Inside Li Chen's secret base in the Azure Billow Immortal Abode.
Worker Bee Puppets flew back and forth like a swarm returning to its brood nest, transporting countless loads of spirit iron, treasure ore, refined minerals of every kind, and spirit stones imbued with plant essence. Automated machinery processed and refined them into the various supplies Puppet Masters required.
They knew neither fatigue nor hardship. Apart from the energy needed to operate them and the cost of maintenance and repairs, they incurred almost no additional expenses.
Thus, the supplies and wealth under Li Chen's command had been growing at a considerable rate, and his reserves already far surpassed those of ordinary powerful aristocratic clans.
Behind this ceaseless stream of labor lay Heavenly Pivot's multithreaded control, supported by her immense computational capacity.
Almost every second, thousands upon thousands of virtual personalities were born within Heavenly Pivot's core, then vanished as their execution threads completed.
Through this evolution of a virtual population, Heavenly Pivot's intelligence continued to accumulate experience and grow.
Seated in his Mechanized Flying Chair, Li Chen toured this mechanical army with the Puppet Sisters.
Now that Li Chen's puppet army finally had abundant cultivation provisions and a stable environment for development, it could achieve geometric growth at maximum efficiency. In the past year alone, Heavenly Pivot had automatically scheduled and successfully manufactured more than thirty thousand Worker Bee Puppets, along with over twenty thousand Creation Mother Devices and Industrial Machine Tools of various kinds.
The number of these devices was closely tied to the computational capacity Heavenly Pivot herself could command. Whenever she judged that she had control capacity to spare, she prioritized basic industry and production tools-the "farmers" needed for farming and the "workers" needed for industry. Most of the corresponding virtual personalities were Controller-type personalities designed to