With another base upgrade, the facilities inside them also got upgraded, yielding more ore and Saint Qi crystals.
But what I needed were the puppets.
I split myself using the Golden Scripture and began creating more miniguns. I needed to have at least three miniguns done and ready before the next wave started, and it took me six hours to make the last one.
I called the corpse back and split the four enhanced puppets. Leaving one of them in each of the four areas where the gate will probably spawn.
While the corpse had withdrawn to the main base to act as the last bastion.
If I had built all of this at the start around the base I would have been far more secure, but there was no time for regret.
My clones began working and creating bullets and pieces to create the miniguns which after long arduous hours, I placed right in the middle of every one of the four paths.