After Chen Mu regained control of the management office, his first task was to streamline the logistics and production of Chen Village.
As Chen Village's territory expanded, it attracted many talented cultivators to join, and now they are all under the unified management of Landuo.
Among these people are mainstream talents who know how to refine weapons, make pills, and create formations, as well as niche talents who know how to raise plants, control beasts, Demonic Pattern, and construct mechanisms.
Although there are no strong individuals among these people, they can all play important roles if they are properly assigned.
In the entire Chen Village, Chen Mu's skill level far surpasses everyone else's, so the entire production line in Chen Village is centered around him.
Chen Mu's first arrangement was to establish an automated production line for the components of the Rune Artifacts artifacts.
The establishment of an automated production line requires a lot of resources, manpower, and time, which is still a considerable pressure for Chen Village at present. However, it is a one-time solution, and Chen Mu is well aware of its value, so he set this goal first.
The second arrangement was to expand the talisman-making room and rename it the Rune Research Institute, establishing a comprehensive talisman research institution based on Chen Mu's scientific concepts.
Besides Chen Mu, the initial members of the Rune Research Institute consisted only of Landuo and the two rune masters trained by Landuo, Chen Ju and Chen Xuejun.
Landuo was one of the first to learn from Chen Mu, but he was too old and found it difficult to accept new ideas.
However, Chen Ju and Chen Xuejun, the two new rune masters, are much faster learners. They are currently able to independently create Rune Gun No. 1, and even occasionally make some innovations.
Chen Mu wasn't often in the village before, so he usually had Landuo teach them. But now that Chen Mu has assessed them, he has officially accepted them as his disciples.
Although Chen Ju and Chen Duo had already become sworn sisters, after discussing it, they decided to maintain their own relationship. Chen Mu would only regard her as his disciple from now on, and would not address her as his brother or sister.
The establishment of the Rune Research Institute is also a massive project, but Chen Mu is in no hurry and will take it one step at a time. After all, Chen Village is his base, so it's not unreasonable to spend more time building it.
Time flies, and a year has passed in no time.
With the addition of Chen Duo, Mingye, and Zheng Fengdao, Chen Village's high-end combat power was greatly replenished, and Chen Village's territory grew stronger day by day, rapidly expanding to the surrounding areas.
Chen Mu's Divine Soul has broken through to the fourth level, which corresponds to the early stage of the Divine Soul Formation Early Stage of the Core Formation Realm in martial arts cultivation.
Therefore, strictly speaking, he can no longer participate in wars between tribes, otherwise he may be punished by the Wilderness Divine Temple.
However, for Chen Mu, whether or not he participates in the battlefield is not important. His role on the battlefield has never been his own strength, but rather the various Rune Artifacts he has developed.
In just one year, Chen Mu's Rune Research Institute has expanded more than tenfold from its original rune-making room, and is now divided into three large areas.
The first area, the weapon crafting area, focuses on researching and creating various Rune Artifacts, such as hidden weapons, magical treasures, and mechanical puppets.
The Rune Gun and talisman cannons invented by Chen Mu are, in general, both magical artifacts and hidden weapons. Because they are difficult to distinguish, Chen Mu has always referred to them as Rune Artifacts.
The weapon crafting area is currently the most important part of the Rune Research Institute, playing a vital role in both frontline warfare and logistical arms trade.
Therefore, the weapon refining area is the largest, and it also has two huge production workshops. The automated production line designed by Chen Mu is located here, and he usually focuses his main energy here.
The second zone, the Biology Zone, focuses on research in the biological field, such as Runic Body, alchemy, and medicine.
The optimization and upgrading of Runic Body is the central project here. In addition, all things related to life, such as cultivation techniques, spiritual plant cultivation, raising demonic beasts, alchemy, and medical treatment, are studied in this area.
Chen Mu has gradually delved into biological research at the cellular level, but it is difficult for him to manage so much research on his own.
Fortunately, Chen Xuejun, this new disciple, is very interested in biological research and has a high level of talent. After Chen Mu taught him concepts such as organs, cells, and genes, he was able to apply what he learned to other situations and often came up with many things that Chen Mu himself had not thought of, which greatly helped Chen Mu's research.
Now that Chen Mu is not around, the research in the biological area is handled by Chen Xuejun.
The third zone, the Formation Zone, focuses on the research of formations, such as defensive formations, illusion formations, and battle formations.
The key project here is to perfect the Five Elements Battle Formation. In addition, it is to research and develop stronger and better formations.
Chen Mu asked Nan Huaiyuan to help him here. Nan Huaiyuan has now joined Chen Village and has received a lot of training, making rapid progress.
The most crucial element of the entire Rune Research Institute is the large-scale central processing system built by Chen Mu.
This large central processing system is embedded with a large number of improved Rune Core No. 3, with extremely powerful computing capabilities. It is Chen Mu's current pinnacle achievement in the Dao of Talismans.
Chen Mu specially developed an artificial intelligence program for this large central processing system, which he named Xiaozhi.
Xiaozhi is a product of pure artificial intelligence, written in code, and does not use the soul-refining technology of this world.
While soul technologies such as beast souls and artifact spirits are magical, their controllability is too poor. Science, on the other hand, requires rigor and absolute execution of commands. Compared to the complexity of the soul, Chen Mu still trusts program code more.
With Xiaozhi's powerful computing capabilities, Chen Mu only needs to develop corresponding software for the various research projects of the Rune Research Institute, and those researches will become efficient and easy.
Now, the Rune Research Institute has dozens of members, all of whom are using software to assist in their research under Chen Mu's guidance, making their research very efficient.
The members of the research institute often felt that Chen Mu was creating miracles and worshipped Chen Mu to the extreme, but Chen Mu did not think so.
As the pinnacle of technological civilization, the computer almost changed the course of civilization on Earth. However, what I have achieved so far is still far from changing the course of civilization in this world.
Chen Village, Rune Research Institute, Rune Artifacts Zone.
The Rune Artifacts area occupies most of the first floor of the Rune Research Institute, as well as a large open space in the backyard. This is because new Rune Artifacts often require experimentation after being developed, and this open space is an excellent experimental site.
At this moment, a steel spider, about half the height of a person, was running on the land. The terrain here was rugged and difficult to traverse, but it moved with incredible speed. Spiritual Power balls kept attacking it from the air, but it skillfully dodged them all.
When it arrived at the target area, countless gun barrels suddenly extended from its body, launching an attack on the surrounding targets.
Crack! Crack! Crack!... Boom!
In the blink of an eye, he had knocked down all the targets around him, leaving only dust scattered everywhere.