The Gu Yuan Tribe had paid a huge price to pull this giant warship out from the depths of the lava. Thousands of tons of spiritual materials had been burned into nothingness by the raging flames.
The chain, which was originally as thick as a bucket, was only one-third of its original thickness. Furthermore, most of its spirituality had been lost, so it could no longer be used as a spiritual material for forging spirit weapons. It could be said that it had been abandoned.
Due to the dragging of the chains, the entire ancient mountain was split open, causing lava to flow out. Fortunately, they had predicted this situation beforehand, so they had built a defensive dam one mile away from the ancient mountain. Now, with the ancient mountain as the center, the land within a radius of one mile had already turned into a country of flames.
At this moment, the giant void warship floated on the lava, and the light blue defensive shield showed signs of dissipating.
The towering cannon muzzles, the ferocious beast heads, and the metal-cast hull seemed to be a single entity. It was rough and majestic, and the hull was covered in smoke and ashes. All of this showed what kind of bloody battles this giant warship had experienced.
It was a shocking sight to behold!
The tall tower was twisted, and only half of it remained. Mottled stains covered the body of the warship. If it had been a few meters lower, the control unit of the warship would have been damaged, and the Gu Yuan Tribe's victory today would not have happened again!
In the next hour, Xiao Chen led a group of elders and captains into the giant warship. After a round of inspection, out of the 24 secondary cannons on the warship, only 18 were still in good condition. The two main cannons at the front and back of the warship had two main cannons, and only the main cannon at the back of the warship could still be used.
Even so, Xiao Chen could not help but lament the inadequacy of this perfect main cannon. This was because he discovered that the main cannon's energy source was actually Peak Grade Essence Stones. This was something that his Gu Yuan Tribe currently did not possess.
Fortunately, the secondary cannons on both sides were powered by superior-grade primordial stones. However, a secondary cannon required 100 superior-grade primordial stones to charge, and it could fire five shots in a row. The entire primordial stone cannon had a Spirit Gathering Array that could absorb the energy of the superior-grade primordial stones and compress it to the extreme for a short period of time before firing it from the cannon.
In less than an hour, the corpses on the mottled battleship had strangely turned into ashes and drifted into the air.
After ten thousand years underground, they had been isolated from the outside world. Even with the protection of the defensive barrier, after ten thousand years, there was no longer a trace of water on these corpses. They had all turned into dried skin and bones, and so when the wind blew, they turned to ashes.
"Could this be the engine room of a warship?"
Below the center of the deck of the battleship, there was a huge space with flowing lights shining. Within this space, there was a huge array disc with a diameter of more than two hundred feet. The array disc was covered with densely packed grooves.
At this moment, 80% of these grooves only had a pinch of white powder left, while the rest of the slightly shining spots were pieces of top-grade Primordial Stones. These were Primordial Stones that had not completely lost their energy.
In the middle of this array disc, there was a beam of energy light. The entire array disc was filled with fluctuations that continuously gathered the energy of the Primordial Stones into the beam of light to support the battleship's rain-proof barrier.
Below the light beam of the array disc was a palm-sized silver stone that was constantly changing between real and illusory. It was only the size of a palm, but the space around it was constantly collapsing and recovering, as if it was no longer in this space-time.
The Void Stone!
The soul of the Void Battleship was this palm-sized stone. That was why the Void Battleship could fly in the sky and even penetrate the void and travel through the turbulent space. The hull of a Heaven-grade Battleship was sturdy enough to withstand the impact of the turbulent space.
Four hours later, in the tribe's main hall.
The seven Hall Masters of the Ancient Yuan Tribe were all present. The seven Hall Masters were in charge of all the affairs of the tribe. In private, many people called the seven Hall Masters the seven Great Elders.
Of course, the Great Elder Tie Shi, the Second Elder Lin Shan, and the Third Elder Xiao Qin were still the pillars of the tribe. Behind them, the four Hall Masters, who had been promoted by Xiao Chen, were the assistants. The Martial Arts Hall's Tie Wen, the Secret Guards Hall's Huang Liang, the Hundred Herb Hall's Mu Qing, and the Divine Weapon Hall's Xiao Lin were firmly in charge of all the affairs of the tribe.
At this moment, everyone had yet to calm down. Facing such a huge battleship, even though it was extremely damaged, after some investigation, they found that the most important energy gathering formation of the entire battleship was still intact. The Void Stone could still be used, and some of the damaged parts of the battleship could be repaired.
"Chief, we've already ordered our people to clean up the entire Void Battleship. However, although the main body of the battleship was not damaged, the hull was severely damaged. Some parts of the battleship have been severely deformed and need to be repaired!"
"Xiao Lin!
How is the investigation going with the craftsmen of the Divine Weapon Hall? "
Upon hearing this, Xiao Lin, who was sitting at the end of the hall, stood up and replied, "Reporting to Chief, the craftsmen of the hall have already carefully inspected the hull of the battleship. They found that although the battleship seems to be severely damaged, it is only a superficial problem. It does not affect the core power of the battleship!"
"However, the craftsmen of the tribe are unable to repair the Yuan Stone Cannons that were lost on the battleship. Even if they can forge the Yuan Stone Cannons, they lack the energy gathering formation, so they are just a pile of scrap metal!"
