Therefore, even though the world was still maintaining peace on the surface, both the Church and the Empire were continuously investing resources to improve their armaments, preparing for the war that would come at any time.
All of the Knight Academies continued to expand, and the number of slots for the selections increased every year. Even the Regional Selection and the National Selection were changed to be held once a year.
A large number of Divine Weapons were constantly being manufactured. Minerals, forging, transportation, and other related industries welcomed unprecedented glory.
Right now, the Empire had gathered the Sand Country, the plains, and the original eight regions. Regardless of whether it was in terms of wealth, resources, or population, they had all reached a flourishing state. The entire country was developing towards a flourishing age.
If this were to continue for another ten or twenty years, it would not be surprising for the country's power to catch up to the Church. Of course, this was under the condition that Urbien was excluded.
After returning to the palace with the Prince and Jiuqian, Fang Xingjian first went to see the Fourth Prince to confirm the current situation of the empire.
Hearing the Fourth Prince's report, Fang Xingjian nodded. "You guys have done well. There will indeed be a battle between us and the Church sooner or later."
Thinking of this, Fang Xingjian pointed out with a finger and sent the information of the various high technological weapons he had tried to create in the martial arts world into the Fourth Prince's mind.
"It takes too much time to nurture the Knights. Next, the Empire should focus its resources to mass-produce these mechanical weapons."
After all, experts at the Divine level, tier five, or even tier six of the Divine level would require extremely powerful talent.
Even if Fang Xingjian was a genius who could mass-produce ninth level mystical prints, if they did not have sufficient aptitude, it would still be hard for them to reach the pinnacle. Moreover, the wealth and resources spent on them would be sufficient to create technological weapons that far surpassed their abilities.
Therefore, Fang Xingjian's plan was to stop mass-producing knights with the country's resources. He would only select a small number of talented knights to be trained like geniuses.
The saved resources were used to build large-scale mechanized troops to replace the lack of lower-level combat power.
This way, they could create a military system with martial artists as the top combat power and the mechanized army as the bottom combat power.
The mechanized troops were not afraid of hardship, exhaustion, and death. They were the best destructive force.
Knights were nurtured through elite education, which made it easier for them to nurture top-notch experts.
As for ordinary Knights and second transition Knights, the resources required to nurture them would far surpass that of a mechanized army. They would also need to be allocated authority and wealth. It was tiring and troublesome, and Fang Xingjian would give up on them.
Of course, it was just not supported by the country's resources. Fang Xingjian would not stop the commoners from cultivating the Knight martial arts on their own.
Moreover, with many Divine level experts working as laborers, the process of building these high-tech equipment would not take up too much time.
Therefore, in the following days, many secret munitions factories rose up in the Empire. Prince Philip, Tyrande, Lan Yue, and the others each built a munitions factory, preparing to start producing a large number of mechanical soldiers.
This included robots equipped with electromagnetic rifles, mechanical cuttlefish equipped with plasma cannons, unmanned aerial vehicles, and so on.
Obviously, after the mechanized army was produced, the Empire would have the absolute upper hand, at least in the lower levels of the war.
However, the upper echelons of the empire understood that the biggest problem they had to face in order to defeat the Church was ultimately Urbien. The second thing they had to consider was the attitude of White, the God of Universal Truth.
Ever since he had spoken to the Fourth Prince, Fang Xingjian had been staying in the palace and looking into the distance every day, as if he was observing something.
He was sensing the profoundness of the integration between tier seven of the Divine level and his own cultivation. The ability to control time acceleration, when combined with his high-dimensional Sword Realm, gave him a special experience.
Fang Xingjian, who had taken over half the world, had seething Dragon Qis descend from void space, gushing into his body incessantly.
The Nine Lives Helix continued to delve deeper into Miracle World's group consciousness, and he immediately sensed that it was much more difficult to delve deeper into this world as compared to the martial arts world from before.
One reason was because this world had a longer history, and the other reason was because of the existence of ether particles, which greatly increased the level of chaos in the group consciousness.
As he continued to delve deeper, Fang Xingjian's eyes pierced through the layers of void space. He seemed to see the choices of countless people and the future of the entire world.
"I see destruction and despair, doomsday and regret." Fang Xingjian's gaze flickered slightly, and he said with some surprise, "What on earth do you want to do?"
Urbien walked out from void space. "You know what I want to do. Even if it's just this once, I want to win against him."
"Everyone thinks that there will definitely be a battle between the North and the South, and I'm your greatest opponent." Fang Xingjian sighed and said, "But who would have thought that you don't care about anyone in the world at all? The only enemy in your heart is him."
Fang Xingjian raised his head and looked toward the stretch of nothingness in the sky.
In fact, not long after he had returned to the Empire, Urbien had contacted him.
Thereafter, he found out about Urbien's goal. To think that he wanted the entire Miracle World to break free from White's control, break free from the control of the highest existence in the multivariate universe, and win against the demonic god once.
However, the more one reached Fang Xingjian's current level of strength, the more he understood how difficult it was to win against the demonic god.
At Bai's level, wherever his will went, it would affect countless worlds and radiate out to countless universes.
For example, the current Miracle World was almost definitely Bai's territory, and the history of the entire world was also under his influence. It was just like how Fang Xingjian's influence was on the martial arts world.
Only things that were outside of Bai's will would not be under his control, such as the fourth onslaught, the fifth onslaught, and the upcoming seventh onslaught.
These onslaught came from outside of the worlds controlled by Bai, and they were the only ones that were not under his control.
As for everything in the other worlds, they were all under Bai's control and operated according to his will.
It could be said that Miracle World's current history, situation, the distribution of influences, and the cultures of the various countries were all created by Bai.
Countless worlds were progressing according to the way he wanted them to. These were just the places where his will radiated, expanded his territory, sealed his opponents, and extracted their powers.
In the depths of the starry sky, far away, where the demonic gods were fighting violently, there was also an unknown terrifying, violent, and brilliant battle going on.
"All of history, the past, and the future have developed according to his will. Regardless of whether they are good or bad, they are all clearly beneficial to him." Fang Xingjian said, "Even our conversation right now is within his influence."
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