Construction on the space elevator was in full swing, but Li Xingkong didn't stay to oversee the entire process; he had other things to do.
The paving work on the ground began the day after Li Xingkong finished leveling the land. With the arrival of various materials, the paving materials were quickly made on-site and then laid out using various large machines that moved side by side.
Like drawing on a blank sheet of paper, the dark blue-green road surface grew larger and larger with the movement of the construction vehicles, spreading rapidly throughout the entire site.
Although Li Xingkong did not participate in the subsequent construction, he did not return to the base either. Instead, he flew up into the sky on his sword and stopped at a height where he could see the entire space elevator construction site from a distance.
He hovered at this altitude, sitting cross-legged on his flying sword. While refining the design of the formation in his mind, he would occasionally squint and look down at the battlefield below, combining the actual terrain with the formation design.
From the ground, only a tiny black dot could be vaguely seen high in the sky. Without someone pointing it out, no one would have guessed that this tiny black dot was actually a person.
The formation designed by Li Xingkong covers a large area, and the number of formation flags required is naturally not something that can be accomplished with just one. In the past few days, Li Xingkong has simplified the formation design based on the actual site, but it still requires at least 360 formation flags.
Actually, a number of 300 or so would be about the same, but since it's already this number, let's round it up and make it into a week number, which will look more pleasing.
The materials for these flags can't just be any random pebble. It might be okay to do it like that when you're practicing, but this space elevator is for Divine Land, and who knows how long it will be used? So it can't be done so casually.
Li Xingkong's plan was to use the Bone-Tempering Grass as raw material to forge 360 carriers for the array flags, and then place the core of the array on them.
Of course, Li Xingkong didn't need to personally handle the casting of this vessel. The Bone Tempering Grassland had been studied for quite some time. Although they couldn't eat it raw like Li Xingkong, they could still use it as a material.
After spending three days and three nights high in the air above this position, Li Xingkong finally finished designing the array in his mind. Even though he hadn't taken it out yet, just the virtual image in Li Xingkong's mind, the connections between the lines and the back-and-forth flow of Magic Power, were already too complex for the human eye to see.
The design of the formation was finally completed, and Li Xingkong breathed a sigh of relief. Thanks to the help of the Qian Hexagram, many problems would have taken a long time to solve if he had to think about them on his own. Although the Foundation Establishment cultivation did not directly improve his intelligence, it helped Li Xingkong in solving problems in a great way.
" Old Tang, the array design is done, but the array needs a batch of carriers, about 360 of them, made of pure Bone-Tempering Grass. The size doesn't matter, but as the core of the array, these things need to be protected from being disturbed after they are set up."
With the formation sorted out, the next step is naturally to gather materials for the formation flags, and for that, we'll have to entrust this to the all-powerful Old Tang.
"There's also a distribution Earthly Capital in Longzhou. I'll contact them and get the materials sorted out for you right away."
Unlike Li Xingkong, who could travel across the entire land of Divine Land in just a few minutes, Old Tang had to put in a lot of effort to leave the Imperial Capital.
Earthly Capital, the Earthly Capital the country, so the matter of the flag materials can be handled by the nearest branch.
"The main research focus over there is on cultivation. There are some things I think you'll be curious about. Would you like to go and take a look?"
When the topic turned to the distribution of the Earthly Capital in Longzhou, Old Tang's expression became somewhat strange. Ever since cultivation became widespread, the Earthly Capital in Longzhou had developed a rather peculiar style, but there hadn't been any major problems, so Old Tang just let them develop as they pleased.
"Then let's go take a look. I'd also like to know what's so interesting to you."
Old Tang's words piqued Li Xingkong's interest. He wanted to see what could make Old Tang make that expression.
"No problem, I'll inform them right away."
Old Tang briefly asked where Li Xingkong was, and then ended the contact.
As for where Earthly Capital in Longzhou is, Li Xingkong doesn't know either, but it seems that someone will come looking for him, so there's no need to worry about it.
Soon, less than half an hour later, Li Xingkong saw something crookedly flying close to the ground on the horizon not far away.
It flew so awkwardly! Judging from its crooked and wobbly flight, you could tell it wasn't a natural creature; it was definitely man-made. But its flight posture was so strange, like a domesticated hen trying to take off—it was almost unbearable to watch.
Only after this thing bounced and "flew" to the vicinity of the space base did Li Xingkong fly forward on his sword and land in front of it.
Seeing a person flying down in front of it, the strange thing stopped its antics, flapped its wings a few times, and landed on the ground.
Li Xingkong then saw the full appearance of this strange thing. It looked to be 5-6 meters long and had a very abstract shape, like a pair of wings sewn onto a rectangular box. The material of the wings looked like metal, but it was also somewhat flexible. He didn't know what material it was made of.
After landing, two people "rolled" out of the strange box. Without even tidying themselves up, they quickly got up and went to Li Xingkong.
"Hello, we are members of the Earthly Capital Longzhou Branch. I am Ji Qiu, and this is Ge Baoqi."
One of the men, who looked quite refined, adjusted his glasses and introduced himself to Li Xingkong.
"You two really made a unique entrance! What kind of machine is that?"
Li Xingkong was somewhat perplexed; these two seemed like a pair of clowns no matter how you looked at them.
"Hehe, this is the Human-Powered Leaping Machine we invented."
Speaking of this machine, Ji Qiu was quite proud.
"Our original vehicles relied on wheels and couldn't achieve all-terrain mobility, so we created this machine. It utilizes the principles of biomimicry. Look at this catapult; it mimics the hind legs of a cricket, launching the entire machine into the air. Then, using these wings, it glides through the air, achieving a different mode of movement from rolling on wheels—jumping forward."
While explaining, he also pointed to the relevant parts of the machine to illustrate them.
"Moreover, it can be driven entirely by human power. The only problem is that it consumes a lot of Magic Power, so two of us have to take turns operating it to achieve long-distance travel."
"Don't listen to his nonsense. His machine is just a toy; it's definitely not going to work."
Ji Qiu introduced the machine with great excitement, while Ge Baoqi next to him looked speechless, clearly not wanting to sit on it.
"Two people crawled into that box, just like lying in a coffin, and it had to be a joint coffin."
Ge Baoqi also has a sharp tongue and doesn't hold back when it comes to finding fault.
Hmm, this invention is indeed a bit bizarre. Li Xingkong now understands a bit more about the strange expression on Old Tang when he talked about this branch.
Jidu of the people here are normal.