Refining Treasure Ships, Developing Heavenly Ruins Province

Heavenly Ruins Province alone has a territory larger than the Three Provinces combined, and the spirit medicine, mineral veins, and Demon Beast it nurtures are all precious resources.

The Three Provinces need the resources of Heavenly Ruins Province, while Heavenly Ruins Province needs the cultivators of the Three Provinces; they can be said to be interdependent.

However, this territory is too vast, and the distance between the two sides is too far, making a round trip take five or six years.

For Qi Refining Cultivator whose lifespan is only a little over a hundred years, this is far too long and arduous.

Thinking about this, everyone fell into deep thought.

Chen Changxuan glanced at everyone and then said, "During the several Beast Turmoil, we have seized quite a few third-tier Demon Beast corpses."

"If we gather a large amount of Tier 1 spirit wood, and don't prioritize speed and combat power, we can forge some medium to large-sized Treasure Ship."

Upon hearing this, everyone showed joy.

Xu Daoyuan, also Artifact Refiner, nodded and couldn't help but say with delight, "If we use the bones of third-tier Demon Beast as dragon bones and add a large amount of low-grade spirit wood, we can forge a third-tier Treasure Ship."

"These Treasure Ship are relatively weak in combat, and their speed is only about 10,000 li per day, but they are enough to carry more than 500 low-level cultivators."

Jiang Linglong's eyes lit up, and she looked at Lin Qianshu, asking, "How many third-tier Demon Beast dragon bones do we still have here?"

"Many bones were previously refined into Law Artifact," Lin Qianshu calculated for a moment, then said, "Now, there are only three skeletons left suitable for forging Treasure Ship."

"Three Treasure Ship alone are far from enough." Jiang Linglong shook her head and looked at everyone. "Each of you exchanged some third-tier Demon Beast corpses before, I wonder how many are left now."

The Old Clan Leader smiled slightly and calmly replied, "My Chen Clan has four third-tier skeletons suitable for forging Treasure Ship."

As everyone discussed the matter, they discovered that, in total, there were twelve more Demon Beast beast skeletons among the various Lineage of the Heavenly Ruins Alliance.

The skeletons of twelve Demon Beast are enough to forge twelve Treasure Ship, capable of transporting six thousand cultivators at once.

Once these Treasure Ship are completed, they will be able to open up multiple shipping routes within the territory of the Heavenly Ruins Alliance, completely connecting the Spirit Mountain of various Lineage.

After some calculation, Chen Nianzhi discovered that the four states of the Heavenly Ruins Alliance contained thirty-seven Third-Order Spirit Vein and hundreds of Second-Order Spirit Vein.

There are over 100,000 cultivators here. Once these shipping routes are opened, even if each person only pays ten Spirit Stone, it will still be a huge source of income.

If Qi Refining Cultivator only returns to their Lineage once every ten years, and there are 20,000 such cultivators each year, they could probably bring in 200,000 Spirit Stone annually.

Even after deducting the cost of using Spiritual Qi from the Spirit Vein to power the Spiritual Qi Treasure Ship, the annual profit is still as high as 100,000 Spirit Stone, which adds up to tens of millions of Spirit Stone in profit over a hundred years.

It should be noted that although the Chen Clan is the most elite Purple Mansion Immortal Clan, and the Spirit Vein and Earth Vein Lineage occupy are comparable to those of relatively weak Golden Core Immortal Clan, their annual income is only seventy to eighty thousand Spirit Stone.

Everyone considered it and were somewhat tempted.

However, they also understood that while the profits seemed substantial, not everyone could get a share.

With Jiang Linglong, a Golden Core realm Ancestor, and Chen Nianzhi, whose strength is comparable to that of Golden Core realm cultivator, this business opportunity certainly wouldn't fall to them.

However, since the Demon Beast bones in his possession could be used to forge Treasure Ship, Xu Ganyang still had some desire for them. He couldn't help but ask, "May I ask, Ancestor, how are the shipping routes for these Treasure Ship arranged?"

