Chapter Summaries

Song Chi and Song Bei killed Tiyan, a fourth-tier Blood Bodhi Clan member, then raided its divine palace treasury and found vast resources, including fifth-tier Floating Continent Essence. After looting the treasury and hunting Blood Bodhi Clan members, they had to leave the continent before the breach closed.

• Song Chi and Song Bei defeated Tiyan, with Song Chi claiming its corpse and source blood.
• Song Bei proposed searching Tiyan’s territory, and the two traveled to its divine capital.
• Song Chi summoned his forces to attack the city while he and Song Bei fought through Tiyan’s palace guards.
• The two blasted open a sealed treasury and discovered abundant resources, including twenty strands of fifth-tier Floating Continent Essence and an orange-quality Hull Armor marvel.
• Song Chi and Song Bei emptied the treasury, then hunted the remaining Blood Bodhi Clan members in the city.
• After thirty days on the continent, Song Chi and Song Bei stopped their hunt and prepared to return before the shield breach closed.

Song Chi and Song Bei completed the first stage of the sequence contest and divided the spoils from the Divine Palace Treasury. After learning that the second stage would take place on the dangerous Level 7 Evil Buddha Continent, Song Chi exchanged Blood Bodhi for valuable family resources and prepared to find a stronger mind-protection component before departure.

• Song Chi and Song Bei submitted Blood Bodhi, and Song Chi, Song Bei, Song Ze, and Song Gang made the final top ten after a second submission round.
• Song Xuancang briefed the ten selected contestants on the Evil Buddha Continent mission and warned them to prepare against mental corruption and spiritual temptation.
• Song Chi and Song Bei split their spoils, with Song Chi taking non-component marvels and rare materials in exchange for the orange-quality Hull Armor.
• Song Chi exchanged five million Blood Bodhi for 200 Golden Merit, 100 Law Stones, fourth-rank Floating Continent Essence, and Titanium Crystals.
• Song Chi headed to the Merit Tower's upper floors to seek a high-quality mind-protection or negative-status purification component.

Song Chi searched the upper floors of the Merit Tower for mental protection components but found none, then exchanged for and enhanced a Shadow Demon-Breaking Cannon before upgrading several Cangqiong components. With seven days left before the Evil Buddha Continent expedition, he made the Col dmoon Snow Python suppress its impending breakthrough and reopened Market Ruins trading.

• Song Chi found no mental protection components through the 70th floor of the Merit Tower, exchanged 110 Golden Merit for a Shadow Demon-Breaking Cannon, and could not enter the 71st floor without 500 Golden Merit.
• Song Chi enhanced the Shadow Demon-Breaking Cannon to lv40, raised the Electromagnetic Thunderbolt Cannon to lv39, and upgraded the Totem Spirit Pillar to lv40 so his fourth-rank Void Demon could receive a Totem Rune.
• Song Chi learned that the Col dmoon Snow Python was about to advance to the fourth rank, then told it to suppress the breakthrough until after the Evil Buddha Continent trip.
• Song Chi enhanced the Silver III-Generation Superwave Magitech Detection Radar and Plasma Guardian to lv40, leaving about 1,000 Titanium Crystals in reserve.
• Song Chi activated the Market Ruins trading platform and prepared to offer ten-thousand-year Thunderstruck Wood while seeking a mental protection component through Zhou Ping and the Luofu Sword Sect.
• Goblin Luke hurried to the mineral resources exchange shop to begin another trade for two million Terra Stones.

Zhou Ping brought the Luofu Sword Sect’s treasures to Song Chi’s general store to trade for rare resources, and the sect eventually exchanged an orange-quality Soul-Suppressing Array Core and 1,000 Titanium Crystals for 100,000-year Thunderstruck Wood. After Zhou Ping also bought spirit herbs with Floating Continent Essence, Song Chi recognized the Luofu Sword Sect as a promising new trading partner.

• Zhou Ping found that he had no suitable soul-defense marvels, so Song Chi lent him a Market Walker Token to seek one from the Luofu Sword Sect.
• Zhou Ping returned with two orange-quality soul-defense marvels, but Song Chi rejected the Soul-Calming Stone and accepted the Soul-Suppressing Array Core along with 1,000 Titanium Crystals for the Thunderstruck Wood.
• Zhou Ping exchanged one hundred strands of third-rank and five strands of fourth-rank Floating Continent Essence for spirit herbs and fruit.
• Song Chi realized he could profit by sourcing scarce spirit herbs from the Song Family’s territories and selling them to the Luofu Sword Sect.

