Without wasting any more time, Ye Li set up the Soul Gathering Cannon in front of a mountain wall, and then placed the snowflake stone into the groove on the Soul Gathering Cannon.
The spiritual energy in the snowflake stone quickly flowed into the soul gathering cannon along the groove, and Ye Li injected a trace of spiritual energy to control the soul gathering cannon.
A ball of faint blue spiritual light appeared at the muzzle of the spirit gathering cannon. Strong streams of spiritual energy quickly gathered and compressed together, forming a powerful spiritual energy bomb.
This kind of spiritual energy bomb feels somewhat similar to the first attack spell spiritual energy bomb that Ye Li mastered, but its power is much greater.
Just after the Soul Gathering Cannon completed gathering souls, Ye Li raised his eyebrows, and the spiritual energy controlling the Soul Gathering Cannon fluctuated.
There was a loud "boom" and the condensed spiritual energy bullet on the muzzle of the spirit gathering cannon was shot out at an astonishing speed.
In the blink of an eye, a powerful explosion occurred on the opposite mountain wall, and the impact force directly created a large hole in the mountain wall.
“Success!!!”
"Very good!!!"
"Hahaha, we finally have a soul gathering cannon!!"
The cheers of Kaidiwen and the other two rang out, marking the complete success of the casting of this soul-gathering cannon in the gestation period.
Edwin Lucas and the other three laughed excitedly upon hearing this. The successful operation of the first soul-gathering cannon they made meant that this research was a complete success.
"Ye Li, it seems that your research this time is completely successful. The next step is mass production. You must hurry up."
Edwin Lucas said.
Ye Li nodded and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. We will arrange everything and a sufficient number of Spirit Gathering Cannons will be produced soon."
Afterwards, Ye Li returned to the palace with Kai Diwen and the other two. They had summoned all the weaponsmiths in the country.
A total of fifty-three toolsmiths were standing in the open space around the palace's tool foundry.
The strength of these people is relatively limited. Fifty-three of them can cast the Soul Gathering Cannon in the Nurturing Stage, but only twenty-two can cast the Soul Gathering Cannon in the Yuantai Stage. As for the Soul Gathering Cannon in the Xushen Stage, only Ye Li and the other four can complete it.
Ye Li and his team kept the most core and difficult parts of the Soul Gathering Cannon blueprint and completed them by themselves, while they directly separated the remaining parts and taught them one by one to the fifty or so casting masters. After learning how to cast the parts, these casting masters did not know that what they cast was the Soul Gathering Cannon, because Ye Li and his team did not reveal what the finished product would be when the parts were integrated.
Under the instruction of Edwin Lucas, Ye Li and his men mobilized a large number of elite soldiers and put the foundry under complete martial law, prohibiting any outsiders from entering and restricting the foundry masters from going out.
All the work is carried out in an extremely confidential environment.
Kaidiwen and the other two had accepted some apprentices before, all of whom were people they had trained since childhood. They were all very loyal to them and the royal family of the Farant Empire. Only these people were qualified to carry out the final assembly of the Soul Gathering Cannon.
With the help of a large number of weaponsmiths, the speed of producing Soul Gathering Cannons began to accelerate. Among them, the Soul Gathering Cannons in the gestation period were the most popular, and two could be cast in one day.
And with everyone's efforts, a Soul Gathering Cannon of the Yuantai period can be cast and assembled in one day.
As for the Spirit Gathering Cannon of the Virtual God Stage, even if Ye Li and the other three tried their best to make it, they could only guarantee to cast one within five days.
Half a year passed quickly, six months was one hundred and eighty days, and Ye Li, Kai Diwen and the other two spent two months casting a total of one hundred and twenty soul gathering cannons for the gestation period.
It took four months to cast a hundred and twenty Yuantai stage Soul Gathering Cannons. As for the Xushen stage Soul Gathering Cannons, since only Ye Li and four other people were involved in the casting, they found time to cast them during the past six months and completed a total of fifteen.
Compared with the Jinde Empire, the number of these spirit gathering cannons is still far less. After all, the Jinde Empire has gradually accumulated them over so many years, and the number is dozens of times more than what Ye Li and his team have.
However, the Jinde Empire's soul-gathering cannons are mainly based on the nurturing period, supplemented by some of the Yuan fetus period. Therefore, the total of 200 soul-gathering cannons cast by Ye Li and his team, if gathered together to form an army, will still have very strong combat effectiveness.
The Farant Empire certainly cannot engage in a positional battle with the Jinde Empire with these soul-gathering cannons, but they can definitely form a surprise force around the soul-gathering cannons.
For this purpose, Edwin Lucas specifically gave Ye Li the authority to recruit troops from the Farant Empire and form a complete army.
After more than a year of observation, Edwin Lucas has completely trusted Ye Li, so he dares to delegate power to him.
During the past six months, Ye Li had been continuously casting parts, and his casting skills had greatly improved, almost reaching the top level of earth grade.
And he continued to absorb the snowflake stone every night. Although he did not have time to cast talismans in exchange for snowflake stone and materials, as the head of the Wang family's weaponsmiths, he naturally did some things that used public resources for personal gain.
Kai Diwen and the other two found a large amount of gold and fire materials for Ye Li, which helped Ye Li to improve Xiao Jin to the late Yuantai period, and the Liuyanyan Suanlu was also about to reach the middle level of the heavenly grade.
Ye Li's own strength is even more outstanding, having reached the peak realm of the Yuantai period. The Yuantai in his Dantian looks to be half a person's height, and a blurry shadow can be vaguely seen inside the purple fetal shell.
Ye Li didn't know what form of god his embryo would take after it was hatched, and he was very curious about it.
After all, his natal talisman was naturally a rare object, so even Tunri was curious about what Ye Li’s spirit would be.
Ye Li was just one step away from breaking through to the Void God Stage. He was secretly excited. Now he was not even 25 years old. Such a young master at the peak of the Yuantai Stage would definitely shock everyone.
Just when Ye Li began to mobilize troops, Edwin Lucas suddenly received a battle report from the front line. The Jinde Empire suddenly sent a large army to defeat the coalition forces of the Frant Empire.
The coalition forces broke up into small groups and penetrated into the barbarian mountains, starting a guerrilla war with their opponents.
Edwin Lucas was shocked, and hurriedly led his troops together with Wellington and three other dukes to rush to the barbarians to rescue their own side.
The Jinde Empire has only defeated their positions and has not been able to eliminate their counterattack force. If they cannot change the situation, once the counterattack force is eliminated, they will completely lose the entire battle.
Edwin Lucas led the army in person to encourage his own side and stabilize people's hearts, and then use guerrilla warfare to force the Jinde Empire's front army to break up and fight in small groups.