Chapter Summaries

Song Chi attended Yaohan Commerce Association’s once-in-a-century auction, hoping to find resources for the Myriad Heavens Market and the Cangqiong’s future advancement. He could not afford the Star-Crowned Flame, but secured a piece of Myriad-Year Pure Yang Jade and left the auction still seeking Ethereal Spirit Crystals.

• Song Chi learned that Yaohan Commerce Association’s auction might offer Ethereal Spirit Crystals and other rare resources he needed.
• Song Chi and Song Yufeng arrived at First Auction House as powerful figures, including sixth-rank Dreadnought captains, gathered for the auction.
• Liu Yuanzhou opened the auction with the red ascension flame source Star-Crowned Flame, which the Eagle Family’s fifth-rank captain bought for two hundred sixty strands of fifth-rank Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi passed on ordinary ship components and used two hundred strands of fourth-rank Floating Continent Essence from his sequence subsidy to win a piece of Myriad-Year Pure Yang Jade.

Song Chi attended the auction hoping to find Ethereal Spirit Crystal and Sands of Time, then contacted Ansewei after neither appeared among the lots. Ansewei produced an Ethereal Spirit Crystal but had no Sands of Time, leaving Song Chi with only part of what he needed.

• Song Chi watched the auction's centerpiece lots sell: Tidal Giant Origin Blood went to a Dusk Marquis Family captain, Starsea Sunflower Treeheart sold for 30 strands of sixth-tier Floating Continent Essence, and the silver engine went to Patriarch Lu.
• After the auction ended, Song Chi retrieved the black communication wristband from the Market Ruins and called Ansewei, who teased him about being out of touch for twenty years.
• Song Chi flew the Cangqiong to the Legendary Club and met Ansewei while wearing a bionic skin mask.
• Song Chi asked Ansewei for help finding Ethereal Spirit Crystal and Sands of Time, and she brought him an Ethereal Spirit Crystal from her collection but said she had no Sands of Time.

Song Chi secured the Manfeng Squad’s cooperation for an expedition to obtain Sands of Time, then advanced the Myriad Heavens Market to the third rank. The market reached lv34 and its upgraded facilities greatly increased its cultivation, trade, defense, and essence-synthesis capabilities.

• Ansewei gave Song Chi the Ethereal Spirit Crystal and invited him to her birthday banquet, while agreeing to investigate the Shen family of Jiangyuan City.
• Song Chi met with Shi Man and the Manfeng Squad, agreed to join their expedition to a level-4 storm-covered floating continent, and confirmed they possessed five kilograms of Sands of Time.
• Song Chi entered the Myriad Heavens Market and initiated its advancement after upgrading the Light-Hiding Platform.
• After three days, the market reached lv30, and Song Chi raised it and three key facilities to lv34.
• Song Chi upgraded the Spirit-Mechanism Synthesis Platform, which could now produce one hundred strands of fourth-rank Floating Continent Essence each month.

After the Myriad Heavens Market advanced to Tier 3, Song Chi discovered new Listing Tokens and improved law-comprehension support within the Market Ruins Secret Realm. He advanced his Guidance Art to lv32 and left the Market with four days remaining before his appointment with Manfeng's team.

• Song Chi discovered that the Market's Spatial Anchor trait could now establish two coordinates, but the inn had gained no new rooms or tokens.
• Song Chi found a hundred listing shops containing a thousand Market Listing Tokens and set a rule to reclaim tokens held by sellers whose transaction volumes ranked in the bottom tenth.
• Song Chi concluded that Listing Tokens would complement rather than undermine Market Guest Tokens and Market Walker Tokens, and planned how to distribute them.
• Song Chi discovered that the Market Ruins Secret Realm's laws supported his comprehension, and estimated that a low-grade spatial Law Crystal there could help him gain 0.1% spatial-law comprehension in eight years.
• Song Chi advanced his Guidance Art to lv32 after twenty days of cultivation, adapted to his changed physique, and left the Market four days before his appointment with Manfeng's team.

Song Chi joined the Manfeng Squad’s expedition to Storm Continent, while arranging for Dragonspine Shop to buy large quantities of Star Sea Marvels with his Floating Continent Essence. When the squad encountered a flock of Storm Giant Eagles, Song Chi took on the returning fourth-rank male eagle himself so the others could pursue their objective.

