Heavenly Dao and the New Machine God Join
After much deliberation, Bai Qiuran finally accepted Yu Renhan's proposal.
Admittedly, he felt a little embarrassed that the Immortal Craftsman of the Heavenly Works Workshop had gone to such lengths to provide him with a "toy" for his own self-satisfaction. But in reality, this toy was indeed an unprecedented and unparalleled project. If these Immortal Craftsman could be involved in its design and construction, it would greatly benefit their future breakthroughs in their own forging paths.
After obtaining Bai Qiuran's consent, Yu Renhan immediately wrote a letter to Le Zhentian, requesting the Immortal Emperor's approval.
Le Zhentian naturally had no objections. After all, Bai Qiuran had learned how to create things from Void at the Heavenly Dao, so the Immortal Realm didn't need to provide any money or resources. It was like giving these Immortal Craftsman a free learning opportunity.
Although this will slow down the Immortal Realm and the New Machine God's original plan to increase the production of the Immortal Realm Emperor-level Machine Puppet, the Emperor-level Machine Puppet created by these Immortal Craftsman after learning will definitely be more powerful than they are now.
With the area around the Immortal Realm currently peaceful, it's better to prioritize technological advancement rather than frantically building up an army.
So Bai Qiuran, along with a group of Immortal Craftsman from the _Illustrated_Book Gang, left the Central Immortal Realm and arrived at the widest stretch of the Void River on the side of the Immortal Realm. The thing he wanted to create was enormous. Although the Central Immortal Realm was already the largest in the Void, and naturally derived worlds could not possibly create a space as vast as the Immortal Realm, this space was still too "narrow" for what Bai Qiuran wanted to create.
Therefore, Bai Qiuran chose the banks of this Void River as the location for the forging process. The river contains endless energy, so there is no need to worry about insufficient energy during the forging process.
Bai Qiuran even went to the Ghost Realm halfway through, issuing orders as the Ghost Emperor and bringing together a group of the most elite forging experts from the Underworld Ghost Realm to participate.
The Immortals and ghosts arrived together at the side of the Void River. Bai Qiuran drew his sword and temporarily created a "platform" for everyone to stay on. Then, the most accomplished experts from this Void immediately began to discuss how to design Forging Factory capable of forging such a thing.
Bai Qiuran also joined their discussion. Leaving aside Old Bai, everyone was Immortals being who no longer ate Five Grains. So they didn't eat or drink and discussed for months. A bold and novel idea, which could even be called crazy, gradually took shape.
For the Immortals, the most crucial elements in forging machinery are the equipment and the firepower. As for the equipment, the Immortal Craftsman and Ghost Craftsmen gathered here all possess unparalleled skillful hands. Moreover, machinery of this scale has never existed before, and there is certainly no matching equipment available, so it can only be made on the spot.
Bai Qiuran can make up for this in her own way.
Therefore, the most crucial things for this Forging Factory now are nothing more than the smelting materials and the firepower of the casting equipment.
It's important to understand that the larger the scale, the more insane the material requirements for its body become. The materials used on a typical Emperor-level Machine Puppet are many times harder and more valuable than those used on a regular Machine Puppet.
The Emperor-level Machine Puppet of the Machine Puppet Divine Court were all slowly forged one by one by the Machine God from his largest Core Furnace. The Core Furnace used Stars as fuel, and the Stars' Fire was used to slowly scorch and refine the perfect materials constructed by the Machine God, condensing the power of the Stars' Fire into the materials step by step.
Even if the Machine God himself operated the Core Furnace, it would still take at least several thousand years from design to completion.
Aside from the few outdated Machine Puppet created when the Machine God was still under the United Kingdom, the Machine God ruled the Machine Puppet Divine Court for tens of thousands of years, yet only managed to create ten Emperor-level Machine Puppet.
The one Bai Qiuran trying to refine is even more difficult and insane than Emperor-level Machine Puppet. Compared to this Super Machine Puppet, "Dao Embryo," one of the ten Emperor-level Machine Puppet of the Machine Puppet Divine Court, is only equivalent to the Nascent Soul component that supplies its movement.
Therefore, even the materials tempered with the Stars' Fire did not meet the design requirements; Bai Qiuran and his team needed a more powerful flame.
In response to this, these mad artisans came up with a terrifying idea: to use the super energy burst generated when a world is destroyed or born as the flame for a new furnace.
The Machine Puppet Divine Court used Stars as fuel for its Core Furnace, so now the Immortal Realm will use the Great World as fuel for its Core Furnace, using the flames of world birth and the flames of world annihilation to temper the constituent materials of this new Machine Puppet.
When the idea was first proposed, the craftsmen all thought it was absolutely insane, but they couldn't help feeling a strong urge to try it out.
However, considering that the technology in the Immortal Realm was far from meeting such a standard, the craftsmen discussed it for a while. After enjoying the Spiritual Sense, they prepared to try a more feasible approach. Just then, Bai Qiuran listened to their discussion, pondered for a moment, and then said, "I think it might work."
"What?"
Upon hearing this, Yu Renhan and the others exclaimed in surprise, "What the Immortal Ancestor means is... but with the current technology and strength of the Immortal Realm, using the world as fuel is still a bit too much of a stretch."
"The technology in the Immortal Realm is indeed far from meeting the standard, but if I were to exert my full strength..."
Bai Qiuran rested her chin on her hand, lost in thought for a long time.
"By combining it with the Divine Script System, it might work!"
"The Immortal Ancestor possesses immense Divine Ability!"
The craftsmen were overjoyed upon hearing this. For a craftsman, being able to create such a magnificent building, even if he was only responsible for designing a single Screw in it, would be enough for him to boast about for a lifetime. So, almost immediately, these craftsmen surrounded Bai Qiuran and began to discuss the various difficulties and precautions in the construction process of this Forging Factory.
After discussion and verification of his ideas, with the help of these craftsmen, Bai Qiuran began to oversee the construction of this super Forging Factory, which might be unique even if placed in the Void.
Considering that her son was about to be born and that she would be busy with her own affairs for many years to come, Bai Qiuran decisively inscribed the Divine Script of Time Acceleration nearby, adjusted the flow of time, and blatantly activated the "Time Acceleration" cheat.
His actions naturally attracted the attention of the Heavenly Dao. However, the Heavenly Dao had now been "tamed" by Bai Qiuran, so when it sensed the spread of its will, Bai Qiuran did not stop it.
The Heavenly Dao Will circled around here, saw what they were up to, and then immediately withdrew. A month or two later, this guy came back with the newly born Machine God Will and applied to Bai Qiuran to join the project.