Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 418 - 415: The 19th Layer of Hell

Chapter 418: Chapter 415: The 19th Layer of Hell

More than half a month had slipped by unnoticed.

The "White Dew" solar term, signaling the deepening of autumn, was approaching.

Various counties within Dengzhou Prefecture had already begun the harvest of the corn in the fields and were even starting to prepare for the inevitably harsh winter ahead.

However, within the "Taoyuan," ten miles out at sea, there was a bustling scene of agricultural and industrial development, utterly disregarding the change of seasons.

Rumble, rumble...

Manifested dharma bodies as large as small hills—giant toads, serpents, crabs—moved mountains and altered watercourses within this uniquely blessed realm.

The goal was to create an expansive plain suited for large-scale cultivation and production.

With Dushuo Mountain filled with Eastern Yimu energy and eternally spring-like, with flowers blooming year-round, it was unparalleled in cultivating new crops compared to most Cave Heaven Blessed Lands.

However, should a Magician with some knowledge from above the East Sea come here and witness these immense beings, they would probably be scared to death on the spot.

At a glance, all these laborers engaged in heavy manual tasks were, astonishingly, all of the Yellow Seal Realm, formidable Great Demons and Old Devils!

Without doubt, the difficult brothers summoned by the Three-Legged Golden Toad had finally started to arrive during this period.

They naturally became a close-knit family on this island.

Driven by a "good heart," they ceaselessly, fervently threw themselves into their transformative labor.

Yet even in this stage of startup, where labor was desperately needed, it wasn’t necessary to make them follow a 007-like routine of ceaseless toil.

After all, even if Old Master Wang were that ruthless, such a schedule would hardly be feasible for carbon-based entities.

On closer inspection, it was still possible to guarantee at least two hours of rest every three days.

This "merit" might require air quotes for others, but for these beings, it was genuinely a true blessing.

Most of the seven or eight Yellow Seal beings had been recruited by Peach God Tao as part-time protectors.

Before consuming the Deceit Peach, each had been guilty of innumerable evils, with a ledger of debt and sin as black as coal.

Old Master Wang hadn’t directly eliminated them to recover the Deceit Objects.

Instead, he gave them a chance to be reformed through labor, to compensate for their debts with "merit," which was undoubtedly a profound blessing!

The proactive Three-Legged Golden Toad, displaying excellent performance, consequently earned a promotion amid the envious gazes of its fellow Scapegoats.

It became their direct supervisor, enjoying two additional hours of rest every three days compared to the other Demons and Monsters.

Meanwhile, a terrible seed took root in the hearts of the group of Demons and Monsters:

Didn’t Old Master Wang promise promotion through referrals? The more you recruit, the higher your rank, the more rest time you have, and the better your treatment for food, clothing, and other needs.

If it can fetch Scapegoats, why can’t I?!

Thus, before the Wang Family’s commercial empire’s industrial system had even been established,

The supply route for the "biological, fully automated cotton harvester" had already ceased to be a concern.

Indeed, it was a cause for celebration, a cause for celebration indeed.

Furthermore, the newcomers to Dushuo Mountain weren’t limited to them.

After Wang Yuan took full control of this overseas Immortal Mountain, Qingyan, Long Shao, and Lei Mingyuan, who had been holed up in Penglai Cave Heaven, also arrived.

The Crop New Varieties Research Team was officially established.

At that moment, the expansive central plains, divided into hundreds of test sections, bustled with activity.

"A bit more to the east, just a little more, good, now for the next array stake."

Under the direction of Qingyan, who held the "Four Symbols Twelve Celestial Columns Daylight Mirror,"

The Earth Official Ghost Baby, with the strength of the Yellow Seal Realm and unfolding his dharma body into a colossal rock giant, carefully buried one after another Green Jade Pillar inscribed with talismans into the earth.

Three hundred and sixty-five outer array stakes, together with a permanent Earth Guardian Temple City,

came together to form a massive Spring and Autumn Cycle Array.

The reason for this was that though the acceleration of time across a square mile was already quite powerful, it still didn’t fully satisfy Qingyan.

Therefore, pooling their wisdom, they developed this array.

With the amplification of the Spring and Autumn Cycle Array, they managed to extend the range of the mirror light by two to three times while only reducing the time acceleration multiplier to nine times.

This allowed the number of concurrent test samples to skyrocket.

In Qingyan’s words, "To do a good job, one must first sharpen one’s tools. Only with a sufficient number of experiments can we find the optimal solution from countless possibilities!"

Meanwhile, the Little Concubine and Lei Mingyuan had already begun the first step of hybrid breeding with the Object Manipulation Technique.

Invisible hands danced in the air, and the efficiency of just these two Mages easily matched that of hundreds of people laboring day and night.

In the absence of samples of sweet potatoes and potatoes, they settled on corn, wheat, and rice as the three major staple crops commonly found in Red County Shenzhou.

Through the Cloud Tower Ghost Market, they spent a fortune gradually collecting tens of thousands of wild and domesticated varieties from all over the world,

ensuring a rich diversity of samples.

They had detailed hybridization procedures on the enhanced edition of "Army and Civilian Talent’s Friend," which Wang Yuan provided to them.

"Hybrid breeding" meant using different varieties within the same species that possessed different genetic features to crossbreed and obtain genetic diversity.

Then, perpetually selecting the offspring,

to finally achieve individuals with the excellent traits of both parents and without their negative traits.

This involved genetic recombination, combining the excellent traits of both parents; genetic interaction, creating entirely new traits;

and genetic accumulation, amassing different minor genes that control the same trait to produce a certain over-parental trait.

