Whenever the Fire Persimmon Festival comes, the streets of Fire Persimmon Fairy City are deserted. Citizens leave the fairy city and go to the wilds on the mountainside and foot of the mountain.

By then, part of the persimmon forest will be open.

Both mortals and monks will participate in picking fire persimmons.

This is a carnival for the whole city, a celebration of the harvest. It has never stopped since the founding of the city by the first generation of city lords.

This year's Persimmon Festival is very different from previous years.

A few months ago, Chi Dun's action of hunting down the black shadow demon cultivator caused a sensation in the whole city.

Even the citizens who did not witness the incident with their own eyes heard from other people that the black shadow demon was driven into the Fire Persimmon Forest and blocked by numerous magic arrays.

Before the Persimmon Festival this year began, Fei Si was already in charge of defense, gradually placing the entire city under martial law.

On the day of the Fire Persimmon Festival, the city lord stood high on the top of the Fire Persimmon Mountain and took the initiative to activate the Fairy City Formation.

Countless green array patterns appeared in the sky, in the city, and on the ground, with awe-inspiring momentum and crisscrossing. This was only the part that the citizens could see with their naked eyes. More arrays penetrated deep into the Huoshi Mountain, constantly absorbing geothermal heat and ground flames, and infusing them into various parts of Huoshi Immortal City, supplying large and small alchemy rooms, refining rooms, mechanical workshops and other facilities.

The fire persimmon forest consumes the most geothermal flames and heat.

Through the fire persimmon tree, the underground flames and geothermal heat are transformed into fire persimmons.

Fire persimmon can act as a fuel like fire spirit, can be eaten, used as medicine, and can be used to refine tools...it has many uses.

When the city was first built, the persimmon forest was only a small area. Now, it has spread almost all over the foot of the mountain, almost wrapping the foot of the mountain into a fiery red embroidered circle.

Under the gaze of countless citizens, a large number of Foundation Establishment cultivators left the city together.

These monks almost all came from the City Lord's Mansion and the three major families. A small number also came from trusted forces.

For example, the Monkey Head Gang.

Every foundation-building monk carries several mechanical monkeys.

Yuan Dasheng followed Yuan Er. His huge and sturdy physique stood out among the monks leaving the city.

"Let's go too."

Ning Zhuo, Chen Cha and others also secretly left the city.

These mechanical monks will rush to repair the mechanical monkey today. This is one of the precautionary measures to prevent accidents.

After leaving the city, they did not go directly to the Fire Persimmon Forest, but instead located on the mountainside and entered an invisible and powerful defensive formation.

The formation also provides a scene of the fire persimmon forest, making it easier for the mechanical monks to observe the mechanical monkeys at work in real time to see where the problems are.

On the mountainside, Zhu Xuanji disappeared, alone, gazing at the persimmon forest.

The same is true for Chi Dun, and no one knows where he has disappeared.

The Jindan cultivators from the three major families also did not show up. They were distributed around the Fire Persimmon Forest according to the secret deployment of the City Lord's Mansion.

An encirclement against the black shadow demon cultivator has been formed.

"Let's start." Fei Si was the only Jindan cultivator in the open, and he was in charge of the situation.

At a command, many foundation-building monks carrying mechanical monkeys broke into the fire persimmon forest.

In recent days, the foundation-building monks from the three major families have been practicing the art of mechanical devices and honing their abilities to control mechanical monkeys.

Generally speaking, a foundation-building cultivator can control at least three mechanical monkeys at the same time to pick fire tomatoes.

Seeing countless mechanical monkeys jumping into the fiery red persimmon forest, Yuan Er also became a little anxious and made a final mobilization: "Brothers, now it's up to you."

"Try your best and prove to everyone that our Monkey Head Gang is the best at picking fire persimmons!"

The fire persimmon forest is divided into countless parts according to the years by numerous formations.

At the beginning, the persimmon forests that were less than ten years old bloomed.

The mechanical monkeys kept picking, and every time they picked one, as long as they put it to their chest, it would be absorbed by their own storage magic circle.

