"Hahahaha, excellent."
Li Chen tossed out a wild fruit resembling a sweet potato. Watching the Servant Demon tear it open and wolf it down, he finally showed a smile that had long been absent from his face.
For an entire year, he had studied the habits of Demons to create the Potter Wasp Core and its accompanying worker bee system.
He had named it after the potter wasp, a parasitic wasp that fed on insects. It used other insects, particularly host insects, as vessels for its eggs and food for its larvae. The implications spoke for themselves.
The Demon he had tamed before him was just such a parasitized host insect. Outwardly, it remained a Demon born and nurtured by nature, but within, it had already become Li Chen's Puppet.
This was the true killing move Li Chen had devised after long deliberation to deal with vast hordes of Demons-the Mingling Legion!
Whether on Earth in his previous life or in this life's world of cultivation civilization, nature had no shortage of similar forms of parasitism.
For example, horsehair worms could drive mantises to seek water and drown themselves.
Worms could control woodlice, making them crawl into open areas to be eaten by birds.
Toxoplasma could alter a mouse's instinctive fear of cats, delivering it straight into a cat's jaws. It could even change the personalities and behavior of infected humans.
Yet accomplished Puppet Masters were interested in the lofty, grand primordial spirit way, which emphasized spiritual imprints and control over thought.
Those of lower rank devoted themselves to cultivating and advancing to become stronger, or were constrained by other circumstances. Few paid attention to such things.
Besides, even if they researched the subject, their inadequate control would prevent them from commanding these Puppets.
Only Li Chen, uniquely blessed, had