Huo Hai had been bored stiff along the way. These were all the most elite troops selected by the Imperial Family. Out of several hundred men, at least a hundred had reached the Spirit Practitioner Realm.
The rest, while not at the Spirit Practitioner Realm, were at Spirit Bone Peak. Their equipment was the best in the entire kingdom. The airship carried ballistae, as well as defensive and offensive Spirit Formations. Since they had encountered no enemies along the way, Huo Hai had not seen them in action. Still, when there was nothing to do, these true elite soldiers hardly spoke.
Only after probing around did Huo Hai learn a little. In Southern Cloud Kingdom, an airship's captain held the same rank as a legion commander. The entire Southern Cloud Kingdom possessed only five airships. They were one of the kingdom's greatest deterrent forces.
Spirit Marshal Realm experts normally would not move about recklessly. These airships were the true power that kept the surrounding nations from daring to easily make a move against Southern Cloud Kingdom. Unfortunately, even after exhausting the strength Southern Cloud Kingdom had accumulated over thousands of years, it had only managed to purchase five.
Sure enough, selling weapons was a business that made money astonishingly fast. At the same time, Huo Hai learned the true operating principle behind airships. This thing was not controlled by people at all. Rather, in a way Huo Hai had never expected, the flying vessel controlled itself. It was a form of intelligent control, and biological intelligence at that. If he had not seen it with his own eyes, Huo Hai would never have believed it.
Rumors outside claimed that flying vessels were made by modifying the corpses of massive birds. In truth, that was not entirely correct.
The giant birds