"Grand Artisan Li, what exactly do you intend by having this Mortal City Lord organize manpower? Are you truly planning to occupy these mortal cities and harness the power of mortals?"
By this time, Hua Wucuo and a group of doctors and teachers from Jixia Academy had also secretly arrived at the front to observe Li Chen's campaign.
They were all Quasi-Grand Artisans or high-ranking Master Artisans. As members of the Creation Sect, they possessed considerable insight and ability, yet they still could not quite understand how Li Chen intended to harness the power of mortals.
After Li Chen sent Wu Yecheng away, they began discussing his intentions and raised their questions.
Mortals?
So what if they were mortals? With proper guidance, they could still create magnificent works of engineering and build powerful fleets!
Mortals themselves were the greatest wealth.
Drawing on the experience of his previous life, Li Chen had long understood this.
In this world, however, far too little use was made of mortal power, and experience in harnessing it was sorely lacking.
Even the Puppeteer Dao Path, which stood closest to mortals, still relied on divine abilities and spells to manufacture machinery. The entire cultivation civilization was rooted in divine abilities and spells, without anyone possessing Li Chen's insights and ideas.
This had nothing to do with ability. It was purely a matter of natural selection.
Things that might seem perfectly self-evident to Li Chen appeared bizarre and inconceivable to many Puppet Masters.
Meanwhile, the mortals who might have developed natural science from their own native soil all yearned for the Dao and cultivation, hoping to cultivate divine abilities and magic power.
Li Chen could understand this. After all, divine abilities and spells were the dominant field of learning in this world, wielding genuine, undeniable power. Whether