Once their direction was clear, the people of the Creation Sect indeed supplied the various techniques Li Chen urgently needed. The mortal Puppet Masters of Chess Mountain Domain also worked diligently, putting them to empirical testing one after another.
Within just a few months, breakthroughs came in several fields of research.
Among them, Li Chen placed particular importance on materials science.
In this world, materials in their natural state already possessed considerable supernatural properties, giving them an enormous advantage.
Building spiritless zones did not mean eliminating the influence of spiritual energy altogether, but changing its distribution and bringing it completely under control.
If the spiritual energy suffusing heaven and earth did not suit his wishes, why not concentrate it within materials?
This also accorded with the Puppet Dao's philosophy of drawing on the power of external things.
At their core, the external things used in the Puppet Dao were materials. Li Chen understood their importance deeply and could not possibly neglect to exploit this.
Guided by this philosophy, a portable energy-storage device called the Electric Core was born. Refined from a special alloy discovered by earlier generations, it could range in size from a tiny particle to an entire warehouse and could be freely combined and assembled. In essence, it was a high-energy battery with many times the storage capacity of the lithium-air batteries of his previous life, a clean energy source capable of replacing ordinary spirit stones and even spirit crystals.
Drawing on techniques related to nether-origin crystal and the Solar Furnace, Li Chen himself also refined devices such as Miniature Reactors with broader applications, putting them to use in fields ranging from spiritual energy to heat, light, and electricity.
Even conductive stone chips, which had already been studied in the past, saw further breakthroughs. Under Li Chen's orders,