Chapter 340: Human United Front, Sun and Moon Renew the Heavens [Today 6000]

In the capital of Liyang at this moment, it was like an ant nest.

Countless common people walked along the streets, each with clearly defined duties.

They had never felt this before; they could clearly sense the changes in life and knew that what they were doing now would yield returns in the near future.

For the first time, the people of this land felt what development truly meant.

The streets were now filled with all sorts of new items, yet no one paid them any attention, for everyone was busy creating a better future.

Fang Can was like a personal elder to these million people, guiding them hand-in-hand from daily necessities to inventions and creations.

In just the first day, the city had directly entered the steam age in its initial phase.

In the city, gazing at the starry sky, a woman gently wiped the fine sweat from her brow and said, "Immortal Master, what do we do next?"

【... Rest】

Hearing the voice from her ear, the woman seemed somewhat dissatisfied and said, "Immortal Master, I feel I can still work more; let me work a bit longer."

【You have already performed six hours and fifty-seven minutes of high-intensity labor today.】

【Physical fatigue has approached the set threshold.】

【Continuing to work carries a risk of damaging your body; the remaining time is for free allocation.】

【Only after it is determined that your body can support labor again can you continue working.】

Lu Siqi, looking somewhat anxious, said, "But Immortal Master, you said there are only twenty-nine days left, right?"

【It is twenty-nine days, three hours, and fifty-seven seconds until the Mind Network work ends.】

"We only have twenty-nine days; for the progress of technology, it shouldn't matter if we slightly overdraw our energy."

"We must build the entire city as quickly as possible within these twenty-nine days; my own tiny bit of fatigue doesn't matter."

"In the past, I was always muddled, living one day at a time; it was the Immortal Master who made me understand that a future person's life could be lived in such a way."

"Air conditioners, snacks, railways, rockets—these were things I never knew before; compared to those modern people, we can't even be said to be living."

"Time is tight now; we should build the entire city as quickly as possible. Resting for one more second is wasting one second of time."

"Immortal Master, I clearly know what glorious and great thing I am doing; it is struggling for the future of all humanity, including myself. These twenty-nine days cannot be delayed even a moment."

Lu Siqi said earnestly, "Immortal Master, please make us suffer a bit; I am willing to continue working. I can even hold on for three days and three nights without stopping."

【Humans are the sum of everything; both the individual and the collective are equally important. The concept of fatigued work does not exist in the program set by the Entity.】

【You are all slaves under the Slave Master; the living standards of the slaves concern the Slave Master's face.】

【My role is to assist you in living better lives, not to let you sacrifice yourselves for glory and dreams.】

【If you have no methods for leisure and entertainment after work, I can provide several forms of entertainment here.】

Hearing the nagging on the Mind Network in her ear, Lu Siqi couldn't help but sigh and said helplessly:

"Then, Immortal Master, if I go to sleep now, can I immediately participate in work after waking up?"

【Besides physical fatigue, mental relaxation must also be ensured; while maintaining sufficient sleep, there must be at least two hours of mental entertainment.】

【Work without play makes a clever slave turn dull.】

"Still have to play?" Lu Siqi was completely helpless.

In the past, how many times had she wanted to slack off while working, yet now that she could truly rest, she was instead unhappy.

"Then, Immortal Master, how long must this mental entertainment and relaxation last?"

【Two hours.】

"One double-hour, then. Immortal Master, just send over whatever mental entertainment items you have; after resting for one double-hour, I will go to sleep."

【The movie 'The Shawshank Redemption' has been transmitted to you.】

【Do you wish to spend ten copper coins to purchase tea and snacks before watching?】

"No need; ordering now would be wasting other people's labor resources. Their physical strength should be spent on more meaningful things."

Lu Siqi poured herself a bowl of plain water and lay down on the bed: "Begin. I want to see what fun this entertainment called 'movie' by future people has."

"Boom—"

In the interval while Lu Siqi was watching the movie, a huge ladder descended from the sky.

Wherever it passed, it cut through the atmosphere creating a shockwave, and its end immediately rooted deeply into the uninhabited land directly above the capital.

This was naturally the space elevator constructed after the Third Transcendent drew materials from the Moon.

Using materials from the Moon, refined, solidified, and reinforced through the Heart Image into temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees, it was now even stronger than alloy steel.

For space elevators like this, they had built several dozen, and some cultivators were already continuously manufacturing them on the Moon.

Once manufactured, there was no need for human transport; one only needed to take the space elevator to the outer space of the Moon and then launch it toward Earth.

Because there is no resistance in outer space, the space elevator would reach Earth in no time and be intercepted by the Third Transcendent cultivators here.

Among the cultivators returning this time, they had not only brought back the Kalin Tower.

They had also casually forged steel cables and containers, and incidentally brought back several million tons of lunar material.

Now, it was time to begin preparations for formal manufacturing.

In the sky, since the elevator was embedded into the ground, these cultivators did not immediately return to the surface; instead, they used steel cables to connect to a massive alloy pot.

