A Leap in Productivity

Territory upgrades require careful planning; upgrading before a war can lead to a rapid expansion of the territory's area, increasing the difficulty of defense.

"Fortunately, we captured a batch of spoils during the battle earlier." Lin Xu looked at the broken alchemical wreckage outside the factory and dismantled the broken metal with a thought.

Soon, crystal cores the size of eggs, their surfaces shimmering with runic light, floated up.

Lin Xu's spiritual sense penetrated into a crystal core, and countless pieces of information flowed through it. He summarized the massive amount of data and quickly figured out its source.

"It's the construct's combat program," he tried to modify the data.

This was not difficult; he used his spiritual sense to input the new data.

After a brief trial, he stopped. "It works. We just need to manufacture a batch of alchemical constructs and change the program to make it run."

There are 86 in total. Lin Xu thought for a moment, "I remember there were 14 alchemical mechanical bodies at the crystal mine, making a total of 100."

"A."

A quick glance at the edge of the territory confirmed it: the Fallen Demon had completed their mission, successfully captured the crystal mine, and connected it to the territory.

He even discovered that Bilusi had subdued the kobolds, turning one of their kobold warlocks into a protector, and the entire kobold race had joined his territory.

He used his Source Fire to reset the crystal mine in a tunnel in the underground city, and with a thought, he found the remaining Intelligent Manufacturing Core from the broken alchemical remains in front of the mine.

There are a total of one hundred of them. If they are all used to create combat-type spirit rune constructs, they can form a highly capable intelligent combat force.

But he immediately rejected the idea. "These Intelligent Manufacturing Core must be used in the most critical areas!"

For Lin Xu, the improvement that one hundred combat-type alchemical constructs would bring to the entire territory is very limited; all of them combined are not even comparable to a single Xuanming Corpse King!

However, if they are used in the manufacturing and production sectors, they can bring about very considerable improvements.

"Good steel should be used where it's needed most," Lin Xu said, glancing at the hundreds of Intelligent Manufacturing Core floating before him. "First, we need to solve the mining problem."

With their minds aligned with the Dungeon Heart, massive amounts of data flowed rapidly, and soon, several enchanted miner equipment sets were designed.

Unlike spirit-inscribed equipment, enchanted equipment can be used even by ordinary villagers.

With a thought, he transmitted the data to the alchemy factory. The Arcane Alchemy Matrix could produce 3,000 of these simple enchanting tools a day, enough to equip thousands of miners.

"Secondly, metal smelting, automated steelmaking furnaces..." Lin Xu frowned slightly, "I need real steelmaking furnaces..."

Production drawings~"

Because of the invasion of the Spirit Realm, the path to the intelligent era has been interrupted, and many technologies have been shelved.

Obtaining these isn't difficult, as long as you pay a certain price...

"And there are intelligent robots, machine tools, and so on. Let's just bring them all back at once. I wonder how far the country's research on magical machinery has progressed? Have they developed any enchanted firearms yet?"

Lin Xu was not optimistic about purely magical weapons. The rules of the Spirit Realm dictated that such equipment was expensive to manufacture, had a low margin for error on the battlefield, and might not even be as powerful as a professional legion.

These design drawings were not hard to find. He contacted Jiang Wanqing by phone, and two hours later, she returned to the territory with the thick stack of drawings.

"Here you go! Besides the complete set of steel plant design blueprints, there are also robots from a hundred years ago, all kinds of machine tools..." Jiang Wanqing threw a box full of blueprints on the ground, looking at him curiously, "What do you need all this for? The country asked for 10,000 Spirit Grain Pill just for these!"

"Very useful, I plan to study the spirit rune machinery..." he said simply, "Are you going back?"

"Hmm~ Those pioneering territories are preparing to sign contracts with us, setting monthly transaction quotas." Jiang Wanqing smiled as she looked at him. "These territories sent people to Qimeng City a couple of days ago to build factories and businesses, boosting the city's economy. This is a tacit understanding within the Pioneer Lord Alliance, helping newly established territories accelerate their development and enhance the lords' real-world influence."

