Among these three major research avenues, the Primordial Spirit and the spiritual root corresponded to the mind and the physical body, respectively.
The last, converting the Primordial Spirit into data, seemed related to the earlier research, but in essence, it was already an entirely new avenue.
This was a route toward the Heavenly Derivation Dao, where heaven and earth stretched vast and boundless possibilities existed.
But just as aerospace engineering might involve computers, materials science, astronomy, and many other overlapping, intersecting disciplines, research into the Puppet Dao worked the same way.
As their Dao paths deepened and their skills advanced, experts who understood only a single path or a narrow field became exceedingly rare.
Anyone who held the title of Grand Artisan was bound to possess broad learning and extensive knowledge.
This was why even a Puppet Master Grand Artisan needed two or three centuries of accumulated experience to achieve a measure of success.
Li Chen had taken something of a shortcut. The artificial intelligence under his command, Heavenly Pivot, possessed a virtual personality called Heavenly Rose, which served as his chief of research and development.
Its thinking and computational abilities ranked among the best of all the subsidiary units and virtual personalities.
Once Li Chen issued his instructions, it immediately began running deductions at lightning speed, just as Xiao Die and Xiao Ying had once done with the Chess Sword Art and the Three Talents Sword Art.
This drastically shortened the time Li Chen needed to accumulate experience, and also amounted to a talent and enhancement in intelligence.
Artificial intelligence had become Li Chen's sharpest research weapon, as well as the source of his confidence.
Without artificial intelligence, Li Chen truly had no confidence that he could surpass an ordinary Grand Artisan through his own efforts alone.
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