At the same time, aboard the Black Shark Flying Boat, Hua Wucuo was refining various spirit materials in his cabin.
Although the Black Shark Flying Boat contained its own grotto-heaven, housing an interior hundreds of times larger than its thousand-foot hull, most of that space was occupied by supply warehouses and the Power Furnace.
Ordinary people could not linger near those areas, so they were sealed off and difficult to put to other uses. Less than a tenth of the space was truly suitable for living and secluded cultivation.
But as a prodigy whose attainments rivaled those of a true Grand Artisan, he naturally had little trouble securing special privileges here.
Besides, the work he was doing now was a task entrusted to him by Li Chen.
From time to time, Hua Wucuo split off a strand of divine sense to perceive changes in the physical properties of the spirit materials, then used magic power to inscribe a Jade Slip from a distance, recording something upon it.
Various objects floated throughout the room, like planets orbiting a star.
Suddenly, Hua Wucuo shuddered and stopped.
A flicker of delighted surprise crossed his face. He hurriedly gathered an azure glow in his palm and used magic power to seize a pigeon-egg-sized spirit-stone crystal, melting and casting it into a coin-shaped lens. Then he etched it with his divine sense, carving an intricate, precise magic array upon its surface.
"This should work..."
Just under an hour later, he fitted the newly refined lens into a long tube cast from blacksteel and attached the various components.
A roughly foot-long Divine Light Mechanism Device, simple and archaic in appearance, took shape.
Hua Wucuo rose and moved to one side of the room, which was several dozen feet across, aiming at a target hanging on the