Song Chi used the Myriad Heavens Market transaction to promote its prestige, strengthened the Cangqiong’s components, and found a rare cruiser-advancement resource in the family vault. After turning in Blood Bodhi to his lineage, he consumed five fruits and felt his body transform toward the strength of an outstanding Starsea race.

• Song Chi displayed red-quality Law Crystals in the Marvel Exchange Shop to bolster his and the market’s reputation, and Zhou Ping hurried to report the treasures to his sect.
• After the transaction ended, Song Chi raised the Market Ruins Secret Realm and several facilities to lv28, strengthened the Taiyi Soul-Suppressing Stele to lv44, and the Light Energy Aggregation Engine to lv49.
• Song Chi gave Zhao Hongxue more than one million Blood Bodhi for the lineage and exchanged contribution points for a Sky-Ridge Crystal, leaving Ice-Origin Stone and a third-rank Blood Core as the two resources he still needed for the Cangqiong’s cruiser advancement.
• Song Chi consumed five second-rank Blood Bodhi, felt his body undergo comprehensive strengthening, and returned to the market to test the Psionic Guidance Technique.

Song Chi used the Blood Bodhi and Spirit-Tempering Fruit to test his improved cultivation and mental power, reaching one mind, seven uses in his normal state. He then joined the family’s second sequence trial, arriving with the others in a concealed underground space in the Evil Buddha Continent’s Hundred-Armed Domain.

• Song Chi confirmed that his genetic bloodline optimization had increased his base cultivation speed by about 25% and decided not to sell the family’s Blood Bodhi.
• Song Chi visualized the Dragonspine Tyrant Whale projection while consuming a Spirit-Tempering Fruit, and his normal mental capacity advanced from one mind, six uses to one mind, seven uses.
• Song Chi consumed a second Spirit-Tempering Fruit the next day, but it had only a third of the first fruit’s effect.
• Song Chi and the other nine candidates summoned their warships as Song Xuancang used ten coupling light bands to deploy them alongside his Boundless Wilds Supremacy Chaser.
• The eleven warships arrived nearly ten thousand meters underground in the Evil Buddha Continent’s Desolate State, where Song Xuancang explained that spirit-concealing stone hid their deployment from powerful seventh-rank beings.

Song Chi and the other candidates received a mission to obtain a Bodhisattva Sarira from the Evil Zen Temple and agreed to work together against its powerful defenders. After leaving their underground staging area, they encountered a sinister landscape guarded by fourth-tier Evil Buddhas.

• Song Xuancang revealed that the second-stage mission was to retrieve the orange supreme-quality Bodhisattva Sarira from the Evil Zen Temple in Blood Zen Prefecture.
• Song Ze proposed a joint operation, and the ten candidates assigned roles for engaging the temple's defenders, providing support, and searching for the Sarira.
• Song Chi volunteered to lead the first engagement, and Song Ze joined him; Song Gang and another clansman volunteered as replacements.
• The ten recalled their warships and traveled through the underground passage toward the surface of the Evil Buddha Continent.
• Song Chi and the others emerged onto a barren, blood-red landscape and saw fourth-tier Evil Buddhas guarding strange lingzhi-shaped flesh mountains.

Song Chi and the Song family fleet crossed the dangerous Evil Buddha Continent, where a fourth-rank Evil Buddha nearly enthralled several of them before Song Gang’s protective ability freed them. When Song Ze and Song Wenbo vanished near the Blackstone Mountains, Song Chi uncovered a hidden secret-realm entrance and found their ships under attack inside, prompting a rescue.

• A fourth-rank Evil Buddha’s chanting trapped several members of the fleet, but Song Gang summoned his vessel and used a protective halo to free them.
• Song Ze led the ten warships toward Blood Zen Prefecture at low altitude while the group avoided the towering Lingzhi Flesh Mountains.
• Near the Blackstone Mountains, Song Ze’s and Song Wenbo’s vessels disappeared without triggering the fleet’s radars.
• Song Chi inferred that a living being controlled a hidden secret realm or barrier, and a clan member revealed its entrance with a domain-type component.
• Song Chi and Song Gang entered the secret realm and saw Song Ze’s and Song Wenbo’s ships under attack by blood shadows, so they rushed in to help.

Song Chi and the other Spark warships fought the Blood Crow Flesh Pagoda Tree, freeing Song Ze and Song Gang and destroying many of its Blood Crow Flesh Nests. The group debated whether to finish the tree or go to Blood Zen Prefecture, while Song Bei’s teacher urged him to secure the tree’s valuable Blood Pagoda Wood Heart before others arrived.

