Legendary Clan Chief
Chapter 523 - 509: Heaven Grade Battleship, Spirit Material as Lock _1

Chapter 523: Chapter 509: Heaven Grade Battleship, Spirit Material as Lock _1

At this moment, Xiao Chen finally understood why the Void Battleship wasn’t melted by the magma. The surface of the warship had a thin blue protective shield, blocking the rolling magma.

Xiao Chen guessed that this dark blue protective layer was the defense shield of the Void Battleship. The mere thought of this made Xiao Chen ecstatic. If this Void Battleship was able to activate the defense shield, this meant that it was at least at the Heaven Grade level.

Even the blueprint for the Void Battleship, that he had exchanged for the Purple Crystal Ascendant Vine, only detailed how to forge one of the Terrestrial tier.

The Void Battleship had several grades, which were terrestrial, heaven, and king level. Each grade was further divided, and there were subtle differences in areas such as defense, attack, and speed for each battleship.

Being able to activate a defense shield was a sign that a battleship had reached the Heaven Grade level. There were rumors in the Great Wasteland that a Void Battleship at the King level had a semblance of intelligence that could autonomously operate the ship.

Hum, hum, hum!

Xiao Chen’s Soul Perception, like a tide, surged into the magma three hundred feet below. His mental power permeated into this light blue shield. This light blue shield, like a bubble, was impervious to the rolling, churning magma.

The light blue shield could block the rolling magma, but it posed no resistance to Xiao Chen’s mental perception. His mental perception, like a tidal wave, stuck to this faint blue shield, continuously surrounding the entire battleship.

In Xiao Chen’s mind.

This was a battleship nearly ninety feet in size, completely black. At the bow and stern of the ship, there were sculptures of ferocious exotic beasts. Xiao Chen recognized them as Void Beasts, formidable creatures that often traveled through space turbulence. They had an innate ability to travel through the void, making them killers in the Void Turbulence.

Moreover, there were twelve Elemental Stone Cannons on each side of the Void Battleship, but, to Xiao Chen’s eyes at that moment, out of the total of twenty-four Elemental Stone Cannons, fewer than twenty remained intact. The rest had been destroyed, reduced to a pile of scrap iron placed upon the cannons’ mounts.

A hole about ten feet in size was even more noticeable at the bow of the entire ship. According to Xiao Chen, this large hole should be the place where the warship’s main cannon was placed. It had been blasted away. At the stern of the ship, there was also an Elemental Stone Cannon of bigger size compared to the side cannons.

Countless holes, big and small, were all over the ship. The tall ship tower was twisted and broken, smeared with blood.

Moreover, Xiao Chen found the corpses of thousands of warriors on the ship. They wore armor slightly different from the current ones in the Great Wasteland. Maybe they had been buried under three hundred feet of lava, cut off from the world. The faces of these warriors were still lifelike, capturing their final expressions, filled with unwillingness and anger, as if crying out injustice!

It was hard to imagine what sort of power had managed to sink this gigantic battleship nearly a hundred feet in size into the flames so thoroughly that thousands of warriors aboard the ship didn’t have a chance to escape, left to be buried in the flames.

Smoke covered the warship, filled with cluttered corpses, and it was all buried beneath the magma, lost to the world.

Hu!

Pulling back his immense mental power, Xiao Chen found that practicing in this dense, fiery magma consumed a lot of his energy. His face was slightly pale at the moment, but it was all worth it.

A Void Battleship, one that had reached at least the Heaven Grade. This was comparable to a Martial Arts warrior of Rank Eight or even Nine in the Towering Realm. Even though it’s not clear yet whether it focuses on speed, defense, or offense, it was still a piece of tremendous luck for the Gu Yuan Tribe.

Even though it had gone through a war and the hull had been damaged, Xiao Chen found that the battleship was not completely damaged. The mere fact that it could activate its defense shield showed that some functions were still operating on their own.

Besides, Xiao Chen guessed that this unknown warship was focusing on defense. Otherwise, how could it resist the burning of the Blazing Magma and let Xiao Chen take advantage of it?

After a long while, Xiao Chen finished his practice and opened his eyes. The paleness of his face was replaced with a healthy, rosy glow. However, the mental strength he had consumed this time would take several days to recover fully.

Roar, roar, roar!

Seeing Xiao Chen open his eyes, the little Pegasus let out a loud roar. Its golden eyes flickered with a look of pride, indicating to Xiao Chen that it hadn’t lied to him.

He gently patted the Pegasus’s head, calming him down, and Xiao Chen couldn’t help but smile. Then, he took out several pills and put them in the Pegasus’s mouth as a reward.

Looking at the rolling molten lava, Xiao Chen couldn’t help but give a bitter smile. Even though he knew he had a Void Battleship with a strength comparable to a dignitary right in front of him, he was helpless. That’s because it’s extremely difficult to pull the battleship out of the molten magma.

This three hundred feet deep underground magma, even he did not dare to explore easily. Even with the enhancement of Combat Qi and War Body, the magma was so hot that it would be challenging to protect his body without consuming enormous amount of Combat Qi.

Even if he could dive to the position of the battleship, how could he lift the warship almost a hundred feet in size, and heavy as a mountain? He was unable to reach such benefits within sight. This made Xiao Chen itch with anticipation. Fortunately, he confirmed that a warship indeed exists under the magma. He believed he would eventually figure out a way to pull this Void Battleship entirely out of the magma for the Gu Yuan Tribe to use.

