This is not mechanical ascension.

"Tiangong...what a good name." Ulrich praised, and then explained carefully:

"In addition, the accumulated metal materials are still stored in the small warehouse, but... due to the high-intensity expansion during this period, the purchased materials are slightly less."

Li Ming always brings him a big surprise every time he goes out.

Some time ago, when he learned that Li Ming had been kidnapped, God knows how terrified he was.

But the subsequent response from Lord Qinglong made him even more dumbfounded. Subsequent developments made him gradually come to his senses and realize that something was wrong.

Only after Li Ming appeared again did he feel completely relieved.

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"Well...it's okay..." Li Ming had already anticipated it.

"I'm glad you can understand." Ulrich breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's go and enlighten the mechanical body first..." Li Ming did not return to the base. There was no career advancement this time, so he did not need to absorb metal energy first.

"Please follow me..." Ulrich led the way in front, and everyone soon arrived at their destination.

This is an open-air place, surrounded by a large number of metal door frames about ten meters high, but there are only eight of them, and inside is a bright blue space vortex.

"The distance between the planets is quite far, so transferring through space channels is faster," he explained.

"There are so many gates here. Do they all lead to corresponding planets?" Robin couldn't help but be curious. "One stargate channel can correspond to hundreds or thousands of stargate nodes. Can't we have one of those gates?"

"The stargate node is not stable." Ulrich explained, "Our priority is solidity. This space channel has been solidified, and even a high-intensity space blockade cannot shake it."

Robin seemed to be thinking about something, and then everyone followed Ulrich through a space portal, and they arrived on another planet without feeling any trance.

"You're here so soon?" Robin looked back, quite surprised.

On the surface of the planet, a series of production lines are arranged in an orderly manner, and the flashing conveyor belts run quickly, transporting parts to various assembly points continuously.

Amidst the flying sparks, the new mechanical body gradually took shape, emitting the unique cold luster of metal.

The completed mechanical bodies are transported to the storage warehouse inside the planet in an orderly manner.

This is the arsenal of the Mechanical King's Court.

Everyone took the elevator down. The interior of the planet was hollow, the space was larger than one could imagine, and thick supporting pillars crisscrossed.

The mechanical bodies that had been accumulated for nearly ten months only occupied a small area.

"By the way, we participated in two wars and suffered about 200,000 casualties, most of which were F-class machines..." Ulrich reported, "However, according to the war damage quota, the compensation from the employer even exceeded our manufacturing cost."

Li Ming was surprised when he heard this, and then he was happy.

I almost forgot about this. There is compensation for war mercenaries. The construction cost of low-level mechanical bodies is surprisingly low. In the process, you can even make money.

As they spoke, everyone quickly arrived at the central area, and Ulrich tactfully led a few people away.

"Master..." Suzaku's shadow appeared, "The consciousness of the dead F-class life form has been captured and injected into the unprocessed mechanical body."

"In addition, 200,000 machines died, and about 10,000 machines were promoted from F-class to E-class..."

Ulrich didn't know this information. There was a mechanical body inside the Holy Spirit that was specifically responsible for this.

"Well... not bad." Li Ming nodded involuntarily. The mechanical bodies sent out were just a small part of what he had enlightened before.

The present is the critical moment. After ten months of accumulation, there are 10 million F-class mechanical bodies, 3 million D-class mechanical bodies, 300,000 C-class mechanical bodies, and 30,000 B-class mechanical bodies.

Because a part of the production line was allocated to F-class machines, the accumulation of machines of other levels was slightly reduced.

He let out a long sigh, stretched out his arms, and strands of golden arcs surged from his fingertips, touching the first mechanical body and then bursting into the second one.

A thunderstorm of extremely large scale quickly formed, covering every mechanical body.

The scale of this time was extremely large, with countless thick lightning bolts running through it like mad dragons, weaving together to form an electric grid.

Powerful energy fluctuations spread wildly around the storm, and violent electric currents jumped and raged on them, making loud crackling sounds.

Electric arcs of various colors were mixed in it, as if they were going to decompose and destroy every component.

It took two or three hours to complete the enlightenment of the mechanical body.

Li Ming made a brief count and found the seven most important S-class mechanical bodies and more than seventy A-class mechanical bodies.

