While researching the mysteries of life in the human body, Li Chen had never stopped his basic research into insects. In truth, he had been conducting fundamental scientific research all along.
Li Chen had carried out extensive experiments in the Inkstone Continent, Chess Mountain Domain, and Guangyun Domain, touching on different civilizations, social structures, and population species. But that was because humanity was his ultimate objective.
By comparison, insects were more primitive, simpler, and closer to the basic forms of nature's creations.
In fact, the Alien Insects were the species truly suited to inducing genetic mutations, testing various methods of editing and transcription, and applying the Blood-Merging Secret Art. In the past, Li Chen had relied on the traditional Puppet Dao's Creation-Promotion Secret Art to cultivate them and used kun blood essence to induce aberrations, achieving clear results long ago.
This, too, was a solid foundation.
In late June of Year Seventy-One, within the virtual reality of the materialized kingdom network, Li Chen sat in a palace resembling the Heavenly Kingdom in the Clouds, surrounded by drifting clouds and mist, ethereal as an immortal realm.
This was a scene he had constructed through virtual means. In essence, it was no different from a dreamscape or an environment, and was also a networked game that relied on the materialized kingdom network.
Yuan Xiye entered gracefully in splendid attire. Looking up and seeing Li Chen seated there, she smiled faintly. "Fellow Daoist Li."
Li Chen rose and descended the steps from the dais. "Fellow Daoist Yuan, I invited you to this remote conversation because I wished to consult you on a few questions."
Yuan Xiye nodded. "Ask away, Fellow Daoist Li. As long as it concerns the insect dao field and happens to be something I understand, I will tell you everything