Three days later.

In the Ancient Mountains, thousands of miles from the outskirts of the Gu Yuan Tribe, thunderclouds gathered and lightning danced, making all the creatures in the Desolate Ancient Forest bow to the ground.

On top of the ancient mountain, ten miles outside the storm, three figures stood on the peak.

"Nianhua, with the Lei Jie on Granny Hua now, what’s there to worry about?"

Behind Xiao Chen, a green figure and a red figure stood close to each other. Their beautiful faces outshined the entire ancient mountain.

"Yes, sister, Granny Hua has been in the Blood Refining Realm Limit for decades, her foundation is solid. How could she not survive the Lei Jie? Now Sister can rest assured."

With her arm linked to Mu Qing’s, Nianhua’s face showed a touch of excitement. Her worries were resolved as her master, Granny Hua, had survived the Lei Jie.

"We should thank the clan leader, if not..."

Nianhua halted in mid-sentence as she saw Xiao Chen looking at her, her pretty face showing a trace of mischief.

"Sister speaking like this, even Brother Xiao is displeased."

Upon seeing Xiao Chen’s and Nianhua’s small actions, Mu Qing expressed a tinge of jealousy, instantly provoking Nianhua to tease her. The peak of the ancient mountain instantly filled with gentle giggle-like sounds.

After a while, the two women stop their teasing and start looking at Granny Hua in the distance, who was continuously absorbing abundant Heaven and Earth’s Vital Energy. After undergoing the tribulation of Heaven’s Calamity, Granny Hua was now forging her own Martial Arts Tower.

However, it was obvious that Granny Hua didn’t use the medium grade elemental stone prepared by Xiao Chen, the vitality accumulated after Heaven’s Calamity was enough to build her Martial Arts Tower. Of course, this also meant that the quality of the tower she forged wouldn’t be high.

After a long time, Granny Hua stabilized her cultivation, flew to the peak of the ancient mountain where Xiao Chen was, gave a bow to Xiao Chen before saying, "If not for Clan Leader’s full support, this old lady wouldn’t have been able to step into the Towering Realm in this lifetime."

"Master, what grade is the Martial Arts Tower you have forged?"

Although she knew that the quality of the Martial Arts Tower her master forged wouldn’t be high, Nianhua still asked unconsciously.

"Fourth Grade!"

Seeing Nianhua’s expression, as a master, how could she not understand what her disciple was thinking. She continued, "In my lifetime, I never imagined to breakthrough to the Towering Realm. Now that I have stepped into the Towering Realm, it’s already a great opportunity in my life, henceforth, I will live for a thousand years."

"Moreover, I am clear that without the Purple Crystal Ascendant Vine, the quality of the Martial Arts Tower of the Towering Realm that I forged would just be lower grade. Now, being able to forge a middle-grade Martial Arts Tower, what’s there to be dissatisfied about? Besides, in the Great Wasteland, how many people have obtained this kind of opportunity like me."

Seeing Granny Hua’s open-mindedness, the trio did not dwell on this matter anymore. After all, the fourth-grade Martial Arts Tower signifies the ability to cultivate to the fourth level of the Towering Realm. This was sufficient to equate to an existence of a clan leader of a superior Battle Division.

Even if it’s the entire Desolate Wilds, the middle-grade fourth rank Martial Arts Tower wasn’t something that could be easily condensed. It’s just that the warriors of the Gu Yuan Tribe who had broken through the Towering Realm had all condensed superior-grade Martial Arts Tower, making people feel it was a common occurrence.

"Clan Leader, once I’ve stabilized my cultivation, I’ll go to Giant Stone Valley to preside over the Treasure Gathering Pavilion."

Xiao Chen’s arrangement was known to Granny Hua a few months ago. Now that she had advanced to the Towering Realm, this task had also been put on her schedule.

Subsequently, Granny Hua made the excuse of going back to stabilize her cultivation, to leave some space for the three of Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen sat on the green stone at the top of the mountain, watching the two girls’ teasing each other, occasionally joining in, which led to the girls jointly berating him.

Halfway through their talking, Xiao Chen informed the two girls about the Void Battleship in the volcano’s magma.

"Brother Xiao, we have a lot of men from the Gu Yuan Tribe, and considering that the Void Battleship weighs tens of thousands of catties, we are still capable of pulling it out of the magma."

"The temperature is extremely high three hundred zhang below the volcanic magma, enough to burn gold and melt stones. Even spirit materials can melt, how can we lower the iron chain?"

However, Xiao Chen’s reply made both women giggle.

"Brother Xiao, you are in the game and confused. Although the temperature of the Blazing Magma is high, our aim is to pull out the Void Battleship, not to forge spiritual weapons."

"That’s right, what Qing Er said is right. Even if it can melt spirit materials, it still needs time. As long as we pull the battleship out within this time, wouldn’t we be successful?"

During the evening.

Xiao Chen returned to the tribe, gathered the third elder of the tribe, and many craftsmen from the God Weapon Hall, and gave a puzzling order to take out the spirit materials from the Tribal Treasury and forge chains.

Using spirit materials for forging spiritual weapons to forge chains, did the Clan Leader believe there were too many spirit materials in the tribe with nowhere to use them?