• The Cangqiong and Night Harbor arrived in the ruined secret realm and fired on the blood crows surrounding Song Ze and Song Gang.
• Song Ze and Song Gang warned the newcomers that the blood crows came from a Blood Crow Flesh Pagoda Tree whose domain had trapped their ships.
• Song Bei explained that the tree was a half-step fourth-rank starry-sky plant and advised everyone to destroy its Blood Crow Flesh Nests while avoiding the corrosive, armor-piercing fleshy buds.
• The eight Spark warships concentrated fire on the nests, forcing the tree to recall its crows and release Song Ze and Song Gang from its domain.
• The Blood Crow Flesh Pagoda Tree contracted its domain into a powerful defensive shield, and the group split over whether to destroy it or head to Blood Zen Prefecture.
• Song Bei’s teacher urged him to persuade the others to claim the tree’s valuable Blood Pagoda Wood Heart before the exposed secret realm attracted more enemies.

Song Chi and his clansmen destroyed the Blood Crow Flesh Pagoda Tree, then launched a coordinated assault on the Evil Zen Temple to seize the Bodhisattva Sarira. The temple’s two half-step fourth-rank defenders chased Song Chi’s group, while Song Wenbo’s team infiltrated the temple, and the chapter ended with the defenders trying to return after learning of the attack.

• Song Bei claimed the Blood Crow Flesh Pagoda Tree’s heart, and the ten clansmen divided the remaining rewards before heading for Blood Zen Prefecture.
• Song Gang used the Night Harbor’s Marvel Hunter to locate the Bodhisattva Sarira inside the Evil Zen Temple, and Song Ze ordered the assault to begin.
• Song Chi and five other warships bombarded the temple and drew its two half-step fourth-rank defenders into pursuit, while Song Wenbo and four others attacked the temple with enslaved creatures and puppet soldiers.
• Song Wenbo activated a special component and sent his warship into the temple as the other ships fought the defending Evil Buddha Clan members.
• Song Chi withdrew after his shields were nearly depleted, and the two defenders broke away to return to the temple before Song Bei and another clansman briefly bound them with beams of light.

Song Chi’s fleet escaped after a fourth-tier Evil Buddha Clan member arrived, while Song Chi discovered another clan warship intercepting the enemy. The warship transformed into a mech and faced the enemy’s fifth-tier-powered attack, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Two half-step fourth-tier Evil Buddha Clan members trapped the Night Harbor ships with prayer beads and attacked them with six law spheres.
• Song Chi sent the Void Demon to ambush one enemy, severely wounding it and disrupting its Arhat phantom, while Song Gang’s Night Harbor was left badly damaged.
• The fleet learned Wen Bo had completed the mission and withdrew as pressure from a fourth-tier Evil Buddha Clan member with fifth-tier power approached.
• Song Chi spotted a frost-white Kindling warship confronting the enemy and realized its captain was likely a member of his clan.
• The Evil Buddha Clan member sealed the cruiser in a prison of Buddhist mantras and attacked, but the cruiser transformed into a mech that met the strike with a Dragonspine Tyrant Whale phantom.

Song Chi witnessed a third-rank cruiser use mythic mecha form against a powerful Evil Buddha, then learned that rare Microscopic Spirituality-Activated Metal could enable such transformations before the fourth rank. After the family named Song Chi, Song Gang, and Song Ze the top contributors, Song Chi returned to Dragonspine Continent to search for the resources needed to advance the Cangqiong.

• A frost-white cruiser transformed into a mythic mecha, trapped a fourth-rank Evil Buddha Clan member in an ice crystal prison, and fled before the prison broke.
• Song Ze explained that early mythic mecha transformation required divine-thought-level mental power and Microscopic Spirituality-Activated Metal; Song Chi recognized the metal from a Three-Eyed Clan flagship.
• Song Chi and the others examined the orange-quality Bodhisattva Sarira, then returned with the fleet to the Moon Locust Secret Realm.
• Song Xuancang named Song Gang, Song Chi, and Song Ze the operation's top contributors and announced that the third-stage sequence mission would begin in two months.
• Song Xuancang revealed that nine Bodhisattva Sariras might help him enslave a Four-Eared Arhat and obtain a certain component.
• Song Chi returned to Dragonspine Continent and found that the Merit Tower still had no Ice-Origin Stone or third-rank blood core.

