"Only in principle?" Zhang Tie knew that if Heller put it that way, the actual process might not be as optimistic or simple as he had imagined.
"That is correct. There are several issues the Fortress Master needs to understand!" Heller said calmly. "At present, the daily output of Spirit Qi Value in Castle of Black Iron still cannot match the Basic Energy Reserve obtained from the Element Abyss. Without counting the Spirit Qi Value accumulated by Castle of Black Iron over the past few years, the new Spirit Qi Value generated each day by all the plants inside Castle of Black Iron is only enough to create roughly one square kilometer of land capable of producing mineral deposits. Unless the existing land area of Castle of Black Iron expands by more than thirty times, reaching at least 120,000 square kilometers, and that entire 120,000 square kilometers is covered by forest, only then will the daily new Spirit Qi Value generated by Castle of Black Iron match the current daily increase in Basic Energy Reserve and support Castle of Black Iron's continual expansion. The prerequisite for this is that the Fortress Master must not lack Merit Value!"
"There are several more points the Fortress Master needs to know. First, the mineral deposits provided by Castle of Black Iron are generated randomly during the formation of the surface, and 1,000 square kilometers is merely the minimum land area required for Castle of Black Iron to generate mineral deposits. The deposits generated at that scale are also only of the lowest grade, and sometimes might not appear at all. Even if a gold mine is generated on land of this grade, Fortress Master should not expect it to yield hundreds of tons of gold. That is simply impossible. Even if gold is