Chapter Summaries

Song Chi used the Cangqiong’s new Water-Molecule Isolation Membrane to search the Northern Waters for Deepwater Mussel Pearls, then entered the Central Great Waters despite the danger from Tier 3 Blackwater Mystic Serpents. After learning the family planned a full-scale assault in half a month, he refused to return and accelerated the Cangqiong’s exploration.

• Song Chi took the Cangqiong alone to the Northern Waters and submerged it using the Water-Molecule Isolation Membrane.
• Song Chi searched more than thirty small and medium-sized waters but collected only one 300-year Deepwater Mussel Pearl.
• Song Chi entered the Central Great Waters and began exploring while steering around Tier 3 Blackwater Mystic Serpents.
• Song Chi collected fifteen 300-year pearls, four 500-year pearls, one 700-year pearl, and one 900-year pearl as the Cangqiong explored one-third of the Central Great Waters.
• Song You told Song Chi that the family planned to attack the Soul Spirit Clan’s defensive line in half a month and asked whether he would return.
• Song Chi refused to return, asked Song You to inform Grandpa, and accelerated the Cangqiong forward.

Song Guangtong gathered the Song Clan forces at the Soul Ge Mountains, where their fleet fought the Soul Spirit Clan’s creatures until a half-step Tier 4 three-headed Chimera turned the battle against them. Song Yan, the Dinghai Song Clan’s Sixth Sequence, arrived to confront the Chimera.

• Song Guangtong ordered the Song Clan’s Tier 3 clansmen to assemble at the Soul Ge Mountains as the crisis on the Evil Buddha Continent escalated.
• Over the next half month, the Song Clan’s cruisers gathered at the Soul Ge Mountains, where Thorn Wyverns descended to suppress Blackwater Mystic Serpents and the fleet attacked the Chimeras.
• The Song Clan’s guns inflicted heavy losses on the Chimeras until a half-step Tier 4 three-headed Chimera charged into the fleet and sank a cruiser.
• The Song Clan’s Tier 4 elders fired through a breach in the floating continent’s shield, but its source rules weakened their attack before it could seriously harm the Chimera.
• As the elders struggled to enter the floating continent, one called for Song Yan to hold back the beast, and Song Yan’s cruiser appeared beside it.

Song Chi discovered that the Cangqiong’s Neutron Star Core Armor could destroy a half-step fourth-rank Blackwater Mystic Serpent from within, then retrieved a 1,500-year-old Deepwater Mussel Pearl before the family’s decisive battle ended. After returning to the Soul Spirit Floating Continent, he prepared to leave with his family as the mission concluded.

• Song Yan used the Mystic Armor to kill the half-step fourth-rank three-headed Chimera while Song Chi continued exploring the Central Great Waters.
• Song Chi found a three-thousand-year-old Deepwater Mussel and fought the half-step fourth-rank Blackwater Mystic Serpent guarding it.
• Song Chi activated Neutron Star Fission after the serpent swallowed the Cangqiong, melting its head and killing it.
• Song Chi recovered a 1,500-year-old Deepwater Mussel Pearl, then fled as Song Xuanfeng and the other elder arrived to inspect the serpent’s corpse.
• The two elders broke the Soul Spirit Floating Continent’s shield, and the Song Clan quickly suppressed the remaining Soul Spirit Clan members.
• Song Chi congratulated Bai Xiuqin on advancing the Celestial Lyre to the third rank, then departed with his family for the temporary space station.

After returning from the Soul Spirit Floating Continent, Song Chi learned that his family was preparing an operation on Copper Mountain Floating Continent to confront a wounded fourth-rank Golden-Armored Behemoth. He exchanged family merit for a Thorn Wyvern Domination Certificate, body-tempering potions, and Titanium Crystals as he prepared for the mission in three months.

• Song Chi returned with his family from the expedition and spotted the corpse of the half-step fourth-rank Blackwater Mystic Serpent he had killed, confirming the clan had monitored the battle and recovered it.
• Song Chao told Song Mingsong that Song Qi had advanced to the second rank and that Bai Xiurong had asked the family to discuss their planned Copper Mountain Floating Continent operation.
• Song Mingsong awarded Song Chi half of the Spirit-Tempering Fruit Tree’s first harvest and one fruit from each later harvest, then set the operation roster and scheduled the mission for three months later.
• Song Chi collected five hundred thousand family merit points and exchanged purple components for Golden Merit at the family Merit Tower.
• Song Chi exchanged merit for a third-rank Thorn Wyvern Domination Certificate and three vials of top-grade body-tempering potion, then used Golden Merit to obtain his remaining quota of three hundred Titanium Crystals.

