Cultivating intelligence was not about wisdom or ways of thinking, much less experience, knowledge, or worldly insight.
It was a tangible foundation, an ability that could be trained and improved, just like strength or speed.
Yet muscles were easy to train, while the brain lay hidden within the human body, concealed and fragile. Very few cultivation methods could readily reach it.
Martial artists tempered their bodies starting directly with their limbs and bones, then progressing to fascia, flesh, and internal organs. Only at peak Qi Refining could they channel qi throughout the brain and begin brain-domain development.
Cultivators likewise had methods for training the brain, such as Li Chen's earlier spiritualization of his brain and Hundred Skills Arise Naturally.
But none of this was precise enough.
Cultivation methods were ultimately just cultivation methods. Infusing and circulating primordial energy, spiritual essence, or even magic power provided only a broad, overall improvement.
Only by modifying his own brain as Li Chen had now done, fundamentally changing its physiological structure and mode of operation, could he achieve a transformation in the true sense.
Li Chen felt that his thinking had become far more active, and his divine sense and will had grown increasingly powerful.
Observation, memory, imagination, reaction speed... almost every ability associated with the cells of his brain body had improved by leaps and bounds.
The most immediately apparent change was his computational capacity, which had surpassed its former level ten thousandfold.
With a sweep of his divine sense, Li Chen instantly constructed an immensely complex rune formation inside his brain, incorporating a waymarker system that connected to the void and a Communication Module.
The thought signals in his brain interacted directly with it like spirit waves, through overlapping yin and yang. Machine code that had once been obscure and difficult to