I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts

Thousand-Year Holy Heart Oak.

This special wood, pointed out by Ji Mu, also left an impression on Han Zhan.

After purifying the Evil Curse that covered it, the Thousand-Year Holy Heart Oak emitted a faint golden light, with special tree patterns on its surface.

What made it memorable was the pleasant feel to the touch, and a subtle calming effect.

This was just a small piece of wood fragment.

It’s hard to imagine how powerful a warship would be if it were made from Thousand-Year Holy Heart Oak.

”Don’t daydream.”

Ji Mu seemed to read Han Zhan’s mind and spoke.

”Even 5,500 years ago, when that Sea Legend uprooted the only Holy Heart Oak on Water Planet, it was only enough to craft the keel part of the ’Garuda.’

”Even if you let it grow for another 5,500 years, it wouldn’t be possible to create a complete large warship. That’s absolutely impossible.”

”While I don’t know what you want this information for, perhaps you could grind the leftover pieces of the Thousand-Year Holy Heart Oak into powder and use it to make a special medicine, which might have miraculous effects.”

Ji Mu didn’t think Han Zhan and the others were gathering this special wood to rebuild their own warship.

Because that’s pure fantasy.

Absolutely impossible to happen.

Han Zhan didn’t explain much to Ji Mu.

After understanding everything, he greeted Ji Mu and quickly turned back.

At this time, Shang Siteng had also completed the design drawings of the sea fortress, and the Imperial Dawn cannon’s illustrated guide had been fully unlocked.

When Han Zhan saw them, he waved his hand grandly: ”Confirmed, unlock the Thousand-Year Holy Heart Oak Illustrated Guide!”

”Understood!” Shang Siteng had been waiting for this phrase from Han Zhan.

She nodded, selected the Thousand-Year Holy Heart Oak pattern in the illustrated guide, and started the countdown to unlock it.

Another half an hour passed.

The unlocking of the Thousand-Year Holy Heart Oak illustrated guide was complete, and the logistical preparations of Li Lingzhen and Xia Youwei were also in place.

Everything was ready, Shang Siteng took a deep breath and activated her Talent!

The next second, taking the floating Thousand-Year Holy Heart Oak fragment as the foundation, spots of golden light blossomed from it.

This fragment of Thousand-Year Holy Heart Oak began to grow at a visibly rapid speed!

...

The depths of Turtle Continent.

Jian Beifang was walking alone towards an uninhabited place.

This was the deepest part of the land, far from the coastline where they landed.

Even for the native inhabitants of Water Planet, few appeared here.

Desolate is the best description for this place.

”It’s been a hundred years.”

Jian Beifang looked at the land full of weeds, his tone full of sighs.

”To be precise, one hundred and twenty-four years.”

”The weeds on my grave must be two meters tall by now,” he joked to himself.

Time brings great changes.

The only solace is that the world inside the Turtle withstands the erosion of time better than the outside world.

Apart from the overgrown weeds, there was little change here.

After finishing his reflections, Jian Beifang walked another twenty or thirty steps before stopping and looking around.

”This is it.”

He murmured firmly to himself.

Then he took out a shovel he carried with him and started digging.

A hundred and twenty-four years ago, when Jian Beifang was about to leave the Turtle to challenge the last quest in the Central Sea Area, he made preparations.

He buried a treasure chest here.

Inside it were the things he needed most, Elemental Cores!

”A smart person never puts all their eggs in one basket, but prepares for a comeback.”

Jian Beifang murmured, placing his black wide-brimmed hat on a mound of earth beside him.

Then he began to dig faster.

As time passed, he dug deeper and deeper, and finally, the shovel hit something hard with a crisp sound, and he stopped.

”Found it.”

Jian Beifang smirked as he pushed a large iron box out of the hole.

The iron box wasn’t too heavy, with a blackish color, and some marks of surface corrosion.

Due to the special burial location, there was no lock on the box, and after a few fiddles, Jian Beifang opened it.

Inside, seven or eight Elemental Cores of different attributes lay quietly, seemingly waiting for their master.

...

After devouring all the Elemental Cores, it was already noon the next day.

However, inside the Turtle’s body, it remained in a constant state of daylight.

Jian Beifang awoke from sitting cross-legged, stood up, and exhaled.

After consuming ten Elemental Cores, he successfully restored his strength to eighty or ninety percent of his peak, giving him the ability to fight the other three kings again.

”I wonder if Han Zhan and the others have made up their minds.”

”If they knew how much I improved overnight, they’d be shocked.”

With this in mind, Jian Beifang walked with a noticeably lighter step.

When Jian Beifang arrived at the Water Planet native settlement,

he saw many natives covered in black mud making their way to the port together.

Jian Beifang curiously followed them and arrived at the port where ”Gray Sparrow” and ”Nightwalker” were docked.

The scene before him almost made his jaw drop!

What is that... thing?!

In Jian Beifang’s eyes, a structure he couldn’t comprehend appeared on the sea overnight.

It looked like a ship because it could float on the water, retaining some ship functions and outlines.

But it wasn’t just a ship.

Whose ship has sixty-nine coal-black cannon holes, looking like a fortress? Is this still a ship?!

Moreover, Jian Beifang noticed that the colossal maybe-ship exhibited a subtle platinum glow throughout.

The wood crafting it appeared as pure as white jade, with intricate and profound grain patterns.

”What is this...” Jian Beifang opened his mouth, suddenly at a loss for words.

He had only left for a day, not a year, not ten years, not a hundred years!

What was this thing, and how was it done?!

”This is the ’Garuda,’ my newly crafted warship, or you might call it a sea fortress.”

Beside him, upon seeing Jian Beifang, Han Zhan said with a smile.

”I can return your ’Gray Sparrow’ to you exactly as it was.”

Hearing this, Jian Beifang fell into a long silence.

”So it really is a ship?”

”The name ’Garuda’ sounds so familiar.”

”And those sixty-nine coal-black cannon holes, are there really sixty-nine cannons? What ship would have sixty-nine cannons, is there a special reason for this?”

At this moment, Jian Beifang was like a curious child, completely forgetting about his recently restored power after devouring Elemental Cores.

Han Zhan shook his head with a smile.

”Come on, go up and take a look.” He invited, ”It will answer your questions.”