I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 821: Supervising the Construction of the Altar

Moreover, how could it be easy to build an altar that covers a thousand miles?
The most important thing is that this place is the land of dragon veins, which cannot be shaken by magical powers and Taoism, and can only be mined by relying on physical strength...

"Wait, physical strength? Those strong men can lift tripods and move mountains, so they seem to be very suitable for mining mountains? Queen Mother of the West created the golden armored generals and mountain-moving strong men, seemingly in preparation for building the altar, right?" Countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind.

"Come to think of it, the mountains here seem to be the ancestral vein of this world. Ordinary magical powers cannot shake it. The Queen Mother of the West cultivated countless mountain-moving warriors to build Kunlun and the palace. It seems that there are various considerations behind it." Zhang Chen seemed to know the purpose of the Queen Mother of the West cultivating the golden-armored warriors.

The superior ones were granted the title of golden-armored generals, while the inferior ones were responsible for opening mountains, taking responsibility for the consequences, and carrying rocks as hard labor.

"The Queen Mother of the West is worthy of being the Queen Mother of the West. Her methods are indeed exquisite." He now pondered carefully. All the golden-armored warriors only increased the strength of their physical bodies. They all had bronze skin and iron bones and were extremely powerful, but they did not understand the mysterious power of the heavens and the earth.

"I said that the Queen Mother of the West, who has such great magical powers, must have planned everything out. Cultivating golden-armored generals and golden-armored warriors is completely to meet the needs of the actual situation." Zhang Chen's mind flashed with thoughts. He lowered his head to look at the method of building the altar given by the Queen Mother of the West. After looking at it for a long time, he didn't quite understand it. He could only roughly know that the altar was used for sacrifice. As for who it was sacrificed to, his formation skills were too low and he didn't quite understand it.

As for the arrangement of the formation, it is not complicated, but it requires extremely high precision. In addition, this formation covers thousands of miles and must correspond to the longitude and latitude between heaven and earth. The slightest mistake will result in a huge mistake, so it requires a lot of thought.

"The materials needed to set up this altar and formation are not simple. It needs to be built with bronze from the beginning of time, innate wood, and all kinds of innate materials. After successful construction, there will be all kinds of incredible effects, and the entire altar will be indestructible." Zhang Chen analyzed the formation while deducing the steps to build it.

Not long after, Zhang Chen had figured out the entire formation. Although the formation as a whole was complicated, after the teachings of the Queen Mother of the West, especially the content of her sermons in the last three months that were related to this altar, the formation now seemed much simpler to him.

Time passed by little by little, and after about half a day, Queen Biyun led tens of thousands of little giants with bronze skin, who came from afar like ants moving.

Among the little giants, some of them were gleaming with golden light, and some of their torsos seemed to have signs of transforming into golden bodies, but unfortunately they did not succeed. Zhang Chen glanced at the tens of thousands of strong men, all of whom were children who had gone up the mountain with him. At this time, each of them had grown to more than ten meters tall, with copper skin and iron bones and infinite strength, and had a force of 100,000 kilograms on their bodies.

"This is the Golden-armored Divine General Jia Eighteen. From now on, you will be under the command of Jia Eighteen. Why don't you step forward and kowtow to him quickly?" Empress Biyun led everyone forward and then scolded.

Everyone looked at Zhang Chen, who was dressed in golden clothes with divine light flowing around him, and a hint of curiosity appeared in their eyes, because they knew the person in front of them.

"We pay our respects to the Lord General!" Everyone bowed in unison.

Those who completely transform become golden-armored generals, and those who cannot transform become strong men.

"Everyone, get up." Zhang Chen did not act like a tyrant, nor did he want to take pleasure in oppressing others. We are all pitiful people, and there is no need to build your own happiness on the suffering of others.

"From today on, I will lead you to build the altar for the Queen Mother of the West. If you work diligently, I will never make it difficult for you. If you dare to cheat, don't blame me for being ruthless." Zhang Chen said here, his eyes swept over the strong men, and said to everyone: "You will spontaneously divide into three groups. The first group will open mountains and cut stones, and build and level the mountains within a thousand miles. The second group will open mines and smelt, and be responsible for smelting bronze and steel. The third group will be responsible for transportation. The three teams will rotate work every seven days. This general is fair to you."

After hearing Zhang Chen's words, the crowd started to commotion. After all, they were still children when they went up the mountain. How could they have received any instruction? The warriors were illiterate and could not count. For a moment, the crowd could not help but commotion.

Looking at the chaotic scene, Zhang Chen couldn't help but have a headache. To him, the magic circle built on the altar was simple, but how to arrange it so that everyone could build the magic circle accurately was a difficult problem, which was the key to the problem.

Looking at the mess below, Zhang Chen knew that if he relied on them to divide the area themselves, he would probably not be able to do so until dark, so he stood on a high place and shouted, "Everyone stand still!"

