Three months later, in the forests north of Wushan City.
Demon Fox Hu Ze's body sat cross-legged on a boulder beside the cold pool on the mountain behind the mansion. A phantom hovered above his head like a ghost: Li Chen was using Primordial Spirit Projection to commune with Heaven and Earth.
Suddenly, Li Chen sensed something. Almost instinctively, he tugged with his magic power, and a tentacle roughly ten feet thick and over a hundred feet long dropped down like a phantom. The eyes densely covering it abruptly opened wide.
This was Li Chen's Mutated Dharma Body in the Blue Sea Water Realm. Through the strange eyes on those tentacles, he seemed to possess a second body linked directly to his mind, seeing himself and his surroundings from dozens, even hundreds of other angles.
An intense discomfort washed over him. Common Folk, or even ordinary cultivators, would probably have been unable to adapt to this state, but Li Chen merely paused briefly. He soon imitated the Wisdom Core's operating model, dividing his mind into over a hundred portions and driving them along multiple threads, achieving a perfect match.
After quietly experiencing it for a while, Li Chen realized that his ability to establish contact with it here truly defied common sense.
Cultivators were living beings too, and Puppet Masters' creations likewise had to follow the principles of bionics. Whether through low-rank biological neural connections or high-rank cultivators' divine sense and mental control, there ultimately had to be some medium of perception. Even Li Chen and Heavenly Pivot exchanged information through the resonance of their indivisible true spirit and their dual existence as one.
Yet now, there seemed to be an utterly inexplicable perception across distance between this body and his true spirit. It could not only bridge spatial distances;