"Where exactly did the problem lie? My understanding of the path of the primordial spirit was still lacking."
Another day passed, and after inspecting the artificial humans he had refined once more, Li Chen let out a deep sigh.
By now, he could refine relatively advanced simulated human puppets, and his mastery of creation-promotion secret arts such as Knead Clay, Transform Flesh had reached the level of proficiency expected of a grand artisan.
Yet he still lacked sufficient understanding of human will, the primordial spirit, the divine soul, and such things.
These belonged to the domain of the nascent soul realm. Only those at the nascent soul realm or above could directly perceive the existence of souls through divine thought.
Before that, one had to use indirect methods.
The problem lay precisely in those indirect methods. It was like mortals without spiritual roots having to use tools such as mathematical formulas and physical laws to understand invisible phenomena such as electricity, magnetism, and gravity.
It was an exercise in blind men feeling an elephant.
"The reason I want to bring cultivation into mortal hands is to unify these research methods and find a true ladder of advancement!"
"If mortals can use these tools as a ladder to understand things they could not otherwise comprehend, then mastering magnetic origin won't be difficult for qi refining cultivators, understanding the cosmic dao won't be difficult for foundation establishment cultivators, and making contact with the divine soul won't be difficult for core formation cultivators either!"
"Only this is a truly stable, broad road to success, nothing like the dao paths of ancient cultivators that depended on spiritual root talent and divine sense talent!"
What lay before Li Chen now were bodies resembling humans. But when mechanical arms lifted them from the nutrient pools and