The enormous explosion came without warning, but its power and fury were unmistakable. In an instant, Li Chen's vision was flooded with blazing light.
Then a terrifying shock wave swept toward him like a hurricane.
The Heavenly Eye System's alarms shrieked madly once again, just as they had during the many previous experiments to miniaturize Divine Thunder.
Yet Li Chen had seen with his own eyes that Qi Maigu had unleashed it himself. It was not a physical Divine Thunder charge refined from those materials.
"Mental certification!"
"So it really is true-once empirical certification reaches perfection, mental certification comes naturally!"
"You didn't draw on any external power. With your own magic power alone, you simulated every transformation in a Blazing Sun Divine Thunder explosion. That means you've cultivated Blazing Sun Divine Thunder into a divine ability of your own!"
Blazing Sun Divine Thunder was a genuine Grand Artisan-level art, one that only a Grand Artisan among Puppet Masters could master.
By that reckoning, Qi Maigu was now an uncrowned Grand Artisan!
Both startled and delighted, Li Chen looked at the shaggy-bearded Qi Maigu with lingering astonishment.
Qi Maigu said, "Exactly. If the Spell Dao chiefly cultivates the five elements and yin and yang, simulating the many transformations involving them in nature, then our Puppeteer Dao Path encompasses a broader range of the laws of heaven and earth and supernatural phenomena."
"I've completely mastered the Blazing Sun Divine Thunder that empirical certification allows us to refine. As a result, my magic power has transformed and acquired its properties."
Li Chen said, "Then you're a walking Divine Thunder charge in human form, fellow Daoist, able to wield that power at will to blast powerful enemies to death."
Qi Maigu said, "It still depends on the strength of my magic power and the