Chapter 2997

According to Li Ruanyu and the others, no new useful intelligence has come in for the moment.

There are plenty of rumors, but none are backed by evidence and can't be used.

For now, we'll continue planning according to the previous meeting's arrangements.

Li Ruanyu has been in a very bad mood lately—after all, General Yan Ling is trapped in White Grass City, and she's very worried.

She's General Yan Ling's goddaughter, so he must have helped her quite a bit before.

Li Ruanyu is the type who repays kindness, so naturally she'd have these emotional ups and downs.

But there's truly nothing to be done—she has no choice but to hope things stay safe over at White Grass City.

Zhao Chi can only comfort her properly.

Li Ruanyu's demand these past few days has clearly increased, as if she wants to temporarily forget her worries through this kind of pleasure.

Zhao Chi also makes extra time to keep her company.

Li Ruanyu's energy is fully replenished as well.

She's a mature woman after all—after resting, she pulls herself together again and leaves in high spirits.

At the same time, Li Ruanyu's attachment to Zhao Chi has become more obvious, and she's become a bit more "childish" in front of him.

Zhao Chi certainly doesn't mind.

Being needed feels pretty good.

Zhao Chi felt the effect of the Taiyi Wheel wear off, so he checked the system messages.

No new messages.

Then let's continue.

There are still 6 Taiyi Wheel fragments left—enough for many more days of use.

Activate again!

The surrounding light and shadows twist once more.

Zhao Chi let out a breath.

He didn't know why, but under this kind of time flow, Zhao Chi felt very grounded.

Even though it meant high-intensity, tedious work ahead, Zhao Chi still felt grounded.

The work is tough, but the gains are real and solid.

Besides, there's still the unshakeable daily pleasure activity, so Zhao Chi can keep pushing through.

For the past dozen-plus hours he'd been making Nightingale Armor nonstop—although the quality rate wasn't high, he still produced 15 sets of premium Nightingale Armor.

Once the elven heroines finish resurrecting, he'll have them change into them.

Su Qin doesn't need to wear light armor.

She's from the Taoyuan tribe, so she can just wear the Mystic Maiden Armor directly.

The notes and precautions for making Nightingale Armor have been fully written up—many of the details were reminded and noticed by Qi Yue.

She doesn't talk much, but she's meticulous.

A perfect personal secretary.

Next, it's off to Zhuang Ya's place to go all-out crafting elven bows with her.

"Alright, my lord. Don't worry, go find Sister Zhuang Ya. I've also learned the steps and methods for making Nightingale Armor. If the tailor sisters have questions, I can help answer them, and if there's something I don't understand, I'll go ask you."

Qi Yue's theoretical knowledge is top-tier.

Zhao Chi smiled and said, "Good, with you here I can rest easy. But they're all up in the trees right now and won't finish resurrecting until tomorrow. Train or rest today, we'll talk about it tomorrow."

"Mm, okay~"

He walked out of the garment factory.

Zhao Chi plunged right back into the armory.

The armory was completely quiet.

All the female blacksmiths were also up in the trees resurrecting—the entire armory had only Zhuang Ya inside.

She had already heated the furnace up; the flames inside were brighter than before, somewhat whitish.

White flames mean higher temperatures.

The high-heat coal really did perform considerably better than ordinary coal.

"Zhao Chi, you're here. I've already prepared everything. I've checked the materials too—they're all plenty, we can start anytime."

Zhuang Ya pointed around with a smile.

Next to the workbench was the material prep area.

The prep area wasn't small—on the left were stacked 20 cubic meters of silver steel ingots, easily within Zhao Chi's reach.

There are porter women assigned to patrol each factory, automatically topping up any materials that run low.

Ahead were over ten thousand portions of rare materials, of various types, all for crafting different kinds of super-improved equipment.

In the distance were neatly stacked high-heat coal, all packed in simple wooden crates.

When needed, just toss the whole crate in—simple and convenient.

On the other side was the pitch-black Jiuan Ingot.

Quite a bit of Jiuan Ingot has been smelted by now.

With the increase in mining and smelting women, the Jiuan Ingot that regenerates daily can now be fully mined out without any waste.

Li Ruanyu and Shangguan Ting have also obtained quite a lot, making Jiuan Ingot equipment every day.

Counting Penglai Town's accelerated time, the Jiuan Ingot has been set up for 34 days now.

Over these 34 days, a cumulative 900,000 units of Jiuan Ore have been mined—roughly speaking, Zhao Chi, Li Ruanyu, and Shangguan Ting each have one-third, about 300,000 units per person.

In terms of time, acquiring this much Jiuan Ore in such a short period is extraordinarily massive.

After all, the Nine Springs Mine only had 1,000 units of reserves before the data transfer.

But based on the troop scale of Li Ruanyu and Shangguan Ting, it's still not enough.

300,000 units of Nine Springs Ingots can be used to craft 300,000 one-handed swords.

If shields are to be crafted, only a little over 100,000 can be made.

If a full set of armor is to be crafted, only 10,000 sets can be made.

If weapons, shields, and equipment are all crafted together, then only a few thousand sets can be made.

But the two of them have over 100,000 troops, so there's still a big shortfall.

More mining is still needed.