With every detail settled, the proposal to build the Spirit Pagoda passed unanimously.
The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect received the news and contacted the Sea God Pavilion the next day.
Within days, vast quantities of materials were shipped to Shrek City from across the continent. Hundreds of construction Soul Masters broke ground at the planned site, clearing large tracts of land and opening broad roads to ease the transport of supplies.
Watching the construction site bustle with activity, Lu Yi could not help marveling at the strength of numbers.
He had spent ages turning the island in the middle of the lake into a secret base with just over a dozen people, yet they had made nowhere near this much progress.
Then again, every trade had its specialists. With the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect sending people to oversee the work, they were far more efficient than Lu Yi had been.
He no longer needed to worry about any of it. He only had to listen to a progress report every few days.
There was no great rush to finish the Spirit Pagoda. By their estimates, training the first group of Spirit Transmitters would not begin for several months, and the training itself should take no less than three months.
Even if the Spirit Pagoda greatly reduced the difficulty of performing a Soul Spirit Contract, the Spirit Transmitters still had to become thoroughly proficient. At the very least, they needed to know the incantation backward and forward and execute every movement without error before Lu Yi would feel comfortable putting them to work.
After more than a year of exam-focused training, Lu Yi had also found that these Tool Soul Masters learned much faster than Young Wizards entering a magic school at eleven, and they had far more patience.