Return to the Demon Serpent Floating Continent

Amid the vast number of warships of every rank, the Sky Ruins Firmament soon entered one of the spatial wormholes.

Since it had not revealed its identity, the Sky Ruins Firmament naturally had to pay the transit fee as well.

Ten wisps of second-rank Floating Continent Essence was not much, but it was by no means cheap.

However, that was only relative to second-rank Kindling Warships. Kindling Warships from ranks zero through three all had to pay in second-rank Floating Continent Essence. Rank four, five, and six warships had to pay fifth-rank Floating Continent Essence, likewise ten wisps, while rank seven and above warships uniformly paid ten wisps of seventh-rank Floating Continent Essence.

The Song Family raked in Floating Continent Essence through this method every year.

To that end, the family had deliberately increased the initial investment allocated to newly awakened clan members each year.

This not only consumed the ever-growing stockpile of Floating Continent Essence of all ranks within the clan, but also improved the survival rate of the younger generation. The results had been quite good.

Furthermore, leveraging the immense quantity of Floating Continent Essence gathered in this way, the Song Family had established the Dragonspine Royal Investment Group. Every year, the investment group distributed tens of billions of first- and second-rank Floating Continent Essence to invest in commoner captains who had successfully awakened in the kingdom's Red Disk and Dragon Serpent Galaxies.

Compared with those small and mid-sized civilian investment groups, conglomerates, and families, the Dragonspine Royal Investment Group's investment agreements imposed far fairer restrictions. After several centuries of promotion, over seventy percent of the commoner captains who successfully graduated from the major Kindling Academies under the kingdom each year chose to sign with the Dragonspine Royal Investment Group.

During this process, factoring in the considerable mortality