Foreseeing this thing's enormous potential, Li Chen wasted no time researching it.
For now, he had only discerned the direction to take and devised a theoretically feasible approach. How to put it into practice would depend on his subsequent efforts.
"A Spirit-Particle Memory Meme? Why does that sound like a method for replacing the brain body?"
Not long afterward, Mei Xuan, with nothing else to occupy her, learned the broad outlines of it and could not help shuddering in alarm.
She now qualified as a Puppet Master Craftsman with some grounding in the craft, so she could more or less grasp its basic nature.
Li Chen said, "Are you referring to the Brain-Swapping Technique? In essence, it does indeed follow the same lineage."
The Brain-Swapping Technique was also known as the Vessel-Rebirth Great Art.
If mechanized spirit-cloud neurons were regarded as the brain cells of some form of artificial life and used to replace normal human brain cells, then the entire brain would indeed have been replaced.
However, it had long been known that when Great Powers attempted soul possession, they could fail and suffer a backlash from their victims.
If the host possessed a tenacious will, their divine soul could devour the caster in turn without undergoing any modification, claiming all the caster's memories, experience, knowledge, insights, and more as its own.
A spirit-particle brain remained, in essence, one's own brain. It had merely undergone puppet-based enhancement modification, much like one's limbs and bones.
Properly applied, this method of modification could even alter a person's state of mind and values. No wonder Mei Xuan had been startled.
"However, with the parameters set beforehand, there is no danger!"
"If I intend to introduce this method, how could I fail to recognize its advantages and disadvantages first?"
Li Chen spoke calmly.