Xiao Chen nodded lightly. He understood that the energy conversion formation on the Void Battleship was the most crucial part. This was the foundation that supported the battleship's flight, defense, and attack. The Guyuan Tribe's foundation was not enough to control such a secret.
Even if he had obtained the refining blueprint of the Earth-grade Void Battleship with the explanation of the energy conversion formation, the current Guyuan Tribe would not be able to gather these precious materials even if they exhausted the tribe's foundation.
"Are the craftsmen of the tribe confident in repairing the damaged hull?"
"After investigation, the damaged hull can be repaired, but it requires a large amount of casting materials and even spiritual materials. With the current reserves of the Guyuan Tribe, I'm afraid it is far from enough."
In order to pull the battleship out, the tribe's reserve of 15 tons of spiritual materials had been used up. There were many other ordinary casting materials, but they could only repair the normal damaged parts of the battleship. Some of the main damaged parts required a large amount of spiritual materials to repair.
"Third Elder, order the clan to speed up the mining of spirit material veins, and search for new spirit material veins, as well as new elemental stone veins, especially high-grade elemental stone veins, and even top-grade elemental stone veins."
In the next moment, Xiao Chen said. However, he recalled that the void battleship actually needed supreme-grade Yuan Stones as its driving power. He even found dozens of crystal fragments on the power formation plate that were different from supreme-grade Yuan Stones.
It was a type of crystal with a more compact structure than supreme-grade Yuan Stones. Xiao Chen guessed that it was a spiritual crystal. The spiritual crystal was the essence of heaven and earth that was rarer than supreme-grade Yuan Stones. Even in a supreme-grade Yuan Stone vein, there were only a few spiritual crystals.
Generally speaking, an inferior-grade spiritual crystal was equivalent to a hundred supreme-grade Yuan Stones. However, even if there was one, very few people would take it out to exchange.
Currently, the Guyuan Tribe did not even have a single supreme-grade Yuan Stone in storage, let alone inferior-grade spiritual crystals.
"Chief Elder, pass down the order. Tell the vassal battalions that the tributes for this year's Yearly Sacrifice and the following Goods Trading Conference will be reduced by thirty percent for the tribes that use ling materials as tribute or trade!"
In order to collect enough spiritual materials, Xiao Chen thought for a long time. In addition to speeding up the mining of spiritual materials in his own tribe, he could only think of ways from the more than 800 vassal tribes under his rule. Even though the supply of spiritual materials from these tribes was limited, it was still a considerable number when all 800 tribes were added up.
"Xiao Lin, listen to my order. Apart from the basic forging of weapons and armor, the Divine Weapon Hall will focus on repairing the damaged hull of the battleship!"
"Yes!"
Three days later, in the Bluestone Garden.
Under the ancient tree, Xiao Chen sat cross-legged. In front of him, there was a layer of white powder falling. This was the residual impurities left after the Primordial Qi in the primordial stones had been absorbed.
In three days, Xiao Chen had finally raised his cultivation to the peak of the Third Heaven of Heavenly Building Realm after spending thousands of mid-grade Yuan Stones and several Third Revolution Spiritual Medicines that had reached the age of 3,000 years.
"Big Brother Xiao."
A delicate voice came out, and a cyan figure fluttered over like a colorful butterfly.
"Qing 'er, have the stone houses of the Hundred Herbs Hall been arranged?"
"There are already more than 10 deacons, two elders, and Sister Pinghua in charge of the Hundred Herbs Hall. There are also hundreds of apprentices and several junior pharmacists. They are continuously refining a large number of elixirs every day for the tribe's people to cultivate. It will not delay Big Brother Xiao's important matter!"
"Hmm!"
Nodding slightly, Xiao Chen's battle qi floated out, and he swept away all the primordial stone dust around him. Then, he stood up.
"Let's go to the easternmost part of the territory with Big Brother Xiao!"
"Roar!"
In the long roar of the Pegasus, Mu Qing exclaimed. She was carried by Xiao Chen on the back of the Pegasus and flew out of the tribe.
The Heavenly Horse was already a Three Star Cloud Galloping Colt. Perhaps it was nothing in the depths of the Wasteland, but in the Fallen Dragon Ridge, with the pressure of a dragon-species ferocious beast, even if there were some powerful Three Star ferocious beasts in the depths of the danger zone, they would still conceal themselves after sensing its aura.
The Pegasus flew over the central area of the Fallen Dragon Ridge. Xiao Chen also deliberately flew over the void above the primordial stone vein that had caused many parties to fight over it. Under the coercion of the Ancient Yuan Tribe, the various tribes that had been fighting over it had completely calmed down.
In the easternmost part of the territory.
Xiao Chen held Mu Qing in his arms and stood on the top of a mountain, looking at the Desolate Ancient Forest in the distance. There were undulating mountains and clouds that covered the sun. In the depths of the ancient forest, there were bursts of beast roars that sounded like muffled thunder.
"Big Brother Xiao, is this the place where the descendants of the Fallen Dragon Ridge live?"
Leaning against Xiao Chen's chest, Mu Qing asked softly.
"That's right. The ancient mountain 300 li ahead is the base of their sect."
In the next moment, the Pegasus let out a long roar that shook the sky like a dragon's roar. The entire forest immediately trembled, and the roars of beasts and birds stopped. The Pegasus flew through the sky and turned into a golden light. In a breath, it crossed several li and disappeared into the ancient forest below.