What is the most important aspect of establishing a faction?

If it were in the past, Wang Jixuan's answer would undoubtedly be having enough manpower.

Only with a thriving population is it possible to continuously produce individuals with outstanding talent; only by securing a large enough land in a mundane dynasty can a sect recruit suitable cultivation disciples every ten years.

In this way, the sect can grow strong.

——The six Loose Immortals next door are doing exactly this.

But now, Wang Jixuan's answer has begun to deviate somewhat.

It cannot be said to be deviant.

After all, a Peach Wood Sword is a Magic Artifact, and the Blue Flame Gatling is also a Magic Artifact; the Three Thousand Great Paths all lead to the Xuan.

The path Wang Jixuan is currently on is a [pure Mechanical Body Cultivation civilization].

Therefore, for the present Wang Jixuan, the most important condition for establishing a faction is securing a piece of land to ensure privacy from being spied upon.

For this, Wang Jixuan has been tirelessly wandering with Amina around the Southern Border of this realm, spending several days to finally determine a place to settle.

The Coastal region at the southernmost tip of the Southern Border.

Wang Jixuan found a cliff, hollowed out the inside, found a spherical space, and then began having Mu Dan set up the Array.

Constructing just the Outer Array took a full ten days.

Actually, to avoid drawing attention, each Array Base was personally refined by Wang Jixuan and embedded into the mountain, without using Mu Dan's production line.

When the Formation was activated, the entire cliff lightly trembled, with treasure lights flashing for a moment, and then it returned to calm.

The six Loose Immortals did not detect the anomalies here because they were too far away.

This also caused them to lose their only chance to probe the details here.

The subsequent subspace nesting was both difficult and simple.

It was difficult in that the project volume was enormous;

But simple in that…

Wang Jixuan no longer needed to take action himself, with numerous Mechanical Bodies and Amina's Advanced Spiritual Slaves serving as free and excellent labor.

In a mere seven days, a three-hundred-meter-diameter sphere was hollowed out within the mountain, with a twenty-meter-diameter stone pillar at the center. Dozens of 'arms' extended from the pillar, along which various houses were built, each house containing numerous Array Bases.

In the following half month, the task was to refine these formations, stabilize the mountain structure, and add more Concealment Arrays and the Mountain Protection Array.

Wang Jixuan explored underground, discovering the local earth veins, extracting and purifying the Earth Energy, significantly reducing the consumption of Crystal Cores and Spirit Stones.

After forty full days of work, the foundational construction was finally completed here, with a ten-meter-wide, six-meter-high door embedded at the end of the mountain cave pillar.

The door was covered in a light membrane, and through it, one could see a large subspace being transformed and under construction.

The upcoming workload was still considerable.

Internally, they needed to reinforce and expand this subspace to make it their first base of operations.

Externally, they needed to search for more ores and treasures.

Acquiring more resources is now their primary goal.

"Meeting."

Master Wang returned, dusty from travel, and sat at the head of the meeting table on top of the spire, closing his eyes to rest.

Several streaks of light arrived one after another.

Mu Dan, dressed in a classic maid outfit, stood within a Floating Ball, holding several documents, circled the meeting table twice, and distributed the documents to each participant.

Once everyone was seated, Master Wang cleared his throat and summarized simply:

"The initial construction is complete, thank you all for your hard work."

Lao Zheng replied earnestly: "I've been coasting, only doing some physical work."

Gao Huating nodded weakly beside him.

Recently, she made rapid progress in culinary skills and also created two new tunes for the Mechanical Bodies.

Mu Dan opened the projection screen and said crisply:

"Currently, we are facing two difficulties.

"Firstly, how do we seize resources externally?

"If that statement sounds harsh, a softer approach would be considering how to collect cultivation resources in this Xu Realm that haven't been harvested yet.

"Our Spiritual Energy-related material reserves are purely consuming without replenishment.

"Moreover, we need more metal ores to construct our Mechanical Army."

The group fell silent for a moment.

Amina said: "I can let the Spirit Slaves do the work."

"No," Zheng Shiduo immediately shook his head, "we must remain hidden, this is the priority, we can't be targeted by the Heavenly Dao again. If we let Spiritual Ability Users act outside and the six Loose Immortals notice, how would we explain that?"

Amina nodded silently, continuing to ponder.

Zheng Shiduo asked: "How about sending out Mechanical Bodies? Giving them a layer of wooden structure skin to disguise as Wang's Mechanical Puppets?"

Mu Dan raised a hand to her forehead: "Do you think those six Loose Immortals are fools? Or do you think they wouldn't take a look? Once the integrated circuits and all sorts of chips are exposed, they'd recognize it as unrelated to the cultivation system."

Wang Jixuan also said: "I will soon go to meet with them, showing an intention to rely on them to reduce their suspicions, but they are actually very wary of me right now."

Gao Huating timidly raised her hand: "Is there any way we can use a Blinding Technique?"

"Oh?" Wang Jixuan smiled, "Let's hear it."

"I just popped up with a rather bold idea."

Gao Huating quickly said, counting on her fingers:

"What we want to do now is seize resources, mine.

"Realistically, no matter how we cover it up, a large vein being mined clean in a short time is likely to leave flaws.

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