Inside the Heavenly Demon Base, Zhou Bai looked at the Level One Heavenly Demon before him with a look of disappointment on his face.

"Indeed, it's a failure. Heavenly Demons cannot be infused with pollution levels."

Zhou Bai shook his head. Although he had anticipated this, he still felt it was a pity.

However, when he thought about how Heavenly Demons had almost never been affected by the distortion of Heavenly Dao, and how there had never been a deformed Heavenly Demon, their iron bodies seemed naturally insulated from distortion. Therefore, it was quite normal that pollution levels could not be infused.

"Yet Em actually possesses the ability to enter and exit the void. What kind of black technology do the Heavenly Demons have?"

At that moment, Zhou Bai was floating in mid-air in a space that resembled a giant beehive. The spherical ceiling was filled with various materials and Heavenly Demons.

Hundreds of octopus-like Heavenly Demons roamed around, constantly assembling and composing new mechanical constructs.

The reach of the Heavenly Demons covered almost half the earth. They could freely collect various natural resources from the earth and create a massive number of Heavenly Demon organizations and various weapons.

Even a large number of human ruins were under their supervision, which meant the Heavenly Demons actually had a lot of cultivation resources at their disposal.

These were all from the remnants of past human cities, sects, bases, and fortresses that they had found. Among these, there were few top-tier treasures, as they had mostly been taken away by humans during their defeat and retreat, but there was a vast amount of basic materials.

But these things had always been of little use to them, until Zhou Bai arrived.

Now, both kinds of resources were provided to Zhou Bai in an endless stream, allowing him to freely create various mechanical constructs without the concerns of resource limitations.

The only limitation on his productivity was that he had a limited amount of Guihai Heisha each day, and he could write a limited number of runes and arrays.

After the experiment to infuse pollution levels into the Heavenly Demon had failed, the mechanical constructs surrounding Zhou Bai flew up on his command and dragged away the failed experimental Heavenly Demon.

Another group of octopus-like mechanical constructs dragged an annular object up into the air, and Zhou Bai's eyes lit up as he went directly to meet it.

"Is it ready?"

"My Void Crown."

It was a metallic ring about three meters in diameter, floating and spinning back and forth in mid-air, flickering with a faint black light.

With a wave of his hand, the ring, which he called the Void Crown, flew towards him. This three-meter diameter ring revolved around Zhou Bai's body, centering on him, and turned slowly, resembling the ever-spinning rings of Saturn.

Zhou Bai looked at the object he had named the Void Crown with satisfaction. This was the main mechanical construct he had been working on lately.

The Void Crown was made up of twelve mechanical constructs, all of which were mechanical constructs Zhou Bai had made that inherited his 'Tang Ruhai' ability.

The group of mechanical constructs that had inherited the 'Tang Ruhai' ability had about fifty percent of Zhou Bai's power, and they were also fitted with the Heavenly Demons' electromagnetic shield and Phase Transfer Shield.

But this was still not enough for Zhou Bai. He still found it insufficiently robust. So he added magical treasures that he had refined himself.

After gaining the ability of greed, Zhou Bai's Artifact Refining ability was greatly enhanced, and he had learned various magical treasure blueprints from the First to Fifth Realm while in Donghua City.

With the boost from the ability of greed, there was a high probability that the quality of the magical treasures Zhou Bai refined would be enhanced, and a small probability that the quality would be drastically improved.

In the past few days, using the cultivation materials the Heavenly Demons had dug up from the ruins, Zhou Bai successively refined twelve Fifth Realm magical treasures—Star Essence Pearls.

Among them, ten slightly increased in quality, while two significantly increased in quality, with might equivalent to that of Seventh Realm magical treasures.

But this was just the beginning. Zhou Bai's next plan was to refine a total of 108 Star Essence Pearls to form an Array.

These 108 Star Essence Pearls, crafted with Immortal Dao techniques and powered by wit, once activated, could directly unfold a 108-layer Star Barrier, a treasure specifically for defense.

It could be said that when the Void Crown fully engaged its defenses, it would simultaneously open the 108-layer Star Barrier, along with the electromagnetic shield and Phase Transfer Shield crafted using Heavenly Demon technology, and these three defenses would also be under the enhancement of the twelve mechanical followers known as 'Tang Ruhai.'

"The Crown of the Void, truly a crystallization of my technical prowess. It utilizes a combination of Immortal Dao, technology, and the three forces of Heavenly Disaster, pushing defensive power to an extreme."

"I have no idea just how durable this thing is; even I can't break it."

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"With the Void Crown, plus my own defensive capabilities and the Apocalypse Heavenly Skeleton Armor, even gods and immortals shouldn't be able to easily harm me now."

"It's a pity I don't have the right blueprint for a Ninth Realm Magical Treasure. The materials excavated by Heavenly Demon from the ruins are also insufficient to craft a Ninth Realm Magical Treasure; otherwise, the defensive power of the Void Crown could climb even higher."

It must be said, Zhou Bai was becoming increasingly addicted to crafting things that even he couldn't destroy, this feeling of being enveloped by defensive power made him feel incredibly secure.

Christina, who was held in the arms of the Black Tortoise, yawned and shook her head, "Poor child, you really lack a sense of security."

After that, Christina rolled over a bit to expose her belly, "Hmm, this is much more comfortable."

The Black Tortoise was slightly startled, then her face blushed, 'What does Zhou Bai mean by this, is he implying something to me...'

Of course, the functionality of the Void Crown wasn't limited to defense; another feature was to connect with other mechanical followers and the Heavenly Demon through the Quantum Communication Network.

Zhou Bai's voice transmission and control over the Black Tortoise's Black Evil Bi had physical distance limitations, so he controlled the Void Crown to issue commands to the other mechanical followers through the network.

'Pity, if I had my own Quantum Communication Network, the mechanical follower army would be entirely mine. Now it's being monitored by the Heavenly Demon.'

'Tch, it's like leeching off the neighbor's WIFI.'

Despite not having his own network and feeling somewhat reluctant, Zhou Bai was very satisfied with the Void Crown that combined defensive power and communications.

Xu Dela, standing nearby, was in awe as she observed the weapons Zhou Bai crafted, and reported back to the Heavenly Demon King through the communication network: "The combination of Immortal Dao, Void, and our technology truly has boundless potential. The power that Zhou Bai holds is enough to change the world."

"The defensive power should be sufficient for now," Zhou Bai thought to himself. "Next, I need to find time to craft some mechanical followers for control and attack. Heavenly Demon has plenty of powerful weapons that will come in handy."

Zhou Bai gently floated out, leaving his workstation to start his material trading for the day, and to earn some laziness points.

And that night, he finally gathered enough laziness points required for the sixth star node of the Insanity Scripture.

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