The Capital, Guixu

In the Land of the Undead, within Chen Xu's earthly divine kingdom.

A large group of skeleton soldiers, under the guidance of Black Knights and mages from the Eternal Heart civilization, were continuously building the base modules of the floating city.

However, unlike the relaxed and easy-going Black Knights, the mages from Eternal Heart appeared extremely nervous.

Among them was even Councilor Gandalf, who had closed the deal with Chen Xu.

Gandalf had collected the payment from Big Boss and immediately went on a massive shopping spree, replenishing urgently needed strategic resources for Eternal Heart.

Then, after bringing the resources back to Eternal Heart and handing them over to the other councilors, he immediately took his technical team back to the City of Miracles.

One million Divine Power Crystals given just like that—Gandalf felt that instead of invading other worlds and fighting to the death, it was better to serve a big spender like Chen Xu.

In any case, the ultimate goal of the Eternal Heart civilization was resources—resources to satisfy the pursuit of truth for a vast number of mages.

War was merely one way to acquire resources. If possible, they were not opposed to shifting toward selling technology.

But when Gandalf brought his team to the Land of the Undead following Big Boss, he was frightened out of his wits by the sight of endless undead creatures and the dense necrotic aura.

He had imagined Chen Xu might be the direct descendant of some major power, perhaps a Dao Lord or a god-king.

Even though Gandalf had used his imagination quite aggressively, he had still underestimated Chen Xu's identity.

The Lord of the Undead! By the truth of magic, how could a human be the legendary Lord of the Undead! This was not logical at all!

It was like encountering a modern dragon king. He could be the son of an African tribal chief, a retired king of soldiers, or even the heir of a hidden aristocratic clan—those were all somewhat acceptable.

But if you said he was the reincarnation of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, currently seeking back his six roots, what was that supposed to mean?

Thus, Gandalf fell into a state of self-isolation, while a wave of tension slowly flowed from the bottom of his heart to his entire body.

The Lord of the Undead was an existence at the level of a Dao Lord, recognized as the very top tier of the myriad worlds. Even if Chen Xu was not quite there yet, Gandalf had an intuition that the new Lord of the Undead would definitely be Chen Xu.

Subsequently, Gandalf led his team and personally participated in the technical interpretation of the floating city.

This led to the scene of construction mentioned earlier.

An Eternal Heart floating city had five basic modules. Once these five modules were built, it was considered a qualified floating city. After that, new modules could be added continuously depending on the strength of the city lord's wallet.

These five basic modules were the Power Module, the Piping Module, the Runic Module, the Foundation Module, and the Space Module.

The Power Module, as the name suggested, created an energy core sufficient to power the entire floating city.

In Eternal Heart, the Power Module was a Chaos Mana Core shining with seven-colored light. This core could continuously draw mana of various elements from the air.

It could also easily melt various element crystals, including Divine Power Crystals. Most importantly, when the floating city jumped out of the world wall and into the Cosmic Sea of the myriad worlds, the Chaos Mana Core could also draw primordial energy matter that had not yet differentiated.

This was a major reason why the floating city could become a cross-realm war machine.

But for Chen Xu, the most important Power Module was merely the icing on the cake.

When Gandalf heard that Chen Xu wanted to use the throne from his ascension to godhood as the energy core, he was beyond shocked.

In theory, the power of faith, a power that could be called a miracle, was definitely not a problem to use as energy. It was just a bit wasteful.

It was like using Divine Power Crystals as fuel for a magic oil lamp—hardly anyone would do such a thing.

Gandalf silently criticized him as a filthy rich bastard in his heart, then offered Chen Xu a suggestion.

"Lord Chen Xu, using a divine artifact of faith as the energy core for the floating city is absolutely fine. But if I may be blunt, it is far too wasteful. Why not create a dual-core system? Use the Chaos Mana Core for daily power supply and switch to the divine artifact of faith during special circumstances."

Regarding Gandalf's suggestion, Chen Xu slapped his thigh. "You're right, Lord Gandalf. Your suggestion makes perfect sense. They say professional matters should be left to professionals.

However, a dual-core might not be enough. Help me make it a triple-core."

"Tri... triple-core?"

"Yes, triple-core."

Gandalf opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but found himself unable to speak. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to let it go.

Damned rich people. When I have money, I'll build a triple-core... no, a five-core floating city.