• Song Chi gave Song Yufeng a vast initial fund of Floating Continent Essence and instructed him to buy high-quality Star Sea Marvels that could not be converted into shipborne components.
• Song Chi departed Saintstar City aboard the Cangqiong and met the Manfeng Squad before they deployed to Storm Continent with two escort ships.
• The nine cruisers crossed Storm Continent’s dangerous storms under the Manfeng Squad’s group concealment and spent two days tracking the Storm Giant Eagle flock.
• Shi Man explained that attacking the flock would alert its absent fourth-rank male and that the eagle had previously summoned eight others of the same rank.
• After waiting three days for the male Storm Giant Eagle to return, the Manfeng Squad sealed the area, and Song Chi charged the eagle alone while ordering the squad to pursue the Storm Mica.

Song Chi and the Manfeng Squad raided a Storm Giant Eagle nest, but a massive force of Tier 4 reinforcements forced them to flee. Song Chi escaped with Cangqiong, and the survivors later regrouped, where they learned three cruisers had not returned.

• Cangqiong fought the Tier 4 Storm Giant Eagle while the Manfeng Squad attacked its nest and secured the Storm Mica Stone.
• Song Chi sensed reinforcements approaching, warned Shi Man, and the squad withdrew from the nest.
• Twenty-four Tier 4 Storm Giant Eagles arrived, and Song Chi used the Col dmoon Snow Python's Frost Domain to slow them while the squad escaped.
• Song Chi used the Spatial-Escape Pearl to evade the eagles, then fled toward the starry sky as the Manfeng Squad scattered.
• Song Chi and the surviving cruisers regrouped several days later, but only five other cruisers had returned, leaving three missing.
• The transit warship arrived, and Shi Man and the other survivors recalled their warships and boarded.

Song Chi prepared for the Market’s first Tier 3 trade by reinforcing the Bhasa Meditation Seal and stocking the Marvel Exchange Shop with rare Star Sea Marvels. He began a major trade with a Deepsea Naga clan and learned they came from a Tier 5 Floating Continent, leaving open the possibility of future business if he issued them Market tokens.

• Song Yufeng gave Song Chi more than a hundred Star Sea Marvels, including three red-quality and seven orange-quality items, for the upcoming trade.
• Song Chi reinforced the Bhasa Meditation Seal to lv40 and the Eye of Spirit-Sight to lv50, then opened the Market’s first trade after its advancement to Tier 3.
• Song Chi noticed a Deepsea Naga enter the Market, and later welcomed more than a hundred members of its clan, including at least ten Tier 3 nagas.
• Song Chi offered the nagas aquatic-friendly resources in exchange for Deepsea Clam Pearls, while Song Yufeng arranged a rapid supply of additional goods through Dragonspine Shop.
• Song Chi learned from Tuo Gu that the nagas came from a Tier 5 Floating Continent, and the clan said future trade depended on whether the Market’s lord would issue them Guest and Walker Tokens.

De Gu'en told the North Sea Queen about the market’s powerful marvels and persuaded her to trade the royal court’s Mirage Dragon Orb for equipment that could strengthen their position. The chapter ended with the Queen producing the silver Legendary Marvel, while De Gu'en fixed his attention on it.

• Song Chi counted 345 deep-sea clam pearls, traded resources of equal value to the Naga, and agreed to accept Second Rank Floating Continent Essence or higher as currency until their next meeting.
• De Gu'en, a half-step Fourth Rank Naga, explored the market, saw the Golden Sanctuary ship cannon and several marvels suited to the Naga, then returned to the North Sea Royal Court.
• De Gu'en urged the North Sea Queen to obtain the Deepsea Crown, Golden War Spear, Phantom Disc, and more marvels to help the royal court withstand its enemies.
• The North Sea Queen hesitated over trading the Mirage Dragon Orb, the court’s last foundation, but agreed to gamble its future rather than face gradual decline.
• The North Sea Queen summoned the silver Legendary Mirage Dragon Orb, and De Gu'en stared at it intently.

