"Absolute superiority does not exist. Even color blindness, a disadvantageous trait, offers advantages in dim environments and in distinguishing camouflage. Ordinary people's richer sensitivity to color actually makes them more susceptible to interference."
"The evolution of life is more about adaptation. Progress may merely be an illusion."
"It should also be noted that evolution and advancement through cultivation are themselves acts of entropy reduction that defy Heaven. Eliminating most disadvantageous traits and expressing more advantageous ones could perhaps serve as a principle for gene editing."
"But... I'm clearly a Puppet Master of the Heavenly Derivation Dao. How did I end up studying biology?"
"Artificial intelligence... artificial... intelligence... Perhaps I'll have to study art, philosophy, emotions, and all the rest someday too. Sigh."
For some time afterward, Li Chen devoted himself to researching a Blood-Merging Secret Art with distinctive characteristics of his own.
In truth, Li Chen's objective had never changed from beginning to end: to help Heavenly Pivot advance to Seven-Star, then have Heavenly Pivot help him understand the Nascent Soul and advance his cultivation in turn.
But disciplines and Dao Paths were divisions made by humans. The Great Dao Origin and the truths of the world paid no heed to such distinctions.
Li Chen's attempt to perform "Soul Transference" directly through Lin Yue had ended in failure. He had no choice but to return to the Body Deconstruction Great Art and the Creation-Promotion Secret Art, hoping to make some headway in the field of biological modification.
If one route was blocked, he would take another. The Dao Path was rugged, but at least he had not wandered into a dead end with nowhere left to go.
Even within the biological field, however, Li Chen followed a different route from everyone else.
Though it was likewise a Blood-Merging Secret Art,