After touring the production process, the Grandmaster Artisans and Grand Artisans followed the steward on duty to the array platform outside.
This was the heart of the entire False Core Factory. Subordinates had already prepared rooms and tea for them to discuss matters.
"Truly breathtaking!" A Grand Artisan of the Puppet Dao who had come along expressed his heartfelt admiration to the others. "I heard long ago that Grandmaster Li was promoting cultivation industrialization, intending to automate every part of magical treasure manufacturing that involved treasured materials containing spiritual essence. I never imagined he had already taken it this far."
Someone else agreed. "Indeed. Some of our fellow Puppet Masters proposed similar ideas in the past, but the special nature of spiritual essence materials proved an obstacle they never managed to overcome."
"Yes. The difficulty in mass-producing magical treasures, magic artifacts, and such has always lain in processing spiritual essence materials. Anything involving Dao Fruits requires a cultivator's magic power to control, and in many cases, must be handled personally by a high-rank Puppet Master."
"Whether we rely on sentient intelligence or Grandmaster Artisans and Grand Artisans, neither is remotely enough for this kind of production. The more sophisticated approach is merely to organize workshops, employing large numbers of Master Artisans, or even craftsmen and apprentices, as workers. But that only slightly lightens the burden on high-rank Puppet Masters and multiplies efficiency. At its core, it is still handcrafting."
Long before Li Chen crossed over into this world, the Puppet Dao had already possessed the seeds of cultivation industry, but it resembled handicraft workshops in their early stages of development, relying primarily on human labor.
All manner of mechanism devices and intelligent puppets could only serve supporting roles. In Li Chen's understanding, it was a labor-intensive industry.
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