When everyone heard Zhang Chen's order, they all stood still. Then they saw Zhang Chen casually gestured: "Based on this line, divide them all up. You are one part."

The crowd dispersed instantly, and those who were pulled apart by Zhang Chenhua gathered together.

Zhang Chen then drew his hand in the air towards the remaining group of people: "Use my palm as the dividing line, and split into two groups."

As Zhang Chen drew his hand, the two groups of people were separated almost exactly.

Zhang Chen looked around and nodded with satisfaction: "Remember this, you will work during the day and rest at night. Gather here in the morning, and return to the palace to rest when the sun sets. You will form small teams to supervise each other. If anyone slacks off and someone successfully reports him, he can be exempted from one year of labor."

As Zhang Chen was talking, he began to divide the teams. Every ten people would be assigned a team leader, and then the team leader would supervise his subordinates and only do half a day's work. Selecting team leaders was a big project, but Zhang Chen had to do it, because there was a gathering of tens of thousands of people, and Zhang Chen had no time to report. If tens of thousands of people reported, a whole day's work would be wasted.

Then every ten teams formed a squadron, and a squadron formed a brigade, and they supervised each other in this way. Zhang Chen only needed to listen to the report from the brigade leader every day.

Next, Zhang Chen began to divide the work. Some people were responsible for opening the mountain, some were responsible for crushing stones, and some were responsible for mining and smelting bronze.

Zhang Chen understood the power of formations, and of course he also understood the formations for smelting bronze. All matters were arranged personally by Zhang Chen, no matter how big or small.

There were strong men who mined the rocks, and then someone else was responsible for transporting them, pushing them into the canyon to fill it up.

There are also people responsible for mining and smelting. As for the ore?
The Queen Mother of the West was proficient in alchemy, so finding ore was not difficult for her.

Kunlun Mountain is the ancestral vein of the world, and the thing it lacks the most is minerals.

As Zhang Chen assigned the tasks, the strongmen began to get busy like ants.

All the strong men have skins of steel and bones, so carrying rocks is not a hard task for them.

After a full month of preparation, everything gradually began to get on track.

Zhang Chen gradually had some free time from the hectic arrangements. Looking at the strong men who all had skins of steel, he couldn't help but feel worried. The lifespan of these strong men would probably be less than ten years. After ten years, they would have become skilled workers. What if all of them died of old age by then? Wouldn't he have to train new ones?

Thinking of this, Zhang Chen simply turned around and went to look for Lady Biyun, thinking about how to extend the lifespan of these strong men.

Unexpectedly, after hearing what Zhang Chen said, Empress Biyun's mouth corners suddenly curled up, and a strange look appeared in her eyes: "I think your worry seems a little unnecessary."

Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this: "Please give me some advice, sister."

"Look, they are moving mountains and mining, isn't that a form of training? If they work diligently, after ten years of training, they should be able to enter the Golden Body realm and be eligible to be rewarded with peaches, and then they can naturally extend their lives. If they are cunning and die in ten years, they can't blame anyone else." said Empress Biyun.

"What if some people are truly lacking in talent and are unable to complete the transformation?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Kunlun Mountain is not short of people, and we don't keep idle people. Even the golden-armored generals have to undergo assessments, let alone them? There are tens of thousands of children transferred here every year. The thing that Kunlun Mountain has the most is people. Those useless people will die, so what's there to be sorry about?" Empress Biyun said, her voice filled with indifference and ruthlessness.

Zhang Chen was shocked when he heard this, he never expected that the assessment in Kunlun Mountain would be so cruel, as if it were raising a Gu. This Kunlun Mountain did not seem like a holy place for immortals, but rather like a place where evil cult monsters lived.

Zhang Chen was filled with horror, but he did not say much. Since Lady Biyun had spoken, it meant that this was the rule of Kunlun Mountain. Since it was a rule, there was no reason to change it.

Zhang Chen could also imagine how precious the peaches were. Of course, they would not be given away casually. Those who could get the peaches were all the elite who survived the test of time.

Just as countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind, Lady Biyun pulled out a golden whip from her sleeve. The whip was flashing with divine light, like a fluorescent stick in the dark night:
"Those strong men have thick skin and flesh. This whip can directly whip the essence of their souls. The Queen Mother ordered me to give it to you so that you can discipline those strong men."

Hearing this, Zhang Chen took the whip, looked at it curiously and said, "It can actually penetrate the body and directly hit the soul's origin? It's really a good thing! I didn't expect there would be such a magical thing in the world."

"I heard from the Queen that this thing seems to be made by imitating some unique treasure, and is specially used to deal with those strong men with thick skin and flesh. Even if the golden armored general is whipped, it will be in great pain and lose half of his life." Queen Biyun said with a smile: "If you want those strong men to gain immortality, whip them to work hard and transform into golden bodies as soon as possible, and then they can naturally survive."

(End of this chapter)