Song Chi explored the Merit Tower and decided to save Golden Merit for an orange engine to strengthen the Cangqiong before its expedition to the Copper Mountain Floating Continent. He then reached the Wyvern Floating Continent and, with help from a third-rank captain, prepared to enslave an unconscious Thorn Wyvern.

• Song Chi found an orange advancement fire source and an orange Light Energy Aggregation Engine on the Merit Tower’s 59th floor, but he could not afford either yet.
• Song Chi exchanged a zircon and a low-grade energy crystal for 3 Golden Merit, bringing his total to 30, and resolved to gather enough to buy the engine before heading to Copper Mountain.
• The Cangqiong traveled to the Thorn Star Sector, passed inspection by the Thorn Garrison Fleet, and arrived at the Wyvern Floating Continent.
• Song Chi met a middle-aged third-rank Kindling Captain at the family base on Soaring Dragon Mountain and accepted his help capturing a Thorn Wyvern.
• The captain’s cruiser subdued a third-rank Thorn Wyvern in the Sunset Mountains, leaving it unconscious so Song Chi could attempt to enslave it.

Song Chi enslaved a wounded Tier 3 Thorn Wyvern, then used Deepwater Mussel Pearls and cultivation resources to raise his Guidance Art from lv18 to lv20. He completed his second life ascension and became a Tier 2 Kindling Captain with a lifespan of three hundred years.

• Song Chi used the Enslavement Medal to enslave the injured Tier 3 Thorn Wyvern on the Wyvern Floating Continent and brought it aboard the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi returned to Azure Moon Manor and cultivated with Deepwater Mussel Pearls, reaching the peak of lv19 Guidance Art.
• Chen Lixia told Song Chi that she and his father had advanced their Kindling Seeds to blue quality after obtaining top-grade purple advancement fire sources.
• Song Chi used one-quarter of a fifteen-hundred-year Deepwater Mussel Pearl to break through from lv19 to lv20 Guidance Art.
• Song Chi completed his second life ascension, gained Tier 2 abilities, and reached a lifespan of three hundred years.

After reaching the second rank, Song Chi improved his mental power and control over the Myriad Heavens Market, then hid the Star Sea Market Token inside his Kindle Ancestral Aperture. He sold his Deepwater Mussel Pearls, bought more mining equipment, and began an exploration aimed at resolving the threat in the asteroid belt.

• Song Chi advanced to one mind, five uses, sensed instability in his foundation, and discovered that the Star Sea Market Token could now be stored in his Kindle Ancestral Aperture.
• Song Chi sold all forty Deepwater Mussel Pearls to clansmen for five points of Golden Merit, raising his total to thirty-five.
• Song Chi bought two batches of twenty Fierce Tiger Type-1 Mining Vehicles and four civilian interstellar mining ships, along with daily necessities.
• Song Chi activated the Cangqiong's Alien Starfield Exploration function and used its Spatial Beacon Launcher to deploy directly to the asteroid belt occupied by humanoid alien races.

Song Chi traced the humanoid aliens to a hidden barrier and learned they were capturing asteroid-belt creatures to scout a spatial passage. He discovered the barrier was made by a purple strange artifact and that five half-step fourth-rank elders guarded the passage, leaving him weighing what lay beyond and whether the Cangqiong could challenge them.

• Song Chi delivered mining vehicles, ships, and supplies to Hun Er, then traveled to Hun Da’s mining team and continued exploring the humanoid aliens’ vast activity zone.
• Song Chi’s Market trade yielded only one purple strange artifact, which could be exchanged for four Golden Merit points, leaving him short of his goal.
• Song Chi observed humanoid alien teams escorting captured asteroid-belt creatures into a vast spherical light barrier and confirmed they were taking the creatures inside while returning empty-handed.
• Song Chi freed an enslavement mark by temporarily releasing Zhao Lei, then used it to enslave a captured third-rank humanoid alien and question it.
• The alien revealed that its clan’s purple strange artifact, the Pseudomorphic Boundary Stone, created the barrier and that the clan was scouting a spatial passage by sending captured aliens into it.
• The alien said five half-step fourth-rank elders guarded the passage, and Song Chi considered whether the Cangqiong could confront them.

