After leaving the Clear Water Town for thirty miles to the south, they arrived at the edge of the dock at the Scarlet Flame Battlefield. There was lava erupting from the volcano everywhere. All life was gone from the surroundings, and it was incomparably desolate as far as the eye could see.
The Yandu was located on a volcanic rock in the middle of the lava sea. It was impossible for one to fly from the lava sea to the Yandu, because a large formation was set up in the sky above the Yandu to prevent flying objects from entering. Liu Chengfeng heard Zhou Shi mention that this defensive array was a Heaven Rank array, and even the experts found it difficult to break it. After exclaiming in shock, Liu Chengfeng wanted to know who was behind this great formation. The person who was able to create this formation must be at the peak of his cultivation.
Going to the Yandu could only be done through a spirit ship, which was made from fire-attributed materials and was equivalent to a spirit artifact. As to what rank it was, this Zhou Shi did not mention.
It was not so much a wharf as a large grooves of rock. The diameter of the spirit ship exceeded fifty meters and was shaped like a "U" shape. The spirit ship stopped in the groove as soon as it arrived, and after charging a fee, it was allowed to board the ship to head to Yandu.
The timing of the spirit ship's arrival wasn't fixed, so everyone could only wait patiently at the dock. There were many people gathered at the edge of the pier. These people had the same destination as Liu Chengfeng. There were a few other caravans among them, but their groups were much larger than Liu Chengfeng's, and they even had their own flags.
The mercenaries started to talk about the few caravans at once. Through their conversations, Liu Chengfeng understood that the backers of the caravans with flags were extremely hard. Not only was there a powerful force backing the human race, even the Yandu was protecting them.
The cultivation resources in Yandu were scarce and the price was extremely high. For example, the Rank 1 spirit materials that Liu Chengfeng had brought along could be sold there for a price of Rank 3 spirit materials.
However, benefits often came with danger, and those in Yandu would always kill without batting an eyelid. They would use any means possible to snatch cultivation resources. As a result, many small caravans were robbed and killed. This was also the main reason why many merchants did not want to take the risk of coming here.
However, those big caravans were different, for example, the caravans with flags in front of them. They had a lot of money and the experts they invited were very strong. Usually, no one would dare to make a move against a team like this.
As for a small business trip like Liu Chengfeng, the past seventeen eighty-nine would be stolen away. Moreover, the highest cultivation of the hired mercenaries was only Core Forming Period.
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The group waited for a full three hours before they saw a huge ship sail over from the lava. This was the first time Liu Chengfeng had seen such a large ship, and it simply looked like an island floating in the lava. Only when the boat was close to the dock did Liu Chengfeng clearly see its face.
The entire body of the boat was crimson red. On the surface of the ship's body, there were mysterious engravings, just like a tattoo on a human body. There were two huge turbines on either side of the hull, half of them soaked in magma. White steam kept coming out from beneath the turbines, making hissing sounds. The turbine is the power of the ship. The bow of the ship was shaped like an inverted triangle, and as it traveled through the magma, it was like a sharp blade piercing through the wind, incomparably domineering.
Liu Chengfeng stood on the shore and looked up. The boat was around 20 metres high! This didn't even include the depth at which it ate the water. The captain was around two hundred metres long, and Liu Chengfeng had no idea what the rear part of the ship looked like.
At this moment, the sound of metal clashing could be heard from the left side of the ship. A square shaped hole appeared in front of everyone and a long, dark staircase slowly extended out, landing on the dock. Two squads of men in red armor and carrying huge axes descended from the ship and lined up on either side of the ladder.
the leader shouted from the center of the ladder.
"Whoever has the Yandu Command Token, gets on the boat first!"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone took out a palm-sized red token and handed it to him. After paying a bag of spirit stones, they boarded the boat.
Liu Chengfeng asked Zhou Shi, "Captain Zhou, how many spirit stones do we need to pay to board the ship with the goods?"
"Eight thousand Intermediate Spirit Stones!" Zhou Shi replied.
Eight thousand Intermediate Spirit Stones! Liu Chengfeng gasped. He only had nine thousand spirit stones in his pocket.
After half an hour, when the people on the shore were almost done, Liu Chengfeng had the mercenaries push their carriages and prepare to board the ship.
"Yandu Medallion?"
"This is the first time our caravan has come, and we don't have any tokens." Liu Chengfeng replied.
The man looked at the goods on Liu Chengfeng's back and said indifferently.
"Eight thousand Intermediate Spirit Stones!"
This person was wearing a thick suit of armor. Even his face could not conceal the expression within, leaving behind only a slit in his eyes.
Once they were on the boat, Liu Chengfeng finally saw how extraordinary the boat was. The deck was made of fire-resistant porcelain and was a grayish color. One could still feel a chill coming from the soles of their feet when they stepped on the deck. There was a red building nine stories high on the ship, supported by thick pillars encircling two people. On the pillar, there were carvings of all sorts of ferocious beasts. It looked both crude and dignified.
On both sides of the ship, there was a row of round beads. The beads emitted a white light, but it was not dazzling at all. When a person approached, they would be obstructed by a layer of transparent membrane. Liu Chengfeng knew that it was a protective light barrier created by a formation, and that the beads were one of the main eyes of the formation.
Soldiers in red armor could be seen everywhere on the ship. Their ranks were organized, and if one didn't know who they were, one would think they were soldiers from a certain country.
Liu Chengfeng's goods were placed in a fixed cargo cabin at the stern of the boat. There were large and small cargo spaces, corresponding to different scale caravans. Liu Chengfeng's group of small merchants were naturally arranged in the small cabin. After the goods were arranged, Liu Chengfeng brought Zhou Shi and the others up the building.
From the third floor to the seventh was the living area, and each room had its own number. Liu Chengfeng held it in his hand. A fifteen. A was the third floor, and fifteen were room numbers. Liu Chengfeng was a little depressed when he took the plate. Did the eight of them have to squeeze into the same room?
When Liu Chengfeng opened the door, he realized his mistake. This room was extremely spacious. It had a living room, furniture, and a cubicle that could accommodate ten people.
As the owner of the merchant group, Liu Chengfeng naturally picked his room first. Liu Chengfeng unceremoniously chose a room next to the window, and the other seven picked their own.
Inside the room, the tables and chairs were all ready, and the decorations inside the room were quite particular. Liu Chengfeng thought that he had arrived at an upscale inn. The ship did not look like a warship, but more like a tourist ship.
suddenly started to look forward to the situation in the Yandu.
Half an hour later, everyone on the dock was on board. The turbines on both sides of the ship began to work, and the hull slowly began to recede. At a certain distance, the bow pulled back. At the same time, the spirit formation on the boat began to activate and a transparent light enveloped the boat, protecting the people on the boat from the high temperature of the magma sea.
The huge ship started up with all its strength, and the two turbines started to run at full speed. The triangular bow was like a sharp sword, slicing through the lava along the way to create huge waves that were ten meters high, but it didn't land on the ship at all. The people on the boat walked out of the building, talking and laughing amongst themselves, enjoying the magnificent scenery of the magma sea to their heart's content.
They didn't know what kind of dangers lay behind the beauty.