Broad Cloud Peak, in the Inner Valley.
Li Chen personally took up the tools to modify a precision chip that looked like a jade ring but was actually carved from spirit crystal.
It was small and exquisitely crafted, but expensive to produce. A supreme-grade spirit crystal of treasured-material quality served as its substrate, a Grand Artisan's divine sense carved its logic circuit arrays, and secret arts of Array Dao restrictions refined it further. All this trouble was taken because it had an important purpose to serve.
It was not an Intelligent Chip Li Chen had prepared for an ordinary puppet, but a new vessel intended for studying the secrets of the divine soul by "transferring the dwelling" of Lin Yue's soul.
The Primordial Spirit Way regarded the human body as a dwelling: when the true spirit resided within, the divine soul arose of itself. There was also the saying, "The heaven and earth souls always remain outside; only the life soul resides within the body." It held that a person's three souls and seven spirits, essence, energy, spirit, and intent were the essence of their existence as an intelligent life-form, while the fleshly body was merely a shell, a vessel.
"Even from the superficial understanding gained through ordinary observation, it isn't hard to conclude that the human body is a dwelling."
"This happens to connect with the field I intend to study-the methods by which the 'power of the heart' changes a person's mind and will, alters the instincts of Chess Mountain's people, and shapes their temperaments and wills."
"If I can unravel this art, I should be able to penetrate the domain of the divine soul and study the Primordial Spirit Way!"
Li Chen gently hefted the object in his hand. As though examining a gemstone, he patiently checked