Chapter Summaries

Song Chi and the Bai and Song Family fleets attacked the awakened Golden-Armored Behemoth, but their weapons barely damaged its scales and its counterattack threatened the warships. The chapter ended with the behemoth unleashing its Golden Armor Domain and slowing two nearby cruisers.

• Song Chi visualized the Mythic Mecha Projection Rubbing Diagram while the Bai Family frigate returned, then the remaining Torch warships gathered above the Copper Mother Mine.
• Bai Chongwen used an ultrasonic wave to awaken the Golden-Armored Behemoth, and the fleets opened fire as it emerged from underground.
• The Golden-Armored Behemoth survived the barrage with only a row of cracked scales, then rushed toward the warships and bombarded their shields with Gold-Rending Spears.
• Bai Chongwen intercepted the behemoth's tail with his cruiser while Song Mingsong and the other ships attacked its body and lower abdomen.
• The Golden-Armored Behemoth activated its Golden Armor Domain, trapping two nearby cruisers and slowing them down.

The Torch fleets used the Domain Collision Device to break the Golden-Armored Behemoth’s domain and fought to wound it before it could unleash its law-powered attacks. The behemoth tried to retreat underground, but Bai Chongwen and four other cruisers restrained it with chains while the frigates prepared to attack.

• The Golden-Armored Behemoth expanded its Golden Armor Domain across the battlefield and summoned a massive spear of metal law power against the trapped Torch warships.
• Bai Chongwen activated the Domain Collision Device, collapsing the domain and weakening the descending spear; Song Mingsong blocked it with the Lion's Pride’s Battle-Gold Ram.
• Song Mingsong and other Torch Captains attacked the behemoth’s wounded lower abdomen, but its law-powered shield resisted their fire.
• The behemoth formed a canopy of golden law spears, and Song Chi used the law-enhanced Cangqiong to launch two armor-piercing cobalt shells into its cracked head, interrupting the attack.
• The injured behemoth turned toward the ground to burrow underground, but Bai Chongwen’s cruiser and four other cruisers used chains to hold it back while the frigates attacked.

The Torch warships’ assault on the Golden-Armored Behemoth faltered when its life-burning secret art let it break free and attack, leaving Song Mingsong to cover the retreat. Song Chi then teleported the Cangqiong into the behemoth’s mouth and activated Neutron Star Fission.

• Bai Chongwen sent his Centaur Terracotta Soldiers toward the Golden-Armored Behemoth, revealing a Bloodthirsty Vine Offshoot growing inside its head wound.
• The Golden-Armored Behemoth burned its blood qi to suppress the vine and cut through the chains, then struck Bai Chongwen’s cruiser and split another Bai Family cruiser in half.
• Bai Chongwen fled as the Golden-Armored Behemoth pursued the warships, and Song Mingsong turned the Lion's Pride around to cover the retreat.
• Song Chi teleported the Cangqiong above the behemoth and sent it into its open mouth.
• Song Chi activated the Neutron Star Core Armor’s Neutron Star Fission trait inside the behemoth.

Song Chi and Song Mingsong killed the fourth-tier Golden-Armored Behemoth, and Song Chi enslaved the Bloodthirsty Vine offshoot before Bai Chongwen could claim it. The Song and Bai Families then negotiated over the Titanium Crystal vein, with the Song Family keeping the offshoot and Song Mingsong gaining a major boost to the Lion's Pride's advancement prospects.

• Song Chi transformed the Cangqiong into a miniature neutron star, gravely burning the Golden-Armored Behemoth, while Song Mingsong used Hull Swapper to take his place inside its mouth and break through its skull with the Lion's Pride.
• After the Golden-Armored Behemoth died, the Bloodthirsty Vine offshoot began devouring its flesh, and Song Mingsong urged Song Chi to try enslaving it.
• Song Chi used the Enslavement Medal and successfully enslaved the offshoot on his second attempt, just before Bai Chongwen arrived.
• Song Mingsong discovered that bathing the Lion's Pride in the beast's blood had raised its advancement success rate by 14%.
• Bai Chongwen accused Song Mingsong of breaking their agreement, but Song Mingsong blamed the Bai Family's faulty intelligence and Bai Chongwen's retreat; Song Shan and Bai Xiurong then calmed the dispute.
• The Song and Bai Families negotiated over the Titanium Crystal vein, while the Song Family refused to give up the Bloodthirsty Vine offshoot and the Bai Family did not contest their claim.

