As dusk fell the next day, the caravan finally reached its next stop, Gamma City. Tian Hao and Meng Yuyan parted ways with the caravan as well.
Since they were secretly transporting something even more valuable, stronger soul masters might very well come to assassinate them along the next stretch of road. There was no need to follow them into that mess.
Moreover, the caravan's person in charge knew his secret had been exposed. He would naturally spare no expense in hiring stronger soul master guards, perhaps even directly hiring an entire soul master team.
Tian Hao could not be bothered with how the caravan arranged things. He rented a blacksmith shop for a day, personally forging and refining iron ingots into Iron Mother. He then used the Iron Mother to create a number of small components and used Special Metal to forge an Eight-Faced Han Sword.
He selected a sturdy yet lightweight type of Plant Soul Beast timber in Gamma City as the primary material, fashioned and carved it into the required shape, then embedded the Iron Mother components into the joints and added a little grease for lubrication.
After more than two days of work, a somewhat crude mechanical arm was freshly made.
There had actually been such mechanical arms in his previous life, but the difficult parts had always been the power source and control. His required neither a power device nor energy. He only needed to condense Soul Power into threads to control it, making the structure much simpler.
It was only meant to put on a show and help with everyday life anyway, such as trimming his nails. It did not need to be overly sophisticated.
Finally, he connected the mechanical arm to a specially made breastplate forged from Iron Mother. This allowed it to