"Interesting, very interesting indeed~"
After touring the Artifact Refining Directorate, the three big shots, still completely in the dark, followed Wang Ningxi's suggestion and went on to visit the Alchemy Directorate.
This time, they were personally received by the Alchemy Directorate's director, Wang Shouye. At his side was one of his fiercely loyal assistants—Dongfang Lingrou.
Dongfang Lingrou had participated in many projects over the years and was intimately familiar with every matter, great and small, within the Alchemy Directorate. Thus, she was responsible for explaining things to the big shots.
The first stop on the tour was a Lesser Foundation-Cultivating Pill production line.
Low-grade pills such as Lesser Foundation-Cultivating Pills would ordinarily not even merit a second glance from these big shots. When Wang Shouye said he would take them to see the production line, they had not taken it to heart at all.
Yet when they arrived at the production line and saw the scene before them, every one of them widened their eyes, their faces filled with shock.
Within the enormous workshop stood several towering, majestic pill furnaces in neat rows. A bewilderingly intricate network of spirit-liquid pipes crisscrossed between them, its complex structure dazzling to the eye.
At that moment, spirit liquid gurgled through the pipes, passing through one pill furnace after another in a fixed sequence before finally emerging as finished liquid from another outlet and flowing into large molds.
After the molds underwent a cycle of spray cooling, puppet arms controlled their release from the molds. They then entered the assembly line for wax sealing, were automatically bottled ten pills per vial, automatically labeled with production tags, and finally automatically boxed and sent into storage.
The entire process was autonomously controlled by pill-furnace programs and puppet arms. Even the production workshop had undergone sterile temperature-control