Song Chi discovered that the alien base concealed a vast inner space and a spatial wormhole guarded by deadly traces of laws. After defeating the aliens and enslaving a Half-Step Tier 4 survivor to learn its safe route, he found a rare space-expansion component and wondered whether to install it on the Cangqiong or the Myriad Heavens Market.

• Song Chi used Chel to investigate the alien base, found its hollow asteroid interior, and waited for the Neural Wave Remote Control System to cool down.
• The Thorn Wyvern and Tuo Guhong attacked the base while Song Chi sent Chel into its depths, where he discovered an ancient warship wreck and a spatial wormhole.
• Song Chi sent Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets through the wormhole, identified hidden traces of laws, and realized the aliens had been using captured creatures to map a safe route.
• Song Chi joined the battle outside with the Cangqiong and his puppets, then struck down and enslaved a pursuing Half-Step Tier 4 alien as it emerged from the wormhole.
• Song Chi treated the alien and searched it, finding Star Sea Marvels including a Pseudomorphic Boundary Stone convertible into a purple space-expansion component.
• Song Chi considered whether to install the Space-Expansion Pseudo-World Stone on the Cangqiong or the Myriad Heavens Market.

Song Chi learned that the spatial wormhole led to a shattered ancient battlefield filled with giant corpses, law traces, and enormous warship wrecks. As the Cangqiong neared the exit, he saw a colossal ancient vessel and realized the battlefield was being consumed by void fissures, with Void Demons nearby and four humanoid aliens ahead.

• Song Chi questioned the captured half-step fourth-rank alien, confirmed the outpost had five such creatures, and learned their people had moved to the asteroid belt after finding the wormhole and an ancient wreck.
• The alien revealed a stone stele describing a once-boundless continent shattered by a great calamity, and said the wormhole led to a ruined ancient starry sky battlefield.
• Song Chi sent Fire Sunflower Soldiers ahead to scout the wormhole while the Cangqiong followed with its shield raised, later replacing the lost scouts with Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets.
• After learning the Cangqiong was about three-quarters of the way through the passage and four half-step fourth-rank aliens guarded the far exit, Song Chi slowed down to seek a chance to strike from hiding.
• Song Chi saw the battlefield beyond the exit, including giant ancient corpses and a warship wreck over ten thousand kilometers long, and noticed void fissures and Void Demons were threatening to consume the region.

Song Chi exploited the aliens’ fear of the deadly ancient battlefield to ambush and defeat four half-step fourth-rank humanoid aliens. He claimed their Spatial-Escape Pearl, installed it on the Cangqiong, and continued searching the battlefield for more gains.

• Song Chi confirmed that traces of laws and spatial rifts confined the aliens to a small safe zone, then launched a surprise attack from the spatial wormhole.
• Song Chi used the Hollow Extreme Yang Sword-Intent Divine Light, bomber drones, and Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets to kill two aliens and severely injure the others.
• One alien used a white jade pearl to teleport itself and its companion into the wormhole, where Song Chi sent out the Thorn Wyvern and Chel to fight them.
• Song Chi and his allies defeated the remaining two aliens, and he examined the eighteen Oddities they had collected.
• Song Chi converted the white jade pearl into a Spatial-Escape Pearl and installed it on the Cangqiong, then looked toward the battlefield for further opportunities.

Song Chi used soldier puppets and asteroid belt creatures to reach and explore an ancient warship wreck, discovering that it belonged to the Three-Eyed Clan and recovering two purple Star Sea Marvels. He sent the surviving puppets onward to another wreck while preparing another attempt to deploy scouts closer to the battlefield.

• Song Chi sent Chel and a half-step Fourth Rank humanoid alien back through the wormhole to restore order and capture more asteroid belt creatures for scouting.
• Over five days, Void Shadow-Assassin Clan soldier puppets escorted the creatures across dangerous space and reached the ancient warship wreckage, though several puppets and all the creatures were lost.
• Song Chi used three Deep-Space Magitech Bomber Drones to blast open the warship's main control room after the soldier puppets failed to break through its door or traverse the stable space inside.
• Inside, Song Chi found two corpses from the Three-Eyed Clan and realized the wrecked fleet had belonged to one of the Shattered Star Sea's ten overlord civilizations.
• Song Chi recovered two purple Star Sea Marvels from the control console, then sent the remaining puppets toward another wreck and planned to try deploying Void Shadow-Assassin Clan soldier puppets closer to it.