After the Bai and Song Families divided the Titanium Crystal vein and returned to their territories, Song Mingsong explained the benefits of competing for the Song Clan’s seventh family sequence and learned how Song Chi had defeated the Golden-Armored Behemoth. Song Chi gave his grandfather forty strands of fourth-rank Floating Continent Essence to help prepare Lion's Pride for its advancement.

• The Bai and Song Families agreed to give the Bai Family sixty-five percent and the Song Family thirty-five percent of the Titanium Crystals, then split the 57,500 crystals they mined.
• When the Bai Family’s relay warship arrived, the Song Family left Copper Mountain Floating Continent, and Bai Xiurong apologized to Song Mingsong and Song Shan for the inaccurate intelligence.
• Aboard the Song Clan fleet, Song Mingsong told Song Chi that family sequence members received extensive resources and could enter the family’s secret grounds to cultivate inherited secret arts early.
• Song Chi revealed that Cangqiong had used the Neutron Star Fission trait, and Song Mingsong urged him to earn Golden Merit and upgrade his Kindling Seed to purple for the sequence competition.
• Song Mingsong said Lion's Pride still lacked the special resources needed for advancement, so Song Chi gave him forty strands of fourth-rank Floating Continent Essence to strengthen the warship.

The Song Family distributed the Titanium Crystals from their haul, and Song Chi spent much of his share upgrading the Cangqiong’s components. After the family returned to Dragonspine Continent, Bai Xiuqin cut back their close contact with the Bai Family over its conduct during the crisis.

• The Song Family reserved 5,000 Titanium Crystals for high-tier Void Crystals and distributed the rest, with Song Mingsong’s 1,000 crystals placed in the lineage’s secret treasury.
• Song Chi raised the Cangqiong’s remaining under-tiered components to Tier 3, then upgraded its Light Energy Aggregation Engine and Silver III-Generation Superwave Magitech Detection Radar to their hull limits.
• Song Chi left the Kindling Warship Hull at lv20 because the Cangqiong still had six unused special component slots and a higher hull level could increase deployment danger.
• The Song Family returned to Dragonspine Continent and recounted the Copper Mountain Floating Continent crisis to Bai Xiuqin and the others who had stayed behind.
• Bai Xiuqin ordered the Song Family to keep only two basic communication channels open with the Bai Family, refusing to be dissuaded.

Song Mingsong secured Song Chi’s eligibility for the Song Family’s sequence competition and exchanged the Golden-Armored Behemoth’s remains for source blood to aid the Lion’s Pride’s advancement. Song Chi opened a market trade, unaware that his grandfather had handed the Bloodthirsty Vine offspring over to the family.

• Song Mingsong distributed the remaining Titanium Crystals and assigned the family to seek materials that could improve the Lion’s Pride’s advancement chances.
• Song Mingsong brought the Lion’s Pride and its Bloodthirsty Vine offspring to Dragonspine Divine Mountain to request Song Chi’s inclusion in the sequence competition and offer the behemoth’s remains for refinement.
• Song Xuancang reviewed footage of Song Chi injuring the Golden-Armored Behemoth and approved Song Chi for the candidate list.
• Song Xuancang accepted Song Mingsong’s offer and gave him a drop of fourth-rank vampire marquis source blood, while taking the Bloodthirsty Vine offspring.
• Song Chi opened a market trade in the Myriad Heavens Market and realized that Song Mingsong had handed the Bloodthirsty Vine offspring over to the family.

Song Chi lost the Bloodthirsty Vine offspring but profited from exchanges at the Market Ruins, including trading for five strands of fourth-order Floating Continent Essence. As the transaction neared its end, a second-order fire elemental arrived and headed for Song Chi’s Marvel Exchange Shop, apparently drawn to the orange-quality Red Plains Heavenly Flame.

• Song Chi confirmed that the Bloodthirsty Vine offspring had vanished and lamented losing its help with processing ancient corpses.
• Song Chi disguised himself as a gnoll and exchanged Floating Continent Essence with aliens at better rates than his shop offered.
• Song Chi traded 1,890 strands of second-order Floating Continent Essence for five strands of fourth-order essence from a scythe-limbed alien.
• Song Chi packed up his stall after the interested traders had finished exchanging their mid- and high-order essence.
• A second-order fire elemental entered the Market Ruins, briefly inspected a stall of fire-attributed materials, then headed toward Song Chi’s Marvel Exchange Shop, drawn by the Red Plains Heavenly Flame.

