Chapter 299 - 158: This Meat Was Found by the Mortal Realm, and Only the Mortal Realm Can Eat It

Chapter 299: Chapter 158: This Meat Was Found by the Mortal Realm, and Only the Mortal Realm Can Eat It

Flying Vehicles completely crushed their land-based counterparts.

Aside from being more expensive to build, they had no drawbacks.

He glanced at the requirements to further upgrade the Vehicle Workshop.

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ps: To upgrade to Level 9, 200,000 Ghost Stones and one Mountain Embryo are required.

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’I’ll hold off on upgrading for now.’

Even if he were to upgrade, it would be the one located at the Mortal Realm’s main base.

This was just a temporary rear base.

There was no need to invest heavily here.

This Flying Ship would be more than enough.

The next moment—

After consuming 100,000 Ghost Stones, with no other materials required, the Vehicle Workshop rumbled to life, operating for the duration of a burning incense stick.

The gates of the Vehicle Workshop swung open.

Countless Wooden Boards flew out from the gates and rapidly assembled into a massive Flying Ship, which then floated at a low altitude.

This was the Vehicle that had taken him the longest to build yet.

And that was only because he had chosen to reduce crafting time for all his Upgrade Directions; otherwise, it would have taken even longer.

But...

’It was worth it.’

...

Chen Fan gazed at the Flying Ship before him. It was a full 70 meters long from bow to stern, an incredibly imposing sight—even larger than a Sea Ship.

There was only one way to get aboard.

A rope ladder.

The deck was a fair distance from the ground, and since he couldn’t fly, he had to take the rope ladder.

After climbing onto the deck, he inspected the various sections inside the ship cabin.

There were living quarters.

An area to place the Ghost Fire.

There was even... a Jiezimai Room. Yes, the same kind of Jiezimai Room found in the Warehouse. Although it wasn’t as large as the one in the Warehouse, it was still quite good. This greatly increased the Vehicle’s carrying capacity.

A Vehicle like the Sea Ship came with its own built-in turrets.

But this Flying Ship...

...did not.

It only had positions where turrets could be placed, allowing for customization. There were 17 slots in total.

They were distributed across the bow, stern, and both sides of the hull.

He didn’t skimp.

He directly installed 17 Max Level Godslaying Cannons in these slots.

The Max Level Godslaying Cannon was currently the Mortal Realm’s most powerful offensive weapon. A single one cost 37,800 Ghost Stones to build. Crafting 17 of them had consumed a grand total of 640,000 Ghost Stones.

Just this one Flying Ship...

...was worth more than the accumulated Ghost Stones of several factions in Jiangnan combined.

It was very expensive.

But it was also very powerful.

"..."

Chen Fan stood on the deck, surveying the brand-new Flying Ship beneath him with eyes full of satisfaction. This wasn’t the Mortal Realm’s first air-to-ground strike capability.

The Nine-Five Dragon Carriage.

That Rare Vehicle.

One of its abilities was to fly and unfold the Heaven and Earth Chessboard in the sky. A turret could be placed on each Node of the chessboard to deliver a devastating strike to the ground.

Using this method, he had launched a night raid on the Pill Sect.

And in one fell swoop, he had established the Mortal Realm’s position in Jiangbei.

But he had never used it a second time.

The Heaven and Earth Chessboard had quite a few flaws.

Its biggest flaw was its limited number of uses. After just a few uses, the Nine-Five Dragon Carriage would shatter and become unusable. Also... its flight time was only for the duration of a burning stick of incense, and its speed in the air wasn’t very fast.

But the Flying Ship was different.

As long as it had enough Ghost Stones, the Flying Ship could stay in the air all day and had no usage limits.

Of course.

It also had its shortcomings compared to the Heaven and Earth Chessboard. The chessboard had 361 Nodes, and a turret could be placed on each one. If all Nodes were fitted with Max Level Godslaying Cannons, its power would be countless times greater than that of the Flying Ship.

A saturating bombardment.

To make an imperfect analogy...

The Nine-Five Dragon Carriage was more like a short-range bomber with limited uses, acting as a deterrent.

The Flying Ship, on the other hand, was like a long-range fighter jet with no usage limits.

...

The Ghost Fire within the Flying Ship didn’t have a large range; it just barely enveloped the Flying Ship. Outside of the rainy season, this would protect it from Ghost Object harassment.

Of course.

There were very few Ghost Objects in the sky to begin with.

Just like with the Heaven and Earth Chessboard, the attack range of the turrets on the Flying Ship could exceed the camp’s range limit.

He left another 300,000 Ghost Stones in the Warehouse.

The Flying Ship was great, but...

...the number of Ghost Stones it consumed for travel far exceeded that of other Vehicles. However, the cost of using the turrets on the Flying Ship incurred no extra fees; it was just the normal consumption.

Three hundred thousand Ghost Stones should be more or less enough.

And with that,

a total of 1,040,000 Ghost Stones had been spent, and a Flying Ship, armed to the teeth and fully loaded with Ghost Stones, was complete!

Unlike the Nine-Five Dragon Carriage...

...this Flying Ship could be built again. In other words, it could be mass-produced for standard deployment!

If...

...he had three Flying Ships...

...then the skies of the entire Four Areas Jiangbei would be his.

If he had thirty of them...

...the Guanxi Plain would have to bow down and submit to him.

If he had three thousand...

...the Ghost Objects would have to get his approval first if they wanted to invade the Eternal Night Continent.

’This price really is a bit steep...’

Chen Fan still felt the sting of the expense. He was flush with cash now, of course; Wang Kui reported to him daily via Sound Transmission Talisman, and he had already turned the Mortal Realm into a money-making machine.

It could rapidly rake in money even when he wasn’t in the Mortal Realm.

The Mortal Realm’s Ghost Stone reserves had now reached 47,980,000.

He could afford a million Ghost Stones.

But...

just half a year ago, during the rainy season, he had been so poor he wished he could break a single Ghost Stone in two just to spend it. Now, he had just spent 1,040,000 Ghost Stones to build a "Strategic Level Flying Ship." It felt truly extravagant.

During the months he had spent excavating the Undersea Tunnel...

...the Mortal Realm’s money-making speed had slowed down a bit.

It wasn’t because he wasn’t there to oversee things. Although he wasn’t physically present in the Mortal Realm, he still kept up with and managed its affairs daily through the Sound Transmission Talisman.