The others are too numerous to count. Ten million F-class mechanical bodies mutated into ten thousand E-class mechanical bodies and one thousand D-class mechanical bodies. The cost-effectiveness is pitifully low.

However, once they are thrown into the battlefield meat grinder, the cost-effectiveness will soar.

After a slight adjustment, Li Ming found several mechanical bodies that had been injected with the Holy Spirit consciousness beforehand, and discovered that there was nothing unusual about their bodies and their memories were still there.

"This method is indeed feasible..." Li Ming nodded, ordered them to keep the secret, and turned and left.

"Mr. Ford is really amazing. He has signed so many contracts?" Ulrich couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows as he looked through the documents.

This guy's work efficiency is too scary. They are all giants in the star field, and they can hardly put their feet in.

"It's not my credit, it should be attributed to Li Ming." Ford said very humbly.

His flattery skills were top-notch; Ulrich had already caught a glimpse of Li Ming coming back out of the corner of his eye.

This Ford is really a strong opponent. Ulrich can't help but feel a little anxious. There were not many people working originally. He is also the most important one.

Although I often remind myself of this, I still tend to be a little lax in my heart.

I didn't take this Ford seriously, but this guy has already made a name for himself, and I can't be outdone by him.

"It's still the same old rules. These mechanical bodies should be arranged as they should be." Li Ming came over and Ulrich nodded.

"Also, send someone to liaise with Ford as soon as possible. There are too many contracts to sign, so we'll be very busy next time." He instructed.

"Don't worry, arrangements have already begun." Ulrich nodded hurriedly.

Take the elevator out of here and return to the main star base.

Ulrich went to hand over his work to Ford. Robin's new residence was not in the Heavenly Palace.

Li Ming came to the Heavenly Palace alone. It was empty and quiet. The specifications of various auxiliary entertainment facilities had been upgraded by several levels, and the low-temperature storage cabinets were filled with development chemicals.

He nodded and followed Suzaku's instructions to the inner warehouse, where a wide variety of metal materials were supported by various anti-gravity facilities.

This process was so familiar to me that it took me nearly thirty hours to absorb most of the metal materials that had been accumulated during this period.

"Four billion metal energies, a little more than I expected..." Li Ming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Counting his remaining metal energy, there are still 4.3 billion left.

We are just short of 700 million metal energies to repair the Infinite Hammer.

Li Ming stretched his body, making crackling sounds, without stopping for a moment, turned around and walked out the door, heading straight for the spaceship dock.

He still had an important matter to deal with, the body of Tygos, the preparation of gene seed,

For such an important matter, he did not plan to contact Sheffield through the Internet, but to go directly to his door.

Yeyue Biological Company is also in the chaotic star gap, and there is a star gate node in front of the door.

Through the star gate node of the Mechanical Royal Court, it can be reached after a maximum of five jumps, and the entire journey takes less than two days.

While he was on the way, he contacted Sheffield in advance through the identity of Qinglong and told the other party that Li Ming would come to visit on his behalf.

Therefore, as soon as he came out of the Yeyue Star Gate node, he saw the small spaceship that had been waiting here.

After the two connected, Li Ming met the greeter.

"Mister Monica?" Li Ming raised his eyebrows slightly, looking at the black swan-like woman in front of him. The other party raised her head slightly, revealing her delicate neck, and nodded: "Mister Li Ming, it's been a long time since we last met."

"Why is it you..." Li Ming looked at the thin man behind him: "I thought it would be Mr. Dorian."

"It's an honor for me that you still remember me." Dorian quickly lowered his head in response.

Tsk...this attitude is much better than the last time I came.

Of course, no one had made things difficult for him the last time he came, but it was only Dorian who greeted him, and Monica only received him at the company headquarters.

"I had something to deal with last time. I hope you don't mind it." Monica couldn't help but emphasize it again.

Li Ming didn't care. "It's just a casual remark. Don't take it to heart."

"Father is already waiting, please follow me." Monica said gently, turned around and took Li Ming through the connecting passage and boarded the aircraft.

Her eyes flickered and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart. In just four or five years, the situation has completely changed.

Li Ming himself is fine, but his teacher's exposed strength and background are becoming more and more terrifying.

Some time ago, Li Ming was kidnapped and many parties responded to it, even the three major civilizations spoke out, which was really shocking.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but turn her head and ask, "You were attacked some time ago, are you not injured?"