Song Chi devised a way to use the Market Walker Token to retrieve treasures from dangerous warship wrecks, then explored several more Three-Eyed Clan vessels. He finally found an orange-quality strange object that could become an External Armor-Piercing Cobalt Shell Launcher.

• Song Chi suspected that the purple strange objects recovered from the wrecks and aliens had degraded from orange quality over time, and sent soldiers toward another warship wreck.
• A Fixed-Point Deployment Platform attempt was disrupted by a spatial rift, but Song Chi later deployed four Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets safely onto the second wreck and found two more purple objects.
• Song Chi tested using a second-rank asteroid belt creature and the Market Walker Token to transport objects into the Myriad Heavens Market, successfully retrieving the two purple objects despite spatial hazards.
• Song Chi used the method to explore several more warship wrecks, finding only purple objects until the next wreck yielded an orange-quality Cobalt Shell Main Cannon.
• Song Chi received the strange object and confirmed it could be converted into an External Armor-Piercing Cobalt Shell Launcher.

Song Chi upgraded the Cangqiong’s External Armor-Piercing Cobalt Shell Launcher and then attempted to explore an ultra-giant Three-Eyed Clan flagship, repeatedly losing his soldier puppets to crushing pressure and traces of laws. His final puppet briefly entered the wreck and revealed what appeared to be a Silver Apple Mother Tree inside a cultivation chamber that might contain an independent secret realm.

• Song Chi installed the External Armor-Piercing Cobalt Shell Launcher on the Cangqiong and enhanced it to lv30.
• Over the following month, Song Chi gathered enough purple marvels to exchange for the Light Energy Aggregation Engine and decided to investigate the ultra-giant flagship before returning to Dragonspine Continent.
• Song Chi’s first deployments near the flagship failed as intense pressure damaged the soldier puppets and traces of laws destroyed them.
• After more than six attempts, Song Chi found a safe approach route and sent a final puppet through a breach in the flagship’s hull.
• The pressure inside crushed the puppet, but Song Chi briefly saw a silver tree with two fruits in a cultivation chamber and suspected it was a Silver Apple Mother Tree inside an independent secret realm.

Song Chi returned from the asteroid belt, arranged the mining operation and prepared for the family’s upcoming expedition to Copper Mountain Floating Continent. He exchanged purple components for Golden Merit, bringing his balance to 101, and stopped outside the sixtieth floor of the Merit Tower to see what was available before buying an engine.

• Song Chi decided not to explore the Three-Eyed Clan flagship further or use Enslavement Mark · Berserk, assigned the vacant Enslavement Mark to Chel, and returned to the humanoid alien settlement.
• Song Chi placed a spatial beacon, instructed the half-step fourth-rank humanoid alien, collected resources from Hun Da and Hun Er, and ordered them to mine at full capacity.
• Song Chi returned to Azure Moon Manor, where his family welcomed him and agreed to depart for the Golden Moon Star Sector in one week for the Copper Mountain Floating Continent operation.
• Song Chi sold purple components to his elders and exchanged six more at the Merit Tower, raising his Golden Merit to 88.
• Song Chi sold the Space-Expansion Pseudo-World Stone to Song Shan for 16 Golden Merit, bringing his total to 101, then paused before the sixtieth floor to look around.

Song Chi explored the Merit Tower’s 60th floor, exchanged Golden Merit for Law Stones and a Light Energy Aggregation Engine, and greatly strengthened the Cangqiong’s components. With his Titanium Crystals nearly depleted and second-rank essence piling up, he planned to offer better exchange rates at his Market Ruins stall.

• Song Chi found the red-quality Many-Eyed Race Origin Eyeball on the 60th floor but could not afford its 500 Golden Merit price, then exchanged five Golden Merit for five Law Stones.
• Song Chi spent 90 Golden Merit on a Light Energy Aggregation Engine, installed it in the Cangqiong, and enhanced it to lv30.
• Song Chi enhanced the Neutron Star Core Armor and Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator to lv39, dramatically increasing the Cangqiong’s armor and shield defenses.
• Song Chi raised several other Cangqiong components, leaving himself with only 25 Titanium Crystals and 853 strands of third-rank Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi decided to offer alien traders higher exchange rates for third-rank Floating Continent Essence at his Market Ruins stall.