Lin Xu nodded knowingly. Clearly, the Xuanwei Monastery's production of various extraordinary resources had sparked the lords' enthusiasm; otherwise, they wouldn't be so eager to come to his territory to offer money and jobs.

"Thank you for your hard work!" He nodded with satisfaction. In the past few days, Lin Xu had clearly noticed that the speed at which the lord's power was infiltrating the real territory had accelerated. It seemed that it was not only because the Night Watchers had been initially controlled, but also because of the help from the foreign lords.

"Why are you thanking me..." Jiang Wanjing's eyes crinkled into crescent moons with laughter.

After a brief moment of tenderness, she hurriedly left again.

There is no direct passage from the territory to the capital; she needs to travel back to the capital in the real world by rail or plane.

Lin Xu's consciousness merged with the Dungeon Heart, and his mental processing speed reached the level of a supercomputer.

Numerous blueprints, representing the technological achievements of human civilization in bygone eras, were automatically and rapidly flipped aside without any wind. He then examined and analyzed them one by one.

"We have the ore, now it's time for the spirit pattern steelmaking furnace~" Lin Xu once again entered a state of Thought Overclocking, and a data model of a steelmaking furnace quickly took shape in his consciousness space.

"Remove the electrical energy source and add a spirit rune matrix to separate the components in the ore..."

"Let's set aside alloys for now. The rules of the Spirit Realm are different from those of reality. This requires our territory to build up resources from scratch, and we don't have that much time right now..."

"A directional sorting channel should be installed at the furnace outlet to ensure efficient separation of different materials and precise, controllable metal sorting."

The furnace structure is constantly collapsing and reorganizing in my mind, redundant parts are eliminated, and finally only the simplest energy conversion path is retained.

A moment later, Lin Xu stopped, and a creation that looked similar to an industrial steelmaking furnace appeared.

The furnace is pear-shaped, with an arched lid at the top and the furnace body at the bottom. It is about 5 meters in diameter and 15 meters high, and can hold about 200 cubic meters of ore at a time.

The surface of the furnace body shimmered with an irregularly bright and dim matrix of runes. Inside this massive steelmaking furnace, there was a multi-layered composite rune matrix specially designed by Lin Xu, which could crush and separate the ore.

Since the energy source is no longer electricity, the smelting process naturally doesn't need to follow the traditional high-temperature smelting method.

After referencing modern steelmaking technology, he designed a completely new rune array based on his understanding of rune technology.

After a final check, Lin Xu entered the design blueprint into the Intelligent Manufacturing Core of the alchemy plant.

A moment later, a brand new icon appeared in the factory's manufacturing list.

Item: Steelmaking Furnace

Grade: Cyan (Excellent) Type: Spirit Pattern Mechanical Effect: Can smelt 200 cubic meters of minerals at a time Spiritual Qi: 50,000

Introduction: The Beginning of Immortal Industry "Only one can be produced per day----" Lin Xu frowned as he looked at the data and clicked the production icon.

"Buzz~"

The Arcane Alchemy Matrix was activated, and the entire factory began to operate, processing the raw ore into finished products.

The entire alchemy plant is a fully automated production line, achieving integrated automated production from the most basic raw materials to the final product, without the need for human intervention.

"A day is too long~" Lin Xu thought to himself, consuming over a hundred points of Source Fire, instantly accelerating the entire production process.

Just minutes later, a massive spirit-patterned steelmaking furnace was completed.

"What a huge thing!" Lin Xu exclaimed, looking at the massive steel furnace.

The finished spirit-patterned steelmaking furnace is entirely black, resembling a bottle cast from black iron, with mysterious inscriptions engraved on its surface.

The runes.

Lin Xu glanced at the industrial zone, where a factory covering approximately 300 square meters was under rapid construction.

The steelmaking furnace is placed in the factory building, and construction is accelerated by using Source Fire. Once everything is completed, a very simple steelmaking plant is built.

This is the first self-built spirit rune factory in the territory. Although it looks small now, it is a brand new start. From now on, the territory's productivity will gradually leap from the agricultural era to the industrial era!