It took Li Chen more than six full hours to refine high-energy organs encompassing all five elements for Jingang, successfully completing his Five Elements Organ-Shaping enhancement modification.
Next came Knead Clay, Transform Flesh and Fill with Mercury as Blood, along with various other Creation-Promotion Secret Arts applied to his body.
Finally, Li Chen fitted the Blue-Faced Mountain Ogre with flesh metal he had developed himself-an experimental product created by studying the blood mystic gold formula and combining it with refined gold, cloud mud, and other materials.
Its overall strength was comparable to refined gold, but it possessed several properties far superior to refined gold: energy storage and evolutionary modes comparable to living flesh!
Those who aspired to become Grand Artisans had to study flesh and blood, and those who studied flesh and blood had to cultivate blood mystic gold.
This was already common knowledge on the Puppeteer Dao Path, a testament to the special place this substance held in the relevant study of materials.
Li Chen could understand this somewhat. Upon closer examination, this substance was not merely a "flesh metal" creation bridging biology and machinery; it was also an application of the mysteries of Knead Clay, Transform Flesh.
Blood mystic gold did not necessarily offer the best performance in combat. Many alloys and natural minerals surpassed it and were more affordable, too. Yet in terms of overall effectiveness and potential for advancement and development, they fell far short of blood mystic gold.
A closer look at the underlying principles revealed why: it approached the essence of natural creation more closely than anything else, while also building upon that foundation. By its very nature, it was an exceptionally wondrous material.
The material Li Chen was currently using, for instance, was artificial flesh refined using structures modeled on the flesh of