The monarch of stars' research on souls and spiritual matter was invaluable.

He had even managed to create life from spiritual matter alone. According to his notes, Shicang was such a creation. He was an alter ego of the monarch of stars' [Thousand Beasts], which the monarch of stars tried to separate from his main body.

In some sense, the experiment was a success—the monarch of stars had succeeded in extracting that soul and giving it a new vessel—but it was simultaneously a failure, because the separated soul wasn't a clone of the monarch of stars. Instead, it was an independent entity, a true son of the monarch of stars derived from asexual reproduction.

Zhang Lie decided to hand these results to the research laboratories of Renhuang in hopes that they would be able to derive something...