Song Chi returned to find that Song Mingsong’s Lion’s Pride had advanced into the Supremacy Chaser Fierce Battle Lion, and learned the sequence competition’s final stage would lead to the Bhasa Inheritance Tower. He prepared Cangqiong for the challenge by upgrading its components and gathering Void Crystals, leaving with hopes of finding rare resources at the tower’s trading market.

• Song Chi arrived at Azure Moon Lake and saw that Song Mingsong’s Lion’s Pride had become the Supremacy Chaser Fierce Battle Lion.
• Song Mingsong introduced Song Chi to six family elders, who praised his place among the sequence competition’s final candidates and explained that its last stage would take place at the Bhasa Inheritance Tower.
• Song Chi exchanged a peak fourth-rank ancient corpse for 100 Golden Merit and used family resources to raise several of Cangqiong’s component levels.
• Song Chi lured and killed Void Demons near the Market Ruins Secret Realm, gathering more than two hundred high-rank Void Crystals and nearly ten thousand lower-rank ones.
• Song Chi stored the Void Crystals as trade currency for the market around the Bhasa Inheritance Tower and hoped to find Ice-Origin Stones, Blood Cores, or an orange advancement fire source.

Song Chi collected two ancient corpses, received a Tier 3 Blood Core, and traded for three-thousand-year Firethorn Fruits during a Market session. The fire elemental lifeform also revealed a red Kindling oddity called Extreme Yang Flame, which could be converted into a Kindling Seed Ascension Flame Source.

• Song Mingsong gave Song Chi a Tier 3 Blood Core and advised him to prepare carefully before advancing the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi returned to the Ancient Starry Battlefield and collected two ten-thousand-meter ancient corpses.
• Song Chi opened the Market and lent a fire elemental lifeform his Market Walker Token in exchange for Firethorn Fruits and its true objective.
• The fire elemental lifeform returned with two three-thousand-year Firethorn Fruits, and Song Chi traded fire-attribute materials for them.
• The fire elemental lifeform showed Song Chi a red Kindling oddity, Extreme Yang Flame, that could become a Kindling Seed Ascension Flame Source.

Song Chi met the Treefolk, whose goods opened a promising new trading opportunity, and discovered they wanted a Market Walker Token. They offered an orange War Treant Heart, leaving Song Chi to assess the marvel as the market trade neared its end.

• Song Chi failed to trade for the fire elemental lifeform’s red Kindling Seed but encouraged it to gather aged Firethorn Fruit and other valuable fire-element marvels.
• Three Treefolk entered the market and sold herbs and spirit fruits, drawing Zhou Ping and several beastmen to their stall.
• Song Chi considered trading spiritual-plant seeds for Treefolk resources and weighed the new race’s potential as a supplier and competitor.
• More Treefolk arrived with additional goods, bought storage capsules from Ailong’s shop, and exchanged marvels at the Marvel Exchange Shop.
• The Treefolk asked Song Chi for a Market Walker Token and presented an orange-quality War Treant Heart.

Song Chi traded for the War Treant Heart and other valuable resources, then accelerated his cultivation secret realm and used Firethorn Fruits to raise his Guidance Art to its peak below Tier 3. He retrieved two restored Silver Apples and watched the Silver Apple Mother Tree, expecting it to bear more after the acceleration ended.

• Song Chi rejected the Treants’ initial offer of the War Treant Heart, then accepted it with a Tier 5 life crystal, 30 strands of Tier 4 Floating Continent Essence, and 10 Law Stones.
• Song Chi transplanted the Immortal Domain Spirit Soil, ten Dragonblood Trees, and the Spirit-Tempering Fruit Tree into Chikang’s No. 004 Cultivation Secret Realm, buried the life crystal beneath them, and activated the Secret-Realm Accelerator.
• Song Chi posted a special plant seed purchase thread and assigned his fourth uncle and aunt to handle the seed purchases.
• Song Chi cultivated with two three-thousand-year Firethorn Fruits for more than twenty days, raising his Guidance Art from lv26 to lv29 and reaching the peak below Tier 3.
• Song Chi sent two Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets into the accelerated secret realm and retrieved the two restored Silver Apples, then watched the Silver Apple Mother Tree for new fruit.

Song Chi upgraded several components aboard the Cangqiong, improving its energy supply, remote-control capacity, mobility, and defenses as he prepared for the Bhasa Inheritance Tower. A week later, the Council of Clan Elders summoned him to Dragonspine Divine Mountain, where he met Song Ze and Song Gang before the next stage of the inheritance challenge.

