Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 885 - 731 The First Marshal of Heavenly Court

Chapter 885: Chapter 731 The First Marshal of Heavenly Court

As evening fell, Li Xuan left the training grounds of the ’Tenth Regiment Camp’ and returned to the space of Tianxingtai.

Unlike a few months ago, there had been significant changes here.

Besides the ’Heaven Palace’ that was the size of a traditional five-bay quadrangle and the nuclear fusion Furnace, there were many new buildings to the south.

For instance, Leng Yurou had built a workshop here.

She had brought many experimental projects that were prone to accidents or even explosions into this space of Tianxingtai to work on them.

Several freelance alchemists Li Xuan had recruited also stayed here. They were not only tasked with researching smokeless powder for Li Xuan but also mercury fulminate primer.

The mercury fulminate was one of the earliest initiating explosives, highly sensitive to flame, piercing, and impact.

With mercury fulminate, one could abandon flint-based ignition and adopt the later-era ’percussion rifles’ and modern metallic cartridges.

Without this substance, there would be no talking of semi-automatic rifles, automatic rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, etc.

The reason Li Xuan chose to list ’revolvers’ in the army was that, in the era of flint ignition, revolvers represented the best option for rapid fire.

The ’Solar Furnace’ had also been initially completed. It supplied a constant stream of energy to Tianxingtai space, enabling a dense and complicated talisman array to unfold layer by layer, covering every inch of Tianxingtai space.

There were also many heavenly soldiers whom Li Xuan had appointed using Divine Power and the current count was nine thousand three hundred and twenty-four.

After the completion of the ’Solar Furnace,’ Li Xuan reduced the Divine Power supplied to the two Divine Generals to less than one-tenth.

The majority of the power needed by Lan Yu and Fu Youde to maintain their level was provided by the ’Solar Furnace.’

This provided Li Xuan with the capital to expand his army greatly. He had not only transformed all the resentful spirits of The Second Door inside Wuqu Pojun but also traveled to major battlefields in the north to collect the spirits of those who died on the battlefield.

In the past decade, the Liudao Division had not been very effective, resulting in many such spirits at the battlefields of the north.

Li Xuan could effortlessly transform them using Divine Power and the belief of tens of thousands of people.

This had turned the once desolate Tianxingtai into a ’densely populated’ space.

Li Xuan had also appointed over two hundred Six Paths Bureau Colonels and over twenty Xiaoweis to govern these heavenly soldiers.

Before this, they were all among the strongest of the evil spirits, mostly of The Third Door standard and even some of The Fourth Gate. After receiving the ’pardon seal’ from Xuanhuang, also known as ’Divine General’ in the mortal realm, they could be officially called that.

They indeed looked rather ferocious, which was slightly intimidating.

Their murderous aura, their resentment, their evil deeds, could not be resolved in a short time.

Above these were the Generals Shen and General Zahao, which were also considered ranks of Divine Generals, corresponding to the heavenly level standard.

However, up until now, Li Xuan had not found anyone suitable.

Before the Tumu Fort Incident, the Liudao Division had been quite effective. The heavenly level evil spirits in the world were either suppressed or exterminated.

Li Xuan planned to wait for the right opportunity to open those ancient sealed battlefields.

However, his ’Heavenly Court’ was still too small, and there was only one ’Solar Furnace’ at present; hence, the total number of heavenly soldiers supported should not exceed twenty thousand.

As for those ancient battlefields, the existing Hell Soldiers and evil spirits numbered at least a hundred thousand.

If Li Xuan did not have the capacity to assimilate them, rashly breaking the seals would only lead to misfortune.

It is worth mentioning that among these heavenly soldiers, at least two thousand were clad in full metal armor that reached one and a half times their height.

This made them appear almost lifelike, their movements extremely heavy.

The armor’s original name was ’Lengyin Armor,’ supposedly standard equipment from the previous generation of Heavenly Court.

Only when equipped with this armor could the heavenly soldiers suppress spellcasters and Wu cultivators of the mortal realm in terms of combat power.

They could engage in physical combat, rather than harming others with their soul bodies, like those evil spirits.

Indeed, the production capacity for magical instruments of the Shenqi Union for these past few months had been almost entirely devoted to this armor.

The ’Lengyin Armor’ was not difficult to manufacture, being of lower-grade magical instrument standard.

But Li Xuan required them in large quantities, a total of twenty thousand sets.

The blueprint was provided by Lv Qiluo, with modifications by Leng Yurou.

After all, many materials from the era of the third Heavenly Court no longer existed in this era.

They also needed to reduce costs as much as possible to adapt to the modern battlefield.

So the originally expensive ’cold refined silver’ was directly replaced with armor steel forged in an electric arc furnace.

This was carburized nickel-chromium alloy steel with hardened surfaces, often used in battleship armor, characterized by high strength and resistance to corrosion.

In this world, producing large-capacity ’electric arc furnaces’ was as simple as ’small blast furnaces.’

After the ’Solar Furnace’ was completed, Li Xuan was even less concerned about electricity. He directly brought out this alloy steel intended for battleship armor in the Tianxingtai space.

Although its defensive power was not as good as the original ’cold refined silver,’ it was cheaper and available in larger quantities, reducing the cost of the ’Lengyin Armor’ to a tenth of its original price.

However, calling this armor ’Lengyin Armor’ was not quite suitable anymore; Li Xuan gave it a new name, ’Black Gold Divine Armor.’

Because of the gold plating, their surface appeared with a layer of dull black gold color, exuding a sacred brilliance. Visually, they were much more appealing. Unlike the original cold refined silver, which was pitch black.

At least those who borrowed heavenly soldiers through the ’Summon Heavenly Soldiers and Generals Curse’ could tell at a glance that these heavenly soldiers were high-end.

In addition, the armory had been improved too, with Leng Yurou discarding the original bows, crossbows, and long spears, outfitting them instead with premium ’Rune flintlock rifled guns.’