Rumble, rumble...
"The furnace is opening..."
The massive mechanisms began to move, and crimson molten iron flowed out.
Under the workings of various mechanisms, slabs of steel were sent off in every direction.
The large forging mechanisms roared without cease, hammering away relentlessly.
Small mechanisms and white-bone puppets labored like drudges, forging day and night without rest.
After the steel from the ironworks passed inspection, the finished products entered the armor-plate workshop, where they were made into fan-shaped fish-scale plates.
Every ten thousand scale plates were gathered together and sent into an artifact-refining furnace, where artifact refiners refined them into a thin suit of fish-scale armor.
Suit after suit of fish-scale armor was stacked together, ten thousand suits per layer, for a total of one hundred and eight layers. This was the most basic Myriad People's Armor.
And now, the Myriad People's Armor produced by workshops across the land had already surpassed ten thousand layers in total.
The Human Race alone could not have completed all this steelwork and resource gathering. A great number of Puppet Cultivators had come from the Netherworld, building mechanisms in the human world and helping with the refining.
Many Upper Rank cultivators from Dao Sect artifact-refining sects gathered together, endlessly refining Myriad People's Armor.
Occasionally, members of the Human Race asked why they worked so diligently. Was it patriotism? Was it some lofty ambition? Was it devotion to the people?
It was none of those things. Li Qingxian simply paid too much.
To Li Qingxian, any Beyond-Rank artifact that could be hammered out with resources was worth every price.
Besides, the Myriad People's Armor was hailed as the finest defense. Once deployed, one suit of armor could withstand an army of a million.
West of Worthy Prince City.
Ox carts slowly entered the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda