438: Huge gap

Exactly, exactly...

Although the mechas we captured are all damaged, judging from their condition, even if they were in good working order, they couldn't be much more advanced than our own mechas...

That's right, I think our materials are better than theirs!

Exactly, just the storage capacity for xuan stones is higher than theirs, so the usage time should be longer!

That point is very important!

Indeed...

The people from the Mecha Department chimed in to encourage the two of them...

Long Yuan did not participate in their debate, as there was no opportunity. After Chang Hanshan arrived, he pulled him aside to chat, repeatedly persuading him to stay in the North Division and not go to the Southern Division. He then promised him the position of an official Elder of the Jianxuan Envoy Department, along with a high salary and benefits, intending to bind him to the North Division...

This flashy maneuver left Prince Zhao and the others dumbfounded. In their hearts, they secretly mourned for Yu Xun, the head of the Southern Division. It seemed that the Southern Division being poached was a foregone conclusion!

However, Long Yuan's response greatly exceeded everyone's expectations. He did not agree to jump ship; instead, he said that he still had many things to attend to and must return to the south for a period of time, and that he would consider the possibility of working at the Jianxuan Envoy Department in the future. This statement sounded like he intended to completely detach himself from the Jianxuan Envoy Department, not even going to the Southern Division...

Chang Hanshan became anxious upon hearing this and hurriedly asked what the matter was, and if it required the North Division to step in and help resolve it. Long Yuan shook his head and said, "Thank you for your concern, Senior! However, I can handle it myself. I will consider working for the Jianxuan Envoy Department after I resolve it!"

Chang Hanshan had no choice but to say, "Very well. However, the doors of our North Division are always open to you; you can come and report for duty at any time!"

After saying this, he handed Long Yuan a golden token and said, "This is the token of an official Elder of the Jianxuan Envoy Department. You can enjoy its benefits and privileges, and you can also mobilize a portion of the Black Tortoise Guard to handle affairs!"

"Thank you, Senior!" Long Yuan accepted it and said with a smile, it would be a waste not to take advantage of such a bargain.

"Hahaha, this old man has a granddaughter named Chang Wan'er. At such a young age, she is already at the Martial Master early stage and is also an immortal seedlings. She admires you greatly. You two can interact more often; who knows, you might even be colleagues in the future!" Chang Hanshan laughed.

"Alright!" Long Yuan replied, while inwardly criticizing that this old man was perhaps trying to use a honey trap to lure him into joining the North Division?

Prince Zhao, Prince Dai, He Yi, and the others were also dumbfounded. They hadn't expected Chang Hanshan to play his own granddaughter as a card just to poach someone. However, although Chang Wan'er was young, she had a resounding reputation; everyone present had heard of her. She was not only beautiful and intelligent, but she had also recently tested for a high-quality Spiritual Root. Even Xuanji Tower had extended an olive branch to her, saying they would send her to a higher-level Sect to Cultivate. She certainly had a bright future ahead of her. It could be said that Chang Hanshan was extremely sincere in playing this card!

Some even thought that Chang Wan'er's future might be even better than Long Yuan's because she possessed a high-quality Spiritual Root. If she could Cultivate at a higher-level Sect of Xuanji Tower, with her abilities as a Cultivator, she might become much stronger than Long Yuan in the future. Therefore, using Chang Wan'er to attract Long Yuan might have been a losing business deal for Chang Hanshan, after all, it had never been heard that Long Yuan also possessed a high-quality Spiritual Root. And now the era had changed, entering the age of Cultivation. If one did not have a Spiritual Root, there was a high possibility that one would be abandoned by the Cultivation era in the future...

Therefore, don't look at Long Yuan as doing quite well now, it's hard to say about the future. For Long Yuan, the best course of action would be to seize the opportunity and quickly join the North Division; currying favor with Chang Wan'er, this future Fairy, was the correct solution!

Of course, not everyone thought this way. Xu Ruoying glared fiercely at Chang Hanshan, secretly hating that this old man dared to snatch a man from the Xu Family, and right in front of her!

However, the Chang Family was also a super aristocratic Family of the Great Ming. Their ancestor, Chang Yuchun, was a warrior who expanded the territory of the Great Ming, and his fame was far-reaching. It had been passed down for many generations now. It really wasn't an easy task for the Xu Family to surpass the Chang Family. Xu Ruoying felt a bit unsettled and secretly transmitted this matter back to her Family...

Just as everyone was lost in their own thoughts, the people from the North Division had already delivered the two sets of mechas, and Gao Yang and Liu Fei couldn't wait to start testing them...

Because the control Systems of the two types of mechas were quite different, it took the two of them quite some time to barely familiarize themselves with them. First, they used the training version of the mecha to test its strength. Gao Yang threw a punch, and the light screen displayed a value of 25,050 kilograms. This shocked everyone, because this value was 1,050 kilograms higher than the Tiangong mecha, which had already reached the official standard Peak of a Martial Commander!

The expressions of He Yi and the others immediately turned sour. They hadn't expected that Long Yuan's intuition was not wrong at all; the Tiangong mecha was truly not even comparable to the unranked mecha of the Snow Eagle Country!

Next, they tested the defensive power and agility. The Snow Eagle mecha completely outperformed the Tiangong mecha in all values!

At this, everyone in the Mecha Department was speechless and fell into deep thought...

Seeing this, He Yi gritted his teeth and said, "Let's test that Low Grade mecha and see just how big the gap is between us!"

"Yes!" Gao Yang replied and continued the testing...

Now no one spoke nonsense anymore; everyone was staring intently at the test light screen. The values that popped up on the light screen next blinded everyone's eyes:

Strength: 30,000 kilograms (Martial Commander early stage);

Defense: 31,500 kilograms (Martial Commander early stage);

Agility: Earth Rank Cultivation Technique Major Achievement Realm.

In other words, after a Wu Zong Late Stage put on the Snow Eagle Country Low Grade mecha, both attack and defense reached the level of a Martial Commander early stage, and the agility was equivalent to that of a person who had Cultivated an Earth Rank footwork technique to the Major Achievement Realm!

Such a huge increase in combat power allowed everyone to see the terrifying potential of mechas and greatly broadened their horizons...

As for the issue of mecha endurance that the people from the Mecha Department had been talking about with such relish, after testing, everyone discovered that the endurance of a mecha did not rely solely on the quantity of reserved xuan stones, but was related to the mecha's consumption rate. For the same movement and output strength, the level of consumption rate would cause different degrees of loss to the xuan stones, and the consumption rate of the Tiangong mecha was obviously more than twice as high as that of the Snow Eagle mecha!

In other words, one xuan stone for the Snow Eagle mecha was equivalent to three xuan stones for the Tiangong mecha, which made this so-called "advantage" of the Tiangong mecha vanish completely.

After watching the whole process, Prince Zhao could not help but ask Long Yuan, "Long Yuan, do you know how many mechas the Snow Eagle Country produces? How many people are in their mecha squads?"

Long Yuan shook his head and said, "I am not very clear about the specifics. By the way, you can interrogate those foreigners I captured; among them are people from the Snow Eagle Country, War Bear Country, and Flying Lion Country. In addition, the most direct way is to ask Justin. He is the little apprentice of Sir Dubi and certainly knows the situation in the Snow Eagle Country!"

"Justin?" Prince Zhao's eyes lit up. However, after a slight hesitation, he shook his head. It was impossible for Justin to reveal this information. If they really interrogated him, it would destroy the fragile peace relationship between the Great Ming and the Snow Eagle Country. It was difficult...