In truth, Chen Xu intended to use the extra energy core specifically to create a high-spirit-qi environment for the Ginseng Fruit Tree seedling.

The Land of the Undead did not have much else, but it had more than enough necrotic aura. After conversion by the mana core, it should be possible to create a high-concentration spirit qi environment for the Ginseng Fruit Tree to develop.

Once the design concept for the Power Module was set, the designs for the other modules remained unchanged.

Gandalf led his team, using materials provided by Big Boss, to guide the Black Knights in building over a hundred Universal Alchemy Furnaces.

Inside the alchemy furnaces, special metal blocks were being produced continuously.

During the refining process, these metal blocks were endowed with special magical properties, possessing excellent energy fluidity.

Base modules built with these blocks could minimize the loss of energy during flow.

For a massive structure like a floating city, the most important thing was the energy supply. Whether it was maintaining the floating arrays or the various facilities within the city, a large amount of energy was being consumed every moment.

A massive energy core was one aspect, but reducing loss was also a critical subject.

These special metal blocks were the core materials that made up the Piping Module.

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Seven days later, two Chaos Mana Cores with a radius of a full kilometer were assembled. They were positioned in a triangle with the Bone Throne and connected by nine pure white pipes.

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Another seven days passed, and the Piping Module and Foundation Module were completed. At this point, the floating city had begun to take shape and floated into the air.

The main construction force also changed from skeleton soldiers to ghosts with flight capabilities.

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The third seven days passed. The Runic Module and Space Module were also completed. The floating city hung high in the sky, containing terrifying magical energy within. Over a hundred mage towers radiated their respective areas with mana cannons.

Because Eternal Heart was constantly at war, offensive facilities took up a full forty percent of their floating city.

At the northernmost tip of the floating city was an arcane magic technology given for free by Gandalf: the Mana Annihilation Beam Projector.

This instrument had terrifying destructive power. Eternal Heart relied on this annihilation beam projector to break world walls when invading other worlds.

In Gandalf's words, the destructive power of the Mana Annihilation Beam Projector was comparable to a full-strength strike from an Eternal-tier powerhouse.

However, because the charging time was too long, it could only hit fixed targets.

So, if you had an enemy you couldn't deal with, you first had to seal or imprison that enemy before delivering a devastating blow with the Mana Annihilation Beam Projector.

As for how to seal an enemy you couldn't deal with, interested parties could contact Eternal Heart's external business specialists. They offered over a hundred kinds of cutting-edge magic technology from the myriad worlds to satisfy all goals.

"Lord Chen Xu, the first phase of the floating city's construction is complete. I have already handed over the technology for adding subsequent modules to the Black Knights."

"I see. Lord Gandalf, you've worked hard during this time."

"Hahaha, you are too kind, Lord Chen Xu. If you are interested in other technologies from Eternal Heart, please contact me at any time."

"Lord Chen Xu." Big Boss walked up and looked at the floating city in the sky. "I wonder what this capital city, destined to echo through the myriad worlds, will be called?"

Chen Xu looked up at the floating city in the sky and slowly spoke its name.

"Guixu."

As the word fell, a spiritual light rose from the Bone Throne and rapidly spread across the entire floating city. For a moment, various anomalies appeared in the originally dark sky of the Land of the Undead.

The lifeless dark clouds formed by necrotic aura, guided by a mysterious force, began to rotate slowly with Guixu as the center.

Seeing this, Gandalf's expression changed drastically. "This... what is happening? Eternal Heart has built so many floating cities, but this has never happened before."

Gandalf thought something had gone wrong during the construction process. If Chen Xu demanded compensation, he would be in big trouble.

"Lord Gandalf, there is no need to be nervous. This is the echo of spirituality, the creation of living beings."

The authority of a mythic-tier Lord of the Undead could modify all species within the Land of the Undead to obtain new species or new regions.

This creative power from the world possessed endless possibilities.

A few days ago, a crazy idea had suddenly been born in Chen Xu's mind.

Could he merge the floating city with the Bone Throne, combining the two into a completely new existence?

Since those predecessors could design something on the technology side like the Ghost Factory, why couldn't he, Chen Xu, allow the floating city to develop spirituality?

Thus, when naming the floating city, Chen Xu used the authority of the Lord of the Undead to mobilize the creative power of the Land of the Undead, using the Bone Throne as the foundation to enlighten the entire floating city.

"Guixu greets my master!"