Chapter 1943: Decision to Build Ships

"Don't panic, don't panic!"

Seeing Old Tong getting more and more worked up as he spoke, He Pingsheng hurriedly said, "Old Tong, stop for a moment, have a sip of tea, then speak slowly!"

Old Tong hurriedly stopped, took a sip of tea, then sorted out his thoughts a little, and said, "Young Master... actually, just now I was a bit too worked up... those things, they're not very possible!"

"However, building ships for our He family is still possible!"

So, next Old Tong explained the matter of shipbuilding from his perspective as an artifact refiner.

Shipbuilding also belongs to a type of artifact refining, but the special thing about shipbuilding lies in the fact that it uses mostly materials, and they are relatively complex.

The price is also extremely expensive.

Divine Realm ships, in terms of use, are divided into three types.

The first type is for personal use, small flying boats used for travel.

For example, the several flying boats in He Pingsheng's hands.

This type belongs to personal use.

Not many materials are used in manufacturing; generally speaking, personal flying boats aren't particularly expensive either.

Making this thing, the profit isn't great.

The second type is those especially gigantic, unshrinkable divine ships; these are generally official procurements, used to carry large batches of passengers from one city to another.

The divine ship's speed is only a bit faster than those ordinary personal flying boats, but overall the speed is also extremely limited.

Moreover, the demand for this kind of divine ship is extremely low; you might build one and not necessarily be able to sell it.

The third type is the flying boats used by sects.

This kind of divine boat is not especially gigantic, but not small either.

Generally speaking, when deployed it spans a hundred zhang or several hundred zhang in size, with a grand hall or several grand halls built on top.

Besides the grand halls, some ordinary rooms can also be built.

This kind of divine boat can transport dozens to hundreds of people at once, even up to a thousand people is possible.

For example, Xin Baobao's sixth-tier divine boat, or Yu Si's divine boat.

This kind of divine boat generally has extremely fast speed; if completely refined, its speed far exceeds that of divine ships.

Generally speaking, a large clan has at least one such divine boat.

This way they can transport disciples.

For instance, when going to participate in clan competitions, trials, Mystic Realms, etc., this thing is of crucial importance.

Without one, you'd be mocked by other clans.

Of course, the attrition rate of this kind of divine boat is also astonishing.

Because the Divine Realm has never been peaceful; there are always some people who like to ambush others — one sword strike and the divine boat is destroyed.

Not to mention others; just on He Pingsheng's journey so far, his own flying boats have been destroyed who knows how many times.

For He Pingsheng, manufacturing this kind of flying boat has another benefit: enhancement.

Enhancing a furnace of pills takes me a year; enhancing a flying boat also takes a year.

It's definitely better to go enhance a flying boat.

"This..." He Pingsheng asked, "Old Tong, if we build ships, is it difficult?"

"Difficult!" Old Tong's brows furrowed slightly. "Building ships... if we're only talking about the divine boats owned by sects, manufacturing them is still very difficult!"

"First, these ships generally include four parts: the hull part, the buildings part, the array formations part, and the space part!"

"I'll explain them one by one!"

"This hull part will be my responsibility; although it's troublesome, if we build the hull in sections, I can still complete it — at least a third-tier divine ship is no problem!"

"The buildings part is the simplest; it's just placing the grand halls, rooms, etc., onto the hull!"

"The real difficult ones are the array formations and the space!"

He Pingsheng asked, "Array formations... we have array masters too!"

He Pingsheng suddenly thought of Lian Neon.

If that woman Lian Neon were here, having her handle the divine arrays would be fine.

However, this woman has left the He family for a long time; no idea how she is now.

"Not the same!" Old Tong said, "The array formations I'm talking about aren't the defensive and offensive arrays on the ship; those are simple, we can get them easily!"

"What I mean is energy conversion array formations!"

"That is, converting the energy from divine power or divine gold into thrust, the array formation that accelerates the divine boat's flight!"

"Ordinary people don't know this!"

He Pingsheng asked, "Do you know it?"

"This I don't know!" Old Tong said, "I've never even seen it; these things are the painstaking research of certain Divine Realm clans over hundreds of millions of years, kept very secret — ordinary people can't get them!"

"We only have one way: purchasing!"

"Buying ready-made array formations to install on the divine boat, or, based on your own divine boat design, going to those clans to provide corresponding improved array formations!"

"There's even this?" He Pingsheng felt a bit incredulous. "Then... on the Divine Realm market, can you buy these array formation blueprints?"

"Cannot!" Old Tong said with absolute certainty. "At least... us Lower Gods and Middle Gods absolutely cannot buy them!"

"Young Master, this fourth part is space!"

"Divine boats emphasize changing at will, can be large or small!"

"When in use, deployed, it's a hundred zhang or thousand zhang in size; when stowed away into a ring, it's palm-sized!"

"All these changes are supported by Dao laws!"

"I understand!" He Pingsheng said, "It requires finding an expert who has cultivated space rules, to attach space Dao laws onto this divine boat, right?"

"No!" Old Tong didn't give He Pingsheng any face at all, directly denying it. "The universal method in the Divine Realm is array formations!"

"Certain clans have mastered this kind of spatial talisman, inscribing the formation into a divine talisman, then fusing the divine talisman bearing the spatial formation into the divine vessel — and the divine vessel thereby gains the ability to transform at will!"

"Likewise, the method for inscribing this kind of formation is also held only in the hands of an extremely few clans!"

"These clans in the Divine Realm have countless branches, distributed throughout the entire Divine Realm, specializing in selling this kind of formation divine talisman!"

"We, still need to purchase them!"

He Pingsheng could be considered to have understood.

To build a ship, the hull and buildings — these basic, simple things — can be handled by oneself; the complex, core things all need to be purchased.

This way, not only would costs increase countless times, the key point is that the quality of the divine ships produced still cannot be guaranteed.

But, because there is the Ju Ju Bao Pen, everything will become simple.

"I understand!" He Pingsheng nodded.

Old Cao said: "Then... why don't we try first, manufacture some to test, and see just what the profit is like?"

"If in the future we can truly produce suitable divine ships, we might well open a sailing route, transporting people from Heavenly Phoenix City to Heavenly Scorpion King City!"

"That would be no small income!"

"Deal!" He Pingsheng said: "Then... Old Tong, you take the lead... do a trial run of this first; if you need manpower, ask Old Cao!"

"I have one million mid-grade divine gold here, you take it for use first!"

He Pingsheng had been in seclusion for over four million years, continuously using the Ju Ju Bao Pen the whole time, and in one go strengthened over eight million mid-grade divine gold.