Chapter 580: Super Battleship Great Sun Construction Complete

"Over a dozen years, and it finally arrived."

Jiang Ding gently stroked the silver-white box in his hand, once again feeling a deep despair at the time perception of Nascent Soul cultivators.

If some mortal had come to purchase this, this amount of time would have been enough for him to go from babbling his first words to marrying a wife and having children, and he could already be planning which kindergarten his child would attend.

This item was precisely the one-time-use treasure, the Infant-Banning Net, which he had purchased over a dozen years ago with a loan of six hundred million low-grade spirit stones, including twenty-four percent fourth-grade spirit coins.

It had only one function: to restrict and capture the Nascent Soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator!

"Sitting idle and eating through a mountain, no matter how much wealth one has, it will eventually be spent. There must be a continuous income."

Jiang Ding's eyes flashed: "After killing Divine Crow Master Dinghai Zhenjun, Master Tushan Xiancheng, and even the entire land of the Three Kingdoms can restore order, providing at least fifty million low-grade spirit stones in income annually, which can meet most of my spirit stone needs."

"Even, the Spirit Beast City and General General Heishi's Black Snow Great Grassland…"

A look of longing appeared on his face.

A moment later, he shook his head again.

"No, the Zhengmo Alliance is still alive, with so many Nascent Souls. I can't be pinned down in one place, putting myself out in the open for some floating wealth."

"No rush, the whole world needs me to restore order, there's no hurry for any single place or moment."

Connected to the network, entered the verification information.

Click!

The silver-white box opened, revealing the item within.

It was a palm-sized net, pitch-black, refined from some unknown material. Just looking at it, one's divine sense would feel a stabbing pain as if cut by a blade.

Jiang Ding endured the pain, his divine sense surging into it, spending over a month leaving a divine sense imprint on it, performing an initial sacrifice refinement.

Only then did the stabbing pain of the divine sense disappear.

"It still needs magic power input to be used."

Jiang Ding estimated: "It's about thirty-five times my current magic power, and it still needs to go through the built-in compression array, compressed and condensed multiple times before it can be used. Take it slow, at most one year and it will be full."

His magic power was relatively mediocre, only slightly more than double that of an ordinary Jin Dan Chu Qi cultivator of scripture-grade Gong Fa, relying entirely on the continuous purification of sword intent and a five-times same-realm divine soul.

At present, without further ado, his dantian circulated, slowly inputting magic power, flowing into the talisman like water.

He waited until only sixty percent of the magic power remained in his dantian, then stopped.

This was the fastest rate of magic power recovery; any lower, and the recovery speed would become very slow, more loss than gain.

He put away the Infant-Banning Net.

Jiang Ding rose and flew toward the direction of Lianyun Air Port.

To this day, the super battleship Great Sun, whose design and construction time exceeded a hundred years, had finally completed its final construction, fully completed, ready for acceptance, and able to sail out of the shipyard.

"Hey, Jiang Ding."

At the horizon, An Siyan and Jin flew over together.

After stabilizing their Jin Dan Jing Gao Jie, the two seemed to have become somewhat younger in appearance, and so was their temperament, more lively, possessing a childlike heart.

For Foundation Establishment cultivators, being over a hundred and fifty years old meant life was already past its halfway point, beginning to head toward old age.

For Jin Dan cultivators, life had only just begun, in the prime of glorious years, the beautiful age of high spirits and vigor.

The two were very curious about the completed state of the Great Sun.

The three flew together through the sky.

"I heard Yu Yu Qianzi has gone into closed-door cultivation, about to break through to Jin Dan Zhong Qi."

An Siyan suddenly said, her words carrying considerable wariness.

"So soon?"

Jiang Ding was stunned.

Due to being captured, she had formed her core even later than him, yet unexpectedly today she was about to overtake him from behind, her cultivation about to surpass his.

It was called closed-door cultivation, but it was actually just a matter of breakthrough; there was no bottleneck that required such solemnity.

"Actually, for her, this may not be a good thing."

Jin Jin Lingfeng's silver hair bounced as she said with some schadenfreude: "I've looked into the cultivation speeds of Qingmuxian Sect Dao Children—some fast, some slow, but none broke through in just over twenty years. Their cultivation speed wasn't even as good as many outstanding core true disciples; not a single Dao Child was an exception."

