Chapter 2782: The Front Line (9)

Zhao Chi discovered:

Feeding them Fierce Woman's Grief and Womb-Nourishing Elixir at the same time could put them into a very abundant state.

An abundance of emotion.

Taking Fierce Woman's Grief alone was like love at first sight after a long dry spell — the feelings were extremely intense and passionate.

Taking Womb-Nourishing Elixir alone, on the other hand, was like love grown from accumulated drops over time — a feeling full of trust and depth, a desire to truly continue one's bloodline with the other person, to bear a crystallized child with them.

When these two elixirs were used together…

It really blew up!

Even Shangguan Ting had to play the part of the devoted lover…

Of course, Shangguan Ting was an exception — she didn't need to take Womb-Nourishing Elixir.

But after Zhao Chi told her about the effects of Womb-Nourishing Elixir, she took it straight away…

It would limit her afterward.

Her usual intensely passionate, love-at-first-sight style of affection was already plenty good.

Of course, that was only how it appeared on the surface — in essence, Shangguan Ting's feelings for Zhao Chi were also very solid and reliable; that was beyond question.

4 a. m. the next day.

After Zhao Chi woke up, he suddenly felt like there was nothing to do.

Zhao Chi was genuinely a little at a loss.

What should he do today?

Go sew, make fashion?

But every fashion-wearing member already had a full set.

And massive amounts were being produced every day; without new fashion items, there really was no need for Zhao Chi to make them.

Go forge equipment?

The equipment only needed the armor's superior-grade update, but this afternoon another 1,500 blacksmiths would graduate, and the update would be finished quickly — no need for Zhao Chi to do it either.

If Zhao Chi did it himself, he could indeed speed up the superior-grade equipment update, but he felt that investing more time in it now would have rather low cost-effectiveness.

No questions to answer either.

Yesterday he'd already spent half the day answering questions, going through every profession's queries once.

The female craftsmen were all very smart and very professional — basically, a single hint was all it took.

In recent days, craftsmen from every trade had been graduating daily, and the super-improved items in Zhao Chi's territory now all had people who could make them.

Including super-improved fire oil, super-improved wooden carts, super-improved feed, and so on.

These supplies weren't consumed in huge quantities, so even if only the leading captains among the graduated female craftsmen handled them, it was enough.

From now on, he wouldn't have to make any of these himself.

Zhao Chi really was at leisure.

Keep the women company? Pour in more energy?

But there was no need for that either…

His seven heavenly beauties had all just been tended to in turn one after another, each one left perfectly docile and content; for now, there was no need to keep them company again.

The energy increases had all been quite sufficient.

The Eternal Tree hadn't changed much in the past couple of days — after all, without any Rapid-Growth Talismans being used, the speed of growth relying on blood alone wasn't fast.

It seemed it needed to be paired with Rapid-Growth Talismans to grow quickly.

The tree spirit Fuyao had gotten a bit smarter, but her body's changes were similarly small — she'd only grown 1–2 centimeters taller.

Setting all that aside…

Was there anything else to do?

How about… going to check on the mines?

It had been some days since he'd last visited the Nine Springs Mine.

Let's go take a look!

Zhao Chi got up.

Tang Ruan beside him rubbed her eyes and sat up as well.

"Mm… my lord, you're awake?"

"Yes, I'm going out for a stroll. You sleep a little more."

"It's fine, I won't sleep anymore. I'm coming too."

Tang Ruan's smooth, pale, soft body slipped out from under the blanket, and she squinted one eye as she reached for Zhao Chi's clothes.

"My lord, hold out your arms."

But Zhao Chi shook his head: "No need to dress. I'm going inside you — it's still dark out, and I need to use your eyes."

"Oh~ got it. Come on in."

Piloting Tang Ruan, Zhao Chi arrived at the west side of Penglai Town.

This was the mining district.

The Nine Springs Mine was set up here, on an additional piece of new territory that Zhao Chi had specially designated.

Between the mining district and Penglai Town stood tall wooden walls, so neither side could see the other.

But from a distance, the clanging of pickaxes could already be heard coming from the other side of the wall.

The sounds were very dense — clearly the work of many miners together.

Ten days had already passed since obtaining the Nine Springs Mine; counting only Penglai Town's time, it was almost twenty days.

The female miners and female smelters had now both been expanded to 300 people.