The Underworld, Emperor's Tomb City, Ring No. 95, outside City No. 95:
Countless ghosts and monsters, along with descendants of ghost gods, followed lantern after lantern, busying themselves across the land.
Atop the lanterns, quick-witted spirit monsters held tin megaphones and vigorously waved little flags of various colors, directing the many ghosts, monsters, and descendants of ghost gods at their work.
They dug pits a thousand meters deep into the earth and excavated trenches over a hundred meters deep.
Vast numbers of ghosts and monsters filled the pits and trenches with white bones.
The countless white bones were woven and fashioned into crude bone stakes, then driven into the trenches and pits.
Other ghosts and monsters laid extracted sinews along the walls of the trenches and pits, weaving them into nets.
Finally, they filled them with flesh and blood and other things.
Across the land, steel constructs hundreds of meters tall, some even over a thousand meters tall, rose from the ground.
Fascia was laid over them. Following the method Wang Quan had provided, the many ghosts and monsters sang and danced in ancient sacrificial rites, tending the flesh and blood in the trenches and pits.
Flesh spread, fascia spread, engulfing the steel constructs and turning them into mills of flesh and steel.
Putt! Putt! Putt!
An enormous flesh-and-steel construct a thousand meters tall began operating, its chimneys spewing streams of black smoke.
The other supporting flesh-and-steel constructs also began operating.
Just then:
The Officiant Daoist Nun and Dream Nun came whistling in on clouds.
Dream Nun muttered incantations, uttering strange Dao Script and casting strange spells.
Bang!
A torrent shot skyward. Upon reaching its highest point, it burst thunderously into an enormous screen of light.
The light screen displayed every trench, pit, and flesh-and-steel construct across the land, as