The moment You San arrived at the Magic Cube Maze, before he could marvel at its peculiar atmosphere so unlike the Armor Capital, Armored Warrior Puppets bound him and forcibly hauled him onto an operating table.
Li Chen's true body was already waiting inside. Without a word, he used the Silk-Threading Art to sever You San's perception, then turned him over, shaved his head, and opened his skull in one seamless sequence.
A nearby mechanical arm fetched a dark red chip the size of a date pit, containing a magic array and secured with sealing clay. It was a new-model Potter Wasp Core, painstakingly designed and refined through several rounds of improvements.
The mode it supported was no longer the simple taming of demons. Drawing on the knowledge obtained from Luo Changshan, it had been adapted to tame humans.
In Luo Changshan's philosophy, humans were animals too, and could likewise be tamed!
Li Chen deeply agreed with this. Though he despised Luo Changshan's cold, merciless treatment of his own kind, what was correct remained correct. His personal likes or loathing could not change that.
Still, Li Chen had improved this Puppet Core as much as possible, preserving its purpose while making it as humane as he could and minimizing damage to the brain body.
His aim was not to tame You San, alter his understanding, and make him swear loyalty, but to help him break his bad habits and set his course straight.
Of course, Li Chen would not do all this for nothing.
He could also gain valuable practical experience, a pursuit of the puppeteer Dao path.
Everything involved linked together the secret arts he had previously learned-Draw Silk, Rejoin Meridians; Capture Shadows, Refine Souls; and Awaken Spirituality-into an integrated application for altering thought. This, too, was a form