If you look down from a high altitude, you will find that countless fire persimmons disappear quickly, leaving only the fire persimmon branches with fiery red leaves.

When the mechanical monkeys' storage of fire persimmons reached the upper limit, they were remotely controlled by the foundation-building monks to return.

They would stand in a huge circle formation, spit out the fire persimmons that reserve the formation, and pile them up on the ground.

After all the persimmons under ten years old have been picked, Feisi will open the persimmon forest that is more than ten years old.

After these persimmons are harvested, it will be twenty, thirty years...

The years keep increasing, and it's the century year.

Boom! With a loud bang, a fire persimmon exploded.

Almost instantly, a chain explosion of fire tomatoes in the surrounding areas was triggered.

The horrifying flames quickly engulfed more than a dozen fire monkeys, and the foundation-building monks suffered no casualties because they were far away.

For a moment, countless eyes were cast towards the scene of the incident.

Faith frowned and immediately ordered an investigation.

A foundation-building cultivator from the Zhou family was quickly brought up.

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Faith had a blank expression on her face: "You made a mistake in controlling the mechanical monkey?"

The Zhou family foundation-building cultivator looked pale and nodded weakly. He wanted to quibble, but he knew very well that the formation was activated and recording images from all directions. If he lied, it would be easy to be discovered, and the consequences would be even more serious.

Fei Si frowned slightly: "The destroyed persimmons will be charged to you. I'll give you half a cup of tea to rest, calm down, and continue working."

"Yes." The Zhou family cultivator took the order and retreated.

Bang.

Not long after, a mechanical monkey suddenly deformed its movements, and when collecting the fire tomatoes, it hit other fire tomatoes, causing an explosion.

Faith investigated the video and determined that there was a problem with the mechanical monkey. He immediately locked onto the production workshop according to the number of the mechanical monkey.

It's a Frisbee workshop.

Fei Si immediately ordered someone to notify Chen Cha and Ning Zhuo.

The messenger brought Faith's rebuke.

The magic circle they were in was also replaying the image just before the explosion. The protagonist of the image was the mechanical monkey that caused the accident.

Chen Cha immediately made a judgment based on the video: "The monkey has been working for a long time, and its muscles have melted and lost too much, causing its movements to become deformed."

Chen Cha looked at Ning Zhuo.

This mechanical monkey is a low-quality product made according to Ning Zhuo's reduced-configuration plan.

Ning Zhuo pondered and said, "The temperature in the hundred-year-old fire persimmon forest seems to be higher than in previous years. Let these foundation-building monks pause for a moment, take the Qinglu Pill, grind it and mix it with water, and pour it on the mechanical monkey. Remember, you must pour it thoroughly to the point where water slightly seeps through the surface of the body."

After taking care of the matter, Ning Zhuo continued to repair the mechanical monkey.

Since the picking of fire persimmons, some mechanical monkeys have been damaged or failed. They have been sent here for emergency repairs and then quickly returned.

As time passed, more and more mechanical monkeys were sent over, making Ning Zhuo and others busier and busier, and gradually unable to keep up with the speed of repairs.

Chen Cha was busy and sweating profusely. He reminded Ning Zhuo: "Xiao Zhuo, look, this is the consequence of cutting corners."

Ning Zhuo sighed and said, "Mr. Chen, isn't this scrap rate exactly what I want?"

"Besides, many of the damages that were sent in for repair were caused by improper operation. I can't blame them on that."

The difficulties were only temporary, and soon thereafter, fewer mechanical monkeys were sent to them for repair.

This is because everyone has already picked the hundred-year-old persimmons and started to enter the thousand-year-old persimmon forest to pick the persimmons.

This thousand-year-old fire persimmon is as big as a washbasin. It is born through the absorption of infinite geothermal heat and earth flames through a large formation. Each one is of great value.

The foundation-building monks became cautious and were only willing to control a mechanical monkey to pick it.

Once it explodes, it will trigger a chain explosion of the other fire persimmons, and these foundation-building monks will probably lose everything they have!

Each person only uses one mechanical monkey, so naturally there are fewer monkeys that need maintenance.

(End of this chapter)