"Excellent! Several experiments succeeded at once. It's just a shame we have no real engine. Relying solely on the magic arrays inside the grotto-heaven for power and Cosmic Dao magnetic origin vector propulsion is still far too inefficient."
"Rather than a warship, this is more like an island that can drift, or an enormous sky city."
"And for the foreseeable future, I have no way of making it move as nimbly as though it had truly come back to life."
Li Chen happily announced the end of the experiments, but afterward, he began seriously considering how to develop and use this creation.
Heavenly Pivot suggested, "Master, under the present circumstances, using it as a mobile fortress would undoubtedly be more practical. I recommend developing it in that direction."
Li Chen came back to his senses and said, "Calculate roughly how much funding it would take to give it the basic functions of a sky city."
Heavenly Pivot fell silent briefly before replying, "The First-Phase Renovation Project would cost approximately sixty trillion and could achieve the following results..."
She used the Mystic Light Illusory Image Array to project a virtual three-dimensional model before Li Chen.
Li Chen glanced at it and saw a colossal creature resembling a half-rotted fish carcass. Yet across its gray-black, corpse-like body, numerous metal trestles had already taken shape. They formed a vast, openwork mesh that traced the contours of the Giant Kun's body as it had been in life.
On closer inspection, however, those were not metal structures, but flesh growing along thick cables!
They were creations of Knead Clay, Transform Flesh, fundamentally no different from those warrior constructs and mutated strange beasts. The difference was that Heavenly Pivot had used a special method to proliferate the flesh. Otherwise, given the same budget and a cost