"No, I'm lucky." Li Ming glanced at her and responded casually.

"That's good..." Monica nodded. The two chatted all the way and soon arrived at the headquarters.

In the office on the top floor, I met Sheffield.

"Father...someone is coming." Monica moved sideways, revealing Li Ming behind her.

"Mr. Sheffield, it's been a long time since we last met. You are still as charming as ever." Li Ming greeted.

"Haha..." Sheffield laughed heartily: "No need to be so polite, your teacher and I have a long-standing friendship."

"The teacher often mentions you." Li Ming responded with a smile.

After chatting for a while, at Sheffield's signal, Monica tactfully left the room.

"Your teacher said he wanted to talk to me about something. Did he tell you what it was?" Sheffield was standing in front of the wine cabinet at this moment, and the voice from behind him suddenly changed.

"It is something that is very familiar to you, Your Excellency."

Sheffield turned around, holding two wine glasses in his hands. The wine-red liquid in the glasses kept swaying. He couldn't help but shook his head and said, "It looks like Li Ming can't drink it."

The person in front of him was Li Ming, who was already wearing the tank guard. To Sheffield, it was the arrival of the Azure Dragon.

"Let me guess..." Sheffield put down his glass casually, "It's something that is very familiar to me. Your Excellency, you are talking about mixing gene seeds, right?"

"You guessed it right." Li Ming nodded.

"X-level?" Sheffield further asked.

"good."

"Ha..." Sheffield said helplessly, "That's all I can do for you. With your abilities, I can't help you with anything else."

He speculated in his heart that this time it definitely couldn't be for Li Ming, so he wondered who it was for, himself?

No one has figured out the true form of Azure Dragon yet, and its life level is even more of a mystery.

"You are too modest." Li Ming couldn't help but shake his head. "Except for the three major civilizations, there are only a handful of people who can mix the x gene seeds."

"It feels really different to hear such praise from His Excellency Qinglong." Sheffield smiled, straightened his clothes, and said with a little embarrassment: "However, I don't have any X-level star beasts here, so..."

"I know this, so I'm ready." Li Ming said immediately.

"Oh?" Sheffield was slightly stunned, and all kinds of recent information intertwined in his mind.

The only event that seems to involve X-level star beasts is the Dusk Banquet.

"Can you let me take a look..." he asked tentatively, and then explained: "X-level star beasts are basically very special. I can't guarantee whether they can be deployed."

"Of course." Li Ming nodded and looked around: "But this room..."

"Let's go to the storage room." Sheffield said immediately, and took Qinglong onto the elevator, going down all the way to an open area.

"Sir, just take out the body." He said, "I'll have someone take it to the core laboratory."

"Hmm..." Li Ming looked around, "Laboratory, can't I go there?"

Sheffield paused, looking a little embarrassed: "The core laboratory has never allowed outsiders to enter."

“The star beasts I provide are quite special, so…” Li Ming didn’t finish his words.

Are you worried about me?

Sheffield was slightly dissatisfied. He had seen many star beasts, so Qinglong's excuse was not very clever.

This situation had also occurred when he was mixing in the past. X-level star beasts were rare and extremely precious, and no one would simply hand them over to him.

But he never backed down in the past. However, Qinglong was a little different.

He thought for a moment and said, "If it was someone else, I would definitely not bring him along, but since we are both active in the Chaos Star Gap, you are not an outsider."

"Come with me."

Sheffield led the way and headed straight to the core laboratory.

This place is quite spacious, obviously prepared for decomposing giant life forms.

Li Ming immediately threw out Taegos. His corpse was only the size of a house, shriveled and skinny, and immediately attracted Sheffield's attention.

"What kind of star beast is this?" Sheffield couldn't help but be stunned. He had come into contact with so many star beasts, but after a quick glance, he didn't see any familiar features. It turned out that it was not a known advanced star beast variant.

"No name." Li Ming shook his head and stood aside, indicating that Sheffield could act independently.

Sheffield hesitated for a moment, took the testing equipment handed to him by his men, and approached cautiously. The surface skin of Tegus had disappeared, and the dried muscle fibers were as hard as stone.

Sheffield just touched it lightly, and the reading of the detection instrument in his hand went off the charts. He took a breath of cold air, "What level of star beast is this?"