Chapter 75

Whenever the Fire Rock Festival comes, Fire Rock Immortal City is empty. The city residents leave the Immortal City and come to the wild at the foot of the mountain.

At that time, part of the Fire Rock Forest will be opened.

Mortals and cultivators will participate in it, picking fire persimmons.

This is a carnival for the whole city, a celebration of harvest. Since the beginning of the city's construction, it has never stopped since the first City Lord established it.

This year's Fire Rock Festival is very different from previous years.

A few months ago, Chi Dun's action of chasing the shadow demonic cultivator shocked the whole city.

Even the city residents who didn't see it with their own eyes learned from others that the shadow demonic cultivator was driven into the Fire Rock Forest and sealed by heavy arrays.

Before this year's Fire Rock Festival even started, Fei Si presided over the defense and put the whole city under martial law step by step.

On the day of the Fire Rock Festival, the City Lord sat high on the peak of Mount Fire Rock and took the initiative to open the Immortal City Array.

Countless emerald array patterns appeared in the air, in the city, and on the ground, imposing and crisscrossing. This was only the part that the city residents could see with the naked eye; more arrays went deep into the interior of Mount Fire Rock, continuously absorbing geothermal heat and earth flames, and injecting them into various places in Fire Rock Immortal City, supplying various alchemy rooms, weapon refining rooms, mechanical workshops, and other facilities.

What consumes the most earth flames and geothermal heat is the Fire Rock Forest.

Through the fire persimmon trees, geothermal heat and earth flames are converted into fire persimmons one by one.

Fire persimmons can be used as fuel like fire essence, can be eaten, can be used as medicine, can be used to refine weapons... there are many uses.

At the beginning of the city's construction, the Fire Rock Forest was only a small piece. Now, it has almost spread to the foot of the mountain, almost wrapping the foot of Mount Fire Rock into a huge, bright red, brocade circle.

Under the gaze of countless city residents, a large number of Foundation Establishment cultivators left the city together.

These cultivators almost all came from the City Lord's Mansion and the three major families. There were also a few from trusted forces.

For example, the Monkey Head Gang.

Every Foundation Establishment cultivator brought several mechanical monkeys.

Yuan Dasheng followed Yuan Er, its huge and burly physique particularly eye-catching among the cultivators leaving the city.

"Let's set off too."

Unlike Ning Zhuo, Chen Cha, and others also secretly left the city.

These mechanical cultivators will rush to repair mechanical monkeys today, which is one of Fei Si's steady measures to prevent accidents.

After they left the city, they didn't go directly down to the Fire Rock Forest, but were located on the mountainside, drilling into an invisible and defensive array.

The array also provided the scene of the Fire Rock Forest, which was convenient for mechanical cultivators to observe in real time which mechanical monkeys were having problems.

On the mountainside, Zhu Xuanji hid his figure, alone, looking at the Fire Rock Forest.

Chi Dun was also like this, disappearing somewhere.

The Golden Core cultivators of the three major families also didn't show up, distributed around the Fire Rock Forest according to the secret dispatch of the City Lord's Mansion.

A net surrounding the shadow demonic cultivator had already been formed.

"Start." Fei Si was the only Jin Dan cultivator on the surface, presiding over the situation.

With an order, countless Foundation Establishment cultivators carrying mechanical monkeys rushed into the Fire Rock Forest.

In these days, the Foundation Establishment cultivators of the three major families have practiced mechanical arts hard, exercising their ability to control mechanical monkeys.

Generally speaking, a Foundation Establishment cultivator can control at least three mechanical monkeys at the same time to pick fire persimmons.

Seeing countless mechanical monkeys jumping into the fiery red persimmon forest, Yuan Er was also a bit anxious, making the final mobilization: "Brothers, next, it's up to you."

"Go all out to prove to everyone that our Monkey Head Gang is the best at picking fire persimmons!"

According to the year, the Fire Rock Forest is divided into countless parts by heavy arrays.

At the beginning, the Fire Rock Forest under ten years old was opened.

The mechanical monkeys picked continuously; every time one was picked, as long as it was sent to the chest, it would be absorbed by the storage array they carried.

If you look down from high altitude, you will find that countless fire persimmons disappeared rapidly, leaving only the fire-red persimmon branches.

