When Li Chen heard this, he remained noncommittal. "Your own judgment may not be accurate. Your aura does indeed measure up to the tenth level now, but the key to Puppet Conversion is preserving a living being's original potential for growth while strengthening the flesh!"
"If all we wanted was greater combat strength, the Head-Swapping Technique alone would have solved that. Why go to all this trouble?"
"The main subject of Puppet Conversion is ultimately still the original body, also known as the 'lifebound puppet.'"
"Born of the father's essence and the mother's blood, it is a spiritual essence chassis fashioned by heaven and earth, a precision creation ordinary Puppet Masters cannot hope to match until their attainments are sufficient."
"Unless we strengthen and modify this 'lifebound puppet' as our foundation, no other Puppet Chassis can replace its function."
"Thus, ordinary chassis can be considered born for combat. However they are damaged or destroyed, their loss is nothing to lament. Only the 'lifebound puppet' exists for cultivation and advancement. Damage it, and you injure your Dao foundation, hindering future cultivation."
What he spoke of was the greatest purpose of Puppet Conversion—potential for advancement!
The Puppeteer Dao Path had never been a path concerned only with fighting.
Although most Mechanisms were made for combat, that was merely to fight for room to survive and develop, to win blessed lands and cultivation provisions. The most fundamental goal was still to advance through cultivation and attain the Dao.
Over the years, Li Chen had devoted almost all his energy to accumulating knowledge and gathering cultivation provisions, rarely cultivating on his own.
Within the Spell Dao, this would have been called obsession with external things and neglect of oneself, an act of decadence that utterly squandered one's cultivation.
Yet he had already cultivated to