"Did it fail?" At the sight, everyone felt even more regret than Li Chen himself.
Lin Yunwen, too, was unconsciously caught up in the atmosphere and quietly clenched his fists.
Yet Li Chen merely raised his head and smiled faintly, utterly untroubled. "Looks like it isn't that simple. Let's keep going."
Such setbacks were all too common in Puppet Dao research, especially explorations involving a degree of innovation. Some people exhausted a lifetime's effort and still came away empty-handed.
Yet Puppet Masters continued to toil tirelessly, and it was this that had brought about the rise of their Dao Path.
Over the next several months, Li Chen continued his experiments.
Starting with individual differences, he analyzed how modifications to the Brain Body affected will and memory.
In this world, the Primordial Spirit followed Spirit Body theory, which regarded the essence of the divine soul as a special energy body with spiritual effects.
The true spirit, however, was a higher-dimensional existence transcending the Spirit Body, a fact affirmed by Primordial Spirit Great Powers.
It was a conceptual existence, the fundamental unit and core constituent of the Primordial Spirit.
First came the true spirit, then the Primordial Spirit, then its embryonic form, known as the nascent soul. Wrapped in an energy body, the Primordial Spirit became the divine soul, or soul; changes in magic power then manifested it in different forms, such as the dharma form and dharma body... wrapped further in flesh and blood, it became the organism.
This, too, was a form of monism. Li Chen's Materialized Heaven was founded upon this theory, and the evolution of life through a virtual personality likewise had to follow it. It was an indispensable element.
Li Chen had some experience researching such things. He intended to devise an effective method of empirical certification