"What do we do next?" a Third Transcendent cultivator looked at Jingxu, for only this fellow was directly connected to the Mind Network and could transmit the network to them one by one.

"Lower the containers; then the common people below will put the corresponding materials into the pot, and we will pull the ropes to hoist those materials into outer space."

"After that, relying on our Ascending Path-level strength and precision, we will transform into human-shaped machine tools, using the Heart Image to perform nanometer-level control, and reprocess those materials sent up."

Jingxu spoke with some strangeness in his heart, never expecting that one day they would be doing the work of blacksmiths.

But in fact, during the Great Expansion, Fang Can had already discovered that these cultivators were each as strong as oxen; even those with Transcendent Mortal bodies were skilled at earth and wood work, let alone those at the Ascending Path.

Once their proper strength was unleashed, the productivity unleashed by a single Fourth Transcendent could even surpass the total of an entire modern city.

Unfortunately, the reason the Great Expansion remained so backward was that the cultivators of Dongfang Wujie, after reaching the Ascending Path, were all pillars of the state.

For the higher realm, all the martial artists on the Path to Heaven devoted their minds solely to cultivation, fighting, and enjoyment.

Expecting those martial artists to understand what it means to serve the people and voluntarily engage in those unorthodox, bizarre, and frivolous crafts is simply a dream.

Anyway, whatever they wanted, subordinates below would naturally busy themselves and labor for them; to labor oneself was madness. Did you not wish to break through?

Even in the Present World, those superpowered beings understood how to cooperate and develop technology.

But in this world, precisely because the immortal Fang Can suppressed them from above, and because the martial artists' power had been suppressed for too long here, they were not as arrogant as in Great Expansion, so they could be temporarily commanded.

But it was foreseeable that once Fang Can disappeared, these martial artists would once again resume their arrogance.

The next moment, after the division of labor was clear, these First-Transcendence martial artists each used the steel cables in their hands to lower the containers bit by bit.

Once they landed, the common people immediately began loading the materials needing processing into the containers.

Once all this was completed, the container was pulled out into outer space.

Through the pulling of more than a dozen Paths to Heaven, the container was quickly hauled up; after unloading, it was handed over to the Second-Transcendence group for assembly and manufacturing.

The empty containers were then thrown down again for a second round of loading and unloading.

And in the sky, these Second and Third-Transcendence martial artists cooperated; their mental images transformed from void to reality, using the mental images as assistance to begin ultra-precise reprocessing directly.

It was seen that on the near-Earth orbit, fierce winds blew in waves; the True Qi of the Second-Transcendence directly transformed into arms, sorting all items inside the container into their respective categories.

Grabbing dozens of tons of iron material before them, they tossed it to the left, where a Third-Transcendence martial artist was currently wielding the Flame Blade Art.

As the Blade Art was executed, a ring of ten-thousand-degree heat formed; the iron material swept across the ring, instantly turning into scalding molten iron, which was then shaped by the True Qi Great Seal into various forms.

At the other end, a Third-Transcendence martial artist squinted her eyes, her Primordial Qi transforming into needles as she sorted through a tiny crystal before her.

She was hand-crafting a microchip.

Although it was only the most basic few generations, it still made her somewhat restless and agitated.

【The platform on the left is 6 nanometers higher; transform the True Qi into a file to level the raised spot.】

The voice of the mental image reached her heart through Silent Void, making the Third-Transcendence martial artist's heart even more irritable.

It was like building a bustling small town on a palm-sized patch of land with the delicacy of embroidery, testing patience to an extreme.

And in the time that followed, with the help of these humanoid ultra-precision machine tools, they skipped the tedious theoretical development phase and went straight to one-to-one practical operation.

In merely three days, things like CNC machine tools, cables, computers, and excavators were directly put into production.

And just as they were working at full capacity, they saw seven men and women climbing up the space elevator below; all were martial artists of the Path to Heaven.

Facing the scrutinizing gaze of the outer-space martial artists, these martial artists said:

"I have come to join you in building and serving the Nation of Service. Down below, we cannot provide greater help to the nation, so the Immortal Master has sent us up to assist."

"However, I have one question now." A lower-world martial artist with a calm expression looked at the crowd in outer space and said:

"Why can I not hear your thoughts? Why do you not voluntarily connect to the Mind Network? Is there something you are hiding?"

"You, a mere Second-Transcendence, are questioning me?" A Third-Transcendence martial artist snorted coldly: "You just arrived and already think to seize the right to speak?"

"Whoever has a guilty conscience knows it themselves. My thoughts are already transparent to every citizen; now, hundreds of millions of common people below are also connected to the Mind Network. If you have nothing to hide, why do you not connect?"

"I think you are disloyal to the Immortal Master!" A lower-world martial artist stated bluntly.

In just a few days, with thoughts unable to be concealed, she had already grown accustomed to saying whatever she thought, no longer hiding her ideas.

(End of this chapter)