Seven years later.
Splash!
Air currents rippled outward like splashing water, raising endless waves. A rift abruptly tore open in the void, and a gleam flashed within before leaping out.
The gleam swiftly swelled into an enormous tower ship wreathed in seven-colored treasure light.
It was none other than the Seven-Treasure Tower Ship!
Of course, Hong Yuan had continually refined this treasure ship, incorporating the natural treasures he had gathered into it. Its wonders now far surpassed those of the past. Even the way of space had been inscribed upon its hull, allowing it to grow or shrink and transform at his will. It could now rightly be called the Seven-Treasure Ruyi Ship!
Hong Yuan resided in a magnificent palace on the treasure ship's highest level. Looking out, he saw that the Seven-Treasure Ruyi Ship was governed by impeccable order, with the power of laws manifesting in every corner, as though it had been peeled away from the Great Heaven and Earth to form a little world of its own.
The treasure ship's seven levels were seven tiers of heavenly palaces and golden halls. Numerous figures moved about on each tier, orderly and methodical. It was no longer home to merely a dozen or so foxes, big and small, as it had been before.
Almost all the dozen or so foxes of the Xin family exuded the aura of the half-step Primal Elixir stage, having eaten the Divine Ability Fruits Hong Yuan had refined. Only Xin Shiniang, Xin Shijiu-Mei, and another one or two had not eaten them. Their talents were sufficient to carry them to greater heights through their own efforts.
In addition, the ship carried over a hundred Divine Ability Practitioners and four Origin Core Realm experts.
This was the foundation Hong Yuan had gathered over the past