"No, relying on buying equipment alone, no matter how much money you have, it won't be enough to spend."

Mechanical pets are expensive, hidden mechanical talents are even more expensive, and quantum superposition is incredibly costly.

Li Cunxu seemed to see a great abyss mouth biting towards him, a mouth belonging to the gold-swallowing beast.

He couldn't help but shiver.

"But manufacturing mechanical equipment is also troublesome; it requires technology."

Li Cunxu unconsciously looked at Xiaobai Spider.

As long as he continued to enhance Xiaobai Spider's learning ability, there would be no technical difficulty it couldn't solve.

But Xiaobai Spiders were too few; even adding clones, there were only three, which was far from enough.

Manufacturing mechanical equipment is difficult, especially for higher-grade equipment; some advanced mechanical equipment research takes a team of scientists in a large research institute decades to develop.

Why not just steal others' results instead of researching?

It's simple and convenient.

No way, if you use others' weapons without legal and compliant purchases, huge patent fees will catch up with you.

The Alliance attaches great importance to patents, providing immense rewards which greatly incentivize innovation.

Being fined for patent fees is a minor issue.

The important thing is there is a big boss with numerous weapon patents, almost half of the advanced laser weapons are developed by him; afraid of not collecting all patent fees, he developed a skill called [Illegal Weapon Ban].

As long as a weapon isn't legally and compliantly acquired or self-developed, it will be banned by him through this skill.

To avoid having your weapons banned, you must develop them yourself.

It's not enough for only Xiaobai Spider to research; Mechanical Pupils must also be self-reliant and develop their own weapons.

Besides, Xiaobai Spider is busy with Spirit Crystal research and can't handle so many things.

Hand the books Xiaobai Spider learned to Mechanical Pupils.

"You should also learn, learn to make weapons, then tailor a set of equipment that belongs to you."

Feeling the shortage of money, Li Cunxu hinted at Mechanical Pupils to use waste from the junkyard to make simple weapons and equipment.

After all, this saves money and resources.

Xiaobai Spider is researching Spirit Crystals.

Mechanical Pupils lay a foundation for future manufacturing by learning from books.

Xiaoruan guards the small residence while commanding Iron Slime to expand its territory.

Dark Dove practices self-curse, harming itself to comprehend new curse skills.

Everyone was working hard, and Li Cunxu was also busy, consuming Blazing Pain Pills, cultivating Spiritual Power, and training his willpower to prepare for the next upgrade to Silver grade, expanding the Beast Taming Space.

Blazing Pain Pills can slightly speed up Spiritual Power cultivation while causing a burning, fiery pain to the consumer.

This pain is an excellent Divine Artifact for training willpower.

Time flew by.

Under Li Cunxu's guidance, Xiaobai Spider developed a Spirit Crystal without any detours.

"Master, come and see if this is the Spirit Crystal you mentioned."

Xiaobai Spider ran over excitedly, holding a charred, coke-like object.

Li Cunxu looked at the blackened, uneven crystal, smelling of burnt odor. Though rough, it was indeed a Spirit Crystal.

Under Xiaobai Spider's expectant gaze, Li Cunxu said the words Xiaobai Spider was most eager to hear.

"It is indeed a Spirit Crystal."

Li Cunxu continued, "However, such a product can't convince others yet; the problem with your Spirit Crystal is that the heat was too high. Lower the compressor's temperature a bit."

Xiaobai Spider followed the instruction, and indeed, the next Spirit Crystal was much better and more nutritious than the scorched one before.

"What about this one?"

"It can convince others, but it's not stunning enough."

Xiaobai Spider continued fine-tuning the machines, repeatedly experimenting until finally producing a perfect, flawless, pure top-grade fire elemental Spirit Crystal.

"One top-grade Spirit Crystal is stunning, but not shocking enough. Xiaoyi, can you make four more top-grade Spirit Crystals?"

Making top-grade Spirit Crystals requires high standards from both the machine and the operator.

Even the developers of the Spirit Crystal Essence Collector and Spirit Crystal Compressor spent two days and nights to gather five top-grade Spirit Crystals.

"Master, where will you take these five top-grade Spirit Crystals and the video of me making them?"

"To the Alliance Garrison Officer."

"What is that? I've never seen any information about it."

Xiaobai Spider, who had read many books, had never seen information about the Alliance Garrison Officer.

"Of course, you haven't seen it. It's more advanced information. Any city controlled by the Alliance has an Alliance Garrison Officer. If there isn't one, it means the city doesn't belong to the Alliance."

Li Cunxu paused, took a sip of water, and said, "A city's mayor might betray the Alliance, but an Alliance Garrison Officer absolutely won't."

"Why are they so loyal?"

"Because they signed a strict contract that if they betray, they'll be obliterated."

"Ah?"

The truth of loyalty was unexpected to Xiaobai Spider.

"Just kidding, I wasn't finished. The contract must be signed willingly."

"Then why find them? Just because they are loyal?"

"Yes and no. The reason to find them is that they can directly contact the old chairman."

Taking five top-grade Spirit Crystals, walking to the Alliance Garrison location, Li Cunxu paused on the steps before entering.

He suddenly thought that finding the Alliance Garrison Officer here might not be particularly secure.

The Mechanical Emperor operated the Mechanical City for many years; is there any chance he corrupted the Alliance Garrison Officer?

Though an Alliance Garrison Officer betraying the Alliance would be obliterated, sacrificing one to destroy the era-transcending invention of the Spirit Crystal would be worth it.

To be safe, Li Cunxu took away all the devices Xiaobai Spider used and destroyed any traces before leaving the Mechanical City.

He boarded an airship back to Tongdu, seeking the Alliance Garrison Officer there.

He took out five top-grade Spirit Crystals and the manufacturing video to show the Alliance Garrison Officer.

"A work of the era, it can perfectly replace Spiritual Food and change the entire breeder industry."

The Alliance Garrison Officer was amazed, immediately reporting to the old chairman.

Soon, the urgent information alarmed the old chairman.

The projection of the old chairman appeared, holding a brief private conversation with Li Cunxu.

Satisfied, Li Cunxu left as the old chairman agreed to his few conditions.

Condition one, help hide the fact that Xiaobai Spider is the developer of the Spirit Crystal.

Condition two, low-cost sharing of Spirit Crystal patents, allowing everyone to create and improve Spirit Crystals, however, Li Cunxu requested three life-saving jades containing the old chairman's power.

With three protective jades, Li Cunxu was safe and could act boldly, even planning to acquire Li Shiyin's Demon Lotus Eye.

However, the old chairman had one small request: he wanted to see a paper on Spirit Crystal techniques by tomorrow.

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