Natural Creation bestowed Dao Bones and Spiritual Roots upon all manner of living beings, forming the foundations of cultivation.
Ultimately, however, a Spiritual Root, like a dantian or Purple Mansion, was merely an intangible, elusive concept-the source of one's innate ability to wield and control the spiritual energy of the five elements.
The art of "Five Elements Organ-Shaping" included methods for giving a body artificial organs that enabled it to control the spiritual energy of the five elements. These were also called "false Spiritual Roots" or "artificial Spiritual Roots."
Once one's mastery of this art reached a certain level, one could imitate a Spell Cultivator's spellcasting and wield the corresponding divine abilities and spells.
This was also the key to using Divine Ability Mechanism Devices.
Why were human puppets so prevalent among Puppet Masters who cared nothing for humanity? Because successful cultivation greatly improved a cultivator's physical constitution. Although they could not form tangible inner cores like demons, their flesh and organs were themselves high-energy substances containing extraordinary power.
Those with exceptional aptitude were even born with Spiritual Roots, allowing their bodies to naturally transform unaligned Heaven and Earth vital energy into a form capable of powering certain divine abilities and spells!
This meant those human puppets naturally possessed the means to wield Divine Ability Mechanism Devices.
Even among those who had mastered the secret art of Five Elements Organ-Shaping and could produce artificial substitutes, many still revered Natural Creation, or simply used human puppets to save on costs.
Ordinary Spell Cultivators might murder and rob others to claim their treasures, but to Puppet Masters, even the corpses left behind had value-sometimes greater value still.
Li Chen supported the "Materials Faction." This name stood in opposition to the "Human Resources Faction," advocating humanitarian principles and rejecting barbaric practices.
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