A Private Talk Between Father and Son

Including the previous twenty hours of deep sleep, he had gone nearly two days without leaving his bedroom. Even though he had warned his parents beforehand, he needed to show his face to keep them from worrying—or even forcing the door open.

Both Father Song and Mother Song were in the living room. As Kindling starship captains, neither of them had any other work to attend to, so they generally spent plenty of time at home.

Seeing Song Chi looking so refreshed, the two of them finally set their minds completely at ease. At the same time, they felt a little proud of their son.

The Limit Break state was not so easy to enter. Although he had only stumbled into it by chance, with this experience, so long as his luck was not too terrible, his chances of fully mastering it were still quite high.

The family of three chatted for a while. Song Chao gave Chen Lixia a look, and she walked over to the living room sofa, crouched down, and reached underneath to fumble around.

Song Chi did not understand what was happening. Just as he was wondering about it, his mother seemed to activate some mechanism. A faint blue light screen emerged from the living room floor and rapidly spread toward every corner of the house. In the end, it formed a complete sealed space.

Song Chi's eyes widened. As an old man who had lived two lives and matured early from childhood, he had never known his home possessed such a secret device.

At that moment, Song Chao waved him over, signaling him to follow. Father and son entered the study one after the other.

The instant he entered the study, Song Chi was stunned again. Compared to the study he remembered, everything within it was now utterly different.

The desk, bookshelves, wooden chair, and even the windows had all vanished. The study now resembled the chaotic space of a Kindle Ancestral Aperture, except there was no Kindling flame burning at its center. Instead, a picture scroll over ten meters long and wide lay there.

Looking up, he saw a Dragonspine Tyrant Whale phantom raising its head in a long cry against the backdrop of a vast starry sky. A mecha Giant tens of thousands of meters tall stood between heaven and earth, looking down upon all living things. The scene was imprinted upon the scroll with lifelike vividness.

Yet with that single casual glance, the towering mecha Giant's back on the scroll seemed to possess limitless magical power, firmly capturing Song Chi's gaze. His body froze where he stood, unable to move in the slightest.

The light in his eyes rapidly faded. Once it had completely vanished, Song Chi discovered that he was standing beneath an eternally dark starry sky. Directly above him was the projection of that towering mecha Giant, while the Dragonspine Tyrant Whale phantom flickered in and out around it, solemn and majestic.

He did not know how much time passed before Song Chi noticed that the mecha Giant projection above him was becoming increasingly solid and more imposing. Even the Dragonspine Tyrant Whale phantom, which had appeared and disappeared intermittently, had become clearly visible.

Just as he was at a loss, his father's voice suddenly sounded beside his ear.

"Don't be afraid. Don't resist. This is the Dragonspine Tyrant Whale Mythic Mecha Visualization Diagram passed down by my Dinghai Song Clan."

"As the Song Clan's secret inheritance, you must imprint this Dragonspine Tyrant Whale Mythic Mecha Visualization Diagram deep into your mind. In the future, visualize it at all times. With the enhancement of the Kindling Seed, it can continuously and steadily strengthen your spiritual power."

"Do not underestimate spiritual power. It may be difficult to see its effects in the early stages, but once you strengthen your Kindling starship to a certain level and activate its Mythic Mecha Form, the strength of your spiritual power will directly determine both the duration and combat power of that form. Every descendant of my Dinghai Song Clan must never neglect the practice of this visualization diagram."

Hearing his father's explanation, Song Chi understood. Once he realized that the mecha Giant projection was a high-level inheritance, he no longer felt any resistance. Instead, he focused his mind completely, raised his gaze, and actively visualized every minute detail of the mecha Giant projection.

Even Song Chi himself had not expected that this instinctive concentration would allow him to enter the Limit Break state once again. With his mind divided three ways, his inscription and imprinting of the mecha Giant projection became ever more vivid.

He did not know how long passed before the mecha Giant above him finally dimmed completely. Song Chi then withdrew from that eternally dark starry sky and returned to reality.

The study still resembled a chaotic space, and the visualization scroll still lay at its center. Yet when Song Chi looked at it this time, he no longer felt that strange sensation from before. It merely seemed like an ordinary painting, albeit a more lifelike one.

Furthermore, if he was not mistaken, the image on the scroll seemed to have dimmed considerably after his imprinting. He estimated that after one more imprint, it would become completely blurred and unusable.

"Everyone can only visualize it once in their lifetime. This scroll is not the original, either. Your younger sister can still use it for one more visualization. As for the effectiveness of the visualization imprint, that varies from person to person. The better the imprint, the greater the improvement to one's spiritual power; the worse it is, the weaker the improvement."

"In the history of my Dinghai Song Clan, the person with the highest imprinting result captured eighty percent of the diagram's essence. Your father's comprehension is merely average—I only captured forty-five percent."

Father Song's voice sounded beside his ear again. After speaking, he fixed his gaze on his son, clearly asking about Song Chi's imprinting result.

Hearing this, Song Chi closed his eyes slightly and sank his mind inward. When he opened them again, he gave his answer.

"Seventy percent!"

He was quite satisfied with this result. Based on what his father had said, it should have been an excellent outcome.

At the same time, Song Chi understood that it was not because his comprehension or talent was particularly exceptional. Rather, he had happened to enter the Limit Break state while imprinting. With the enhancement of that state, he had managed to capture seventy percent of the diagram's essence in one go. Otherwise, he likely would not have been much better than his father, perhaps only around forty or fifty percent.

Just as he expected, an unconcealable smile appeared on Song Chao's face upon hearing the answer, "seventy percent."

The two left the study, and Song Chi immediately began asking his father about the Dinghai Song Clan.

"Dad, the Dinghai Song Clan you mentioned... could it be that our family has some glorious but unspeakable past?"

Song Chao had just been about to boast properly to his son and recover some of his vanity in front of this child who had matured too early, but then he caught sight of the rapidly dissipating blue light screen and Chen Lixia's fierce glare. In the end, he shut his mouth.

"Why are you asking so much? You'll be told when it's time for you to know. Go do what you should be doing. Your sister gets out tomorrow, so remember to pick her up on time."

Song Chi's mouth twitched. He curled his lips but chose not to press the matter further. After casually agreeing, he headed out on his own.

There was still a batch of resources aboard the Cangqiong that needed to be sold. He had to make another trip to the black market.

An hour later, Song Chi returned home. At this point, all he had left on him were 400 strands of Zero-Rank Floating Continent Essence, 40 strands of First-Rank Floating Continent Essence, and a batch of starship enhancement resources reserved for emergencies, such as Life Cores, Mercury Crystals, and Adamantine.