"Fellow Daoist Lu..."
This time, Old Tong spoke up!
Old Tong cupped his hands toward Lu Jianwo and said, "I am an Artifact Refiner of the He Family. We have recently been preparing to build a batch of Divine Boats, and we need to purchase some sky-blue purple tea wood from your Lu Lineage!"
"Would that be possible?"
"Building ships?" Lu Jianwo looked at He Pingsheng and the other two with some surprise. "Of all the things you could do, why make those?"
"Alas..."
He sighed.
He Pingsheng asked, "Elder Lu, is there some difficulty?"
"There is no difficulty on my end!" Lu Jianwo said. "In any case, your He Family is a subordinate lineage under our Lu Lineage. Let me offer you a well-meant reminder about a few things!"
"Shipbuilding is not an easy business!"
"First, only so many new lineages appear in the whole of Celestial Phoenix City each year. To put it bluntly, annual sales are practically fixed at just a hundred or so ships!"
He Pingsheng understood this as well.
Although every lineage basically needed to own at least one divine ship.
The problem was that the market for these things was already saturated!
Everyone who ought to have one already did.
Only newly established lineages would purchase them.
The other possibility was that a lineage's divine ship had been blasted apart, in which case they would buy another.
As a result, annual sales throughout Celestial Phoenix City ranged from a few dozen to a hundred ships.
Very few.
But the He Family's current output was only a few ships anyway. Even with Old Tong refining Divine Boats as hard as he could, the result would only be three to five ships.
"Everyone... let me be honest with you. Our Celestial Phoenix City already has a