With Li Chen's current attainments, performing this sort of surgery was as easy as reaching out and taking what he wanted.
Before long, he had completed it successfully.
The Quasi-Grand Artisans and Master Artisans present watched in profound surprise.
They could all understand and reproduce his steps, because the skills Li Chen demonstrated were merely those of a Foundation Establishment Realm Master Artisan. Neither the mysteries of life involved nor the relevant knowledge was particularly complicated.
What astonished them, however, was that throughout the process, Li Chen truly had not used the slightest trace of power beyond the mundane.
He had used an anesthetic, a microscope, and a monitoring instrument-tools that mortals could genuinely master.
They might have been the fruits of some industrial technology or achievements in a medical field, but none involved mystical principles or had anything to do with cultivators' divine abilities and spells.
Several mortal craftsmen were utterly enthralled by the sight. "So it can be done like this!"
"He survived having a tumor removed? What spell is sustaining his life?"
Li Chen corrected them. "No spell. Just mortal skills."
He had gone to such lengths precisely to make these people understand that mortals could also accomplish what cultivators could. If they returned to the realm of cultivation and pursuing the Dao, seeking solutions through supernatural thinking, all his effort would have been wasted.
In that case, they might have had a chance to become decent Craftsmen or Master Artisans, or even rise to Grand Artisans, but they would not be the talents he wanted.
Unable to believe it, they hurriedly asked, "May we ask, Grand Artisan Li, can mortal ingenuity rival that of cultivators?"
"Of course it can!"
Li Chen answered them himself, explaining the mysteries of mortal bodies through the anatomical principles unique to