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

Time, like a gear, spins rapidly amidst the flames of Forge City.

Three days after Shen Tian left.

On the outskirts of the occupied Tianyun Prefecture, a long steel dragon composed of three hundred transport golems is slowly advancing along the newly built highway toward Furnace City.

Each transport golem has a super-heavy cargo hold, ten meters long and ten meters wide, welded to its back.

The warehouse was filled with supplies recovered from the battlefield in the occupied territories.

Some are materials from mythical beasts, and some are extraordinary metals.

These things were piled up in the warehouse, emitting colorful halos of energy.

From a distance, the entire transport line looks like a river flowing with jewels.

Before Zhou Xuan went into seclusion, he had already handed over the authority to allocate resources to three deputies he had personally trained.

Although these three did not possess Zhou Xuan's political acumen to manipulate events, they excelled in their strong execution capabilities.

They regarded the scheduling plan left by Zhou Xuan as the golden rule, and every material route and every storage node operated strictly in accordance with the established plan.

Along the 320-kilometer transport line from the occupied zone to Furnace City, there was a temporary supply station every 50 kilometers.

The supply station is guarded by two light combat golems and a squad of the lord's personal guards, who are responsible for escorting the route and providing emergency repairs.

After Lu Changming went into seclusion, Shen Tian took full command of the manor lord's personal guard.

Shen Tian is now the de facto head of Tianyun Prefecture.

This vital transportation artery operates 24 hours a day, with a batch of supplies arriving at the Furnace City's unloading area on average every six hours.

The scene at the unloading area was truly spectacular.

Twelve giant gantry cranes operate simultaneously, their grabs scooping tons of ore and metal ingots from the cargo hold of the transport puppets and precisely dropping them onto the corresponding sorting lines.

At the end of the sorting line are twenty-four newly completed, extraordinary blast furnaces.

The temperature inside the blast furnace is maintained at over 8,000 degrees Celsius year-round, which is enough to melt most of the known supernatural metals on Earth.

The dark red molten metal poured out from the discharge port at the bottom of the blast furnace and flowed into different foundry workshops along the pre-designed high-temperature resistant guide channels.

This is the heart of Forge City—the Smelting District.

On the seventh day, Chu Feng fulfilled his promise.

The first power core assembly line has been fully completed.

This massive five-kilometer-long production line operates semi-automatically, from the refining, compression, and pouring of core materials to the final packaging and quality inspection.

Above each workstation is a mental energy amplification device, operated in shifts by two mental energy apprentices.

Lin Han was assigned to the seventh workstation.

His task was to inscribe the third stroke of the "Energy Gathering Rune" on the outer shell of the power core.

At the beginning, Lin Han was not very familiar with it, and the scrap rate was as high as 40%.

But after three consecutive days of intense repetitive training, his hands became increasingly steady, and the curve of his mental energy output became smoother.

By the end of the seventh day, his scrap rate had dropped to below three percent.

There are nearly 800 apprentices like Lin Han on the entire assembly line.

When the first complete war golem slowly rolled off the assembly line, the entire Forge City erupted in cheers.

It was a medium-sized assault golem that was twelve meters tall.

The entire body of the dark gray armor, crafted from Xuanming Heavy Gold, is covered with dense, light blue spirit patterns.

Powered by the Purple Nether Stone driving the core, the spirit patterns emitted a faint, cold light.

As it took its first step, the alloy floor beneath its feet emitted a dull groan, leaving a footprint half a foot deep.

Chu Feng stood on the quality inspection table at the end of the assembly line, the testing instrument in his hand emitting a crisp "beep" sound.

All parameters are qualified.

"First unit, offline!"

Chu Feng's roar echoed through the workshop, followed by deafening cheers that completely drowned out the hum of the giant exhaust fan.

"Keep going! The core for the second unit has entered the infusion station! Everyone, pay attention!"

From that day on, the assembly line in Forge City never stopped.

