After scaring the refugees group, it didn’t take long for members of the Four Great Families to start reaching out to the rebel army.

This time, they no longer assumed the stance of negotiating collaboration based on their own resources but almost unconditionally chose to help.

The head of the Gu Family, Gu Shao, who holds the most resources, is currently the representative of the refugees group.

Lin Qianxuan met him once and laid out his own attitude clearly to him.

In general, the new generation could be forgiven, but the old generation of refugees could never be heavily utilized.

Of course, with such a small population now, there wouldn’t be too much complex power struggle involved.

However, the original structure of the Four Great Families had to be dismantled.

Otherwise, managing these few rebels would be a bit troublesome.

Gu Shao agreed to all of Lin Qianxuan’s requests almost unconditionally.

Of course, he could refuse, but Lin Qianxuan wouldn’t mind letting them accept passively.

Thus, the talents and technology of the refugees group were swiftly and smoothly integrated into the rebel army.

Privately, the leadership of the rebel army and the leadership of the refugees group held a meeting with Lin Qianxuan and Gongsun Ying.

The main proposal was to establish a new nation.

Lin Qianxuan did not express an opinion on this matter until everyone nominated him, at which point he outright declined.

“Let General Gongsun come. She’s more suitable than me. After all, I am just someone from the Outer Realm and might return at any time. I am not suitable to be a monarch, even as a symbolic figure,” said Lin Qianxuan, “Of course, I will also support her unconditionally from behind the scenes.”

Gongsun Ying wanted to refuse, but with just a glance from Lin Qianxuan, she swallowed her words.

After some discussion, it was decided, simply and directly like in a game, that Gongsun Ying’s status as Empress of the new nation was tentatively established.

Then there was the matter of the national title.

Ultimately, the national title did not continue the original “Qian,” but chose “Zhang” instead.

In the late Great Qian era, Emperor Feng nearly depleted the dynastic confidence accumulated by Emperor Shenwu. Continuing to call it Great Qian wouldn’t have mattered much, but there was still some apprehension among the people.

And by calling it Great Zhang, it could gain more recognition.

Thus, the new nation had a basic framework established.

There was a lot to do afterward: restoring production, choosing the capital, refitting the court, forming a leadership team… and choosing a day for Gongsun Ying’s coronation ceremony.

Anyway, it would take a year or two to figure out.

The imperial system was vastly different from Xuan Country’s social structure.

However, Lin Qianxuan didn’t understand politics or sociology, so he didn’t express any opinion.

Not understanding meant not interfering.

Since they themselves chose this social structure, to some extent, it indicated that this structure was most suitable for them.

After pushing the leadership role to Gongsun Ying, she became busier.

Though the population was small now, the overseas refugees and the rebel army had only just started to merge, and there were many points of conflict.

Now, besides Lin Qianxuan and Gongsun Ying having absolute authority, others below them had more or less their own ideas, so it required Gongsun Ying to handle.

At least she had to stamp an approval or something.

Incidentally, during this process, Lin Qianxuan found a piece of jade and carved an Imperial Seal featuring his dragon form for Gongsun Ying.

Currently, the new Imperial Seal hasn’t absorbed much divine energy and doesn’t have any special functions, not even counting as a Divine Machine.

However, in Gongsun Ying’s hands, it’s only a matter of time.

After giving a gift to Gongsun Ying, Gongsun Yue was a bit envious, even though she didn’t say it.

With no choice, Lin Qianxuan had to carve another bracelet with a dragon for Gongsun Yue to slightly soothe her mood.

Though he’s not the monarch, he still has to ensure fairness.

A couple of days later, Gongsun Yue also took charge of restructuring the Celestial Craft Institute and got busy.

Unlike the original independent stance of the Celestial Craft Institute, the current one was directly affiliated to the Central Court during its reconstruction, mainly focusing on serving society through Divine Machine Art.

It inevitably bore the influence of Lin Qianxuan.

With the Gongsun sisters busy, Lin Qianxuan slightly shifted his attention to other things.

Not to mention cultivation, he maintained high-intensity training every day, otherwise, he couldn’t have accumulated tens of thousands of spirit swords after spending so much time leisurely with the Gongsun sisters.

