"You're growing fonder and fonder of inhabiting these incarnations. Could spiritual power truly possess an instinctive attraction to living beings?"
As Li Chen watched the scene, he silently speculated.
He did not ask Heavenly Pivot, knowing that she could not give him an answer.
For some unknown reason, after he refined these corpse concubines into incarnations of the Seven Great Intelligences and assigned each her own identity and duties, the Seven Great Intelligences had all improved slightly in grade and efficiency, surpassing their previous normal curve of spiritual growth.
At the same time, the frequency with which the Seven Great Intelligences voluntarily used these incarnations had steadily increased. In just two years, they had come to use them as often as their virtual projections.
Li Chen suspected that this mysterious phenomenon might be related to "mental certification," a method rooted in the mind-driven nature of magic power.
While ritually refining the corpse concubines, he had harbored a subconscious intent to grant them life and had linked them to the Seven Great Intelligences.
Some unseen causality seemed to have bestowed mysterious, unfathomable personality traits upon them, stirring the mysterious power inherent in Shape-Stealing Skin-Painting.
His magic power had altered the perception of the Great Dao of heaven and earth, as well as the intelligences' perception of themselves.
But these changes were all subtle and gradual. No fundamental transformation could occur in so short a time to confirm his conjecture.
This matter required long-term consideration.
While Li Chen was pondering, Heavenly Pivot spoke. "Master, do I look pretty in this dress?"
She turned, her long silken skirt as soft and graceful as clouds in the sky.
The corpse concubine incarnation Heavenly Pivot currently used was a mature beauty brimming with classical charm. Every frown and smile bloomed with a hundred allurements, rivaling