Song Chi traded the silver Mirage Dragon Orb for most of the Marvel Exchange Shop’s high-grade stock and a ten-year Market Walker Token, then enhanced the converted component and prepared to leave for Skyward Valley. Eight days later, a Torch Warship headed toward the birthday banquet at St. Roland Manor, where the chapter ended as the estate filled with guests.

• De Gu'en brought the silver Mirage Dragon Orb to the Myriad Heavens Market and offered it to Song Chi for exchange.
• Song Chi refused De Gu'en’s request to borrow the Three-Eyed Godslayer Cannon, then accepted the orb in exchange for the shop’s red, orange, and purple marvels and a ten-year Market Walker Token.
• Song Chi completed the trade, enhanced the Mirage Dragon Myriad-Form Orb to lv20, and ended the Market transaction session.
• Song Chi gave Song Yufeng resources to continue purchasing marvels and supplies, then declined the Legendary Club master’s invitation to a birthday banquet at St. Roland Manor.
• After eight days of cultivation, a Torch Warship vanished into the clouds as St. Roland Manor grew lively for the birthday banquet.

Song Chi attended Ansewei’s birthday banquet and discovered that she was Princess Ansewei Morningstar, while a confrontation with a powerful cruiser escalated into a battle with Anneer. Just as Anneer pressed her advantage, another cruiser appeared and halted her flagship with a mysterious power.

• Song Chi entered Ansewei’s banquet and saw prominent heirs and nobles, including Lu Chuan, Blackstone Eagle, Anneer Dusk, and Thane Morningstar.
• Ansewei arrived and greeted the guests with the giant powers’ heirs, while Song Chi realized that she was the fourth prince’s sister.
• A cruiser intruded on the manor, and its captain claimed that his young master had been excluded from Princess Ansewei’s birthday banquet.
• Thane sent cruisers against the intruder, but they were defeated; Anneer then fought the offending captain and damaged his flagship.
• An intruder identified as a member of the Stark Family threatened Anneer, but she attacked again and declared that the Stark Family could not intimidate the Dusk Marquis Estate.
• A second twelve-hundred-meter cruiser appeared and used an unknown power to freeze Anneer’s flagship in midair.

Anlock Stark attacked Anneer at Ansewei’s birthday banquet, and Song Bei’s Northern was badly damaged when it intervened. Song Chi arrived in Cangqiong, used Time Stop to cripple Anlock’s cruiser, then withdrew when a Supremacy Chaser came to protect him.

• Anlock Stark fired on Anneer’s ship despite Ansewei’s attempt to stop him, while the Third Prince persuaded Lu Chuan and Blackstone Eagle to stand down.
• An unfamiliar cruiser intervened to shield Anneer, and Anlock repeatedly rammed it until Anneer identified its pilot as Song Bei of the Dinghai Song Clan.
• Anlock continued attacking Northern, leaving it critically damaged, until Song Chi arrived in Cangqiong and blocked the next collision.
• Song Chi used Meditation Seal · Outer · Time Stop and fired Cangqiong’s main cannons, overloading Anlock’s shield and damaging his Hull Armor.
• A Supremacy Chaser sent by the Morning Star Duke appeared to protect Anlock, so Song Chi withdrew Cangqiong from Morning Star Yang Land.

Song Chi left St. Roland Manor after the battle with Anlock, while six powerful Kindling Captains discussed the incident and the Stark Family’s faded influence. Back in Skyward Valley, Song Chi reflected on his law comprehension and waited for the Space Law Tree to bear fruit before resuming cultivation.

• The guests at St. Roland Manor discussed Song Chi’s brief intervention as Annie helped the damaged Northern and Anlock fled with his servant.
• The birthday banquet ended, and Song Chi left without giving Ansewei her promised gift, then summoned the concealed Cangqiong and departed.
• Six Kindling Captains reviewed a recording of the battle; Song Xingru clashed with Raymond Stark before an ancient Morning Star Imperial House figure stopped their argument.
• Song Xingru dismissed the Stark Family’s old prestige, and the group turned to discuss the coming shield attenuation period of the Immortal Domain Continent Fragment.
• On his way to Skyward Valley, Song Chi assessed the combatants’ law comprehension and resolved to improve his own progress.
• Song Chi checked the Space Law Tree and Silver Apple Mother Tree, found the Space Law Tree still dormant, and used the Cangqiong’s Psionic Cultivation Platform to practice the Guidance Art.

