Chapter 551: Forcing the Palace

Wei Yuan discovered that Yu Zhizhuo accepted the concept of large-scale production in the world outside the heavens almost without any obstacles and was quite obsessed with it.

The Weapon Forging Workshop originally had more than three hundred Dao Foundation cultivators; now, added to the eight hundred Dao Foundation cultivators newly transferred by Wei Yuan, the total number of Dao Foundation cultivators exceeded one thousand. Just in terms of the number of Dao Foundation cultivators, it already exceeded many third-rank Blessed Land sects.

With plenty of manpower and sufficient materials, Yu Zhizhuo opened up a large open space and built four Four Symbols Furnaces side by side in one go.

He was even not particularly satisfied with the Four Symbols Furnace and made some improvements. The most important improvement was setting up a central spiritual gathering array to provide spiritual energy to all Four Symbols Furnaces at the same time.

This array required at least forty-nine Dao Foundation cultivators to maintain its operation. Fortunately, there was plenty of manpower now, so Yu Zhizhuo divided one hundred and fifty cultivators with thick Dao power and fast magic power recovery speed into three shifts to maintain the array in turns.

Over a thousand Dao Foundation cultivators worked together, and in less than three days, all the Four Symbols Furnaces were built, and then Yu Zhizhuo specially invited Wei Yuan to visit the ignition of the Four Symbols Furnace.

The ceremony was very simple; Yu Zhizhuo stood on a high platform and directly announced the operation of the array, and the Four Symbols Furnace began to ignite. The hundreds of Fire-attribute cultivators who had been arranged in advance injected Dao power into the blast furnace at the same time, and the blazing fire instantly sprayed out from the furnace mouth!

In the blink of an eye, the Four Symbols Furnace started one by one, and Wei Yuan only then reacted that this Yu Zhizhuo actually didn't think about letting him go up to the stage to say a few words!

It was just that Wei Yuan didn't have time to complain, and was suddenly attracted by two steel bars laid on the ground in front of the Four Symbols Furnace; this thing looked somewhat familiar, could it be the steel rail that Xu Wenwu mentioned?

Wei Yuan's gaze shifted, and he saw a rail car specially used for transporting molten steel stopped at the end of the track, verifying his conjecture—Yu Zhizhuo had indeed built a railway! Although it was only one li, this was the first railway in Qingming, and even the entire world.

It seemed that Yu Zhizhuo was very clear about the terrifying weight of Nether Iron, so he specially built tracks to bear the weight.

The molten Nether Iron flowing out of the Four Symbols Furnace would be applied to another base next to it, where there were originally blast furnaces for refining ordinary steel. When the molten Nether Iron was transported, it would be divided and added to the blast furnaces of ordinary steel, and what was finally produced was special steel mixed with a little Nether Iron.

The melting point of this steel was much higher than that of ordinary steel, and its strength was excellent; it was an excellent material for forging weapons. Although it was only mixed with a little Nether Iron, it was already a Dao Foundation-level magic weapon material.

Out of consideration for the war, Yu Zhizhuo prepared to use most of the first batch of molten steel to forge piercing blades and battle sabers. This way, combat power could be formed in the first instance, catching up to the next great battle. The construction of the new city defense cannons was too slow and had not yet been finalized.

The steel furnaces mixed with Nether Crystals were in another field, and all the steel plates produced there were used to produce heavy armor.

Wei Yuan planned to produce several hundred more sets of Nether Crystal heavy armor within seven days, making up one thousand sets with the original ones. Except for traditional firearms, all weapons were standard-equipped with steel sabers and piercing blades added with Nether Iron.

Whether it was Nether Crystal heavy armor or Nether Iron long sabers, the quality itself was already a top-grade magic weapon; what Wei Yuan used when he first went to the battlefield was not as good as this.

Wei Yuan prepared to build a thousand-man heavy-armored elite force of all Dao Foundation cultivators, and equipped with top-grade magic weapon armor and battle sabers, after the reinforcement of the Wushuang Dao Domain and Wei Yuan's Dharma Form, the combat power was already chasing after late-stage Dao Foundation cultivators!

Even cultivators at the level of Cui Yu and Ren Suxing in the Dao Foundation stage, if surrounded by four or five people from this unit, would have to consider how to escape in the first instance.

Just as Wei Yuan was frantically preparing for war, Grandmaster Hongye hurried back to the Rain Kingdom. The surrounding Shaman countries and large tribes all sent envoys to understand the war situation on the front line.

Surrounded by dozens of followers, he slowly walked into the Holy Dome Hall.

The Holy Dome Hall was a sanctuary for the Rain Kingdom to entertain the highest-level guests and hold various ceremonies. It was like a leaf that was unimaginably large, elegantly covering the earth.