"There must be some reason behind this."

"She probably didn't receive the inheritance of the Taiyi Taiyi Qingmu Dao Child."

Jiang Ding recalled that when the Great Sun Sword Pavilion was still called the Sun-Moon Sword Pavilion, it had inherited the Lunar Natal Flying Sword.

This item also required Supreme Clarity Divine Iron to refine. Even if the Sword Vein of Qingmuxian Sect possessed a complete inheritance, it could not cultivate a true Lunar Sword Child—this was a gap in external resources.

To make up for it was almost impossible.

As the three chatted, they passed through the layers of prohibitions of Lianyun Shipbuilding Heavy Industries, walking deeper into the shipyard.

One could see that, without Yu Yu Qianzi behind it, the security and inspection levels here had dropped a notch—no longer the kind that would readily use array patterns to grind away Soul Transformation Canghai Tianjun.

They arrived at the dock where the Great Sun was located.

A female Jin Dan Hou Qi cultivator wearing professional attire waited quietly before the dock. Upon seeing them, she bowed with hands clasped: "Hello, my name is Xia Xia Caiyun. Yun Gong Master Dinghai Zhenjun's teacher is busy with other matters, so I am responsible for receiving you and completing the acceptance work for the Great Sun."

"Hello, Student Xia."

Jiang Ding and the other two returned the courtesy.

They knew this female cultivator as well—she was a doctoral student in the Battleship Construction Department of Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou University, and they had met several times during inter-university exchanges.

Xia Xia Caiyun led the group inside.

After walking slowly for several dozen steps, the view before them suddenly opened up.

Jiang Ding held his breath, gazing at the steel giant before him.

One thousand two hundred and seventy-four meters in total length, three hundred and twenty-four meters wide, weighing 327,410 tons, constructed entirely of artificially synthesized materials and fourth-grade aviation aluminum spirit gold, with key load-bearing parts refined from various fourth-grade heavenly materials and earthly treasures of different systems. Fourth-grade Myriad Magnet Thunder Cloud Arrays were inscribed both inside and outside the battleship.

This array integrated offense and defense; relying on the outer armor plating, it could generate a peripheral magnetic cloud thunderstorm, annihilating all unauthorized spell attacks, physical attacks, and divine soul attacks.

Equipped with the fourth-grade electromagnetic system, the classic main cannon of the sky mother ship—the Magnetic Cloud Star-Splitting Cannon.

This is the Immortal Sect's top-tier fourth-grade electromagnetic artillery, second only to the Sky Fortress Cannon, named Star-Severing. In actual testing, after 1,143 consecutive bombardments, it could shatter a planet the size of Pluto, reducing it to tiny cosmic dust.

At this moment, bathed in sunlight, the Super Sun gleamed brilliantly, its silver-white radiance dazzling.

"Classmate Jiang, you may begin receiving."

Xia Xia Caiyun said, "Just leave a divine sense imprint on the warship's command core with your divine sense. But if you want to skillfully control it, you'll still need to refine it thoroughly through sacrificial refinement."

"Understood."

Jiang Ding nodded.

His divine sense unfurled, pouring into the super warship.

It went very smoothly, with no unfamiliarity. The surrounding hull flickered from time to time, sending waves of warmth, as if he had returned to his own hometown.

This was a super warship custom-designed for him.

His divine sense flowed along the warship into its interior, sweeping across the deck, passing through the cabins, the crew rest rooms — the Immortal Sect's sky carriers were originally designed to carry large numbers of Foundation Establishment cultivators' sky fighters, and Jin Dan cultivators' warships served to integrate combat, supply, and logistical transport functions into one.

This super warship similarly took on some similar functions, with corresponding design features.

His divine sense passed through the crew rest rooms, the dining hall, the Dai Sen mirror drone hangar, the supplies and ammunition warehouse, and other places, finally arriving at the ship's command room.

This was a space of several hundred square meters. On all sides, screens flickered with various information — ship status, speed, the operation of each formation array, the state of the spirit-particle engines, and so on. The lights of countless instruments flickered, dizzying to behold.

(End of Chapter)