Divine Split to manipulate divine energy and qi and blood running in his body was already an instinct for Lin Qianxuan, simultaneously, he could split his spirit to condense spirit swords.

Though not as fast as focusing entirely on condensing spirit swords, he could still condense one in five to eight seconds.

Lin Qianxuan expects that by the time the three-month crossing period ends, he could have a million spirit swords.

Currently, Lin Qianxuan is mainly researching how to use those True Essences.

With more than 99 billion True Essences, he has no idea how to spend them.

The first thing Lin Qianxuan did was throw one hundred million True Essences into strengthening the functions of those simulated Divine Machines.

One True Essence equals a hundred billion Spiritual Essences. One hundred million True Essences for strengthening, imagine how exaggerated that is?

Indeed, it was a brute force increase.

The function of each simulated Divine Machine in Myriad Forms simulation got a huge boost.

The most direct change was in strength.

For example, Gongsun Ying’s simulated Radiance originally had the function of Qi Condensation.

After injecting divine energy, it would condense and then release as Sword Qi.

With the current level of condensation, it can reach over forty times Lin Qianxuan’s original divine energy in one go, and that’s before the Sound of Destiny enhancement.

Of course, there’s still a very, very large gap compared to the Emperor Sword.

The Emperor Sword can effortlessly compress Lin Qianxuan’s divine energy hundreds of times, and with the Sound of Destiny enhancement, it compresses to thousands of times the strength.

The others also experienced similar levels of enhancement.

The simulated ability of Shen Hongshan’s Celestial Wolf Blade, [Wolf Bite], can now summon a giant celestial wolf that can swallow a building in one go.

Mega monsters in movies aren’t this big.

However, after a round of enhancements, Lin Qianxuan still shook his head faintly.

These abilities, although enhanced in strength, still lacked a qualitative change.

They couldn’t achieve the intrinsic function strength of Myriad Forms, nor could they be compared with the functionality of the Emperor Sword.

After this round of enhancements, Lin Qianxuan consumed over a hundred billion True Essences.

Then he used True Essences to strengthen the functionality of Myriad Forms itself.

Dropping one hundred million True Essences, can we say there was no improvement?

I can only say that the enhancement is minimal…

Even the functions of the simulated Emperor Sword show little change with the enhancement of a hundred million True Essence.

The energy of True Essence has a noticeable enhancement on the low-level functions of the Divine Machine, but the enhancement becomes less apparent for the high-level functions simulated by Mysterious Concepts.

By this calculation, Lin Qianxuan feels that simulation is still the most cost-effective.

Directly simulating a high-level Divine Machine, without enhancement, is stronger than using [Rebirth] to enhance the Divine Machine functions with tens of billions of True Essence.

Among the enhancements of many functions, what satisfies Lin Qianxuan the most is the [Heaven and Earth] function.

This is a function obtained by simulating the Qiankun Cauldron.

Once the simulation is completed, a Qiankun Space naturally appeared in the Mysterious Concepts.

Now Lin Qianxuan knows its size.

A spherical space with a diameter of fifty kilometers.

Lin Qianxuan threw in a hundred million True Essence, and the diameter of fifty kilometers directly increased to sixty-three kilometers.

This kind of improvement is quite intuitive.

For this space, apart from storing things, the only use Lin Qianxuan can think of currently is farming.

However, there is no light inside, so growing things is a bit troublesome.

Then Lin Qianxuan thought of an idea; he simulated the largest Sun Core from the Celestial Craft Institute with the Mysterious Concepts.

This was built by the first dean, Yang Zimo, and it’s said to be able to sustain the Celestial Craft Institute’s energy consumption for ten thousand years.

After simulating it with Mysterious Concepts, an additional function named [Sun Core] appeared.

[Sun Core: Can convert the injected Divine Energy into Great Sun Energy for release.]

Simply put, a blue sun appeared above the Qiankun Space.

Moreover, with Lin Qianxuan’s enhancement using True Essence, it can continue to grow larger.

However, for now, its light is already sufficient for the entire Qiankun Space.