Its roof was transparent, like a solid piece of solidified sky, clear and ethereal. Sunlight poured down through the roof, casting mottled light and shadows in the hall, like a flowing painting.

When Grandmaster Hongye walked slowly into the Holy Dome Hall, more than a dozen One You Wu and Huang Wu were already waiting at the long table in the center of the holy hall, as well as two genius Dao Wu. It was just that because of the death of Ju Ling, no Ling Wu was present. Many Shamans had unkind eyes; they all knew that the Ling Wu were already gathering a large army, and once Grandmaster Hongye's task of undertaking the Ancestral Shaman had any loopholes, the Ling Wu army would rush over the Rain Kingdom like a flood.

Grandmaster Hongye's expression was calm, and he sat down on the main seat. The seat of the main seat was slightly higher than the other seats; Grandmaster Hongye looked down from a high position, overlooking the Shamans in front of him, looking at them one by one.

Although Grandmaster Hongye's realm was only a Great Shaman now, nearly half of the One You Wu and Huang Wu subconsciously looked away, not daring to look at him, only the two genius Dao Wu looked at Grandmaster Hongye with bright eyes, fearless.

The attitude of the two genius Dao Wu made Grandmaster Hongye frown slightly. He pondered for a while before saying: "The war on the front line is urgent. You all visited the Rain Kingdom at this time; the time chosen is... quite good!"

A One You Wu said: "I heard that Lord Grandmaster Hongye just suffered a big defeat a few days ago? You lost more than one hundred thousand warriors, and the casualties on the other side were less than fifty thousand?"

Grandmaster Hongye waved his hand to release several images, all of which were human legions moving on the battlefield. Some of the soldiers were marked with eye-catching signs. Seeing the power of these heavy armored warriors, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly condensed.

Grandmaster Hongye said slowly: "I must admit that the human race I am facing is quite capable of fighting; even the Nine Armies of the human Tang Kingdom are probably just like this. And these human races are particularly cunning; in fact, there are only three or four hundred true elites in such a large heavy-armored legion, and I have already marked them all. They mixed the most elite warriors in the military formation, making my front-line commanders think that the entire legion was such elites."

Grandmaster Hongye adjusted the image, and the field of vision shifted to several human heavy armored legions advancing in the rear, saying: "Of these ten ten-thousand-man legions, only the left and right ones are true heavy armored legions; the other legions are medium armor, and there are even many people wearing light armor. They just look like heavy armor."

"Similarly, my front-line commanders had no experience and mistakenly thought that the human race really had one hundred thousand heavy armored legions, so they chose to retreat and reorganize their morale. If you don't believe it, you can also send some troops to the front line and experience the combat power of the human race yourself?"

The threat in Grandmaster Hongye's words was very obvious, meaning that if you think it's easy to fight, then try it yourself. But there were also Shamans who didn't buy it.

A Huang Wu sneered and said: "Lord Grandmaster Hongye keeps saying that the front-line commanders made a judgment error; where was Lord Grandmaster Hongye in such a great battle? You wouldn't be hiding and not daring to show your head, for fear that a Solar Bomb or Lunar Bomb would fall on your head, would you?"

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Killing intent flashed on Grandmaster Hongye's face, and he said coldly: "Are you not afraid?"

The Huang Wu laughed and said: "Of course I'm not afraid! I'm not worthy of being hit by one, so what's there to be afraid of?"

Grandmaster Hongye's face finally changed, becoming gloomy, and he said: "You came here this time just to anger me?"

"No, we are not that bored. We just heard that Lord Grandmaster Hongye suffered heavy losses, so we came over to see if there is anything we need to help with. For example, extra territory or something."

Grandmaster Hongye said without hesitation: "Victory in the war is in sight; I can handle the Ancestral Shaman's requirements myself, so I won't trouble you all. What you all need to consider now is, once I complete the Ancestral Shaman's instructions, what should you all do? Everyone here is afraid that half of them will have no home."

Once Grandmaster Hongye becomes a Heaven Shaman, according to convention, the Rain Kingdom will expand several times, and by then, the surrounding countries and tribes will all be annexed. Even if the tribal leaders are unwilling, it will be useless; by then, Grandmaster Hongye will take it himself.

At this time, several One You Wu who were loyal to Long Zhe sneered: "Win the battle first!"

Killing intent was no longer concealed on Grandmaster Hongye's face, and he even had the intention to take action on the spot. But just at this moment, the One You Wu Master Shu Li, who was originally sitting in the back, suddenly changed his face and hurriedly got up and exited the hall.

Grandmaster Hongye's ears heard Master Shu Li's voice: "There is an abnormality in my kingdom, and I need to deal with it."

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