Great Zhen Navy warships were far more formidable than ordinary cultivators understood. Though some cultivators saw them merely as small components forged through artifact refining and assembled together, the application of Mechanism Art had truly turned decay into wonder—something outsiders could never have imagined.
Others might not have known, but General Li, a great general of the imperial court, and the Immortal Masters who had accompanied the construction from start to finish all understood deeply: these Great Zhen Navy warships were no mortal toys in the eyes of some cultivators. The Great Zhen Dynasty had dispatched half its navy in one stroke. Besides fifty thousand naval officers and soldiers, several hundred warships carried another hundred thousand Iron-Blooded Martial Pawns. They intended to make a name for themselves with one stunning feat.
Though the Mechanism Warships of the navy could not match a Master of the Immortal Path's escape speed, they were still astonishingly fast. Traveling by sea, a mortal army would have needed to cross mountains and ridges for a year, perhaps without even arriving, ten or twenty years ago. Yet Great Zhen's mechanism ships reached the coastal border of a small country called Bilan Kingdom in less than ten days.
That small country had a total area smaller than a single Great Zhen province, and fewer than fifty thousand soldiers in the entire nation. When it suddenly discovered that the Great Zhen Navy intended to pass through the great river within its borders, the coastal Government Offices of Bilan Kingdom were terrified, believing Great Zhen was about to invade their lands.
Fortunately, the Great Zhen Navy sent them a letter. They merely wished to pass through on their way to Qiliang Kingdom.
On Bilan Kingdom's coastline, General Li stood up and looked at the soldiers beside him.
"Pass the