Song Chi investigated a barren floating continent and uncovered signs that the Hunting-Origin Civilization had been extracting Floating Continent Essence Cores. He destroyed a Hunting-Origin Mothership to learn how they did it, but the special extraction device was destroyed with the ship.

• Song Chi explored a barren Level 3 floating continent, captured and questioned Hunting-Origin Clan monitors, and learned that their intermediate civilization controlled many similarly barren continents.
• Song Chi concluded that the Hunting-Origin Civilization might be extracting Floating Continent Essence Cores, then infiltrated a Level 2 continent and obtained a star map and the number of its motherships.
• Song Chi traveled to Hunting-Origin 003 Floating Continent and ambushed its ten-thousand-meter Hunting-Origin Mothership, destroying most of its drones before sinking the ship.
• Song Chi searched the wreckage and found that the Hunting-Origin Civilization used a special essence-core extraction device, but the device was destroyed when the mothership sank.

Song Chi captured the Hunting-Origin Civilization’s motherships and discovered an orange marvel that could steal Floating Continent Essence Cores while boosting a warship’s energy supply. He learned that the civilization had nearly exhausted its floating continents and that only enough rare material remained to manufacture five more extraction devices.

• Song Chi sent his Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets to plunder a Level 3 floating continent and found that the Hunting-Origin Civilization had stripped away nearly all its resources.
• Song Chi captured the second Hunting-Origin Mothership, shrank it with the Proportional Scaling Device, and took it aboard the Cangqiong, but found its ordinary extraction device could not be dismantled.
• Song Chi subdued the two motherships guarding Origin-Hunter 001 and discovered an orange marvel, the Floating Continent Essence Core Theft Instrument, which could steal Essence Cores and improve energy supply efficiency.
• Song Chi brought both motherships aboard the Cangqiong and questioned the four captured Hunting-Origin Civilization rulers about the alien warship wreckage and device production.
• The rulers told Song Chi that the wreckage had been destroyed and that the remaining materials could produce only five more Essence Core Extraction Devices.

Song Chi learned that Shen Youran’s family might be connected to the powerful Northern Vault Shen Family, then retrieved a deposit she had left at a bank on White Tower Floating Continent. He opened her mechanical cube in the Myriad Heavens Market and found a silver Yaoguang Star Token.

• Song Chi returned the Hunting-Origin Clan spoils and technical data to his family while keeping a Hunting-Origin Mothership and its crew to extract Floating Continent essence cores.
• Song Chi harvested four ripe silver apples, upgraded the Winged Delivery Platform, and put three apples up for trade in the Marvel Exchange Shop.
• Ansewei told Song Chi that the Shen Family of Jiangyuan City might be connected to the Northern Vault Shen Family and that Shen Youran had rented a premium safe-deposit box at Morning Star First Bank.
• Song Chi traveled to White Tower City, unlocked Shen Youran’s safe-deposit box with three personal dates, and retrieved a mechanical cube.
• Song Chi entered the password marked by the words “Starry Night” and opened the cube, revealing a silver Big Dipper Palace · Yaoguang Star Token.

Song Chi learned that Shen Youran had left him a silver Yao Guang Star Token that would activate in two and a half years, then returned to Skyward Valley and met with Song Xingru. After the family borrowed his Floating Continent Essence Core Theft Instrument and rewarded him with resources and a power-supply component, he upgraded several Cangqiong components and was left deciding what to enhance next.

• Song Chi examined the Yao Guang Star Token, stored it, and left the market aboard the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi returned to Skyward Valley and thanked Ansewei for her help, but kept the token secret.
• Song Xingru praised Song Chi for his actions against Anlock Stark, then asked whether he had obtained an Essence Core Extraction Device.
• Song Chi lent Song Xingru his Floating Continent Essence Core Theft Instrument in exchange for Titanium Crystal, Law Stones, Tier 5 Floating Continent Essence, and a Multifunctional Conversion Furnace.
• Song Chi upgraded the Multifunctional Conversion Furnace, Bhasa Meditation Seal, and Mirage Dragon Myriad-Form Orb, then hesitated over which component to enhance next.

