Night fell. Sha Tan's corpse lay motionless in the hive chamber, surrounded by Hunting Insects that prowled like vicious hounds, keeping watch nearby from time to time.
Though the conditions were crude, Li Chen swiftly performed a series of resuscitation procedures on his corpse, maintaining it as close as possible to a living-dead state, as though borrowing a corpse to restore the soul.
Low-level cultivators had pitifully weak control over their own blood and qi, cells, and even their divine souls and wills. At least before a high-level cultivator like Li Chen, they had no defenses to speak of.
He handled the process with practiced ease, doing scarcely any worse than in his previous experiments.
Before long, Li Chen's divine sense descended upon the hive chamber and connected to Sha Tan's body through tentacle-like nerve endings.
An immense torrent of consciousness poured into Sha Tan's brain, while the spirit essence controlled by Queen Bee No. 3 continually subjected his brain body to spirit-particle conversion.
This was an advanced application of the Brain Deconstruction Technique under Li Chen's command. By now, he could already perform read and write operations using the Spirit-Particle Memory Meme.
Setting aside the modifications and the need for safe, reliable write operations, reading alone was actually not particularly difficult.
The spell Dao had a name for this as well: the Soul-Seizing Art!
All paths led to the same destination. Through investigating things and extending knowledge, the puppeteer Dao path had developed its own methods to read living beings' memories, much like the primordial spirit Way. Moreover, Physical Soul Searching disregarded the effects of the subject's resisting will and thoughts, often allowing it to be even more thorough.
At that moment, Li Chen made the necessary modifications to Sha Tan's brain body, effectively opening up a cache where