Several months later.
A Black-Gold Treasure Ship cleaved through the sea of clouds, speeding north from Great Jin's Capital Region.
The ship was roughly three hundred zhang long-not enormous among true giant war tower ships, but exquisitely crafted.
Its keel was made of supreme-grade fourth-tier black spirit sinking wood, its outer armor of supreme-grade fourth-tier scarlet gold cloud-patterned iron, and several hundred Wind Movement, Gang-Breaking, Spirit Suppression, and Magnetism Control magic formations were embedded in its underside.
A half-open, half-closed dark red demon lotus was carved into its prow, faint crimson-gold official patterns flowing across its petals. Whenever the treasure ship passed through the high-altitude gang winds, a ring of black light would flare around the lotus, pressing the surrounding turbulence perfectly flat.
This ship was called the [Northwestern Circuit Sky-Patrolling Treasure Ship].
It was a top-class high-grade war treasure ship allocated by the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty to the Northwestern Circuit's Acting Circuit-Surveying Governor, its overall power far surpassing ordinary supreme-grade offensive and defensive magic treasures.
By the Immortal Dynasty's military standards, this ship could withstand spell bombardment from Great Cultivators. If its prow-mounted high-grade fourth-tier Sky-Patrolling Spirit-Suppressing Cannon and two types of high-grade fourth-tier magic formations were driven at full power, it could even threaten Nascent Soul Peak cultivators.
Two banners hung from its stern.
One was the Crimson-Gold Official Banner bestowed by the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty, bearing the words "Acting Circuit-Surveying Governor." Whenever it unfurled, golden patterns of the Immortal Dynasty's fortune faintly rippled across it;
the other bore the Protector of the Western Regions Seal Pattern, signifying that it patrolled the Western Regions on Heaven's behalf. Wherever this ship passed within the Western Regions, the provinces, prefectures, counties, passes, and waystations along its route were forbidden to inspect or obstruct it without cause.
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