Shi Feiyang took over six months to build the first large ship at Jinting Mountain.

First was the overall design of the ship, which was a hundred meters long and made from thousand-year-old Crystal Jade Wood. After being refined through True Sun Fire using Immortal Law, the wood had a three-inch thick crystal-clear outer layer that looked like jade, while the inside was white like clouds revealing glimpses of Talismans interlaced within.

The ship's keel used the skeletal remains of a Poison Dragon that had been eaten by a Cold Centipede, measuring precisely 108 meters long. The dragon's head and tail were curved up at both ends, cast in metal, painted with colored lacquer, and looked fierce with its bared teeth and claws. Its bones were connected to the Crystal Jade Wood using a mixture of Xin Metal Essence and Jia Wood Essence.

Geng Metal was sharp, Xin Metal was flexible, and when linked with Gold Wood, Jia Wood Essence acted as a bridge, allowing it to "grow" into the outer wood, integrating the ship into a unified whole.

For propulsion, it used four large sails:

The spring sail was refined with Wood Element Essence Qi, embroidered with symbols of the beginning and the middle of spring, Golden Talismans generating a gentle breeze;

The summer sail was refined with Fire Element Essence Qi, embroidered with symbols of the beginning and peak of summer, Golden Talismans producing a scorching wind;

The autumn sail was refined with Metal Element Essence Qi, embroidered with symbols of the beginning and the middle of autumn, Golden Talismans creating a sharp wind;

The winter sail was refined with Water Element Essence Qi, embroidered with symbols of the beginning and peak of winter, Golden Talismans causing a piercing wind.

These four sails produced different types of winds, all channeled to a Dharma Platform cast from Earth Element Essence Qi that operated automatically, balancing the four elements according to the captain's demands, time, and sea conditions to calculate sail adjustments and wind strength.

This mechanism was an invention of Shi Feiyang's that theoretically could navigate in any weather.

The remaining parts like the rudder, anchor, ropes, and wheels were all designed in collaboration with craftsmen and were manufactured by demons, tested on the ship, and modified on-site if necessary.

If ordinary humans were to build a ship, the preparatory work alone would take years, allowing wood to dry out over many seasons. But Shi Feiyang did not have to wait—those needing fire-drying were handled by fire-skilled demons who would slowly and evenly emit heat, completing the task in half a day. For those needing air-drying, wind-blowing demons were used, and water-controlling demons were employed for moisture-drying...

This not only saved a massive amount of time but also provided ample capacity for trial and error; after all, even the largest pieces of wood could be managed by Great Demons—if one wasn't enough, they'd employ two, and if two failed, they'd try three.

There was a giant octopus demon with seven to eight thousand years of Dao Level whose two tentacles alone were a hundred meters long.

Its body lay on the cliff above the shipyard, gripping the mountain peaks with two tentacles while extending six others to do the heavy lifting. It could easily coil up several dozen-meter-long logs with one claw or casually lift huge iron anchors two meters high, placing them firmly at the designated spots according to the craftsmen's instructions.

After the hull was constructed, selected demon soldiers lifted and gently launched it into the water for a trial run, verifying that all aspects were exceptional before returning to add other components.

Freshwater storage systems, wastewater treatment systems, lighting systems, food processing systems... all functional aspects were installed, followed by various meticulous decorations.

The demons, whether building houses or ships, exhibited a "clumsily robust" style; craftsmen stroking the jade-like railings sighed continuously, discussing privately, "It's a pity for such fine wood and such a big ship, now it feels somewhat unequal to the grandeur of the Immortal realm..."

Shi Feiyang agreed upon hearing this.

The demons' work resembled giants assembling blocks, using prime materials crudely and coarsely. The true aura of an Immortal should appear majestic from afar and detailed up close.

He assigned some demon soldiers to the craftsmen to redecorate the ship, like refining the dragon heads and tails to be more life-like, adding patterns on the railings, and using Crystal Jade Wood to craft Dragon Scales, attached to the hull to flexibly open and close, concealing many drainage holes within. If clean water were needed, it would be expelled from there.

The craftsmen required the demon soldiers to form the "Dragon Scales" into a specific curvature to withstand arrow strikes and collisions from enemy ships, also preventing barnacles and the like from "attaching."

Shi Feiyang did not mind the complexity, seeing it as a chance to further understand related knowledge.

Inside the ship's storage bay, Shi Feiyang employed an Array that twisted space, enlarging the internal area to hold one and a half times more goods.

Due to abundant manpower and resources, even with the added detailed work, it only took another half-year to completely build this magnificent ship!

Shi Feiyang named the ship Jade Dragon, and from afar, it truly resembled a jade-carved dragon lying on the water's surface.

Starting is the hardest part, but with this first prototype, Shi Feiyang had the craftsmen and demon soldiers build two more ships using the same methods.

However, lacking the Hundred-meter Poison Dragon's skeleton, they substituted it with two large sea loaches.

The sea loaches, long and slender, commonly exceeded a hundred meters, but due to their thinness and insufficient bone strength, two eighty-meter ships were constructed instead, named Golden Loach and Silver Loach.

Once all three ships were completed, this fleet belonged to the state of Yu Country. Shi Feiyang had Yuan Hua appoint three captains to helm the ships, a General commanding three hundred Daoist Soldiers as escorts, and also deployed a large group involved in trade.

Shi Feiyang recognized the chief in charge of commerce as the incredibly unlucky Jiang Dachuan!

This fellow had journeyed from Hainan Island to the Purple Cloud Palace, from the Purple Cloud Palace to Black Sand Island, and then from Black Sand Island to Outer Heaven Divine Mountain—a path filled with hardships and near-death experiences, where relying on mountains led to their collapse and relying on people led to their deaths, continuously captured... surviving to this day was truly a stroke of huge luck.

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