After the first line was successfully completed, Chu Feng immediately applied the accumulated experience to the second and third assembly lines.

By the fifteenth day, Forge City had five fully operational golem assembly lines.

Daily production soared from the initial thirty units to one hundred and fifty units.

And this is far from the limit.

As the apprentices' skills improved and the scrap rate continued to decrease, Chu Feng began to gradually increase the speed of the production line.

Meanwhile, other areas of Forge City are also growing at a visible rate.

In the northwest corner of the city, a military training ground covering 50 square kilometers has sprung up.

The training ground is entirely paved with high-density super alloy.

However, this training ground is not used to train martial artists.

Instead, it is used to test the produced puppets.

By simulating real-world scenarios, the performance of the bot is tested, and various real-world data are obtained for subsequent iterations and optimizations.

This was also one of Shen Tian's intentions.

Surrounding the training ground are twelve signal towers, each two hundred meters tall.

To the southeast of the city is a newly built residential area.

Rows of neat and uniform buildings rose from the ground.

These buildings were built to house the families of logistics personnel and workers who were relocated from Tianyun City and the surrounding garrison cities.

Chu Feng had already taken this into account when designing Furnace City.

Only when people live and settle down here can Furnace City truly become the second heart of Tianyun Prefecture.

In the center of the residential area, a small trading market was even planned.

Although it is currently just a newly poured foundation, many astute merchants have already come from Tianyun City to inquire about the news.

The north side of the city is the core of the entire Forge City defense system.

This is a city defense weapon system redesigned by Chu Feng based on the high-energy particle cannon technology that Shen Tian seized from the Zi Ling Clan.

Thirty-six super-heavy particle cannons with a diameter of five meters were arranged in a ring along the outer edge of the city wall.

Each cannon barrel is cast from extremely pure crimson copper, and its surface is engraved with complex amplification runes.

A single cannon firing in salvo releases enough energy to plow a ten-kilometer-long, one-hundred-meter-wide scorched earth gully into the plain.

With all thirty-six gates firing simultaneously, the range could cover the entire area within fifty kilometers of the Forge City.

Once this firepower network is in place, any enemy attempting to approach Forge City will face a hellish barrage of fire.

Day .

The walls of Forge City were closed.

This city wall is 150 meters high and 30 meters thick, and was cast from a special mixture of Xuanming Heavy Gold and Crimson Flame Copper.

On the day the city wall was completed, Chu Feng stood atop the wall, looking down at the steel behemoth that was already taking shape.

The wind blew from the direction of the wasteland.

In the distance, the exhaust flames of twenty-four blast furnaces turned half the sky a dark red.

Further away, the long steel dragon on the transport line continues its tireless journey, with batches of supplies flowing into the body of Furnace City like an inexhaustible source of blood.

Inside the city, more than a dozen puppet assembly lines operate day and night, with more than a thousand brand-new war puppets rolling off the assembly line every day and being incorporated into the combat sequence of the major cities.

On the training ground, the first batch of Po Jun Si who received the new puppets are conducting human-machine collaborative exercises.

Thirty-six particle cannons have completed calibration and test firing, and the residual heat inside the cannon barrels is causing the surrounding air to distort slightly.

Lights were already on in the residential area, and wisps of smoke rose from the exhaust pipes.

The families of the first group of workers who moved in are packing up their few belongings in their new homes. Children are chasing and playing in the alloy corridor, their laughter muffled by the hum of the ventilation system.

Chu Feng's lips were pressed tightly together into a line.

His eyes were still bloodshot, and he had slept no more than thirty hours in the past twenty days.

"This is just the beginning."

Chu Feng muttered to himself.

He turned around, strode down the city wall, and headed towards the technology research and development center.

There were also more than a dozen improvement plans for new types of puppets waiting for his approval.

He glanced back at the colossal steel city that rose from the ground amidst crimson flames.

On the city wall, the two characters "Furnace" were burned with spirit runes directly above the hundred-meter-high city gate, radiating a golden glow under the firelight.