At the foot of Broad Cloud Peak, in his residence in the Inner Valley, Li Chen sat motionless in his room for a long time, as though deep in meditation.
In fact, he had extended his divine sense into the Spirit Ring Beacon and was watching a precision machine tool resembling a large water tower operate.
It was a cylindrical creation shaped much like a capsule, but roughly ten feet wide and twenty feet tall. Its lower half was a solid refined gold base, while its upper half was a Gang Essence Barrier that seemed almost tangible.
A walnut-sized piece of spirit ou marrow, outwardly resembling an inconspicuous clod of earth, was held by magnetic force, suspended motionless in the air. Free-floating spirit essence took shape within the creation and, guided by an invisible force, continuously cut and refined it.
This was the Creation Mother Device Li Chen had built based on the principles of material refinement. It could imitate the productive and creative work cultivators performed with magic power, allowing it to process all kinds of spirit materials.
By now, the Creation Mother Devices under Li Chen's name had reached their third generation, with processing capabilities sufficient to satisfy him.
At this moment, he was using this creation to repeat those precise yet tedious operations according to a predetermined program.
Perhaps some traditionalist cultivators considered operations such as refining treasured materials too profound and complex for Mechanism Puppets to accomplish. In reality, however, breaking them down into numerous tiny operations and exploiting machinery's tireless, unflagging nature allowed it to perform even better than people.
The true hurdle lay in mastering the process. He himself had to genuinely understand and grasp every detail involved.
This was a systematic engineering undertaking. Only a refinement program designed on that foundation could meet