Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 431 What a huge flying boat!

Flying boats remain extremely rare among players of the game "Ten Continents Chronicle".

Of course, high cost and high price are only one aspect. The main reason is that the technology required to operate the flying boat is quite high. Even if NPCs are hired, it is difficult because the native cultivators who are capable of operating flying boats are too expensive and too few in number. As a result, compared with the tens of thousands of players in the entire server, there are only a pitiful dozen or so flying boats in total. Most of them are low-end versions developed by Longshan Sheyi, with 90% of the functions cut off, leaving only the ability to fly.

"and……"

With a deafening roar, a massive flying boat suddenly crashed onto a distant hillside, snapping many trees and crushing countless rocks and soil. Its hull blotted out the sky; even from hundreds of meters away, Zheng Qian could only see its bow, unable to discern its entirety.

Shiba Inu Cai Cai stared dumbfounded at the scene that followed her accidental selection of the "Take Out the Flying Boat" option on a whim, and exclaimed in shock:
"Commander, it's really huge..."

Not only was Shiba Inu Cai Cai shocked, but the other players who witnessed this scene were also speechless with shock.

Everyone's seen flying boats before. For example, the Chang'an Sheyi people constantly flaunt their flying boat, which they claim was a gift from an NPC. The Longshan Sheyi people, having hired many native cultivators, have even broken through the limitations of small flying boat technology and are selling them directly in the Longshan Port free trade market. Even the well-known friendly yet cunning merchant NPC faction, the Fu Lu Shou Merchant Guild, which frequently comes to sell a bunch of miscellaneous goods, arrives in flying boats of various sizes and scales.

But those airships were just like ordinary ships, limited in size, at most equivalent to a modern medium-sized cruise ship. But the airship in front of us was frighteningly large—no, it could no longer be called an airship, it was almost a city shaped like a ship!

……

On the other side, Fang Xianyu also had a thought.

"No way? The grand prize I designed was already drawn after only half a day!?"

That's right, this flying boat is the product of Fang Xianyu's month-long repair and modification using system energy points after he "confiscated" the largest flying boat of the Taiyi Ziwei Sect!
Its length alone reached an astonishing nearly two hundred zhang, which, converted to Earth's units, is almost 600 meters!
Comparing its width, the entire airship is larger than an aircraft carrier!

In addition, Fang Xianyu specially designed it as a spiritual artifact. As long as enough spiritual power is input, it can fly on its own and has the most basic "automatic cruise" function, which does not require manual operation!
Fang Xianyu spent a lot of energy points on this airship, just to use it as a carrot dangling in front of the players, so that even if the casualty rate was too high, it would still encourage them to run dungeons and earn such "rewards".

Of course, Fang Xianyu wasn't the type to engage in underhanded tactics; she genuinely put this thing in the reward pool...

According to Fang Xianyu's design, each dungeon completion chest will automatically contain one high-level drop, five mid-level drops, and twenty pieces of junk (low-level equipment, pills, items, etc.) randomly selected from the pool. Among the high-level drops, only the flying boat is truly valuable; the others are mostly currently available special effects costumes, Xuan-level spirit weapons with flashy special effects, modern-looking furniture and ornaments, and some miscellaneous items.

Logically speaking, Fang Xianyu had prepared over ten thousand rewards in the high-level reward pool, most of which were useless but easy to appease players with furniture and decorations, and almost worthless special effects costumes. But unexpectedly, even with such a large reward pool, Chai Gou Cai Cai still managed to draw the winning item – the rewards were distributed by a "system" created by Fang Xianyu using system energy points, based on a cross-server network service – it was absolutely purely random, with no behind-the-scenes manipulation!
"Cai Cai, Cai Cai, even I'm jealous of your good luck!"

Fang Xianyu looked at the flying boat she had painstakingly built with heartache. She held back her thoughts and resisted the urge to unplug their internet cable, pretend to turn it on and cause it to malfunction, so that she could retrieve the flying boat and continue using it as a scoundrel.

……

"We..." Zheng Qian swallowed hard and asked dejectedly in the group chat, "How do we get it out of the instance?"

Hanging in the tree, Jia Xiaoren had a better view and a more direct understanding of the size of the flying boat. He typed in the team chat: "Shouldn't we be more concerned about how to film this thing?! Who can afford to film this?! Compared to this, the small boats that look like noses at Guangcheng Sect next door sell for several thousand or even tens of thousands of spirit stones!"

"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!" Although Lin Muning was still suffering through the resurrection cooldown in the small dark room, she managed to piece together one thing from everyone's fragmented conversations—Chai Gou Cai Cai had opened an incredible item from the level completion reward chest! It looked like a very valuable flying boat!
As a team administrator with microphone access, she excitedly shouted into the microphone, "Tens of thousands of spirit stones! That's a lot of money in RMB! Aren't we rich now?!"

[Zhongzhou Koi], who had also died long ago and was waiting to be resurrected in the dark room, typed: "The current gold price is 260, which is conservatively estimated to be more than 30 RMB."

The news immediately caused an uproar in the team chat—

"Holy crap! Over 300,000!?"

"An average salary of 10,000 RMB per person!?"

"Wuhu! Take off!"

"Waaaaah, I actually earned more from playing games than I did in my year-end bonus! I don't know whether to laugh or cry!"

But soon, a player poured cold water on the idea: "Wait a minute, is there anyone in our team who can afford to bid?"

Jia Xiaoren promptly interjected, "No, but you can auction it off! Anyway, most things in 'The Records of the Ten Continents' are tradable!"

"But this thing is so incredible, can it be traded freely?"

"Should be fine, right? Currently, apart from contribution points and prestige points, there doesn't seem to be anything that can't be traded in the game?"

Although Zheng Qian really liked the huge airship, she loved money more than that, so she asked for opinions in the group chat: "What do you think? Outdoor shooting?"

Jia Xiaoren typed the fastest: "Outdoor shoot! Outdoor shoot! Shout out to the boss all over the world, get the live stream started! Live outdoor shoot!"

Other players didn't have any objections either.

"Although I really want it, I want the money even more, so I'll stick with live-streaming and outdoor shoots!"

"At worst, I'll just wait until the rich guy or the rich girl takes a picture and then I'll go over and touch it!"

"Do we even need to wait? We'll be able to touch it before the rich guys and rich girls even get a chance to buy it!"

"Damn it! It's still respawning!"

"Damn it! Me too!"