Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1664: Chapter 1020: Vermilion Bird Cloud Boat, Sand Nightmare Beast (2)

As for Yun Xiao, he’s gone into seclusion to cultivate.

Yun Xiao was also quite frustrated. Although he is a Golden Core Cultivator, the gap between a Fake Pill and a True Pill is quite large.

As a Fake Pill Cultivator, he lacks confidence when facing real Golden Core Cultivators.

Whenever it involves matters concerning Golden Core Cultivators, he always feels somewhat redundant.

And for matters that do not involve Golden Core Cultivators, there is no need for him to personally intervene.

So he simply hid away in the Immortal Palace to comprehend the Divine Dao Intent.

After Que Lingyu headed to True Yang Immortal City, Yang Zhenshan also returned to the Life Realm Immortal Palace for seclusion.

This encounter with Chi Yuan, although perilous, brought him many unique insights, especially in the Void Dao Intent, where he gained a lot.

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While Yang Zhenshan was in seclusion, a massive Flying Boat pierced through the skies and arrived at Sun Giant Mountain.

This Flying Boat was the Vermilion Bird Cloud Boat, designed by Ma Qiuyan and constructed over five years by a thousand Array Masters and Artifact Refiners from the Spirit Source Land.

The Vermilion Bird Cloud Boat is sixty zhang long, twenty zhang wide, and forged entirely like molten gold. The bow is sculpted into a Vermilion Bird’s head, its beak hooked, holding a Red Copper Fire Pearl, with cracks flickering like fire tongues under the sunlight, glowing with an eye-catching red light. The mane along its neck rolls like flames, each feather is engraved with spiral fire patterns, from a distance, it appears as though a divine bird is poised to take flight.

The hull is as broad as a reclining whale, with twelve flame-shaped wing plates on each side, the edges thin as knife blades, the surfaces hammered with fine scale patterns, each scale embedded with vermilion, and when wind passes, the plates clash, sounding like crackling timber fire. The deck is paved with scarlet-patterned sandalwood, the wood grain naturally resembles flowing fire, with copper strips inlaid into fire sickle designs at the seams, making the boards warm underfoot, as if heat is seeping through the seams.

The stern has seven lookout towers, with railings on each level carved into flame shapes, and a bronze bell hangs from the top, inscribed with “Burn the Sky,” with sulfur filling the characters. When struck, smoke and flame seep out from the inscriptions, visible from a hundred li away. The hull bears thirty-six fire patterns inlaid with Mystical Iron, appearing as dark red blood vessels at rest; when airborne, they glow with bright white flame, supporting the entire ship in midair, with a yard-long flame tail trailing behind like burning silk.

The cabin doors are shaped like cauldrons, the copper rings sculpted into the heads of fire beasts, with the character “Li” engraved on the lintel, filled with red sand between the trigrams. The portholes on both sides are set with red crystals, filtering light like molten glass, casting a warm hue on everything viewed from inside. When stationary, the entire boat is like a dormant fire prison; in motion, it resembles a red dragon threading through the clouds, with flame light flowing around, making even the air seem to sizzle lightly.

The design of the Vermilion Bird Cloud Boat was based on the blueprint for a large Flying Boat left behind by the Sun True Sect. However, during the design process, Ma Qiuyan also referenced the Nether Prison Sect’s Mystic Fort Flying Boat and incorporated the Array and Refining standards of the Spirit Source Land.

Overall, the Vermilion Bird Flying Boat possesses about half the might of the Flying Boat in the Sun True Sect blueprint, but even so, it far surpasses the Nether Prison Sect’s Mystic Fort Flying Boat.

The flying speed and defensive capabilities of the Vermilion Bird Flying Boat are not particularly impressive, but its offensive arrays are extremely powerful.

It is equipped with the Vermilion Bird Burn the Sky Array, which, when pushed to the limit, causes the three-legged crow shadow at the top of the stern tower to detach and resonate with the Vermilion Bird head at the bow, manifesting a hundred-zhang Flame Vermilion Bird.

The Vermilion Bird flaps its wings, the flames burn the sky, and do not extinguish for a hundred days.