• Song Chi used a Silver Apple to raise the Light Energy Aggregation Engine to red quality, then fused it with an engine trait that doubled its energy supply efficiency.
• Song Chi used his remaining Silver Apple to upgrade the Neural Wave Remote Control System to orange quality and fused in a trait that let him control two additional targets; he confirmed he could command three Soldier Puppets at once.
• Song Chi enhanced the Phantom Thruster, Spatial-Escape Pearl, and Immortal Domain Five-Element Cosmic-Cycle Energy Shield, substantially improving the Cangqiong’s capabilities.
• After a week of preparing for the Bhasa Inheritance Tower, Song Chi received an order from the Council of Clan Elders to report to the Divine Mountain.
• Song Chi departed Azure Moon Manor aboard the Cangqiong, and Song Mingsong declared that he would claim the sequence position.
• At White Jade Plaza on Dragonspine Divine Mountain, Song Chi arrived alongside Song Ze and Song Gang and realized the Bhasa Inheritance Tower route was not within the mountain.

Song Xuancang brought Song Chi, Song Ze, and Song Gang through a hidden route to the Bhasa Inheritance Tower, warning them of the dangers surrounding it. At the tower, he explained that challenging it required an offering and that the results would determine who became the clan’s seventh sequence.

• Song Xuancang led the three frigates to a concealed passage hidden by an advanced Combined Illusion Construction Device in a debris belt.
• The four warships entered the passage, and Song Chi saw the colossal Bhasa Inheritance Tower surrounded by powerful alien creatures.
• Song Xuancang warned the three to stay close and avoid other races, explaining that a clansman had vanished in the starfield during a previous contest.
• The Boundless Wilds cloaked the four warships as Song Xuancang guided them past the alien races gathered around the tower.
• Song Xuancang offered three orange Star Sea Marvels and explained that the challenge required a payment, with rewards based on performance.
• Song Xuancang said the challenge results would decide which of the three became the Song Clan’s seventh sequence.

Song Chi traded for rare deployment and soul resources while the four Song family ships waited near the Bhasa Inheritance Tower. As the next challenge approached, Song Xuancang acquired the Soul-Cleansing Clan member’s remaining fourth-rank Soul-Cleansing Liquid.

• Song Chi stayed near the Boundless Wilds and sent Void Shadow-Assassin Clan soldier-puppets to scout nearby trading areas.
• Song Chi bought a Winged Delivery Platform from a Winged Tiger and installed it on the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi noticed Song Gang had traded with a Soul-Cleansing Clan member without informing him and alerted Song Ze and Song Xuancang.
• Song Chi traded Spirit-Tempering Fruits and Void Crystals for one drop of fourth-rank and ten drops of third-rank Soul-Cleansing Liquid.
• Song Chi gave Song Gang and Song Ze his five remaining Spirit-Tempering Fruits, and Song Xuancang later acquired the Soul-Cleansing Clan member’s four remaining drops of fourth-rank Soul-Cleansing Liquid.
• The ancient voice announced that the next round of Inheritance Tower challenges was about to begin.

Song Chi entered the Bhasa Inheritance Tower and fought his way through its escalating challenges, aiming to earn a red marvel. After clearing the fifty-eighth floor, he faced a powerful half-step fourth-rank Yansuo Behemoth on the fifty-ninth.

• Song Chi and the other challengers learned that the previous round had cost many participants their stakes, while Song Xuancang warned them about a fifth-rank Devil Race creature’s mind manipulation and urged them to balance caution with ambition.
• The tower summoned Song Chi and the other registered challengers into separate virtual arenas, where Song Chi began facing successive waves of increasingly powerful creatures.
• The Cangqiong easily cleared the early floors, then fought Sky-Rending Vultures, Flame Lion-Griffins, and Two-Legged Wyverns as the tower raised their strength and adjusted their numbers.
• On the forty-ninth floor, Song Chi summoned the Thorn Wyvern and Col dmoon Snow Python to help the Cangqiong defeat five peak third-rank Two-Legged Wyverns, securing the minimum reward threshold at the fiftieth floor.
• Song Chi pushed onward, using thirty-five Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets and the Cangqiong’s weapons to defeat half-step fourth-rank opponents through the fifty-eighth floor.
• On the fifty-ninth floor, Song Chi encountered a half-step fourth-rank Yansuo Behemoth whose earth-element law power surpassed that of any comparable creature he had faced.