Song Chi was greatly interested in that eighth-rank Black Devourer King Beast, but he was equally tempted by the prospect of enslaving a Kindling Warship captain at the Star Destroyer level.
Whether within the Ember Humanity Galaxy Cluster or while exploring foreign starfields in the future, the value of a Star Destroyer would never be inferior to that of an eighth-rank starry behemoth.
Of course, most importantly, he had long since evolved the Master-Servant Contract component to silver quality, making it entirely capable of signing a master-servant contract with a seventh-rank Kindling Warship captain.
As he pondered this, the Asura Emperor standing upon Dragonspine Plain seemed to have found the ideal moment to charge forward. At the instant the energy tide surging across Dragonspine Plain reached its peak, blood energy erupted throughout its body as it advanced step by step from the peak of the eighth rank toward the eighth-rank limit.
Perhaps because it had personally touched upon ninth-rank power twice before through the "Enslavement Mark · Berserk" trait, the Asura Emperor's advancement encountered no mishaps this time. It easily stepped into the realm of the eighth-rank limit.
At this point, it was truly only half a step away from the ninth rank.
Compared to the Asura Emperor's situation, the breakthroughs of the two six-star Ancient Monsters at another corner of Dragonspine Plain were far more difficult.
Perhaps their foundations were insufficient, or perhaps they had only recently reached the peak of the sixth rank. Both six-star Ancient Monsters failed in their first breakthrough attempts.
Fortunately, they were not injured by the failures. Left with no other choice, Song Chi turned his attention to the Incomplete Creation Eight-Trigram Furnace component aboard his ship.
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