At Highway Mile-Marker Five, Ye Guhan had already sliced a massive flat square out of the snowy valley between two hills, creating a level stone parking lot five miles long and two miles wide.
Right now, a thousand wooden barn stalls that the construction crew had hauled down on rail flatcars sat in the middle of the lot, alongside stacks of iron water troughs and Boom-Pot Sun’s fifty mobile alchemy-kitchen wagons.
“Stand back thirty paces, everyone!” Pei Xuan called out from the top of the stone platform.
Old Wei, Hong Ling, Old Guo, General Tie Zhan, Abacus Su, and Boom-Pot Sun hurried back behind the white safety line, while Old Yellow the Golden Dragon-Camel craned his long, gleaming gold-scaled neck forward with eager eyes—hoping a tasty fusion scrap might pop out for him to chew on.
Pei Xuan raised his right hand. Inside his mind, the rotating golden Fusion Cube spun rapidly, glowing with the rich light of his Rank 6 Furnace-Gold Core.
“System,” Pei Xuan commanded silently. “Select the thousand wooden barn frames, the Sweet-Spring automatic water troughs, the fifty tons of desert alfalfa, the iron horse-brushes, and Boom-Pot Sun’s braised pork kitchen wagons. Deduct 1,500,000,000 Loyalty Points and fuse them all into a single super-facility!”