After the mechanical monkeys' storage array reached the limit, they were remotely controlled by Foundation Establishment cultivators to return.

They would stand in the array of the huge circle, spit out the fire persimmons in the storage array, and pile them up on the ground.

Every time it was piled up to a zhang high, the array would be activated, transmitting the fire persimmons directly to the granary of the City Lord's Mansion.

The fire persimmons under ten years old were picked, and Fei Si opened the Fire Rock Forest of ten-odd years.

After these fire persimmons were collected, it was twenty years, thirty years...

The years kept increasing, and it was the turn of the hundred-year-old.

Boom!

With a loud explosion, a fire persimmon exploded.

Almost instantly, it triggered a chain explosion of surrounding fire persimmons.

The terrifying flames swallowed more than a dozen fire-exploding monkey mechanisms, and the Foundation Establishment cultivators were far away, so there were no casualties.

For a time, countless gazes were cast toward the incident site.

Fei Si frowned and immediately ordered an investigation.

A Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Zhou family was quickly brought up.

Fei Si was expressionless: "Was it you who controlled the mechanical monkey and made a mistake?"

The Zhou family Foundation Establishment cultivator was pale and nodded weakly. He wanted to quibble, but he knew very well that the array was opened, and images were being recorded from all aspects. If he lied, it would be easy to be exposed, and the consequences would be even more serious.

Fei Si frowned slightly: "The fire persimmons destroyed will all be counted on your account. Give you half a stick of incense to rest, calm your mind, and continue to do things."

"Yes." The Zhou family cultivator took the order and stepped down.

Bang.

Not long after, a mechanical monkey suddenly had deformed movements, and when recovering fire persimmons, it hit other fire persimmons, triggering an explosion.

Fei Si investigated the image, confirmed that the mechanical monkey had a problem, and immediately locked the manufacturing workshop according to the number of the mechanical monkey.

It was the Flying Disc Workshop.

Fei Si immediately ordered people to notify Chen Cha and Unlike Ning Zhuo.

The envoy brought Fei Si's reprimand.

The array they were in was also replaying the image before the explosion. The protagonist of the image was exactly that mechanical monkey that caused the accident.

Chen Cha made a judgment through the image: "It's because the mechanical monkey worked for a long time, the muscles melted and lost too much, leading to deformed movements."

Chen Cha looked at Unlike Ning Zhuo.

This mechanical monkey was exactly the inferior product manufactured according to Unlike Ning Zhuo's reduced-configuration plan.

Unlike Ning Zhuo pondered: "The temperature in the hundred-year-old fire persimmon forest seems to be higher than in previous years. Let these Foundation Establishment cultivators slow down, take Clear Dew Elixir, grind it, mix it with water, and pour it on the mechanical monkeys. Remember, it must be poured through to the point where the muscle surface is slightly seeping water."

Unlike Ning Zhuo finished caring, and continued to bury his head in repairing mechanical monkeys.

Since the picking of fire persimmons started, mechanical monkeys that were damaged or invalid were sent over for emergency repairs one after another, and then returned to the field rapidly.

As time passed, fewer and fewer mechanical monkeys were sent to them, making Unlike Ning Zhuo and others busier and busier, gradually unable to keep up with the return repair speed.

Chen Cha was sweating profusely, reminding Unlike Ning Zhuo: "Little Zhuo, look, this is the evil consequence of cutting corners."

Unlike Ning Zhuo sighed: "Old Chen, isn't such a scrap rate exactly what I wanted?"

"Moreover, many of those sent for repair are still caused by improper human control. It can't be counted on my head."

The difficulty was temporary, and soon, the mechanical monkeys sent to them for repair became fewer.

This is because everyone had finished picking the hundred-year-old ones and began to enter the thousand-year-old fire persimmon forest for picking operations.

This kind of thousand-year-old fire persimmon is as big as a basin, born by absorbing infinite geothermal heat and earth flames through the array, and each one is of high value.

The Foundation Establishment cultivators all became cautious, only willing to control one mechanical monkey to pick.

Once it explodes, triggering other fire persimmons to explode in a chain, these Foundation Establishment cultivators might go bankrupt!

Everyone only used one mechanical monkey, so the monkeys that needed repair naturally became fewer.