Song Chi tested the Cangqiong’s defenses in the void, then hunted Void Demons and assessed the poor yield of searching the vast dark-side void. After preparing for the trip to Copper Mountain Floating Continent, he joined the Tenth Direct Lineage’s warships and reached the southern Calm Sea Star Domain transfer hub.

• Song Chi remotely tested the Cangqiong against increasingly powerful void storms and found that it could safely pass through storms smaller than fifteen hundred meters.
• Song Chi detected and destroyed a squad of over a hundred Void Demons, then hunted across the dark-side void for three days and collected Void Crystals and Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi returned to the market with a modest haul and considered other ways to locate Void Demons before deciding to recover for the Copper Mountain Floating Continent trip.
• Song Mingsong ordered nine Torchships carrying the Tenth Direct Lineage’s core members to depart Azure Moon Manor.
• Song Chi and the other clan members reached the southern Calm Sea Star Domain transfer hub and waited a day for their transfer.

Song Chi arrived at Golden Moon Floating Continent with his family and connected to its local Kindling Network, where he found a seller offering a Kindling Warship Passenger Permit. After buying it from a poor girl whose mother was ill, he noticed a purple oddity in the girl's ancestral aperture.

• Song Chi's family arrived at Red Leaf City, where local Second Rank captains welcomed them, and Song Chi connected to the Golden Moon Floating Continent Ring Local Network.
• Song Chi found a listing for a Kindling Warship Passenger Permit and arranged to meet its owner, the captain of Green Bean, in Nanxiang City.
• The seller asked for one hundred thousand strands of Zero Rank Floating Continent Essence to pay for her mother's treatment, so Song Chi visited the mother and offered forty thousand instead.
• The girl accepted Song Chi's offer, and he bought the Kindling Warship Passenger Permit while warning her not to use intermediate treatment potions for her mother's spore infection.
• As Song Chi was leaving, the girl called him back, and he saw a gleaming purple oddity in her ancestral aperture.

Song Chi traded with a girl for the purple Plasma Guardian, escorted her to buy an advanced healing potion, and upgraded the component for his soldier puppets. When the Song and Bai families gathered to explore the Copper Mountain Floating Continent, Song Chi offered to use the Cangqiong as their transport instead of his grandfather’s Lion’s Pride.

• The girl traded Plasma Guardian to Song Chi for Floating Continent Essence and four blue components, and he escorted her to purchase an advanced healing potion while scaring off people tailing them.
• Song Chi escorted the girl back to her tent, where she and her mother realized he might be from the Dinghai Song Clan.
• Song Chi upgraded the Kindling Warship Passenger Permit and Plasma Guardian, then applied a shield to himself and considered equipping his Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets with the component.
• The Bai Family arrived beyond the Golden Moon Floating Continent with more than twenty people, including three Tier 3 and twenty Tier 2 Kindling Warship Captains.
• Song Mingsong proposed that everyone board the Lion’s Pride for the Copper Mountain Floating Continent expedition, and Song Chi firmly offered to use the Cangqiong instead.

Song Chi and the Song and Bai Families reached Copper Mountain Floating Continent to prepare to fight a sleeping fourth-tier Golden-Armored Behemoth. As the families waited for the battle, Song Mingsong suspected the Bai Family sought the beast’s sourceblood and warned Song Shan about the factional struggles within the Bai Family.

• Song Mingsong and the others boarded the Cangqiong, while the Song and Bai Families left their third-tier Kindling captains aboard frigates before deploying to the coordinates.
• The seven Kindling warships reached Copper Mountain Floating Continent, where the Bai Family’s scan revealed a Golden-Armored Behemoth sleeping deep beneath a Copper Mother mine.
• Aunt Xiurong directed the families to establish a temporary base and spend twenty-four hours preparing a battle plan.
• Song Chi noticed that Bai Chongwen’s cruiser had summoned twenty enhanced centaur soldier figurines, suggesting it could be a key force in the coming fight.
• Song Mingsong told Song Shan that the Bai Family likely wanted the behemoth’s fourth-tier biological sourceblood and explained that internal factional conflict made the Bai Family’s motives and alliances complicated.
• Song Chi kept the Cangqiong’s Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator active while the families waited near the sleeping behemoth.