Song Chi traded the Red Plains Heavenly Flame for a Fire-Attribute Law Crystal and gave the fire elemental life a Market Guest Token with twelve uses. The creature returned to its world determined to gather more purple kindling flames and eventually obtain the orange flame.

• Song Chi learned that the fire elemental life offered four purple kindling marvels, but he rejected them as insufficient for the Red Plains Heavenly Flame.
• The fire elemental life offered additional resources, including a Fire-Attribute Law Crystal, and Song Chi proposed trading the crystal for twelve Market Guest Token uses instead.
• The fire elemental life accepted Song Chi’s offer and received a token with twelve uses.
• The Market expelled the visitors, and the fire elemental life returned to its vast world of flames.
• The fire elemental life set out to find a purple kindling marvel so it could later obtain the Red Plains Heavenly Flame and strengthen its elemental body.

Song Chi’s attempt to comprehend the fire-element Law Crystal drained his mental strength, so he planned to cultivate while his family traveled to bid on a fourth-rank Void Crystal. At the Black Star Auction House, Song Chao raised the Song Family’s bid to three thousand Titanium Crystals, silencing the auction room.

• Song Chi used the Market Ruins’ power of laws to activate the fire-element Law Crystal, but stopped when mental pain and exhaustion warned him that his mind could not withstand comprehending laws.
• Song Chi resolved to improve his mental strength through visualization and soul resources, then fell asleep to recover.
• Zhao Hongxue told Bai Xiuqin that a fourth-rank Void Crystal would be auctioned on Yinge Floating Continent, and Bai Xiuqin arranged to travel with Song Hai and Song Chao.
• Bai Xiuqin, Song Hai, and Song Chao arrived at the Black Star Auction House and waited for the Void Crystal, the auction’s penultimate lot.
• Song Chao bid three thousand Titanium Crystals for the Void Crystal, bringing the auction room to silence.

Song Chao, Song Hai, and Bai Xiuqin secured a fourth-tier Void Crystal at the auction and used it to accelerate the Dragonblood Secret Realm by roughly 5,000 years. The chapter ended with Zhao Hongxue urging the family to plan harvests during the acceleration so the Spirit-Tempering Fruits and Dragonblood Fruits would not go to waste.

• Song Chao and his companions outbid the Gold Shark Chen Clan, paying 3,600 Titanium Crystals for the fourth-tier Void Crystal.
• After leaving the auction, Bai Xiuqin revealed the Celestial Lyre and summoned the Dragonspine Tyrant Whale phantom, prompting the pursuing cruisers and the Chen Clan to withdraw.
• Bai Xiuqin dispersed the phantom after suffering a mild backlash, and Song Hai and Song Chao checked on her.
• At Azure Moon Manor, Bai Xiuqin placed the Void Crystal into the Dragonblood Secret Realm, beginning an acceleration expected to span about 5,000 years.
• Zhao Hongxue pointed out that the family needed to harvest the ripening fruit during the acceleration and plan for the next growing cycles.

Song Chi advanced his Psionic Guidance Technique to Lv. 22 and broke through to the third stage of the Mortal Thought State by exhausting his soul resources. After returning to Azure Moon Manor, he learned that the Dragonblood Secret Realm had begun accelerating and that Song Shishi had awakened a blue Kindling Seed.

• Song Chi used a top-grade body-tempering potion, Deepwater Mussel Pearl powder, and Body-Tempering Paste to raise his Psionic Guidance Technique from Lv. 20 to Lv. 21, then Lv. 22.
• Song Chi consumed all his stored soul resources while visualizing the Mythic Mecha Projection Rubbing Diagram and advanced his mind power to six uses of one mind, the third stage of the Mortal Thought State.
• Song Chi left the Market Ruins to return to Azure Moon Manor and prepare for the next Alien Starfield Exploration, while the fire elemental lifeform still lacked enough purple Kindling oddities for their trade.
• Song You told Song Chi that the family had obtained a fourth-rank Void Crystal and begun accelerating the Dragonblood Secret Realm by the equivalent of about six thousand years.
• Song You told Song Chi that Song Shishi had awakened a blue Kindling Seed, and Song Chi called her a little genius.

Song Chi began a new Alien Starfield Exploration and found the Level 3 Blood Savage Continent, where he encountered the Wolf-Barbarian Clan and learned that their totem-based powers depended on their homeland or Totem Spirit Pillars. After secretly reaching the Ironwind Tribe, he sent an enslaved Wolf-Barbarian to investigate its forbidden grounds while he assessed the potential danger.