Song Chi enhanced several Cangqiong components before the Song Family launched its assault on the Illusory Spirit Civilization. The Origin Ancestor’s Dreadnought shattered Illusory Spirit Continent’s shield and helped destroy most of its peak combat forces.

• Song Chi enhanced the God-Binding Chains · Replica, Winged Delivery Platform, two secondary cannons, and Life-System Medical Restoration Pod.
• Song Ze proposed sending scouting cruisers ahead of the Song Family fleet as it advanced toward the Illusory Spirit Civilization.
• The Song Family’s Origin Ancestor led a Dreadnought and two battleships in an attack on Illusory Spirit Continent, while ten Supremacy Chasers warped in to strike its shield.
• The Dreadnought broke through the weakened shield and forced back the Illusory Spirits’ silver arrow marvel.
• The Song Family forces destroyed the three Tier 5 Illusory Spirit warships and more than a dozen Tier 4 vessels, leaving over seventy percent of the civilization’s peak combat power destroyed.

The Song Family defeated the remaining Illusory Spirit warship and began extracting sixty percent of Illusory Spirit Continent’s essence core, while Song Chi continued collecting Star Sea Marvels in the Golden Dragon Star Domain. The chapter ended with Song Chi asking Song Yufeng whether outside factions had appeared in Saintstar City.

• Three Song Family Supremacy Chasers disabled the fifth-tier Illusory Spirit warship’s thrusters and gained the advantage in their battle.
• The three patriarchs chose a mountain-range site on Illusory Spirit Continent and ordered Song Shiyuan to extract sixty percent of its essence core over twenty-two years.
• Song Shiyuan activated the Floating Continent Essence Core Theft Instrument, while the Dreadnought and another battleship departed to guard the family’s territories.
• After his spatial law comprehension rose to 0.36%, Song Chi left Skyward Valley and visited Song Yufeng at Dragonspine Shop.
• Song Yufeng gave Song Chi over a thousand marvels, including ten red marvels, and Song Chi supplied more floating continent essence for future purchases.
• Song Chi asked Song Yufeng whether Saintstar City had changed recently or attracted any outside factions.

Song Chi and the Dinghai Song Clan joined the many factions gathering to enter the Immortal Domain Continent Fragment in the Dusk Star Domain. After the assembled Dreadnoughts and other warships broke through its shield, the Lu Clan ancestor opened a breach and warned everyone to return within half a year.

• Song Yufeng told Song Chi that powerful clans and forces from other duchies and the Radiant Han Kingdom had arrived at Morning Star Yang Land.
• The Morning Star Imperial House announced that the teleportation stargate to the Dusk Star Domain would open, and the Cangqiong departed with Song Chi, Ru Ancestor's Purple Moon Longsong, and other Dinghai Song Clan members.
• Song Bei told Song Chi how he had grown close to Annie from the Dusk Family, and Song Chi encouraged him to pursue the relationship.
• The gathered warships traveled to the Fragment Star Sector, where the three Dreadnoughts and their forces bombarded the Immortal Domain Continent Fragment's shield for seven days.
• The Lu Clan ancestor announced that the newly opened breach would remain open for half a year, warning that anyone who failed to return in time would face the consequences.

Song Chi entered the Immortal Domain Continent Fragment aboard the Cangqiong and discovered that the Myriad Heavens Market and its Spatial Anchor worked there, allowing him to explore without the half-year time limit. After reaching the Dustcleansing Sect ruins, he found that an obscure formation pattern might be interfering with his detection of the fragment's marvels.

• Song Chi ignored Andre Stark's provocation and guided the Cangqiong into the ruined Immortal Domain Continent Fragment.
• Song Chi tested the Myriad Heavens Market and successfully established and used a Spatial Anchor inside the fragment.
• The Cangqiong triggered a hidden law scar that damaged its Hull Armor, then spent two months cautiously reaching the Immortal Domain Dustcleansing Sect Gateway Ruins.
• Song Chi used the Eye of Spirit-Sight and detected only four red marvels, leading him to suspect something was concealing others from its scans.
• Song Chi sent Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets toward a red marvel, and they were stopped by an obscure light curtain that he suspected was an immortal cultivation formation.