Besides that, Lin Rui has deep connections with East Asia, allowing him to leverage their industrial capacity and resources.

The Longevity Association has indeed discovered that over the past two years, Lin Rui has placed large part orders with more than a dozen precision processing enterprises and top-notch studios in East Asia. However, these outsourced rune parts are very fragmented, and without the complete blueprints, it’s impossible to see the whole picture.

As for materials, Lin Rui not only has Lin Hao as an ally but also has the full support of two Abyss-level figures from Central Continent. As long as he has money, sourcing materials is not a problem.

Yi Duxing takes a deep breath: “It’s still impossible, this is equivalent to designing an entirely new large-scale Divine Artifact while integrating human electronic technology. Even if the ‘Divine Talisman Heavenly Venerate’ were resurrected, it couldn’t be accomplished in such a short time.”

Lin Rui, in crafting these Heavenly Curtain bases, even with sufficient materials and manpower, would still need at least fifteen months.

In other words, after obtaining the blueprints from us, he redesigned the Divine Artifact-level Heavenly Curtain bases and completed their verification all within just one month.

Is this something a human can achieve?

Cameron Brown muses: “Deputy Chairman, don’t forget that Lin Rui is King Ming. Within the Light God Sect, there are blueprints of the Radiant Holy Altar. When the President designed the Heavenly Curtain, he also referred to the Seventh Sect Hierarch’s blueprints. Besides, under Lin Rui’s command, there is not only the Heavenly Venerate Taixuan and the Mechanical Saintess, but also three SSS+ level Mechanical Grandmasters, perhaps even four.”

Yi Duxing still finds it impossible. The Radiant Holy Altar of the Seventh Sect Hierarch, though also a ‘Heavenly Curtain,’ lacks networking capabilities. Its function is actually more akin to various nations’ Imperial Jade Seals, though more potent.

But now all this is an accomplished fact, and discussing these issues is pointless.

He gazed remotely at the dock district base of the Forest Group: “Can we still not pinpoint the whereabouts of the Goddess Ao Jue and the Suffering Heavenly Maiden’s traces?”

“Regrettably, we have yet to determine the whereabouts of these two Heavenly Maidens and Ao Jue.”

Brown shakes his head: “According to our Group’s intelligence director, they likely form a small team, roaming outside, providing support to various factions. Lin Rui probably had premeditation, preparing an ultra-high-speed stealth yacht for them in advance. Its speed could reach a sub-light speed of 30,000 kilometers per second, and even factoring in acceleration time, they can reach any battlefield within 20 seconds.”

This presents a challenge for the Longevity Association. Although Lin Rui now has many weaknesses, his strengths are also formidable.

They estimate Lin Xi and Lin Yi’s combat duration should not exceed 90 seconds, but within those 90 seconds, they possess true Quasi-Abyss Level strength, capable of killing any Immortal Level!

So if they cannot determine the whereabouts of the two Heavenly Maidens and Ao Jue, the Immortal Level members of the Longevity Association cannot risk engaging in combat.

At this moment, Yi Duxing turns his attention to the highest decision-making interface within the Longevity Association. The six freely active founders and three Deputy Chairmen are voting on initiating a comprehensive war, mobilizing armed forces below the representatives to attack the Light King Sect’s church and numerous branches of the Forest Rui Fang Group.

He sees another Deputy Chairman, the Chairman of Hephaestus Heavy Industries Group, ‘King of Craftsmanship’ Mr. Hephaestus Balramt, send a message: I agree!

Yi Duxing sighs silently, thinking that in such a situation, this is the only option!

They must launch a full-scale assault, causing the Forest Rui Fang Group to be unable to respond at both ends, forcing Lin Rui to make the first move!

The Longevity Association has to compel Lin Rui to deploy the two Heavenly Maidens into battle!

At this very moment, a thunderous roar erupted from the southeast side of the Ninth Base City, as the various heavy cannons controlled by the Longevity Association simultaneously opened fire on a large Light Church in the city’s eastern district.

The Ninth Base City has been suppressed by Lin Rui and Linghu Mingde, cleansed to the point of being nearly impervious. The Longevity Association’s forces here are extremely limited, with only about three and a half divisions even when counting the private forces of several senior members, so they act mainly as a diversion.

However, as the highest-level directives of the Longevity Association are issued, nearly thirty-three Heavy Equipment Divisions, seventy-two Mechanical Armor Divisions, and a fleet of up to 5,000 ships in other base cities will all simultaneously attack all institutions under the Forest Group.

–This will be an unprecedentedly large-scale civil war within the Earth Federation!

From the situation within the Heavenly Curtain, it seems their time is running out. Before the complete defeat of the three leaders of the Longevity Association and before Lin Rui fully masters the Heavenly Curtain’s authority, they must destroy Lin Rui’s seven remaining Heavenly Curtain bases.

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Ten minutes after the outbreak of war, within the headquarters chapel of the Light King Sect’s District 6 in the Sixth Base City, Fei Yunlai stands casually in the chapel hall.

The believers here had evacuated after the evening service, leaving this hall, capable of holding 500,000 people, completely empty.

At this time, from every direction in the Sixth Base City came the mixed sounds of concentrated gun and artillery fire and explosions.

However, seen from above the Sixth Base City, every corner of this city — those churches of the Light King Sect, numerous flagship-level pharmacies and hospitals under Rui Fang Bio Group, large armament clinics, and Alien Company branches of the Forest Group in the Sixth Base City — are already engulfed in war.

Ignoring government warnings, the heavy-armored forces of the Longevity Association brazenly stormed the streets.