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Great Qian Yong’an Calendar, year 320.

A fleet followed a branch of the Sky-river Cloud Sky known as the Sky Second River, drifting along downstream with magnificent momentum, heading into the depths of the Zhenze Area.

However, none of the ships in this fleet shared the same design.

Some looked like elegant palaces, others like sharp swords, and there were also spherical and spindle-shaped ones...

The problem is, although the Wang family’s Refining Artifact Headquarters ship department had mastered the technology for crafting Void Ferries, building any medium to large-sized Void Ferry requires considerable resources and time, and the selling price isn’t cheap either.

Moreover, with the continuous discovery of new Void Ships through relic exploration, market demand for Void Ferries isn’t high, so the ship department primarily focuses on absorbing and accumulating technology, building only a few experimental ships to verify and develop the technology.

For this reason,

the "top-tier scavenging teams" naturally used whatever flying boats they could find, and the replaced low-performance old ships could be used to form a secondary exploration team or sold to lesser exploration teams.

At this moment,

in a certain section of the Sky Second River,

a third-rate team, consisting of several dilapidated small boats, was moving away from the river towards the Forward Base upstream.

Clearly, they were on their way back.

The flight speed of these worn-out small boats was very slow, wobbling along the way with great difficulty, indicating that these boats were filled with "cargo."

Returning to base from this direction can’t involve taking advantage of the river flow, or they’d be pushed backwards by the river’s energy tides. But they didn’t dare stray too far from the river because leaving the river’s range meant entering the endless darkness of the Dark Void Sea, giving them no sense of security.

Therefore, the proper operation was to follow the river’s "shoreline" curve on the way back, only without the river’s downstream acceleration, making the return journey about three times slower than the way there.

This small boat team was a joint exploration fleet formed by several first-grade Transcendent Void Realm families, officially registered as "Bound to Find a Divine Artifact Sooner or Later," driven by ambition and determination.

Unfortunately, due to limited strength, they spent most of the time gathering leftovers that the top teams deemed too insignificant to bother with, such as mineral fragments or rubble from ruined relics. Even just dismantling and transporting these back to base earned them a decent amount of money.

If luck was on their side, they might pick up something worthwhile.

But Divine Artifacts? That’s just a pipe dream.

When top-tier teams decide to evacuate a relic, they’ve typically already scoured it thoroughly, often sweeping it ten times over, extracting every valuable resource available.

However, even leftover bits and building materials like bricks are worth a lot in the current Divine Martial world.

After all, these are antiques that have survived since the Immortal Alliance Era, and even bricks used for wall construction are specially crafted Spirit Bricks. One or two aren’t as valuable as those Immortal Items, but when accumulated, they’re still quite profitable for third-rate exploration teams.

Right now, the "Bound to Find a Divine Artifact Sooner or Later" fleet was busy going about their tasks.

Suddenly,

a direct line heir from the Transcendent Void Realm family responsible for observation exclaimed, "Old Ancestor, come and see! The big teams are setting out together~~~ Did they discover some hidden mega dungeon?"

Upon hearing this, several elderly members of Transcendent Void Realm hurried to the Thousand Miles Mirror, looked, and all showed astonishment on their faces: "Leading the pack is Miss Li Yao’s Yaoguang Sword Ship, that’s the Cloud Soarer team. Hmm, behind them is the Immortal Palace team ’Sacred Map is Not a Dream,’ as well as the Real Demon Palace team ’Demonic Cultivators Can Also Be Good,’ Yun family imperial team ’Good Luck is Coming,’ Demon Dynasty Imperial Family team ’Wang Clan Relatives,’ and also the Wang Family Exploration Team ’Holy Light Young Beauties Team,’ ’Kun Shaohou Palace Group,’ ’Profound Martial Invincible Team’... My heavens, such a gathering of powerhouses, this is going to be epic~~!"

The reason for these peculiar team names is actually understandable.

The Void Sea Exploration Teams are often freely formed, naturally leading to many scattered teams. To facilitate management, each base requires these teams to register their information for organization purposes, leading teams to come up with team names.

Initially, team names were modest, like the Immortal Palace team simply being called "Immortal Palace Team," but everything changed with the explosive popularity of a Void exploration genre book in the Divine Martial world.

Not only did this book attract many passionate families to the Realm of Ruin for treasure hunting, but some teams, trying to catch that book’s featured teams’ "luck," also started adopting some quirky names.

Buzzwords like "dungeon," "team raids," "expedition," "scavenging clean," "elite teams," "trash collecting," and others stemmed from that book.

"Quick, let’s speed up back to base, sell this junk immediately, and catch up with the big teams."

"It’s too late! They’re going with the flow, moving so fast."

"Then throw away the junk! Let’s follow and join the powerhouse teams for the ride!"

This third-rate team was immensely excited, immediately dumping all the junk they painstakingly collected into the Void Sea and cheekily tailed after the powerhouse teams.

Such situations weren’t unique to just this one team. As time passed, more and more second and third-rate teams began following far behind the powerhouses, hoping to snag some scraps.