Rumble, rumble, rumble...
One thunderous roar followed another, like muffled thunder rolling through the clouds on the horizon.
Some Shaman Folk working in the hills could not help raising their heads, squinting into the distance.
To the east, against the light, a vast mass of dark silhouettes appeared beneath the sun.
Each was more than thirty feet long, shaped like a streamlined aircraft with narrow wings.
These were variants of the Flying Discs under Li Chen's command, unmanned aerial vehicles used primarily for agricultural operations. Linked to one another through spirit-wave communications, they were automatically controlled by a distant Wisdom Core as they sowed and cultivated the hills across an area a hundred li wide.
As the unmanned aircraft skimmed through the low skies, metal rods about a foot long dropped from them, their heads pointed and their tails slender, like planting stakes.
Top-heavy, they easily pierced the soil with the momentum of their fall.
These were Locators and Sensor Components with built-in recording and communication functions. They could upload the entire tract of land to the Internet of Things as data, strengthening its connection to the Materialized Kingdom.
Following close behind was a vast swarm of ingenious constructs, hollow inside like leather pouches.
These Mechanism Devices were roughly the size of a fist. Upon touching the ground, they burst open, yet there was not the slightest smell of gunpowder. Compressed air alone scattered the bean seeds over a radius of more than a dozen zhang.
After Li Chen ordered large-scale sowing, the intelligences under his command had set to work automatically, planting across vast expanses.
Divine Bean Seeds truly deserved their reputation as an exceptional sentient plant. Although they consumed somewhat more of the Blessed Land's resources, spread across a broad expanse of soil and water, they could still