Time flies. After the gods dealt with the Heart Demon Emperor, the Otherworldly Demon focused their attention on the Central Land battlefield. Only occasionally would a small number of troops harass the border of Chen Village, but they were easily repelled by Chen Village.
Central Land Yi Province, bordering the Wilderness, is preoccupied with dealing with the attacks of the Otherworldly Demon and is also divided into two major forces that check and balance each other, leaving it with no time to attend to the development of Chen Village.
Therefore, Chen Village's development was very smooth. In just about two years, Chen Village gained the support of all the tribes in the territory and its reputation spread far and wide.
At this time, many high-ranking officials in Chen Village began to propose that Chen Hongjie declare the establishment of a state and change Chen Village into the Chen Kingdom.
However, after discussing it, Chen Hongjie and Chen Mu decided not to rush things and jointly suppressed the proposal, continuing to focus on developing their territory.
The Wilderness human population was very sparse. Chen Village, with an area of 100,000 square kilometers (about 10 billion square kilometers), had a population of only tens of billions.
In Central Land, some of the larger capital cities already have this many people.
With such a small population, maintaining such a vast territory is extremely difficult. Therefore, despite the Temple's notice to the monsters to leave Chen Village's territory, the number of monsters within Chen Village's territory remains terrifying.
At this time, Chen Mu's Rune Research Institute played a crucial role.
With the support of Chen Village's vast manpower and resources, the development speed of the Rune Research Institute increased dramatically once again, and Chen Mu also developed a new generation of Rune Core, Rune Core No. 4.
The core technology of Rune Core No. 4 uses particle technology, and its computing speed is a hundred times faster than that of Rune Core No. 3.
As the program's computing power surged, the Rune Research Institute began to achieve breakthroughs in its respective fields.
Artificial Spirit Stone Machine: A machine that automatically produces Spirit Stone, with Spirit-Gathering Rune as its core.
After this machine was invented, Chen Village will be virtually inexhaustible in terms of energy resources and will no longer need to rely on natural resources such as Spirit Stone mines.
Metal smelting machines can manufacture alloys with various special properties, eliminating the need for Chen Village to import minerals.
Many rare ores are difficult to buy from outside, but metal smelting plants can produce alloys with similar properties, some of which are even better than natural ores.
Spiritual material cultivation bases can accelerate the growth period of spiritual materials, continuously producing various rare spiritual materials.
With the cultivation base for spiritual materials, Chen Village will no longer lack elixirs.
With sufficient spiritual materials, the Rune Research Institute has also made breakthroughs in the biological field. Martial arts talent gene potions, soul cultivation talent gene potions, and so on have all been successfully tested and entered the mass production stage.
After achieving significant results in the three fundamental fields of energy, materials, and life sciences, Chen Mu not only applied these technologies to the military but also promoted them to the civilian and commercial sectors.
Later, Chen Mu used communication rune technology as a foundation to establish the world's first virtual network universe, the Spirit Network.
The establishment of the Spirit Network is of great significance to Chen Village.
Originally, Chen Village's territory spanned tens of thousands of miles, and even traveling across it by large transport spaceship would take more than ten days, making information flow extremely inconvenient.
However, the establishment of the Spirit Network made it easier for Chen Village to manage the various tribes within its territory.
Within a month, Chen Village, through the Rune Puppet Legion, had built Spirit Network signal transmission stations in every corner of its territory.
With the Spirit Network signal transmission station, communication can be easily completed even across a distance of 100,000 miles using the "communication phone" manufactured by the Rune Research Institute.
The first batch of mobile phones was distributed free of charge by the Rune Research Institute to all tribal leaders within the territory, regardless of whether they were from low-level or high-level tribes.
If they want more later, they'll have to buy it from Chen Village, but the price isn't high right now.
The various inventions of the Rune Research Institute have completely changed the way of life of the people in the territory.
The living standards of the tribal people have improved significantly, the mortality rate has decreased, and their sense of happiness has increased.
Six years later, Chen Village's prestige reached its peak, and Chen Hongjie could no longer suppress the boiling public opinion. He finally decided to formally establish the nation on July 1st of that year.
July 1st, today is the founding day of Chen Village.
The Chen Village tribal area is now a super city with a side length of over 400 kilometers, home to over a billion tribal people, and its prosperity is in no way inferior to most capital cities in the Central Land.
At the city gate of Chen Village's inner city, groups of outsiders kept entering, all of them representatives of various forces who came to congratulate the founding of the Chen Kingdom.
" Tai Hua, Inspector General of Yi Province."
" Chu Chunbing, Sect Master of the Ice Spirit Sect."
" Qian Xu, Deputy Head of Listening Wind Tower."
In a secluded corner above the city gate, unnoticed by anyone, Hou Sailei silently observed the representatives of various factions who had come to offer their congratulations, inwardly marveling at their performance.
None of those who came to Chen Village to offer their congratulations today are ordinary people. There are several at the Core Formation Realm Great Perfection, and hundreds of other ordinary Core Formation Realm cultivators in total.
This was the first time in his life he had seen so many Core Formation Realm experts gathered together; it was truly an eye-opening experience.
Beep! Beep beep!
A vibration caught Hou Sailei's attention, and he quickly took out a small, exquisitely designed box from his pocket. This was the 'communication phone' manufactured by the Rune Research Institute.
He skillfully pressed a button on his cell phone and held it to his ear.
"Boss Lei, the founding ceremony is about to begin."
Come back soon, there are still some things you need to decide on regarding the ceremony banquet!
An assistant's voice came through the phone.
"Okay! I understand, I'll go back now."
Hou Sailei turned off his cell phone and jumped off the city wall.
Whoosh!
A humanoid puppet about two meters tall suddenly flew up from the ground and caught Hou Sailei in mid-air.
Immediately afterwards, the puppet's body parts began to disintegrate, turning into pieces of metal that were Hou Sailei's body.
The entire donning process, from the head to the waist and then to the limbs, took only a few millimeters.
"Beep! Armor donning complete!"
Upon hearing the familiar mechanical sound, Hou Sailei nodded in satisfaction, lightly stepped back, and flames rose beneath his feet. He immediately accelerated and flew towards Chen Village's kitchen.
As Chen Mu's good friend and Chen Village's most important business partner, Hou Sailei naturally had access to the best and newest equipment from the Rune Research Institute.
Two years ago, Chen Village was already able to manufacture intelligent external armor, and the one that Hou Sailei is wearing now is the latest model, with combat power comparable to the Mid Core Formation Realm Rune Research Institute.
Along Hou Sailei's journey, he could see many other people flying in the air. Most of them were driving Rune Puppet Flying Car, which were no more than two meters long and wide. These flying cars had gradually become the mainstream means of transportation in Chen Village.
Unlike cities in Central Land, Chen Village does not restrict flying, but aircraft must be registered with Chen Village's law enforcement department before they can be put into service; otherwise, they may be attacked by defensive equipment.