"The enemy has routed. Should we pursue?"
"No need. Prioritize our target. Collect the spoils as quickly as possible and prepare to withdraw!"
"Yes!"
The Mecha Controllers and Mechanical Martial Artists received the orders and immediately carried them out.
At that moment, tens of thousands of li from the Black Shark Bandits' hideout, Li Chen's avatar Puppet sat in a mechanical Flying Chair aboard a Flying Boat from the Golden Sun Gate. His eyes were tightly shut as he used ultrawaves to contact his true body over the vast distance and closely monitor the battle.
This Flying Boat had been lent out privately in Yu Youxian's name, but it was not undertaking a combat mission. Instead, it had gone into the outer void to "unwind," with one of Li Chen's combat units "providing protection along the way." What they went off to do during the trip, however, was nobody else's business.
After more than four hours, the Flying Boat that Li Chen had once damaged, and which still bore traces of that damage, slowly rose into the air and began its return journey.
"It's already settled? Then let's withdraw."
Yu Youxian glanced through the surface of a treasured device resembling a bronze mirror and immediately gave the order.
Half a month later.
The Flying Boat shaped like a black shark slowly landed on an open patch of ground in Spirit Peak's Inner Valley. Li Chen's Retainers, including Hua Yongshan, Zhou Cheng, Yun Ya, Wang Tong, and Fang Yuehe, had all made a special trip to watch, along with the former Heavenly Dragon Gate disciples and the various Craftsmen recruited afterward.
Even Elder Xu, the head of the Heavenly Crafts Academy, and Principal Mo had come.
Today was a momentous day. Li Chen now owned another Five-Star Flying Boat fit for