Lin Qianxuan transformed Mysterious Concepts into the Qiankun Cauldron and then leaped into the inner space of the cauldron.

Upon entering, what caught his eye was a lake.

That was lake water Lin Qianxuan had collected from the moat.

Along the lakeside are various different plants, and trees, thanks to Lin Qianxuan occasionally coming in to create rain, they grew relatively lush.

The only peculiar thing is the indigo-colored sun in the sky.

However, the light it emits is not much different from normal sunlight.

Under Lin Qianxuan’s control, the temperature here is about twenty degrees, no higher.

The light can remain constant or disappear after a day’s illumination.

In fact, if Lin Qianxuan did not store Mysterious Concepts in the Purple Mansion, it could also share sunlight with the outside world.

But he not just wants to treat Mysterious Concepts as a backyard for farming; it’s also his portable weapon, so he had to find an alternative arrangement.

After inspecting, Lin Qianxuan picked some fruits and vegetables and then left the Qiankun Space again.

Then he busied himself in the kitchen of Zhang City.

After a while, he looked at the dishes on the plate and exclaimed, “I can even eat tomato scrambled eggs in the Otherworld; hmm, let Yue’Er and Ying’Er have a taste too…”

…..

Time flows, and it’s already the seventieth day since Lin Qianxuan’s crossing.

Lin Qianxuan considers himself quite patient with loneliness.

But now, even he can’t help but feel a bit bored.

No internet, no computer, can’t watch videos, can’t read newly updated novels, can’t show off with chat group friends, he feels very bored.

Aside from cultivation, it’s just farming and indulging desires…

Recently, he attempted to make a Divine Machine.

Thanks to his strong learning ability and the Sound Talisman and Sound of Destiny bonuses from the Gongsun sisters, it went relatively smoothly.

In just three days, he crafted a Divine Machine.

Inspired by novels he read, he made a Storage Ring with spatial attributes.

He used the Divine Iron from the original Emperor Sword to make this Storage Ring.

To shave some material off the Divine Iron took him quite a bit of effort, and later he used the Sun Core during smelting, burning it for almost three days and nights, finally crafting a circle and drew a dragon shape of his own on it.

After finishing these, he got the Artifact Embryo of the ring.

Only after completing this did Lin Qianxuan remember he could use Mysterious Concepts to directly consume Divine Energy to generate Divine Iron materials, laboring for days in vain.

Then it’s the long process of nurturing with the Divine Machine Nurturing Art.

Of course, Lin Qianxuan doesn’t have that much patience.

What he seeks is efficiency; otherwise, why would he use Divine Iron to make this ring?

Ordinary materials require slow nurturing, but not Divine Iron.

It is durable.

Lin Qianxuan just needs to apply the Divine Machine Art, pouring in Divine Energy vigorously, to achieve his goal quickly.

With the infinite Divine Energy of the [Endless Divine Sea] and the efficiency boost in artifact refinement by Gongsun Yue’s Sound Talisman, in just half a day, a cubic centimeter of small space emerged inside the Divine Iron.

“After all this effort, it can only hold two peanuts?”

Lin Qianxuan’s expression wasn’t very pleasant at this moment.

Compared to the efficiency of Mysterious Concepts simulation and then True Essence enhancement, this is far inferior.

Unfortunately, the True Essence of Mysterious Concepts can only be used to enhance its own functions, not other Divine Machines.

“Forget it, let’s nurture slowly!” Lin Qianxuan finally sighed.

He shared this matter with Gongsun Yue, and her expression was quite fascinating.

She felt Lin Qianxuan’s dissatisfaction was actually quite unreasonable.

Although the entire Divine Strategy Tower utilized space-related Divine Machine Art, only the professors of the Celestial Craft Institute know how difficult it is to make a space-type Divine Machine, let alone miniaturize it to wear on a finger.

Lin Qianxuan succeeded in making it in such a short time, which is simply a miracle.

Moreover, given the material of Divine Iron, there is a lot of room for improvement, and after thousands of years of nurturing, it might also become a small world ring.

His dissatisfaction reflects a lack of appreciation without contrast.

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