The Long Household had seven Divine Lords in all!
Three were men and four were women.
Their leader was the Long Household's patriarch. He had a cultivation level of the ninth layer of the Divine Lord Realm, and his powerful cultivation and formidable combat strength far surpassed those of his peers. That was how he had secured the position of deputy city lord of Celestial Phoenix City.
Shipbuilding was certainly not the Long Household's only business.
It was merely one of their dozens of businesses.
Nor was the scale of the Long Household's shipbuilding particularly large. They produced around a hundred vessels each year and had six third-grade Artifact Refiners, as well as one chief fourth-grade Artifact Refiner.
The Divine Boats manufactured by the Long Household were mainly supplied to Celestial Phoenix City and the surrounding lineages.
As the deputy city lord, the Long Household's patriarch cared about his reputation. He would never allow others to criticize him, so he had not directly moved to suppress the He Family.
Instead, he pulled the firewood from beneath the cauldron, cutting off the lineages that supplied the He Family with timber.
He thought that this would make the little two-star lineage retreat in the face of difficulty.
However, the He Family had not retreated in the face of difficulty and had even stocked ample supplies.
The He Family's Divine Boats gradually found a market in Celestial Phoenix City. The key was that people discovered that the various performance characteristics of the He Family's Flying Boats were quite good, even surpassing those of the Long Household's Divine Boats.
Especially their speed.
When the He Family purchased energy-conversion formation sets, they requested only high-grade ones, which provided greater thrust while conserving more divine power.
Their flight speed was also faster.
And that was not