• Song Chi congratulated Song Shishi on awakening and gave her two blue-quality shipborne components.
• The Cangqiong entered a new exploration near a Level 3 life-type Star Sea Floating Continent, and Song Chi destroyed a Wolf-Barbarian warship's crossbow before sending the Thorn Wyvern and Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets to subdue its crew.
• Song Chi enslaved a surviving third-tier Wolf-Barbarian and learned about the Wolf-Barbarian Clan, their Path of Totems, and the Blood Savage Continent.
• Song Chi learned that Wolf-Barbarian totem markings had little power beyond their homeland unless supported by a Totem Spirit Pillar, and he secretly descended toward the Ironwind Tribe.
• Song Chi detected strong energy readings at the Ironwind Tribe's Totem Hall, Blood Wolf Cave, and Coldbone Pool, then ordered the enslaved Wolf-Barbarian to investigate Coldbone Pool.

Song Chi discovered the Coldmoon Snow Python, the Ironwind Tribe’s totem spirit beast, guarding an orange Star Sea Marvel beneath Coldbone Pool. After learning the python could wield temporary Tier 4 power, Song Chi decided to risk using Enslavement Mark · Berserk to claim the marvel and flew toward another Wolf Barbarian tribe to prepare.

• Song Chi sent Heijie to draw away Coldbone Pool’s two Tier 3 guards while four Void Shadow-Assassin Clan Soldier-Puppets slipped into the pool.
• The soldier-puppets found a silver-white giant python at the pool’s bottom, but it froze two of them and pursued the survivors out of the water.
• The Coldmoon Snow Python unleashed the Law of Ice, freezing the remaining soldier-puppets as Song Chi spotted an orange glow where it had been coiled.
• Song Chi withdrew the Cangqiong and weighed whether to spend Enslavement Mark · Berserk’s one-year cooldown to seize the likely orange-quality marvel.
• Song Chi decided to act, abandoned Heijie, chose Chel as the ability’s user, and headed toward another large Wolf Barbarian tribe to gather intelligence.

Song Chi used Chel to destroy the Ironwind Tribe and defeat its Col dmoon Snow Python, then strengthened the Enslavement Medal enough to enslave the wounded beast. He took Chel and the python aboard the Cangqiong and headed for the Blood Elephant Tribe, where Chel quickly defeated its Wasteland Mammoth.

• Song Chi activated Enslavement Mark · Berserk on Chel, whose Law of Strength killed the Ironwind Tribe’s four third-rank wolf barbarians and slaughtered the tribe’s inhabitants.
• The Col dmoon Snow Python emerged from Coldbone Pool and fought Chel, transforming into an ice-crystal profound serpent, but Chel defeated and grievously wounded it with the Azure Nether Rift-Sky Spear.
• Song Chi failed to enslave the Col dmoon Snow Python repeatedly, temporarily enhanced the Enslavement Medal to lv39, and successfully marked the python.
• Song Chi shrank the Col dmoon Snow Python and Chel, brought them aboard the Cangqiong, and flew to the Blood Elephant Tribe.
• Chel fought the Wasteland Mammoth, the Blood Elephant Tribe’s totem spirit beast, and defeated it with the Azure Nether Rift-Sky Spear.

Song Chi harvested the Totem Spirit Pillar and substantial resources from the Ironwind Tribe before returning to Azure Moon Manor. There, he learned he would oversee development in the Bailing Star Domain, and discovered that Song Mingsong’s Lion's Pride still had only a 28% chance of advancing to the fourth rank.

• Song Chi enslaved the Wasteland Mammoth, captured the remaining third-rank Wolf Barbarians, and collected resources from the Blood Elephant Tribe.
• Song Chi recovered Chel's corpse, then found the orange-quality Totem Spirit Pillar at the bottom of Coldbone Pool and installed it aboard the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi searched the Ironwind Tribe's ruins and found a rich hoard, including 10 strands of fourth-rank Floating Continent Essence, then set the Market Ruins' Spatial Anchor on the Blood Savage Continent.
• Song Mingsong announced that the lineage would develop the Bailing Star Domain in a month, with Song Chi assigned to oversee it temporarily.
• Song Chi brought the captured Wolf Barbarians and Wasteland Mammoth to Song Mingsong, who killed them to aid the Lion's Pride's advancement.
• Song Mingsong told Song Chi that the Lion's Pride's chance of advancing had exceeded 28%, leaving Song Chi worried by the low figure.

