The summer sunlight was warm and gentle-
Even inside the golden ship.
A faint heat seeped up, warming the skin slightly and easing the mind for a moment.
After so long without daylight in the Earth Abyss, suddenly encountering this natural vitality-
Chen Heng could not help narrowing his eyes. His chest and lungs felt refreshed, as though he had drunk sweet dew and cool rain had fallen upon his head.
But within a few breaths.
A sharp sizzling sounded, like the grating screech of two rust-speckled blades rubbing together.
He turned to look.
The entire golden ship was suddenly pouring out smoke beneath the sunlight. In just a few blinks, it had begun to burn without a flame.
Only after he flew out of the cabin and hurriedly put the Turbidity-Clearing Golden Ship into his Heaven and Earth Bag did this strange phenomenon abruptly stop.
Only then.
Did the World-Escaping Shuttle's artifact spirit speak leisurely:
"Boy, let me teach you something!
"This ship uses overturned sand and fine-grained ash as its base materials. They must be refined for forty-nine days before they become a slurry, then molded into a ship and fired hard with the fire of the five metals.
"Overturned sand and fine-grained ash are precious yin materials unique to the Earth Abyss. Like the materials produced in Qiu Xu, they have never seen daylight, and this Turbidity-Clearing Golden Ship naturally inherited their fundamental nature.
"This ship can only travel within the Earth Abyss. Once it leaves and encounters the breath of yang vitality, it will soon burn and collapse into a heap of ash. Have you remembered that?"
"So that is how it works. Thank you for the lesson."
Chen Heng nodded, then chuckled. "But when Senior Brother Cui gave me this Turbidity-Clearing Golden Ship, he never