"Golden Light, exit full-spectrum silence mode and begin broadcasting to the Vast Sea."
"The message is as follows: our forces have regained preliminary combat strength and stand ready to support all parties!"
In the void, Golden Light City suddenly floated out of the sea of chaos like a flood dragon emerging from the ocean.
Li Chen sat atop a lofty cloud platform and surveyed his surroundings. Below him were the Master Artisans on duty, all mentally linked to machinery yet overseeing the entire area through the command system.
The new system required only divine sense and magic power at the Qi Refining Realm to connect and operate. Moreover, most of its complex functions had been taken over by the artificial intelligence, "Golden Light." Commands were encapsulated, so only broad instructions needed to be issued.
The vast quantities of repetitive, tedious calculations involved had all been successfully automated. They no longer demanded any mental arithmetic from cultivators, and naturally required neither cultivation nor sentient intelligence.
This brought an extraordinary degree of control.
Another benefit was that machinery isolated divine sense and magic power, providing the greatest possible protection against invisible attacks on the mental plane. Against attacks on the divine soul from top experts, it could not be called impregnable, but its defenses had truly been strengthened to a peak beyond further improvement.
Machinery was inherently unfeeling. Even mighty Great Powers had to obey fundamental laws.
Thus, unless they employed the methods of Great Powers to interfere with physical reality and overturn yin and yang, ordinary methods such as turning the unreal into the real could no longer injure an enemy from afar.
But the most exciting change was not any of this. Throughout Golden Light City, the number of Battle Puppets and Mecha that Controller units could operate simultaneously had