Mars:
Li Xin was aware of everything happening on Earth through remote network monitoring, but he didn't pay it any mind.
Upon acquiring this E9-class cosmic spaceship avatar, he was practically invincible on Earth, fearing no one.
What he was more focused on at this moment was the reddish, almost orange planet before him: Mars.
From a high altitude, he saw nine pyramids, combined in such a way that they seemed to form an even larger, invisible pyramid.
Below the towering nine pyramids lay an enormous city, but it now looked as if it had been dilapidated for countless years.
"These nine pyramids are a rudimentary method of energy production devised by the Blue Silver Empire, imitating the Automaton Race, but in reality, they are far cruder than the Automaton Race's true energy production methods."
"I can modify and perfect them, increasing their energy production efficiency tenfold, and then have the energy produced here supply the Eternal Divine Furnace, allowing it to continuously provide me with energy."
Li Xin came to Mars first precisely for these nine energy pyramids, as it was the fastest way he could think of to acquire energy.
In the original work, Luo Feng, under Babata's guidance, destroyed all these nine pyramids and then excavated the dark iron within them to sell.
However, they didn't know that the most valuable and precious things on Mars were these nine energy pyramids, which had remained fully operational for tens of thousands of years.
"Invade and control the energy core!"
With the knowledge base of an Automaton Race Undying, he quickly found relevant information in his massive compressed memory package, and after half an hour of study, he understood it thoroughly.
Immediately, he invaded the core energy system of this base city, completely taking control of the nine pyramid energy systems.
"There's a large amount of A8-class dark iron on Mars; it's perfect for making mechanical puppets, and I can also try out my newly acquired ""Mechanical Evolution"" talent."
With the current technological capabilities of Li Xin's avatar, manufacturing mechanical puppets was a very simple matter.
"Mechanical Evolution!"
After he finished making the A8-class mechanical puppet, the Automaton Race avatar activated its innate secret art, and a white light enveloped the mechanical puppet.
The puppet's material itself became stronger, evolving from its original A8-class to A9-class, and its internal structure became more concise and refined, with a significant improvement in performance.
Most importantly, Li Xin discovered that this mechanical puppet had actually developed intelligence!
It's important to know that mechanical puppets primarily consist of a mechanical body and a core program, with the core program being the key.
The mechanical puppets he initially created only had simple code input, completely devoid of any intelligence; they could only execute simple commands after the master issued an order.
But now, after activating the innate secret art, that core program had surprisingly transformed into an intelligent life, much like an ordinary optical computer.
Although this intelligent life's thinking was like that of a child, there was no doubt that it was an intelligent life; it possessed human emotions and thoughts!
"Master!"
The dark iron robot spoke, and although its voice was so mechanical, there was no doubt that it had transformed from a mechanical puppet into an intelligent life!
"You are the first intelligent life I have created. I'll give you a name. Since you are made of dark iron, let's call you 'Dark Iron.' From now on, you will be my assistant."
"I will transmit some knowledge to you. You should receive and study it well later."
Li Xin felt a great sense of accomplishment for creating his first intelligent life and was very fond of it, so he decided to nurture Dark Iron.
"Thank you, Master!"
Speaking for the second time, Dark Iron's voice was no longer so mechanical; it now had a tone of excitement.
Immediately after, Li Xin continued to create mechanical puppets, then used his innate secret art to transform them all into mechanical life forms, and then handed all these mechanical life forms over to Dark Iron to command, sending them to transport all the dark iron on Mars.
"After performing Mechanical Evolution, the mechanical puppets not only became intelligent life forms, but their mechanical structure was also enhanced, raising them from A8-class to the limit of A9-class, almost reaching B1-class."
While creating mechanical puppets, he was also researching his innate secret art.
It had to be said, his innate secret art was very powerful and defied common sense.
Generally speaking, the birth of an intelligent life form occurs when an initial optical computer, after a long period of learning and upgrading, evolves into an intelligent life form with human cognition, and this probability is very low; not all optical computers can become intelligent life forms.
Even the Automaton Race needs time to cultivate an intelligent life form.
Yet, Li Xin's innate secret art directly transformed a common optical computer mechanical program into an intelligent life form!
This meant that Li Xin could create as many intelligent life forms as he wished.
Furthermore, after activating the Mechanical Evolution talent, the mechanical level of the entity would increase by one minor grade.
This was also because he feared wasting energy, so he used the minimum energy to activate the talent to the smallest extent.
When he no longer lacked energy in the future and could fully activate his talent, it would be even more terrifying.
"The intelligent life forms I've created so far are only the lowest level of intelligent life. To reach the level of advanced intelligent life like Babata, they still need time for cultivation and knowledge accumulation."
"However, I possess the knowledge and experience of an Automaton Race Undying, so I can directly infuse it into the intelligent life forms I want to cultivate, which will save the effort of knowledge accumulation."
Li Xin continued to create mechanical puppets as he spoke, though he later did not transform all of them into intelligent life forms.
Because activating the innate secret art requires energy, and with insufficient energy, he didn't plan to be too extravagant.
So he decided to create one intelligent life form for every hundred mechanical puppets, and then have that intelligent life form command ninety-nine mechanical puppets to work for him.
Soon, he had created a thousand mechanical puppets, ten of which were intelligent life forms.
"Let's try to create a B8-class intelligent life robot!"
After finding B8-class dark iron essence, Li Xin created a B8-class mechanical puppet.
Immediately, he activated the ""Mechanical Evolution"" innate secret art, intending to transform it into an intelligent life form.
However, this time the energy consumption was enormous, fifty times that of creating an A9-class intelligent life form.
"Master!"
When the innate secret art was completed, the B8-class mechanical puppet transformed into a B9-class intelligent life robot.
"Success!"
Seeing this, Li Xin was overjoyed; after all, B9-class is equivalent to the Star Nine Realm.
Immediately, Li Xin continued to create B9-class mechanical puppets. This time, he allowed one intelligent life form to be born among every ten mechanical puppets to lead them.
He stopped production only after creating two hundred mechanical puppets, mainly due to the immense energy consumption.
Both manufacturing and maintaining daily consumption require energy.
He stayed on Mars for five days. During these five days, he was not only creating mechanical puppets but also improving the rudimentary energy production pyramids, directly increasing their energy production efficiency tenfold.
"It's time to go back!"
After five days, Li Xin took away 90 A9-class mechanical puppets, 10 B9-class intelligent life forms, and his first created intelligent life form, Dark Iron.
He left the remaining intelligent life forms in the steel city on Mars, instructing them to continue collecting and mining ores, and to continue building pyramid energy production systems.
With the Eternal God Brain controlling them remotely and having left them the relevant blueprints and technology, they could do these things themselves without Li Xin's worry.