Su Chen's Choice

Under normal circumstances, an international flight from the Dragon Kingdom to Great Eagle Country took 13–15 hours.

It had taken two hours to reach Great Eagle Country aboard Great-Grandfather's Mechanical Beast.

Using the Mechanical Beast rewarded by the system, he would need only a little over an hour! It was even faster than Great-Grandfather's!

It was indeed much faster than a plane.

When he had boarded Great-Grandfather's Mechanical Beast, Great-Grandfather had told him that it needed crystals for energy before it could start.

Just like planes needed fuel, except Mechanical Beasts used crystals instead of gasoline.

"System, how long can one high-grade crystal keep this Mechanical Beast flying?" Su Chen asked.

One high-grade crystal could keep Great-Grandfather Jiang Weihai's Mechanical Beast flying nonstop for 200 hours.

That was a pretty hefty cost, since high-grade crystals were extremely expensive.

An ordinary international flight used around 160 tons of fuel over 13 hours. At an international oil price of 6.6 yuan per liter, that came to 1.45 million yuan in fuel costs.

If Jiang Weihai's Mechanical Beast flew for two hours, and that was equivalent to an international flight's 13 hours or so, then one high-grade crystal was equivalent to 145 million yuan in fuel.

Of course, no matter how much gasoline an international flight burned, it could never match a Mechanical Beast's speed.

But when he did the math, he realized that operating a Mechanical Beast really did burn through money!

He figured that in the cultivators' world, when people talked about the crystals consumed by Mechanical Beasts, it was much like ordinary folks talking about how much fuel their cars used per kilometer.

It was all about people's livelihoods.

"Host, one high-grade crystal can keep this Mechanical Beast flying nonstop for 300 hours."

Not only was it faster than Great-Grandfather's