[You’ve used three skill points, bringing the skill level of the Mechanical Key to its maximum.]

[You’ve used two special skill points, successfully advancing the Mechanical Key.]

[Name: Mechanical Key.

Attribute: Alchemy Creation.

Effect: Can industrially replicate 80% of the original alchemy creations.

Manufacturing Requirement: Alchemy Mechanical Sage. (Creator)

Introduction: This is the original form of the Mechanician—Baiyi.]

[You have manufactured Mechanical Key ×5, Experience Value +10,000,000, skill points +23, attribute points +15, extra experience value +10,000,000.]

March 1, 1547, was a special day.

On Baiyi’s 29th birthday, the already prosperous Dongwu City finally set itself apart from other cities.

Strange robots began to appear in every nook and cranny of Dongwu City.

The original soldier patrols in the Inner City District were also canceled. These Star Core F01 have high combat power and absolute obedience, and after Baiyi optimized their brains, they became almost omnipotent.

They could even replace many official professions.

However, because Dongwu City’s revenue is currently significant, Baiyi did not lay off staff directly like when he initially took over Dongwu City.

Instead, a phase-out mechanism was used for those just going along for the ride, turning them into idle residents of Dongwu City.

Of course, a city can’t have too many idle residents.

Therefore, Dongwu City opened more permissions to the general public, encouraging all professions to develop in new directions.

Innovation must accompany the sparks of civilization to go further.

For instance, the Warrior’s tri-annual major competitions at various stages offer winners special recruitment by the official and an opportunity to join the Tianqi Army.

This led to the proliferation of cultivation rooms released by the City Lord’s Mansion in Dongwu City, thus driving the growth of businesses revolving around these rooms.

Then there are the magic competitions for Mages.

The innovation contests for Alchemists and Arcane Mages.

All of these raised the commercial and civilian targets accordingly.

Without a goal, civilians might be lost, but now that there’s a target, it’s different.

Those with talent coming out of school focus on competitions, offering hope during their cultivation journey.

And those without talent focus on making money.

No matter what, with more comprehensive laws, more money does indeed offer more choices.

For instance, a regular Bronze Warrior, as long as they have 100,000 gold coins, now has the opportunity to undergo a flesh transformation by an Alchemist and become a more powerful being.

In the past, such a sum was unthinkable for a Bronze Warrior under the law, but now, there’s hope.

As Dongwu City becomes increasingly prosperous, similar official support for civilian cultivation will only grow more common.

After all, the weapon trade with the Sea Race has completely opened up.

Apart from Sage-level items or explosive Sun Salutations, Dongwu City can supply the entire Sea Race almost indefinitely.

For instance, Barrett Liyang, with unchanged price but reduced power.

The Sea Race ordered 300,000 units, and in just half a month, they’ve already been sent on their way through teleportation.

And Baiyi uses almost all the resources earned, aside from what he needs, to develop Dongwu City.

Among these, benefits for the civilians occupy 10%.

After all, once money reaches a certain amount, it loses meaning. Raising residents’ happiness index allows Dongwu City to blossom.

Of course, this approach has also put considerable pressure on other cities.

Comparison becomes harmful without improvement.

More comprehensive laws and better welfare have made the applications to become residents of Dongwu City absurdly numerous.

Now even the F-Series robots have started recording the appearances of residents in the areas they manage.

Some illegal residents were repatriated, particularly goblins, which Dongwu City currently doesn’t really want to keep at all.

Currently, there are still over 300,000 legal goblins in Dongwu City, but under Baiyi’s command, their numbers are rapidly decreasing.

This indeed is a form of racial discrimination, but for a race where excellent individuals make up less than one in ten thousand, Baiyi doesn’t mind some criticism.

In fact, apart from the goblin race, people of other races are all cheering.

After all, this race... indeed irritates people.

As Dongwu City flourishes.

Dongwu City also welcomed true diplomacy, with a group of Alchemists and Mages, their eyes showing slight contempt.

They were 70% Human Race, the rest being either Half-Elf or Pure-blood Elf.

The leading Alchemist and Mage were Golden Upper Tier, sharing a similar inexplicable sense of superiority.

Especially when looking at the surrounding steel-like city, they pointed and spoke in unfamiliar languages without restraint.

"Is this the legendary Dongwu City? It doesn’t seem like much. Far inferior to Dubhe City."

"It’s even less than Star Moon City, can’t compare to even the secondary cities."

"Hey? These little things are quite interesting. Can you tell what model these robots are?"

"Can’t tell, but things that can’t even manage basic disguise and are immediately recognizable as robots likely aren’t high-grade."

"But it’s said this City Lord is also an Alchemist. Our Magic Net upgrade and intercontinental missiles were his ideas."

"So what? At least from what I’ve seen, this Alchemist doesn’t compare to the Sage."

The leader, Jia Lan, an Alchemist, frowned and said, "Shut up. This is someone else’s turf. We’re here for diplomacy, not to cause trouble."