To the lofty Puppet Master Grandmasters and Grand Artisans of Taiqiu Immortal City, Grand Artisan Qi's victory over the Great Demon marked nothing more than the end of a trial.
But for the cities and common folk across tens of thousands of miles around the Long Kingdom and Tao Kingdom, it was a real blessing.
The news soon spread across ten thousand miles.
Once Li Chen and the others, along with the Qi Family Army soldiers stationed elsewhere, learned of it, they all understood that the counterattack against the demon army was about to begin.
But this was also when the demons would be at their most frenzied. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps even more, would pour out of the wilds, mountains, and marshes where they usually hid, launching crazed assaults on settlements of human cultivators.
Among them were no shortage of True Demons with strength comparable to Foundation Establishment cultivators, bringing grievous disaster upon the land.
Their task was to hold their respective defensive sectors until the Demon Calamity subsided.
Li Chen's side soon felt the pressure of the demonic onslaught as well.
Vast numbers of fiends spawned by Demonic Qi attacked, terrifying monsters of every grotesque shape, placing enormous pressure on the mine.
"Pack up the mine and prepare for battle!"
Watching from inside, Li Chen sighed softly and gave Heavenly Jade the order.
It seemed they could no longer mine here. Better to pack up than let it get caught in the fighting and suffer even greater losses.
"Command accepted. Retrieving the mine!"
Heavenly Jade carried out the order with unwavering fidelity.
As the command went out, the machines stopped one after another. The Worker Bee Puppets carried the last loads of ore to the clearing where the Puppet Chassis stood, then entered the Boundary Gate in turn.