Great Qian, Yong'an Calendar, Year 330.
A fleet sailed downstream along the Cloudsoar Second Tianhe, a branch of the Cloudsoar Tianhe, advancing in grand procession toward the depths of the Zhenze Domain.
Yet not a single vessel in this fleet shared the same design.
Some resembled exquisite palaces, some sharp swords, while others were spherical, shuttle-shaped...
It could not be helped. Although the Divine Martial Wang Clan's Artifact Refining Directorate, Shipbuilding Division, had already mastered the techniques for refining and constructing Void Ferries, building any medium or large Void Ferry required vast resources and time, and their selling prices were correspondingly steep.
Moreover, as ruins continued to be explored, new void vessels were constantly being discovered. The market's demand gap for Void Ferries was not particularly large, so the Shipbuilding Division still focused primarily on absorbing and consolidating its accumulated technology, constructing only a small number of experimental vessels to verify and advance its techniques.
And so.
These "top-tier scavenging teams" naturally used whatever flying vessels they happened to pick up. The low-performance old vessels they replaced could still be used to establish a second exploration team, or sold off to those second-rate exploration squads.
At this moment.
Along a certain stretch of the Cloudsoar Second Tianhe.
A third-rate team made up of several battered little boats was traveling near the Tianhe, sailing upstream toward the forward base.
Clearly, they were returning.
The few battered boats flew very slowly, swaying and lurching all the way, chugging along with great difficulty. Evidently, their holds were stuffed full of "cargo."
Returning to the base from this direction, they could not enter the Tianhe and ride its current. Otherwise, the Tianhe's energy tides would push them backward. Yet they did not dare stray too far from the Tianhe either, because once they left