties like the flesh of living beings and transforming it into blood spirit jade or even blood jade immortal material, could one make it suitable as raw material for creating perfect puppets.
With his current mastery of mechanical engineering, building a Spirit Essence Furnace for the Blue-Faced Mountain Ogre, fitting it with a separate Spirit Pump, and enhancing its bodily capabilities were by no means difficult. The real difficulty lay in coordinating these mechanical organs with its other natural organs, and even its brain, nerves, and consciousness, so that they integrated harmoniously and functioned freely.
Once that problem was solved, raising its combat power to rival a demon beast at peak qi refining would instead be easy.
After all, this did not cross the boundary of a major realm. Once the introductory fundamentals were mastered, further enhancements would be improvements that flowed as naturally as water into a channel.
Opening the door, making the leap from zero to one, was far more important.
Thus, in just under half a month, Li