Wang Qi answered absentmindedly.
To be honest, refining the Heaven-Forged Sword with the methods of a Sword Cultivator had already taken up quite a bit of his thinking capacity. Subtracting the mental effort spent commanding the Beast Mechanism swarms, as well as the attention consumed by handling other daily matters, there was truly very little thinking capacity left.
It was enough to read papers, perhaps at the level of an "ordinarily intelligent person" at most.
"These papers were brought to me by Senior Wan Fa Guiyi, after all," Wang Qi said. "At the very least, I should get a rough understanding of the latest research."
These papers had reached Wang Qi in the form of Telepathy Bottles. Supposedly, they had arrived in Wan Fa Guiyi Mai Siwei's hands together with the support orders.
Communicating across the Immortal Path was exceptionally difficult. Whether using Free and Unfettered Cultivators as relays or the communication protocols the Dragon Emperor had shared with humanity, it was all extremely limited. As a Free and Unfettered Cultivator, Mai Siwei enjoyed "bandwidth" far beyond that of ordinary people. For cultivators standing at the pinnacle of the Divine Land, obtaining a large batch of papers every so often had already become a necessary form of "supplies."
Well... perhaps it would be more accurate to say that this form of supply was the only "necessity" a Conquest Envoy required.
At the Immortal Alliance's current technological level, the vast majority of elements and simple compounds could be gathered locally. Powerful cultivators were also unlike mortals, with very low requirements for food, water, sleep, and even their surrounding environment as a whole. This was why, under the premise that only Immortals could cross the Immortal Path, any expeditionary force of the Immortal Alliance's Zhengyi Division could undertake lengthy expeditions lasting years.