I became a god through frontier slaughter, and I crushed the academy's prodigies!

The next month was spent in secret and tense busy work by everyone in Tianyun Prefecture.

Master Guhe, carrying the three Soul Mother Crystals, disappeared at the end of the corridor of the Heavenly Crafts Bureau.

He officially went into seclusion to attempt to reach the seventh-grade spiritual master realm.

At the same time, the Tiangong Division was officially handed over to Shen Tian.

Not long after.

Lu Changming directly transferred 10,000 of his personal guards to Shen Tian's command.

For the first time in their lives, the Royal Guards experienced the work of construction workers.

Build a spiritual signal tower.

This incident served to some extent to cover up the truth.

Therefore, it is necessary to find a trustworthy person.

The disciplined and efficient Imperial Guard became the best choice.

The windy city started construction first.

Jiangcheng followed closely behind.

One of these two places is where Shen Tian started his business, and the other is the territory he personally conquered.

People are familiar with the area, and the locals are at ease; outsiders cannot infiltrate.

While the two city signal towers were being built, batches of small war puppets were also being assembled.

The Purple Spirit Clan's transport spaceship has a sufficient number of spare parts, all of standard specifications.

The parts from the three spaceships are enough to assemble more than 300 small puppets.

The assembly speed was surprisingly fast.

In less than two weeks, the first batch of sixty small puppets completed debugging and passed the mental signal connection test.

The Heavenly Crafts Bureau selected ten mentalists, all of whom were personally trained by Shen Tian to learn how to control the core command set of the puppet.

Masters below the third rank can fully control it.

Once the mental signal tower is fully established, a second-grade mentalist will be able to control dozens or even hundreds of small puppets simultaneously, a terrifying level of efficiency.

The training lasted five days.

Then these ten people, along with the puppets, secretly traveled to Jiangcheng and Fengcheng aboard a transport plane from Tianyun Prefecture.

Today marks the completion of all the spiritual signal towers.

Shen Tian stood in a room in the Tiangong Division, his arms crossed, his eyes calm.

In front of me was a huge screen divided into sixteen sections, each displaying real-time footage transmitted from a drone.

The eastern part of the occupied Jiangcheng area.

The abandoned mine was overgrown with weeds and littered with animal tracks, a desolate wasteland.

The northern part of the occupied area of ​​Wind City.

A dried-up riverbed, with large mineral layers exposed on both sides, gleaming with a grayish-black metallic luster.

"Reporting to Director Shen, all signal towers have been debugged and completed according to your requirements!"

"start."

Shen Tian issued a command in a calm voice, which was immediately transmitted to the mental signal towers in Jiangcheng and Fengcheng.

"The signal has been sent out."

Shen Tian's gaze returned to the screen.

Half an hour later.

The image in the third frame moved first.

On the edge of a mining vein in the occupied Jiangcheng area, a gray-black figure stood upright from the grass.

It stands three meters tall, with thick limbs, a compact torso, and its entire body is covered with dense spiritual runes that glow with a ghostly blue light.

Thirty puppets appeared simultaneously at the edge of the abandoned mine, standing like a row of silent steel guards in the grass.

Tai walked to the edge of the mine, stretched out one hand, and the palm lines suddenly lit up, condensing into a high-light blade.

boom--

The rocks were cut open like tofu.

The surface layer of the three-meter-deep vein was directly ripped off.

It reveals a thick, dark-colored mineral layer, grayish-black in color, with a metallic sheen.

Before being deployed, these puppets underwent initial modifications, with some of their combat devices being replaced with mining devices.

The puppet continued to move.

The light blade continuously outputs power, cutting, lifting, and stacking.

A dozen or so puppets nearby simultaneously dispersed, each finding its corresponding area and repeating the same actions.

Thirty puppets worked in less than ten minutes.

At the edge of the abandoned mine vein, more than thirty pieces of ore, each about the size of a human head, have been neatly stacked.

These are just scraps and bits that were cut off at random.

then.

In the seventh screen, north of the fallen Wind City, beside the dried-up riverbed, another group of puppets has taken their positions.

There are a total of twenty units, some of which are equipped with specialized mining arms, making them more suitable for processing large-area mineral deposits.

The lead vehicle stepped into the dry riverbed, its light blade slicing downwards like a hot knife through butter, peeling the exposed mineral layer off the riverbed floor in one piece.

Each piece is quite large.

The twenty puppets had clearly defined roles: collecting, transporting, and sorting, with extremely high efficiency.

Shen Tian glanced at the sixteen areas that were advancing simultaneously on the large screen and came to a conclusion.

Fifty units are already in operation, and the rest are on their way.

The output in one hour is more than ten times that of hundreds of workers.

Once all two hundred units are in operation, the speed will increase by more than four times compared to the original speed!

Once the resources are brought back in a steady stream, production can begin here, producing more small war golems.

Used for collecting resources.

Shen Tian looked at those silent steel figures on the screen, tireless, painless, needing no supplies, and needing no shifts.

A hundred kilometers of walking consumes the mental energy of a monk, enough for one meal.

It operates continuously 24 hours a day.

Deploy as many units as there are mining areas.

The occupied territories are treasure troves, rich in resources. With these small war sites, these resources can be quickly extracted and put into production.

When Chu Feng walked in, Shen Tian did not turn around.

On the screen, the puppet's light blades tirelessly cut through the ore.

Chu Feng stared blankly at the puppets, somewhat astonished.

In half an hour, they had already piled up enough material for several miners to work for three days.

He hadn't expected these small puppets to have such a use.

Chu Feng stood in front of the screen, his eyes never leaving the puppets.

As he looked at it, his brows gradually furrowed, and he fell into deep thought.

He was thinking about a problem.

So these puppets can be used in this way.

There must be other uses that I haven't thought of.

suddenly.

He had a sudden inspiration!

These puppets are all humanoid.

Two legs, two arms, one head – a standard bipedal walking structure.

When the Purple Spirit Clan was created, it was probably designed according to the logic of warriors—parrying, wielding blades, and charging.

But now it's used for mining...

Chu Feng stared at the screen at a puppet bending over and carrying ore, watching it maintain its balance with its two legs and exert force alternately with its two arms.

He suddenly realized something was wrong.

Why do miners use humanoid figures?

The moment the question popped into his head, Chu Feng was taken aback.

Then the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it really didn't make any sense.

Humans use humanoid forms because humans are inherently humanoid.

But puppets are different.

The puppet is a machine, an array of spirit patterns, and a metal structure that can be rearranged.

No one stipulates that a puppet must look like a human.

Shen Tian did not turn around; his gaze remained fixed on the screen.

"What are you thinking about?"

Chu Feng hesitated for a moment.

"I have a bold idea... what if the puppets weren't made in human form?"