Song Chi traded fire-element materials with a fire elemental lifeform at the Myriad Heavens Market and secured six purple kindlings that could be exchanged for an orange-quality ascension flame source. After the market closed, he hurried to the family Merit Tower to redeem them.

• Song Chi discussed Lion's Pride's 28% advancement success rate with Song Mingsong, who urged him to focus on accumulating Golden Merit.
• Song Chi spent his ordinary merit points on fire-element materials, then exchanged a purple-quality engine for 5 Golden Merit.
• The fire elemental lifeform traded eight purple kindlings for Red Plains Heavenly Flame, leaving two unconvertible kindlings in the Marvel Exchange Shop.
• Song Chi, disguised as a Wolf Barbarian, bartered fire-element materials for Ten-Thousand-Year Volcanic Lava Iron Mother, thousand-year Fire Camphorwood Heartwood, and Firethorn Fruit.
• The fire elemental lifeform bought three types of storage capsules from Ailong's Star Origin Empire shop, while Goblin Luke watched with envy.
• Song Chi's auction yielded nothing he wanted, but the fire elemental lifeform showed strong interest in his Market Walker Token, and Song Chi left the market with six purple kindlings to exchange at the family Merit Tower.

Song Chi exchanged six purple advancement fire sources for Golden Merit points, obtained an orange Lava Earthcore Fire, and successfully advanced his Kindling Seed to purple. He then began major upgrades to the Cangqiong, bringing its Totem Spirit Pillar to lv30, its Light Energy Aggregation Engine to lv40, and its Neutron Star Core Armor to lv40.

• Song Chi asked the lineage elders about exchanging his six purple advancement fire sources, but none could afford them, so he went to the family Merit Tower.
• Song Chi exchanged the six fire sources for 150 Golden Merit points and spent 130 on the Lava Earthcore Fire.
• With Bai Xiuqin, Song Chao, and Chen Lixia guarding him, Song Chi fused the Lava Earthcore Fire with his blue Kindling Seed and successfully advanced it to purple.
• Song Chi's family celebrated his advancement, while Bai Xiuqin ordered the news kept within the Tenth Direct Lineage's core members.
• Song Chi upgraded the Cangqiong's Totem Spirit Pillar to lv30, made Tuo Guhong, the Thorn Wyvern, and Zhao Lei its worshippers, and raised the Light Energy Aggregation Engine to lv40.
• Song Chi upgraded the Neutron Star Core Armor to lv40, increasing its protection and strengthening its repair and shield-restoration effects.

Song Chi enhanced three of the Cangqiong’s components to lv40, greatly improving its defenses and enabling Tier-Four Void Shadow-Assassin Clan Soldier-Puppets to explore the ancient flagship. As he prepared for a deeper expedition to the Starry Sky Ancient Battlefield before taking command in the Bailing Star Domain, he found a purple component that might help him retrieve the ancient corpses there.

• Song Chi chose to enhance the Enslavement Medal, Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator, and Void Shadow-Assassin Clan Soldier-Puppet Tree, reducing the medal’s berserk cooldown and raising the shield’s value and regeneration.
• Song Chi summoned a Tier-Four Void Shadow-Assassin Clan Soldier-Puppet and checked the Cangqiong’s upgraded attributes.
• Song Chi decided to plan a second expedition to the Starry Sky Ancient Battlefield while preparing to command his lineage’s migration to the Bailing Star Domain.
• Song Chi identified the need for more spatial beacons and a component that could scale the ancient corpses.
• Song Chi found a post offering a purple Proportional Scaling Device and considered testing how much it could enlarge the corpses after enhancement.

Song Chi negotiated with Song Fu over a Proportional Scaling Device and learned that Song Fu wanted help killing a newly fourth-rank Star-Eating Vine. After Song Fu offered a Holy Cross Beacon as well, Song Chi agreed to join the expedition in a week and returned home to upgrade the Cangqiong’s Pure Yang Sword-Light Cannon.

• Song Chi searched for a high-quality Spatial Beacon Launcher and contacted Song Fu about his Proportional Scaling Device.
• Song Chi tested the device, confirmed its scaling power, and refused Song Fu’s request to help hunt a fourth-rank Star-Eating Vine.
• Song Fu offered a purple Holy Cross Beacon, and Song Chi asked for a Law Stone before agreeing to return in a week for the expedition.
• Song Chi returned to Azure Moon Lake and began upgrading the Pure Yang Sword-Light Cannon from lv39 to lv40.