Chen Nianzhi and Jiang Linglong exchanged a glance. After all, they still needed these immortal Treasure Ship, so they said, "The Purple Mansion Immortal Clan, which has Treasure Ship, can also take a share of the business on these routes."

"You can contract the flight routes, but you need to hand over 50% of the profits as a contracting fee."

Everyone nodded in agreement. Of the twelve Treasure Ship in total, the Chen Clan and Jiang Linglong owned seven, while the Pan and Xu Immortal Clan Pan Immortal Clan clans, along with several other immortal clans, could build five.

For the Xu Clan and other immortal clans, as long as they have a Treasure Ship, even if they have to hand over 50% of the profits, they can still increase their income by 5,000 Spirit Stone every year, which is still a considerable sum.

Although this includes deducting various expenses such as stipends for clan members, paying stipends to clan members is itself a necessary expense.

The major immortal clans are not afraid of paying salaries, but of not being able to pay them. If there are not enough positions to be arranged for the cultivators in the clan, then that Lineage will truly be sitting idle and running out of resources, and will inevitably decline.

The Chen Clan and Heavenly Ruins Mountain are the same; they need cultivators to operate the shipping route, and they also need a lot of cultivators to guard the Treasure Ship. A certain share of this revenue will be distributed as salaries.

Having decided to open a new sea route, everyone immediately returned to their Lineage to begin collecting materials to forge the Treasure Ship.

Forging large Treasure Ship requires a large amount of Tier 1 spirit wood. One ship alone requires tens of thousands of Tier 1 spirit woods. Even with the power of the Chen Clan, it would be difficult to find so many spirit woods in a short period of time.

Fortunately, the Greenleaf Bamboo of Azure Sun Mountain was famous in the Chu Kingdom. Jiang Linglong had tens of thousands of trees felled and a large amount of Tier 1 spirit wood collected, thus gathering all the necessary materials.

The crafting of this third-tier Treasure Ship was not particularly difficult, but it was extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive. Chen Nianzhi and Jiang Linglong did not personally participate, but they mobilized hundreds of Artifact Refiner and formation masters from the Chen Clan family and the Heavenly Ruins Alliance.

These Artifact Refiner carved low-level array patterns on each piece of spirit wood, and then third-level Artifact Refiner were responsible for the overall structure and design. It took more than a year in total to finally build these seven Treasure Ship.

Although the other major Lineage were a bit slower, they still managed to refine it after more than two years.

After these Treasure Ship were completed, they immediately began operation, and cultivators from the Three Provinces began entering Heavenly Ruins Province.

With the influx of a large number of cultivators, the development of Heavenly Ruins Province accelerated several times over, and within just a few years, new small Spirit Stone mines were discovered.

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While the various immortal clans were developing Heavenly Ruins Province with great enthusiasm, the high-level cultivators of the Heavenly Ruins Alliance had already entered seclusion.

Xu Ganyang, Patriarch Fang, Lin Qianshu, and others were all nourishing their meridians, waiting for the next opportunity to break through to the Golden Core realm stage.

The Old Clan Leader was also constantly cultivating diligently, hoping to reach the Great Perfection of Purple Mansion as soon as possible so that he could break through to the Golden Core realm realm.

Chen Nianzhi finally managed to take a break from her busy schedule to prepare for the final upgrade of her Life-bound Magical Treasure.

Now his Heavenly Separation Twin Swords, Earth Sovereign Bell, and Ren-Water Azure Lotus Platform have all been upgraded to the Tier 4, only the Primal Magnetism Treasure Mirror has not yet been upgraded.

This time, he and Jiang Linglong obtained four Void Gemstone. Three of them were refined into Teleportation Array Disk, and Chen Nianzhi kept the remaining one for upgrading the Primal Magnetism Treasure Mirror.

This Primal Magnetism Treasure Mirror is a Law Treasure Divine Ability that can suppress all metal-type magic weapons in the world. If Void Gemstone is added, it will further enhance its ability to suppress and seal enemies.