Chapter 2308 - 2048: Unmatched True Artifact

For Taishi Ci now, money really isn’t an issue, as the entire Japanese government is working hard to mine for his Demon God of Great Black Heaven!

As a god with the attribute of loving wealth and moreover a powerful deity, one strong enough to challenge the main god-level deities like the Three Noble Sons in Japanese mythology, not to mention he helped them unify the whole of Japan, even if he hadn’t, they would still offer everything on bended knee.

After all, he is a deity, more importantly, a very powerful one. Isn’t it their deepest desire to dedicate everything to powerful deities?

What’s more, the Demon God of Great Black Heaven Taishi Ci not only demonstrated unparalleled powerful strength, he also bestowed them with favorable weather throughout the four seasons; trivial gold and silver for peace of mind!

Thus, the entire Japanese Country has entered a strange phase, with the entire nation fervently mining, from the government to the people, all in a frenzy to present wealth to the Demon God of Great Black Heaven.

Of course, Taishi Ci didn’t pay much attention to these things. Anyway, Chen Xi had given him the certificates to adjust the seasonal weather to his little wife Void Tsujimikado. Coupled with the blessings he provided, Void Tsujimikado is nearly the top expert in Japan now, equivalent to a Manifest God.

After all, the entire nation’s seasonal weather is controlled by this woman, and Void Tsujimikado holds near-reverential respect for Taishi Ci, so the country is practically beyond salvation under Taishi Ci’s influence; the whole nation is fervently gold prospecting in hopes of receiving the Demon God of Great Black Heaven’s blessing.

However, the issue now is that the Demon God of Great Black Heaven has sailed back to his homeland. Once outside the boundaries of Japan, the occasional prayers of his followers he used to hear are no longer audible.

"Let’s go, Wen Xiang, come with me to Lul Family Shipyard, let’s first build ten Xingba Vessels!" said Taishi Ci full of spirit to Xu Sheng. Now their fleet once again has two experts at the Inner Qi Manifestation Rank, "The spirit of Xingba will surely bless us!"

"Achoo!" Gan Ning, who was advancing towards the title of Pirate King, suddenly sneezed. He couldn’t help but glance around, "Let’s go, conquer the next pirate camp, the whole Indian Ocean’s pirates will be unified under my hand!"

After disembarking, Taishi Ci began unloading. Unlike the days when Gan Ning would unload spices and jewels, which filled the whole ship, this time gold and silver served as ballast cargo.

So there was no need to call anyone for help this time. Speaking of which, when Gan Ning used to call for help, it was half to show others how wealthy their navy was. Though half was to be submitted to the state, the remainder was more than enough to keep the navy well-fed and clothed.

This is why Gan Ning often called people to help unload, to let those fishing for a living on the East Sea seacoast see how wealthy their navy was, and entice them to join the navy family.

After all, expanding the navy was a matter of Gan Ning’s word. As long as the limit hadn’t been reached, Gan Ning could freely adjust the setup, so he often acted like an unsophisticated tycoon, letting everyone come to move spices and jewels.

But now without Gan Ning, Taishi Ci felt somewhat reminiscent, so he was unwilling to bother the fishermen, choosing instead to carry the loads himself. To be honest, with thousands in the navy, unloading was simple, just a few dozen tons of cargo was nothing.

Soon Taishi Ci had unloaded the gold and silver, and also obtained the current standard price of gold and silver. No difference, gold remained at one hundred million coins, and for silver, it was about the same price.

Taishi Ci casually summoned Mi Fang, asking him for the actual price. Mi Fang, from the Mi Family, had calculated these goods many times; he had not only to give face to his elder brother but also to Taishi Ci. The value of these gold and silver amounts to over forty billion coins.

He didn’t conceal and directly gave Taishi Ci a real price, with which Taishi Ci was satisfied. He then commanded to store two-thirds of the gold and silver in the Mi Family Merchant Guild’s warehouse and took one-third of the gold and silver to the Lul Family, solid and substantial blocks of gold and silver.

"General Taishi, what wind brings you to our Lul Family Shipyard today!" Even before Taishi Ci arrived at the Lul Family, the steward of the Lul Family got the news and came to greet him halfway, also sending someone to notify Lul Family Head Lul Jun of big business.

"The navy needs to replace warships, give me ten Seventh Generation Ships!" Taishi Ci said casually. These kinds of deals were real big business, and the navy always had the unilateral authority for changing ships, of course, this is conditional on having the money.

"Please sit, please sit down first." The Lul Family’s steward, having spent years in the shipyard, understood how expensive the Lul Family’s warships were, practically daylight robbery, yet the navy was inordinately rich. The Seventh Generation Ship may be expensive, but at one hundred million coins per ship, it’s still a take-or-leave attitude, and Taishi Ci directly ordered ten ships!

Taishi Ci didn’t mind, and the Lul Family’s servants brought tea, snacks, and all kinds of meats. The shipyard wasn’t concerned with too many courtesies, and Lul Jun didn’t keep Taishi Ci waiting long, soon rushing over.

"Oh, Ziyi, it’s actually you coming to buy ships, that rascal Gan Xingba hasn’t returned yet?" Lul Jun said with a smile.

"What did you say?" Taishi Ci asked, stupefied by the comment. He remembered he had told Lul Jun before that Gan Ning had sacrificed himself; now hearing Lul Jun saying this again, was he trying to start trouble? Instantly, Taishi Ci showed a displeased expression.

"Eh?" Lul Jun, being the Head of the Lul Family and a person who has seen the world, naturally noticed the unusual expression on Taishi Ci’s face and instantly reacted, "Ziyi, you wouldn’t really think Xingba died in battle, would you?"

