A few more days passed. Li Chen remained in secluded cultivation at the Underground Base, studying applications of the Dao of Fortune, when he suddenly received a reply from Dancing Maiden.
"We're looking for a way to enter it again. From what we can see now, we can only use your Mutated Dharma Body as a Waymarker, since you can still manifest it and even sense its existence."
"The Manifestation technique? That does make sense..." Li Chen mused.
And so Li Chen readily took the advice and began trying.
During this time, he had studied all manner of things, focusing most of his energy on developing the Demon Kingdom and exploring the Dao of Fortune. But he had not neglected his own recovery or his exploration of the Mutated Dharma Body, and by now he could control more of its transformations.
As his Primordial Spirit entered meditative stillness, he felt as though his Divine Soul had left his body and arrived in an empty, desolate expanse of cosmic void.
In that instant, a strange force seemed to forcibly divide his Divine Sense into thousands upon thousands of portions.
An ordinary person would have suffered a fractured mind and descended into madness at that moment, but Li Chen merely felt his awareness blur before quickly regaining clarity.
This was the benefit of primarily cultivating the Wisdom Dao: his Divine Sense could simulate a Photon Core and readily split into countless portions.
At this point, Li Chen realized that he seemed to have assumed the Mutated Dharma Body's perspective and was exploring the Minor Universe formed from the Sea Emperor's body inside the Imagination Gate.
Li Chen began examining the fundamental information leaking out of it, only to soon discover that it remained as muddled and inscrutable as ever.
Yet this state