"I'll give it a try too! Can you perform another modification? Do you need to rest first?"
Luo Nie's account piqued He Changnian's curiosity. After a moment's consideration, he decided to experience it himself.
"No need, Elder He. Please!"
Li Chen readily agreed. He could not have been more delighted that a grandmaster artisan of such stature was willing to try his craft.
Having performed the technique several times in succession, Li Chen already knew the road well, and soon completed another successful modification.
This was partly because high-level cultivators possessed powerful divine souls, and their brain cells were exceptionally active, brimming with vitality and able to withstand such tinkering. Still, He Changnian could sense Li Chen's practiced ease and was very satisfied with his workmanship. Once the modification was complete, he nodded and offered a word of praise. "Your fundamentals are solid."
A little later, after examining the results of the transplantation, he clicked his tongue in wonder. "Excellent. The effects are indeed just as Luo Nie described."
Luo Nie laughed heartily. "Well, Elder He? I wasn't exaggerating, was I?"
He Changnian asked, "The advantage of your method seems to lie in its repeated use?"
"When Nascent Soul Cultivators use the ancient method to produce true intent for an inheritance, they must expend their own experience and insights, stripping away a portion of their divine souls through a method akin to soul possession and reincarnation!"
"Afterward, they inevitably forget those things and must follow deliberately preserved clues to learn them anew and recover their insights."
"For precisely that reason, Divine Sense Jade Slips containing sealed inheritance true intent are extremely cumbersome to produce."
"Your method, however, seems to make use of the recipient's own brain body."
"That's right," Li Chen said. "My method modifies the brain body through memetic