In Jing Qian's eyes, this treasure ship was like a sharp sword, its entire body shimmering with a heavy azure light.
Only the rudder at the stern glimmered with a faint blue radiance.
Compared with the other Eighth-Rank treasure ships, this vessel did not use a particularly large quantity of Rank materials in absolute terms.
After all, the other three were all large ships over thirty zhang long, more than three times longer than this one.
What was truly remarkable, however, was that this small ship had been forged entirely from Eighth-Rank Azure Wing material.
Unlike the other three ships, which used high-grade materials only in their critical sections, while still relying heavily on White Fang material for the rest.
Xu Xi explained:
"You can't choose this ship!"
"This is a scrap ship. It can't even put out to sea."
After hearing this, Jing Qian became even more curious. In the eyes of Worldly Understanding, the ship's design was nearly perfect, its materials exceptionally solid, and every part had been finely polished.
Not to mention the rudder forged from Seventh-Rank Blueblood treasure material!
By every measure, it was one of the finest-looking among Eighth-Rank treasure ships!
If it had used a little more Blueblood treasure material, it might even have reached the Seventh Rank!
Jing Qian could not help pulling Xu Xi into explaining further.
Unable to withstand his insistence, Xu Xi elaborated:
"This ship's design was unearthed from a secret shipbuilding record that came from the Upper Continent."
"When we first built it, my Xu Household spent no small amount of effort and wasted no small amount of material trying to successfully replicate the techniques recorded within."
"Unfortunately, it was only after the ship was completed that we discovered the record was missing the refining method for the oars