"Excellent, there are countless dead trees on Blue Silver Island right now, which can be used as firewood to power the steam engines. •
In the initial development phase, we won't even need to transport too much fuel.
This will greatly reduce our losses."
"Good, I didn't expect you to even consider this."
Yun Qiong praised him greatly, and was surprised by Quan Yi's thorough consideration.
Clearly, she had seen the condition of the island with her own eyes, just like Quan Yi, but she hadn't thought of turning it into arable land.
It can only be said that the two of them had different perspectives on things.
Quan Yi put down the blueprints in his hand and continued, "Actually, besides the steam engine, I have another trump card that I haven't revealed yet."
Immediately after, Quan Yi smiled mysteriously and took out a piece of pitch-black metal from the Heart of Scorching Sun.
As soon as this item appeared, it immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Quan Li said in surprise: "Soul power fluctuations, this is the aura of a Soul Tool!"
Before they could ask, Quan Yi placed the metal piece on the table, and then took out another metal piece of the same shape and color from the Heart of Scorching Sun.
Even more surprising was that this metal piece also had the soul power fluctuations unique to soul tools.
Quan Yi didn't stop his movements. One piece, two pieces.
A full ten metal pieces were neatly arranged on the table.
Then, he picked up the metal in one hand and the blueprint in the other. Immediately after, Quan Yi inputted soul power into the metal, and with a flash of white light, the blueprint close to the metal disappeared before everyone's eyes.
"This is a Storage Soul Tool!"
Quan Li's expression changed drastically. He quickly went around the table, picked up another metal piece, and inputted soul power into it.
Sure enough, this metal piece also showed slight spatial fluctuations.
"Xiao Yi, you didn't make this, did you?"
Quan Li said in disbelief.
Quan Yi took out the blueprint from the metal block and replied, "Yes, this is the Storage Soul Tool that I imitated by observing other Storage Soul Tools.
Moreover, after experiments, as long as you master the method and have soul power, you can copy soul tools.
With these Storage Soul Tools, ships can carry more supplies while reducing weight.
At that time, a single voyage will be able to transport ten times, a hundred times the supplies."
Everyone picked up the metal blocks one after another and tested the effects.
They found that the storage space of this metal soul tool was a full five cubic meters in size.
Converted into steel, it could hold seven tons of metal.
Such a Storage Soul Tool would sell for at least tens of thousands of gold soul coins at auction.
"Xiao Yi, how much time and cost is required to manufacture a Storage Soul Tool?"
Yun Qiong's glasses shone brightly. As a merchant, she saw amazing commercial profits in this soul tool.
"The most difficult part of manufacturing a Storage Soul Tool is forging ordinary minerals into soul-guiding metals, and on this basis, soul masters need to use their soul power to perfectly inscribe corresponding soul-guiding patterns in the soul tool.
Therefore, if you want to forge a soul tool, it can only be forged and inscribed by a soul master.
At the same time, the effect of the soul tool is related to the soul-guiding properties of the material, and most of these materials are relatively rare and expensive.
However, even so, as long as you can successfully create a soul tool, its profit is more than a hundred times the cost of the material.
If the outside world knows that we have mastered the technology to manufacture soul tools, it will definitely attract the covetousness of all soul master forces on the continent."
She issued a gag order to everyone in a serious tone.
"However, with the existence of these Storage Soul Tools, the development plan will be greatly shortened."
Quan Li looked at the soul tools on the table, and had more certainty about the plan that Quan Yi had told him.
Quan Yi continued to walk to the side of the sea chart, took out a long wooden stick, and pointed it towards the direction of Han Hai City.
"If everything before was to reduce the technical difficulty of development, then what I am about to talk about is the real development plan."
As he spoke, Quan Yi's wooden stick slowly extended westward from Han Hai City.
The tip of the wooden stick moved slowly from Han Hai City. In the middle, his wooden stick paused rhythmically twice. Finally, Quan Yi stopped at Ghost Island.
Seeing Quan Yi's actions, Yun Qiong revealed an understanding smile.
The positions where Quan Yi stopped all pointed to an island.
More importantly, the distances between these three islands were almost the same.
All were close to five hundred miles away.
Five hundred miles, three islands.
These clues immediately made Yun Qiong think of her soul bone skill, Dark Stealth.
She smiled and said, "It seems that I, this old bone, will have to move around more in the future."
Quan Yue asked suspiciously from the side: "Mother, what exactly are you talking about? Why don't I understand?"
Yun Qiong replied: "Didn't I tell you about my soul bone skill last night?
Xiao Yi, the three islands you have selected will be our three supply points for entering the deep sea in the future.
At the same time, this will also be our safe shipping route for transporting supplies in the future.
The voyage to Blue Silver Island can be roughly divided into two sections.
The first section is from Han Hai City to Ghost Island.
The second section is from Ghost Island to Blue Silver Island.
These two sections are similar in distance, but the fleet cannot rest during the entire second section of the voyage.
If we can rest on the islands along the way in the first half, it will reduce our fatigue during the voyage and allow us to face the long voyage afterwards in better condition.
Moreover, although there are many islands in the first section of the voyage, the complexity is much greater than in the second section.
In this sense, it is also necessary to build a safe route relying on the islands.
The meaning of these three islands, simply put, is to provide safety and supplies."
After speaking, Yun Qiong looked at Quan Yi and asked, "Xiao Yi, am I right?"
Quan Yi nodded in admiration and replied: "Grandma is indeed the brains of our Quan family. With just this bit of information, she can deduce my intentions.
These three islands are carefully selected by me from among many islands.
Not only is the size of the islands suitable, but the distance is also just within the range of Grandma's Dark Stealth.
As long as we inscribe dark marks on these three islands, this route, which is a full one thousand five hundred miles long, will be completely in our hands."
Yun Qiong's Dark Stealth is said to be a teleportation skill, but in fact, it is more like a transfer skill.
Combined with Yun Qiong's own space-based soul skill, Book Mountain River, it produces a multiplicative effect.
Yun Qiong's ability is strategically more powerful than any soul skill.
From the moment Quan Yi learned of Yun Qiong's ability, he had been thinking about how to use this ability.
Just right, when drawing the sea chart, the three islands were like a constellation diagram, connecting into three equal-length straight lines.
