Myriad Heavens Market: Cangqiong (Please Read On)

Myriad Heavens Market—Cangqiong (Please Read On)

The reason was simple. It was already afternoon, and there were less than twenty hours left until tomorrow morning's assembly time. Once the spatial gate deployment platform was activated, the deployed spatial gate would remain open for twenty-four hours.

In other words, if he opened the market now, it would conflict somewhat with tomorrow morning's alien starfield exploration.

As the master of the market, he could maintain absolute control over it. As long as no Tier 1 or higher lifeforms appeared, the market's order was entirely under his control. But the prerequisite for all that was that he himself had to be inside the market.

Once he left midway, there was no telling how chaotic the entire market space would become.

Besides that, he still had many things to prepare. Tomorrow would be his first alien star sea exploration, so he had to be thoroughly prepared.

Moreover, he still had quite a few ideas about the market beneath his feet that needed to be tested one by one.

He got to work immediately. Song Chi first used the market token in his hand to enter and exit several times, carrying different items each time.

A water bottle, a backpack, a chair...

Ten minutes later, he had his first answer. Anything he could lift and hold in his own hands could be brought into the market space with him. Conversely, items beyond what he could carry could not be brought into the market.

After reaching that conclusion, he quickly made his way to the stall area he had passed through earlier. This was one of the few vacant areas in the market. Even a 10x10 space was nothing special, but it was more than enough for a Psionic Shuttle with a hull length of no more than seven meters.

That was right. What Song Chi wanted to do this time was see whether he could summon the Psionic Shuttle inside the market.

Under his full control, the psionic energy within his body rapidly gathered toward his brow.

"Hmm?"

Feeling the movement at his brow, Song Chi was delighted. He had actually succeeded in opening the Kindle Ancestral Aperture.

Soon, a streak of light shot out from between his brows, and the compact Psionic Shuttle appeared out of thin air in the vacant space before him.

"I can summon the Psionic Shuttle in the market too!!"

Song Chi could barely contain the excitement in his heart after obtaining this result.

With this, aside from being able to enter the market at the first sign of danger to save his life, many of the ideas that had previously arisen in his mind now seemed quite feasible as well.

Generally speaking, what was the most troublesome issue for Kindling Starships during alien starfield exploration?

When faced with that question, many people would probably answer, "alien civilizations." After all, once they encountered powerful alien creatures, the outcome was usually nothing but "ship destroyed, crew dead."

Yet that was not actually the case. What truly gave every Kindling Starship captain headaches had always been the starship's storage space. The size of a starship was fixed, and naturally, the items it could carry were limited.

Because of this limitation, every captain had to repeatedly calculate and plan, whether before beginning alien starfield exploration or before returning after an expedition, using every last bit of cabin space to the limit.

As a result, large mechanical equipment such as Raging Tiger I Floating Land Mining Vehicles, Bumblebee-class Combat Drones, Ground Combat Type IV Exploration Robots, and the like were generally difficult to bring along.

After all, even if they were taken over, once they truly made gains in an alien starfield, returning would become a problem. Should they bring those bulky machines back with them, or abandon them to free up room for the resources they had harvested?

That equipment was not cheap. If they simply threw it away, it would be fine if the resources brought back were valuable enough—at worst, their profits would be cut in half. But what if the resources they mined ended up being worth less than the equipment itself? That would be a catastrophic loss.

But if they did not discard them, a Kindling Starship was only so large. How many harvested resources could it bring back?

This had always been an extremely difficult contradiction to resolve, and every Kindling Starship captain found it unbearably frustrating.

Because of this, spatial folding and expansion-type starship components had long been driven to astronomical prices. Even white-quality spatial starship components could often sell for the price of blue or even purple components, and they were often unavailable no matter how much one was willing to pay.

Before this, on his way home just now, Song Chi had still been carefully allocating the already limited space aboard the Psionic Shuttle over and over again, hoping to create the most perfect plan before tomorrow's alien starfield deployment. Now, however, it seemed he no longer needed to agonize over such matters.

A market space where he could freely summon his Kindling Starship was practically a perfect backup storage space—and an extra-large one at that.

Though it had restrictions on the items one person could bring in, preventing large objects from being carried inside personally, Kindling Starships were different. They could be stored in the Kindle Ancestral Aperture, which gave him enormous room to maneuver.

He could first store the large machinery he needed inside the Kindling Starship, then store the starship in the Kindle Ancestral Aperture. Once he entered the market, he could summon the Kindling Starship again. This would perfectly bypass the restriction on what a single person could carry.

Furthermore, he could use the same method during future alien starfield explorations. Using the Kindling Starship as a carrier, he could store resources that would otherwise be impossible to take away in the market, greatly increasing the gains from each expedition.

Of course, all of these ideas currently had one prerequisite: after being deployed to an alien starfield, he still had to be able to freely open and enter the market. Otherwise, none of it mattered.

As thoughts raced through his mind, an abrupt notification pulled Song Chi back to reality.

Please name the market as soon as possible!

Hearing it, he remembered that there was still that matter. And it was not just the market beneath his feet—the Psionic Shuttle before him had yet to be named as well.

Shaking his head, Song Chi suppressed all the thoughts in his mind and shifted his attention to the market and the Psionic Shuttle before him.

After thinking for roughly a dozen seconds, two words suddenly surfaced in his mind.

"Myriad Heavens."

He had read quite a few xianxia novels in his previous life. Since the market beneath his feet could randomly connect to various starfields throughout the Shattered Star Sea, the name "Myriad Heavens Market" could not have been more fitting.

Myriad Heavens Market successfully named.

After Myriad Heavens Market came the Psionic Shuttle, but this time it tormented Song Chi for quite a while.

"Star Sea!"

Sorry, this name already exists. Please choose another.

"Unrivaled!"

Sorry, this name...

"Milky Way."

Sorry...

Because of the enormous number of Kindling Starships in the Kindling Human Civilization, many names had already been registered.

"Shenzhou!"

Sorry...

"Cangqiong."

Cangqiong has not yet been used. Confirm naming it "Cangqiong"?

"Kunlun..."

"Hmm? That worked?"

His voice caught, and Song Chi immediately tapped confirm.

Once the naming succeeded, he shifted his gaze and began checking the Psionic Shuttle's detailed attributes.

He had been interrupted by his homeroom teacher, Yang Minghui, earlier, and still had not looked over the Psionic Shuttle's full attributes.

Name: Cangqiong

Model: Kindling—Psionic Shuttle

Level: lv0

Basic Components: Colorless Kindling Hull lv0, Psionic Main Cannon lv0, Psionic Secondary Cannon lv0, Hull Armor lv0, Psionic Engine lv0, Psionic Shield lv0, Sky-Patrol Radar lv0, Psionic Training Room lv0 (8/8)

Special Components: None (0/2)