Standing on the deck, Yuwen Huaji clasped his hands in greeting, though inwardly he was cursing his luck.
Although he had received an imperial edict, Yuwen Huaji had never taken that Xianzhou seriously. He had come here to find Stone Dragon and the Longevity Technique in his possession, only to run into the other party by sheer chance and be caught completely off guard.
Only after seeing the ship with his own eyes did Yuwen Huaji realize that the rumors were true. The Sui Dynasty's warships were fifteen or sixteen meters tall, and a single warship could carry more than nine hundred soldiers, which already made it quite a large vessel. Yet this Xianzhou was even larger than theirs. Moreover, just as the rumors claimed, the entire Xianzhou was pure white. Yuwen Huaji could even see objects resembling stone on both sides of the hull, emitting a bright white light.
Not only that, judging from the reflected light on the hull, the ship clearly wasn't made of wood. It looked more like it had been built from copper, iron, or something similar.
An iron ship?
That was almost unimaginable in this era.
The only discrepancy was that the Xianzhou was supposed to be surrounded by music, yet there was no music aboard this one. Of course there wasn't. Duanmu Huai was fishing. How could he possibly play music and scare the fish away?
As the saying went, when something abnormal happened, there was sure to be a demon behind it. But as far as Yuwen Huaji was concerned, there was nothing normal about this Xianzhou at all. To be honest, he really wanted to pretend he hadn't seen anything and turn around and leave. Unfortunately, just when fate was being especially cruel, Duanmu Huai happened to fish up Stone Dragon's