In the workshop at Base No. 1, the Centipede Heavenly Dragon's enormous body had already been airlifted in. A Large Magic Array more than a hundred feet across supported him, holding him motionless several feet above the ground.
Li Chen stood before him, gazing up at the hundred-foot-long centipede monster with a thoughtful expression.
"I haven't yet mastered the art of manufacturing five-star grade false cores, but in principle, it isn't much different from a cultivator advancing and forming a true core. It uses biomimetic principles to transfer the unique core-forming processes of a Demon Core into a Puppet."
"This is a model that mirrors a true core, hence the name 'false core.'"
"Having achieved empirical certification on this path myself, I'm certainly capable of manufacturing one. All I lack is experience."
In truth, the best way to maximize his gains would have been reverse engineering: treating this object as a prototype and unraveling its secrets. But Li Chen knew full well that he had no design schematics for it. Reverse engineering would be no easy task, so he decided to spare himself the trouble.
He soon gathered his thoughts and set to work.
By now, Li Chen's divine sense and magic power were a world apart from what they had once been, and refining and fusing the various materials came ever more readily to him.
Although the Puppet Masters of the Eastern Victory Continent were regarded as ordinary mortals with poor spiritual root aptitude, they still possessed the ability to control the five elements. The difference might be immense in fierce magical combat, but when it came to the everyday work of refining materials and inscribing dao patterns and restrictions, there was little distinction.
Thus, it took him only a few hours to complete the first stage of his