Chapter 1949

The Dragon family has seven Divine Lords in total!

Among them, three are male and four are female.

The head of the family is the Dragon family's ancestor, who is at the ninth layer of the Divine Lord realm, with immense cultivation and combat power far surpassing his peers, which is why he holds the position of deputy city lord of Tianfeng City.

The Dragon family's industries are certainly not limited to shipbuilding alone.

Shipbuilding is merely one of their dozens of industries.

The scale of the Dragon family's shipbuilding is not large either—only about a hundred to a hundred and ten ships per year. They have a total of six third-tier artifact refiners, plus one chief fourth-tier artifact refiner.

The divine vessels crafted by the Dragon family are primarily supplied to Tianfeng City and surrounding clans.

As deputy city lord, the Dragon family's ancestor is also a man who values face; he absolutely does not allow others to speak ill of him behind his back, so he did not directly suppress the He family.

Instead, he cut off the He family's timber supply to the family—like removing the firewood from under the pot.

He believed this would cause the small two-star He family to retreat in difficulty.

But the He family did not retreat; in fact, they had stockpiled sufficient goods.

The He family's divine vessels gradually opened up sales channels in Tianfeng City, mainly because someone discovered that the performance of the He family's flying vessels was quite good—even surpassing that of the Dragon family's divine vessels.

Especially in terms of speed.

Because when purchasing the energy conversion array formations, the He family always chose top-grade ones, resulting in greater thrust and more efficient use of divine power.

Their flight speed was also faster.

Moreover, the He family's shop also carries top-tier third-tier divine vessels.

The speed of these vessels is even more heaven-defying.

To put it this way: under normal circumstances, a third-tier divine vessel departing from Tianfeng City to fly to Scorpion King City would take a very long time.

Low-grade ones require decades, medium-grade ones twenty years or more, and high-grade ones seven to eight years.

The He family's top-tier flying vessel, however, can make the trip in just a year.

So the question arises: if the He family can craft top-tier flying vessels, why can't the Dragon family, who possess a fourth-tier artifact refiner, do the same?

The answer is no.

Because whether it's the Dragon family or the He family, building flying vessels is essentially just assembling them.

The core energy array formations and spatial array formations still depend on the Cheng family of Scorpion King City and the Huaxu Divine Valley.

Top-tier divine vessels require every single component to be top-tier: the spatial array formation must be top-tier, the energy array formation must be top-tier, and the hull must be top-tier!

Only when everything is top-tier can there be a chance to refine a top-tier vessel.

Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible.

Not to mention that the Dragon family cannot possibly purchase top-tier array formations—even if they wanted to, the suppliers would need to have them in stock!

When these two major families produce array formations, the probability of producing a top-tier one is extremely low; once produced, such items are hoarded and never flow to families like the He or Dragon families.

Thus, in this regard, the Dragon family falls short of the He family.

Some wealthy families, seeking only top-tier vessels, have no choice but to turn to the He family.

Even some families, upon seeing that the He family can produce top-tier divine vessels, consider purchasing one even if they already have enough divine vessels at home.

But the problem is, the He family's top-tier divine vessels are not unlimited—He Pingsheng can only strengthen two per year at most.

Obtaining one is no easy feat!

Therefore, many powerful local families in Tianfeng City have directly gone to the He family on Mount Tianze.

To order top-tier vessels!

Soon, the He family's top-tier divine vessel orders had already piled up to over a thousand ships, with prices astonishingly high.

But the high price is not an issue—as long as delivery can be made.

He Pingsheng also needs to strengthen the Three Zhang Valley, so he cannot devote all his efforts to strengthening divine vessels; after accepting a thousand orders, he stopped selling externally.

……

Dragon family!

Training ground!

A young man in dark red Daoist robes punched forward, shattering the six array formations before him in succession with a series of puffs.

"Good..."

"Seventeenth Young Master is impressive!"

"Hehehe..."

A round of cheers erupted around them.

A certain middle-aged man sitting in the main seat, watching, had his stern expression melt into a smile as he stroked his beard and said: "Old Seventeen is not bad—his combat power can be said to far surpass his peers!"

"Our Dragon family also has successors now!"

"Yes... Seventeenth Young Master is the Dragon family's first genius!"

"What do you mean, 'Dragon family's first genius'?"

"Now, we should say he is the first genius of the Divine Spirit realm in Tianfeng City—he is currently at the seventh layer of the Divine Spirit realm; I estimate that even if he faced someone at the twelfth layer of the Divine Spirit realm, he would at most be at a disadvantage!"

"Once this boy enters the Divine Lord realm, our Dragon family will surely rise to a new level!"

The crowd laughed and praised him heartily.

The Dragon family's ancestor also nodded: "Long Yutai, this boy is not bad!"

"He quite resembles my own bearing back in the day—hahahaha!" He stroked his beard.

"Oh right... I've been in seclusion this period—has anything happened in our Dragon family?"

Dragon family ancestor Long Zhi Du casually asked.

"Nothing much has happened!" someone said.

But another person said: "Although nothing major has occurred, there are still minor matters—a tiny two-star family has actually dared to come against our Dragon family—how laughable!"

"If not for this old man's magnanimity, I'd truly like to go over and wipe out that tiny He clan in one fell swoop!"

"Oh?" Long Zhidu's brows furrowed slightly as he said, "Brother Fubo, what prompts these words?"

Daoist Fubo cupped his hands toward Long Zhidu and said, "There's a He clan that doesn't know its place; it's said to be a two-star clan, and now they've started building ships too!"

"The divine ships they produce aren't bad, and they're selling them right in Tianfeng City, hehehe..."

"This old man, out of regard for the Vice City Lord's face, didn't interfere excessively, but this clan is truly rather ignorant of the times!"

Long Zhidu asked, "Does it affect our Long clan's shipbuilding business?"

"Not at present!" Daoist Fubo shook his head. "But it warrants vigilance; they can now produce supreme-grade third-tier divine boats, and quite a few major clans in Tianfeng City have gone there to place orders!"

"What?" Long Zhidu's brow furrowed. "There's such a thing?"

"But... how can a mere two-star clan produce third-tier divine ships?"

"And supreme-grade at that?"

This point puzzled Long Zhidu greatly.

Fubo said, "I've made inquiries. The reason they're a two-star clan is because they haven't upgraded; in reality, within this clan, the clan head is at the Divine Spirit realm, and several elders in the family are also at the Divine Spirit realm!"

"There are four or five at the Divine Spirit realm!"

"As for why they can refine supreme-grade divine boats, this poor daoist also cannot fathom!"

"Strange, truly strange!"

"If this continues, it will shake the foundation of our Long clan's shipbuilding!"

"This poor daoist cannot think of a better way to deal with them for the time being!"

"I wonder what thoughts the Clan Head has?"

Fubo looked at Long Zhidu.

Daoist Fubo's status in the Long clan was transcendent, because he was at the Divine Monarch realm, and moreover a fourth-tier Artifact Refiner.

Many of the Long clan's shipbuilding plans originated from his hand.

"Direct suppression wouldn't be good!" Long Zhidu pondered for a moment, then said: "How about this... let Long Yutai make a trip, hehehe, in the name of 'visiting to discuss the Dao'..."