Star Sea Market Token

After the fusion process, each class began gathering separately.

At Class 5's meeting point, Yang Minghui looked at the sixteen familiar faces he had taught for years. His eyes flickered, and though countless words filled his throat, they ultimately became only two stern reminders.

"Gather at the academy square at eight tomorrow morning. Go home today and prepare yourselves properly."

"Even welfare expeditions have casualties every year. Don't take it lightly."

"Understood!"

After parting ways with Sun Hao, Song Chi hailed a kinetic hovercar by the roadside. His home was in the city center, not far from the academy. In less than twenty minutes, the kinetic hovercar stopped outside East River District, where he lived.

"10 universal credit points deducted. Account balance: 2,413,543 points."

The moment he stepped out of the hovercar, his smart wristwatch sent a payment notification. Song Chi's expression remained unchanged as he looked at the balance, but if outsiders saw it, they certainly would not be so calm.

As the universal currency of the Morning Star Duchy, credit points had considerable purchasing power.

An ordinary person's monthly salary was only around three thousand credit points. After daily expenses, they could save at most two thousand points per month. By that calculation, an ordinary person would need at least a hundred years to save 2.4 million credit points.

For a student who had not even graduated yet, the amount of savings in Song Chi's hands was astonishing. After all, it had not been given to him by his parents—it was money he had earned himself over the past thirty years.

As for its source, in his previous life, he had been a seasoned webnovel writer. He had a little "talent" when it came to writing novels, and over the past twenty-plus years, he had produced quite a few works.

The most famous among them were Starship Breaks the Sky and Douluo Floating Continent. Unfortunately, after hundreds of thousands of years of development, Kindling Human Civilization was far from barren in the field of webnovels. Those two works had only become mildly popular. Even after saving all his royalties until now, he had only accumulated a little over two million. Hardly worth mentioning.

East River District, Building 5, Room 403.

The moment he entered, the gazes of his father, Song Chao, and his mother, Chen Lixia, converged on him almost simultaneously.

"Son, you're back! Come on, Mom made your favorite braised deep-sea mackerel."

Song Chi's eyes lit up. He quickly set down his backpack and hurried to the dining table. After finishing a full bowl of fish soup, he felt a warm current spreading from his stomach throughout his body, and a look of heartfelt satisfaction appeared on his face.

Deep-sea mackerel did not actually taste very good. It could even be called terrible. In the eyes of other children, it would undoubtedly rank near the top of the list of foods they refused to eat. Yet Song Chi had persisted with it for over twenty years.

What attracted him was the rich blood-energy contained within the fish. This blood-energy could greatly promote the cultivation of guidance techniques, and it was one of the reasons he had managed to cultivate his guidance technique to lv4 in just over twenty years.

Most trainees his age were still stuck at lv2 in their guidance techniques. Only those with decent talent could reach lv3.

The higher the level of a guidance technique, the more difficult and slower its cultivation became. This was common knowledge throughout the territory of Kindling Human Civilization.

He spread his hands as the guidance technique within his body slowly circulated, rapidly absorbing the blood-energy contained in the fish soup and accelerating his cultivation.

Of course, it should now be called the Psionic Guidance Technique. After completing the psionic transformation and converting his body into a psionic body, the guidance technique had automatically advanced into the Psionic Guidance Technique. Compared to an ordinary guidance technique, the Psionic Guidance Technique cultivated faster.

When Song Chao and Chen Lixia saw the wisps of black psionic energy emerging around Song Chi, the anxiety on their faces quickly faded. They too were people who had awakened Kindling Seeds, so they were extremely familiar with psionic energy.

Seeing that their son could already wield psionic energy, they instantly understood that Song Chi had successfully awakened.

"I awakened a colorless Kindling Seed. The Psionic Shuttle has finished fusing, and my first exploration of an alien river domain will begin at eight tomorrow morning."

As he absorbed and converted the blood-energy in his body, Song Chi explained his basic situation.

Hearing this, his parents nodded slightly, without the slightest disappointment in their eyes.

When Song Chi had been born, both of them had possessed colorless Kindling Seeds. Their bloodline's upper limit was right there, so as long as their son could successfully awaken a Kindling Seed, they were already more than satisfied.

As for awakening a white-grade or higher Kindling Seed, neither of them had ever held much hope. The odds were simply too low.

"Chi, come here."

After lunch, Song Chi's father immediately called him into the study.

Inside, Song Chao wore a solemn expression. After giving him a long string of instructions, a flash of psionic light appeared between his brows. Two spheres of light flew from his Kindle Ancestral Aperture and floated before Song Chi.

"These are the starting resources your mother and I are giving you: one thousand strands of Zero-Rank Floating Continent Essence, and the white special Kindling Starship component, the Fire Sunflower Soldier Tree."

Song Chi was immediately overjoyed. These resources were not much, but for someone like him who was just starting out, they were more than enough to carry out preliminary strengthening and upgrades on his Kindling Psionic Shuttle, improving its various capabilities and enhancing its combat power and survivability.

With this, his start was basically ahead of most of his peers. Never underestimate such a small lead. As the saying went, one step ahead meant every step ahead. This slight advantage might well be the key to soaring into the sky one day.

Compared to the thousand strands of Zero-Rank Floating Continent Essence, what Song Chi coveted more was the white-quality Fire Sunflower Soldier Tree special component.

As everyone knew, every colored Kindling Starship component was necessarily derived from a Star Sea Marvel. Once something became associated with the words "Star Sea Marvel," its value was bound to rise sharply, even if it was merely the lowest-grade white marvel.

Not to mention that it was a "soldier puppet component," the most sought-after kind of starship component.

After all, soldier puppet constructs that could be summoned at will could greatly improve a captain's survival rate, whether used as guards, to assist in battle, or even as cannon fodder. Whenever they appeared, they were often fiercely fought over.

This showed the value of the Fire Sunflower Soldier Tree component before him.

"Thank you, Dad. Mom."

Song Chi mobilized the psionic energy within his body and drew both spheres of light into his Kindle Ancestral Aperture. After receiving another round of instructions from his parents, he was finally allowed to go upstairs.

Back in his bedroom, he did not immediately merge his consciousness into his Kindle Ancestral Aperture to examine the detailed attributes of the Psionic Shuttle that he had not finished viewing earlier. Instead, he first took out the bronze plaque hanging around his neck.

He had always carried with him the item that had caused his transmigration.

The bronze plaque was not large, only about half the size of a lighter. The words "Star Sea Market" were engraved on its front, which was why he had always called it the Star Sea Market Token.

As he continued examining the Star Sea Market Token, he soon discovered a change in it.

For the past thirty years, it had always been like an ordinary bronze plaque. No matter how he fiddled with it, it had never shown the slightest reaction. But now, a faint layer of dark psionic radiance had appeared on its surface. It was extremely weak, and if he had not examined it so carefully, he might not have noticed it at all.

"Is this... psionic energy?"

Song Chi's eyes suddenly lit up. At that moment, the bronze plaque underwent another change.

Perhaps because he had stared at it for so long, an attribute panel automatically appeared beside it.

Name: Psionic—Star Sea Market Token

Category: Growth-Type Marvel

Quality: ??

Level: lv0

Trait: Control and connect to a specific Star Sea Market.

Trait 2: Once certain conditions are met, the Star Sea Market Token can advance on its own.

Note: A supreme marvel among marvels, possessing limitless potential.