It was as though every sound had been swallowed.
In that brief silence, countless grasses and trees sprang up throughout the chaotic city. Poisonous Grass and Evil Flowers from innumerable hells swiftly took root and sprouted, nourished by blood and struggle, their gorgeous colors spreading in every direction.
In an instant, they adorned the entire city into a wondrous fairyland.
Yet beneath the flowers and branches, there was nothing but skeletons.
Death was what supported the foundations of that fairyland.
In that brief dead silence, Huai Shi sighed softly. "You might not know this, but a while back, out of interest, I taught myself a little bartending.
"I never reached the level of a professional bartender, but honestly, it wasn't that difficult."
He sniffed the wind thick with the scent of blood and slowly said, "First, you need to find a few good bottles of liquor. The more, the better. Don't worry about waste. Ideally, find a barrel big enough for a proper drink..."
Within the city, the doors of the forging workshop burst open, illuminating countless clustered eyes.
At the head of one seemingly endless production line after another, the Eternal Crucible, mountain-like in scale, roiled above blazing flames.
Inside the enormous furnace, hundreds of meters tall, countless torrents of molten steel surged, radiating dazzling scarlet heat and brilliant silver light.
Like an iron volcano.
It illuminated pairs upon pairs of blood-red eyes.
"Holy! Holy! Holy!"
The fanatical horde raised their hands and shouted in exhilaration.
"And then—"
Huai Shi ordered, "To ensure the flavor, you first need to put enough ice into the barrel."
Cart after cart of Origin Essence Crystals, Abyssal Sediment from the warehouses, and countless Curse Stones raced along the rails, plunging together with their massive vehicles into the lake-like sea of molten steel.
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