"I saw it with my own eyes," Taishi Ci said angrily, looking at Lul Jun.

"However, he didn’t die. Some time ago, I traveled to Ye City and spoke to Marquis Chen about this matter, feeling deeply regretful over Xingba’s sacrifice. After all, Gan Xingba is also my good friend. I even set up a memorial for him and went to Ye City to send him off at the Gan Family, but you know the story," Lul Jun quickly said.

To be honest, Lul Jun and Gan Ning always had a particularly good relationship, so upon hearing of Gan Ning’s sacrifice, he personally went to Ye City to prepare to send him off. However, when he arrived, the Gan Family knew nothing about it. Lul Jun, not being a simpleton, quickly sought out Chen Xi for inquiries.

This kind of unusual affair, if others don’t pay attention, Chen Xi could still keep it hidden, but if specially asked, Chen Xi could only speak the truth.

"Xingba is alive!" Taishi Ci was ecstatic, stood up at once, and stood in the hall, "Thinking about it, he must be trapped in Kushan, but with Xingba’s wit, it won’t be a big problem."

Taishi Ci was no fool and quickly understood why Li Youu initially forbade spreading the news, which was why it never got out later. Similarly, on Gan Ning’s side, as long as he wasn’t dead initially, most likely he was merely trapped later, indicating that the other party intended to subdue Gan Ning or was apprehensive of the Han Dynasty, not daring to act rashly. In any case, since he wasn’t dead at first, then Gan Ning now could not be in danger.

Thus, for Taishi Ci, what he had to do was to rescue Gan Ning.

"Rest assured, that guy has his own fortune and will definitely be fine. Perhaps before you rescue him, he’ll manage to get out himself," Lul Jun laughed and said, "By the way, didn’t you say you wanted to build ships? How’s the Seventh Generation Ship working out?"

"Excellent, I’ve never seen a better warship. If we had this ship in South Blue, even a defeat wouldn’t have led to such a dire situation as before," Taishi Ci had swept away his previous gloominess, his entire demeanor high-spirited, once again regaining the aura of conquering the world.

"Haha, what you call the Seventh Generation Ship is just a stripped-down version. Do you want to experience the real Seventh Generation Ship?" Lul Jun licked his lips and said enticingly.

Lul Jun wasn’t speaking nonsense; the Seventh Generation Ship that Taishi Ci had now was indeed a cut version. The real Seventh Generation Ship was now only a one hundred to one model, but precisely because it was a perfect one hundred to one model, Lul Jun was able to make it.

Otherwise, the pure steel construction, all-around nurturing structure, defensive power close to that of a city wall, the battleship couldn’t be made even if the Lul Family was sold.

Back then, just for the design of the Seventh Generation Ship, the Lul Family was almost turned upside down by Lul Jun, selling everything, including hitting rock bottom, for iron. Fortunately, the Lul Family was small, with less than ten people including big and small cats, and with Lul Jun as the Head, in another family, Lul Jun would have been knocked off his position by the elders.

In short, due to Lul Jun’s extreme perfectionist solution for the Seventh Generation Ship, in the end, even the purely steel structure battleship template Lul Jun fantasized about couldn’t be achieved, and neither could the iron birchwood structured battlecruiser template.

Now, Lul Jun could only play with the handcrafted one hundred-to-one refined iron model weighing thirty kilograms, one and a half meters long, fifty centimeters at the widest point, and nine centimeters high under the Chen Xi version of the metric system, along with the iron birchwood model weighing twenty kilograms, two meters two long, seventy centimeters wide, and fifteen centimeters high.

This is the truly complete model, scaled down by a hundred times in every detail. For these two models, Lul Jun spent thirty million coins, mainly for hiring Grand Craftsmen to create parts scaled down by a hundred times and for bribing Ma Jun and Zheng Hun to design heavy crossbow mechanisms as the main cannon relying on Heaven and Earth Essence for high mechanical energy conversion to kinetic energy.

Finally, after everything was successfully assembled and floating on the water, Lul Jun was truly excited beyond measure, and its defensive and offensive power after nurturing were extremely terrifying.

But after estimating the cost, Lul Jun expressed that if no one invests in this thing, it would probably only remain as a model for a lifetime. The true complete version of the steel Seventh Generation Ship, not mentioning labor, production, and other expenses, but just talking about material costs.

Start with a thirty thousand tonne refined iron block, this thing requires such a massive amount of refined iron just to be forged; after nurturing, Lul Jun expressed that this thing not only has the fearsome defense like a city wall but also comes with its own Cloud Qi, equipped with newly designed mechanical energy-efficient conversion kinetic energy crossbow cannon, capable of sonic attacks surpassing tenfold speeds against ships dozens of miles away.

In short, Lul Jun guarantees by patting his chest that as long as this thing is made, it will absolutely be invincible, and any ship is like child’s play in front of this thirty thousand tonne displacement giant vessel.

By changing the material structure and increasing the efficiency of mechanical energy conversion with the new design of the Heaven and Earth Essence Formation crossbow cannon, just one hit, even Taishi Ci previously used Xingba Vessel, believe me, just one sonic attack over five kilometers per second from a super heavy crossbow cannon would be enough to smash it into pieces, this is the invincible warship designed by Lul Jun, but I forgot to mention this super heavy crossbow cannon requires seven hundred tonnes of steel.

At this moment, Taishi Ci indicated that he was dumbstruck, "Are you sure this is a warship? And a heavy crossbow bolt at five thousand meters per second, what are you trying to do?"