Civil Engineering Cat poured concrete, Maintenance Cat welded, transport cat hauled bricks, and Peace Cat did the odd jobs.
In the middle, another idle Command Cat stood on high ground, clutching a three-point erotic poster as a blueprint, barking away in waves. A thriving construction site where all things competed in exuberance sprang vividly before one's eyes.
Following Ji Jue's plan, they began building fortifications right outside the hall of the Deeproot of Death, directly according to the standards of Central Earth positional warfare. They precisely stayed outside the enemy's "aggro range," mixing cement, assembling components, reinforcing foundations, welding seams, anchoring joints, then raising high points, leaving firing ports, putting up barbed wire and chevaux de frise, laying mines, mounting machine guns, setting fire points in place, installing defensive autocannons... It truly opened the eyes of an old bastard scheduler from centuries ago.
What the fuck was modern warfare?!
In less than half an hour, a war fortress rose from the ground—one capable of withstanding at least four rounds of bombardment from long-range artillery, making the opposing commander stamp his feet in rage, and giving countless line-filling babies a delightful surprise along with post-traumatic stress disorder!
Then, Mercury flowed and spread across the whole structure.
Intricate, overlapping Spirit Essence Circuits emerged from the prefabricated parts, awakening, assembling, connecting... Hundreds of fixed formulas from the Dust Haze Lineage were linked and operated through Three-Phase Alchemy, pieced together from fragments, parts, and torn-apart modules until they became a seamless whole, impregnable as a fortress, so tight not even a needle could be driven in.
Dust Haze-style alchemical ready-made meals were all about cost-effectiveness!
With less than a tenth of the Spiritual Substance expended, the entire fortress became an unquestionable Alchemical Creation. Then the Waste Ruins Lineage's Blessing modules were inserted, and the