Thus selecting for super corn, super wheat, and super rice that could almost never naturally occur in the wild!

Wang Yuan remembered that in a normal world, hybrid crops could average a 20% increase in yield.

But he believed that with Sichun, Simu, Si Dongfang, the Overlord of Agriculture Silinchong, and the Green Dragon Star Lord Qingyan from the 365 Eastern Azure Dragon Star Lords,

Furthermore, under the collaboration of the "Four Officials" including Lei Mingyuan, who possessed rich hybridization experience, the ultimate goal that could be achieved was surely far beyond just that.

As long as food production could be increased by ten percent, it would mean that the population could grow by ten percent.

It is highly likely that with just an overall twenty to thirty percent increase in food production in Red County Shenzhou, the "Heavenly Favor" gained would be sufficient to pluck an "Immortality Dao Fruit"!

Wang Yuan left professional work to the professionals and, apart from assisting them, did not interfere too much.

Compared to breeding work, he dedicated more energy to the industrial system.

"Activate the ’Jade Mansion Thunder Pivot’!"

In the most desolate corner of the "Taoyuan".

Following Wang Yuan’s order, the activation incantation for the "Jade Mansion Thunder Pivot" was triggered.

Clang clang clang...

As white steam drove the turbine, the same processing machinery as in the "Pengxuan Grotto Heaven" began to operate.

Forging and cutting, transforming chunks of iron billets into exquisitely made cannon barrels.

It also meant that the first mechanized production line in Taoyuan was officially established.

The only difference was that the core components of the machine were faintly glowing with a cyan light, which was the "Killing Dao Fruit" from "Earth Mother Dark Sky".

Fairies feed on humans, and humans treat fairies as livestock!

Installing the "Killing Dao Fruit" into the machine.

It required no supply of any fuel or food to run forever.

This represented the path of "Nine Soldiers" for reverse bloodsucking from the "Killing Tree".

The moment the "Killing Dao Fruit" merged into the cultivator’s body, it completely corrupted the fairies and also became their source of strength.

Divine Power Talismans, a body full of Daoist Skills, Inner Scene Heaven and Earth... most of the powers had been integrated into a single "Dao Fruit".

It was as if their entire being had been entrusted to the "Killing Tree".

In other words, a "Killing Dao Fruit" represented their true essence.

Whether Heavenly Officials or fairies, they were essentially fruits hanging from the "Killing Tree".

And the loss of one-third of their power source, as well as one-third of an "Immortal Fruit", also applied to the weakened Red Sun Avatar.

Even if the Azure Sun and White Sun avatars beyond the "Heavenly Gate" were to recombine, they would still be perpetually weakened by one-third.

"It’s a pity this steam power is still too clumsy.

Such a grand "Immortal Fruit" excavated from a Sage, and it has only done so little work, greatly wasting energy.

The ’Earth Mother Dark Sky’ is weeping!

Without a doubt, the mature path is right before our eyes. It would be better to first convert to electrical energy and then to mechanical energy to make a large stride into the industrial 2.0 era."

Wang Yuan, stroking his chin, had already made up his mind.

"Even with internal connections, I can only get my hands on this near-obsolete low-end stuff from Pengxuan Grotto Heaven, let alone cross-era new inventions.

If I were supplied with the most advanced machines and openly supported a vassal, Tribulation Energy would come knocking at my door immediately.

Therefore, self-research and development is the King’s Way!

We can only look to ’Mystical Weapon Temple’ and ’Qilin Sect’ now."

Wang Yuan, observing several "Netherworld Ghost Soldiers" operating the machines rather clumsily, fully understood the long and arduous road ahead of his Daoist Skill industrialization journey.

"Xiao Yuan, are we going to keep producing swords, guns, and cannons moving forward?"

After busying about with Wang Yuan for over half a month and still having a trace of old machine soot on her rosy cheeks, Huang Wu felt remarkably accomplished as she watched the roaring machines. She even wanted to try her hand at it, feeling that she could enjoy it all day long without getting tired.

Yet, she unexpectedly saw Wang Yuan shake his head:

"No! In fact, besides making weapons, there’s another most destructive use for mass production with machines.

That is—printing money!"

"Printing money?"

Wang Yuan helped her clean the soot off her face and smirked mysteriously.

"More precisely, it’s actually weaving."

In this era of backward production, silk was the real hard currency and legitimate money.

Especially in a chaotic world where production order had completely collapsed, its value was second only to food.

Once the "textile machines" were started, it would be akin to running a "money printing press".

And essentially, these resources that could be mobilized were the carriers of popular willpower and "Dragon Energy" itself.

As machines operated and logistics surged, rolling Dragon Energy would converge, pushing the already maxed "Dragon Qi Prohibition" to ascend once more!

Of course, "electricity" and "textile machines" currently existed only on paper.

The Mages from "Mystical Weapon Temple" and "Qilin Sect" would probably need some time to produce actual models.

Besides, when the textile industry emerged, aside from machines, there would be a need to assemble massive numbers of trained industrial workers!

Wang Yuan’s gaze shifted beyond the "Earth Gate".

Letting those billions of ghosts in the eighteen levels of Hell suffer was simply a waste of tremendous manpower!

At this moment, he was seriously contemplating the feasibility of opening a nineteenth level of Hell outside the existing eighteen levels.

It would be called: Sewing Machine Hell.

What’s this about money making the ghost push the mill? That won’t work at all with Old Master Wang!

Not a penny given, everyone just obediently go and tread on sewing machines for King Yanluo!