Still Needs More Tempering

Qi He had once believed his control over the Alliance was already deep enough. Yet when Ye Xiu led him sneaking underground and showed him the enormous warship amid the clanging and hammering of the research institute, he realized that he might have been wrong by a ridiculous margin.

"How... how come I've never heard of this thing before?"

Looking at the researchers around them, hurrying along with grim expressions and swift steps, then raising his head to look at the colossal thing before him, Qi He felt as though he were dreaming.

No, I'm still the Alliance Leader, right?

All major and minor affairs of the Alliance still have to pass through my hands, right?

But can someone tell me how they managed to build something this huge right under my nose, while I knew absolutely nothing about it?

Qi He could not stop roaring inwardly.

It was no wonder he was so shocked. Anyone with eyes could tell at a glance that the thing before him was entirely different from the flying magical treasures commonly used by cultivators.

Previously, the flying boat treasures controlled by cultivators were mostly tools formed through refining spirit treasures themselves. The spiritual power they could bear was fairly limited, and they were difficult to use in battles between opponents of comparable strength.

But this massive thing before him had thousands upon thousands of defensive spells visibly inscribed upon it.

If they were activated at the same time, they would probably drain even a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator's spiritual power dry in an instant.

Then there were the sturdy metals used in its construction. Put together, Qi He believed that even a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator would find it difficult to breach this thing head-on in a short time.

And all his earlier assumptions