Myriad Heavens Market Opens

The only headache was the more than six hundred tons of red copper. Such a quantity would take at least several trips to transport, and how to sell it off without leaving any trace was also a problem.

Selling it normally would be fine if no one paid attention, but if he was investigated in the future, it would inevitably become a huge point of suspicion.

A student who had only awakened two days ago had obtained over six hundred tons of red copper on his first extraterrestrial exploration?

One had to know that a Psionic Shuttle could carry only around one hundred tons at most.

Therefore, to avoid anything that might expose the Myriad Heavens Market, Song Chi had to think of a solution.

It was still East River Spark Mall, not far from East River District. On the mall's top floor was Eagle Machinery Store.

"Ten tons of mithril, thirty-four tons of refined gold, eleven tons of cold iron, fifteen tons of mercury crystals, and forty-five tons of red copper. At seventy percent of market price, that comes to 177.8 wisps of zero-rank Floating Continent Essence. Let's call it 178 wisps."

The young female clerk spoke with a polite smile.

Song Chi argued his case.

"Miss, seventy percent is really too low. Most other stores buy at eighty percent..."

The clerk's smile remained, but she did not respond. Her meaning was obvious: if he could not accept it, he could go wherever offered eighty percent.

In short, there was no room for negotiation.

Seeing this, Song Chi settled for the next best thing.

"How about this? You buy them at eighty percent, and I spend all the Floating Continent Essence from this transaction in your store. How does that sound?"

Eagle Machinery Store ultimately agreed to the proposal, and Song Chi used all 203 wisps of Floating Continent Essence to buy goods from the store as agreed.

1,000 tungsten-gold battle shields

1,000 tungsten-gold long spears

One Starsea Universal Translator

100 vials of Basic Gene Optimization Fluid

Those were the additional items aboard the Cangqiong when Song Chi left Eagle Machinery Store. For them, he had also paid an extra 17 wisps of zero-rank Floating Continent Essence.

In the southern outskirts of Jiangyuan City stood a highly renowned forest park, East Mountain Forest Park. During every holiday, an endless stream of people came here to hike. Yet many people did not know that, hidden in the unseen places behind this forest park, was Jiangyuan City's largest black market.

Of course, the existence of this black market was an open secret among Jiangyuan City's true upper echelon. Jiangyuan City needed such a place. Not just Jiangyuan City—on the White Tower Floating Continent, even across the entire Tinder Civilization territory, what life-bearing floating continent did not have a black market?

It was like the dark side of a city. The more glamorous a place appeared, the larger the black market behind it often was.

Song Chi knew of this place because he had come here once with his father, Song Chao, several years ago.

It was that experience that had let Song Chi learn of this place hidden beneath Jiangyuan City's darkness. Afterward, he had come alone several times as well, so this time he was extremely familiar with the process.

Disguising himself, setting the Psionic Shuttle's name to be invisible to outsiders, and selling the more than five hundred tons of red copper in batches to several shops in different areas of the black market.

The entire sequence of actions flowed almost without pause, without the slightest awkwardness.

Prices in the black market were quite ruthless, with purchase prices at only sixty-five percent of market value. But there was nothing he could do. He was ultimately a rookie who had only just become a Tinder Ship Captain, with no sales channels of his own. If he wanted to avoid exposing himself, he had to swallow the loss.

More than 550 tons of red copper had a market price of 110 wisps of zero-rank Floating Continent Essence, but Song Chi received only 71 wisps, nearly half of it gone.

Gritting his teeth, Song Chi returned to the Tinder Mall. As he exchanged all 90 wisps of Floating Continent Essence in his possession for zero-rank and first-rank Life Cores, he swore fiercely in his heart that he would earn this loss back at the market.

After putting away the 700 zero-rank and 20 first-rank Life Cores he had exchanged, 720 in total, the preparations before opening the market were basically complete. Song Chi did not linger outside any longer.

After returning home, he briefly told his father and mother that he was mentally overdrawn and might need to enter deep sleep for a day or two. After receiving their permission, he quickly returned to his bedroom.

He did not rush to enter the Myriad Heavens Market and begin his first market trade. Instead, he quickly entered deep sleep.

Mental exhaustion after entering the limit-breaking state was no joke. He had long been exhausted beyond endurance. If not for his need to settle everything first, he likely would have been unable to hold on much earlier.

Twenty hours later, Song Chi woke from deep sleep. Though he had not fully recovered, he was incomparably better than he had been yesterday.

In the Myriad Heavens Market, after half an hour of work, Song Chi had properly arranged all the items he had bought yesterday among the ten shops. Once he confirmed that everything was in order, he strode toward the Ultra-Long Range Random Space Gate Deployment Platform at the very rear of the market.

Behind him, ten Fire Sunflower Soldier Puppets glowing red all over followed closely in two rows. After an entire day, the Fire Sunflower Soldier Tree component had completed its cooldown.

Before the Ultra-Long Range Random Space Gate Deployment Platform, Song Chi lightly tapped it once. Just as he was about to activate it, a notification sounded.

It has been detected that this is the first time this market has been opened in ten thousand years. You may designate the specific deployment area of one space gate yourself.

Upon hearing the notification, Song Chi's heart stirred.

The seven words "Mechanical Race Civilization Territory" rapidly surfaced in his mind and soon filled his entire consciousness.

Before obtaining that ①-rank Floating Continent Essence Core Fusion Body, he might not have reacted much to this.

But things were different now. The ①-rank Floating Continent Essence Core Fusion Body in his possession was equivalent to a divine artifact for Mechanical Race members that supplied energy. Its value naturally could not be compared.

Opening his communications wristband, Song Chi accessed the Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Civilizations and Lifeforms that he had downloaded long ago and could browse without a network. He found several recorded mechanical civilizations, chose one set of coordinates, and activated the Ultra-Long Range Random Space Gate Deployment Platform before him.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

As the deployment platform emitted intense tremors, ten streams of light lit up atop it.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The ten streams of light shot out from the deployment platform one after another, passing through the semicircular protective barrier around the Myriad Heavens Market and transforming into ten streaks that vanished into the silent void.

Several dozen seconds later, ten vortex-shaped spatial entrances silently appeared at the entrance area of the Myriad Heavens Market. Song Chi immediately had the ten Fire Sunflower Soldier Puppets stand guard near the ten space gates, while also placing the Starsea Universal Translator at the market entrance.

After all, those who entered afterward were highly likely to be entirely different races. If they were extremely primitive beings that had not even mastered the common Starsea language, this Starsea Universal Translator would be crucial to ensuring they could communicate without obstacles.

After finishing all this, Song Chi finally used his power as the market's owner to conjure a light screen at the market entrance, inscribed with the various trading rules of the Myriad Heavens Market.

This light screen was formed from the laws of the secret realm that was the Myriad Heavens Market. No matter what kind of creature saw it, they would instinctively understand the meaning of every rule listed upon it.