Chapter Summaries

Song Chi used the Market’s laws to empower the Flame Tyrant Giant and punish a fifth-tier Sky-Shaking Clan member who attacked the Market from outside, impressing the aliens but leaving Song Chi injured by the backlash. After the visitors departed, the Thorn Wyvern showed an intense desire for the attacker’s severed arm, and Song Chi suspected it could help the wyvern advance to the fourth tier.

• A fifth-tier Sky-Shaking Clan member sent a fragment of consciousness through the Market’s spatial portal, and Song Chi sensed the probe.
• Song Chi empowered the Flame Tyrant Giant with the Market’s laws and announced that it would punish the attacker.
• The Flame Tyrant Giant struck through the portal, severely injuring the fleeing Sky-Shaking Clan member and tearing off its left arm.
• The aliens learned that a fifth-tier attacker had been wounded by a force that reached across the void, and their awe of the Market Lord grew.
• After the aliens left, Song Chi suffered severe backlash from empowering the giant and summoned the Cangqiong.
• The Thorn Wyvern rushed toward the Sky-Shaking Clan arm, and Song Chi wondered whether its blood energy could help it reach the fourth tier.

Song Chi upgraded the Firmament Intelligent-Brain System and fused the Extreme Yang Flame into his Kindling Seed, advancing it to red. He then helped the Thorn Wyvern advance to the fourth tier on Dragonspine Continent, where it gained an immediate grasp of the Fire Law.

• Song Chi enhanced the Firmament Intelligent-Brain System to lv40 and learned that future upgrades would require Advanced Fully Automated Intelligent Chips and likely intelligent brains.
• After recovering for two months from his injuries, Song Chi absorbed the Extreme Yang Flame, transforming his Kindling Seed from orange to red and increasing the Cangqiong's component-slot capacity.
• Song Chi took the Thorn Wyvern to the Thorn Plains and gave it a fifth-tier Sky-Shaking Clan arm to consume before its breakthrough.
• The Thorn Wyvern advanced to the fourth tier, and the Dinghai Song Clan patrol fleet left after confirming it belonged to Song Chi.
• Song Chi examined the Thorn Wyvern's new status and found that it had comprehended 0.1% of the Fire Law, with decades of accelerated growth ahead.

Song Chi guided the Cangqiong through a shattered space belt and entered the Level 5 life-type floating continent called Saint Dragon Continent. After learning that its inhabitants worshipped powerful gods, he considered the danger and had Skyvault AI assess what those beings might be; the chapter ended as the story shifted to Bougainvillea City.

• Song Chi decided to explore an alien starfield while he waited for the Yao Guang Star Token to activate.
• Song Chi found a Level 5 floating continent and steered the Cangqiong through a dangerous belt of spatial gales and collapse zones to reach it.
• Song Chi entered the continent through a damaged shield and sensed a fleeting, chilling aura before it disappeared.
• Song Chi used the Void Demon to learn that the continent was called Saint Dragon Continent and contained many kingdoms, races, and churches.
• Song Chi wondered whether the continent’s gods were Sovereign beings, and Skyvault AI judged that they were most likely natives transformed by the continent’s essence.
• The scene shifted to Bougainvillea City, the capital of the Bougainvillea Kingdom.

Song Chi lured the Bougainvillea Kingdom’s fifth-tier Dragon Knight away from the royal palace, allowing the Void Demon to steal a red marvel and two orange marvels. When Nightmare Sect cultists tried to reclaim a holy relic in Binhai City, one sacrificed himself and manifested the Nightmare Evil God’s Blood Vertical Eye, which fixed its gaze on the fleeing Cangqiong.

• Song Chi sent the Void Demon into the royal palace treasury while he lured the kingdom’s Dragon Knights away with the Flame Tyrant Giant.
• The Void Demon stole the Heavenly Kingdom Scepter and two orange marvels, including the Nightmare Fang, then reunited with Song Chi.
• Song Chi watched as two fourth-tier Nightmare Sect cultists tried to seize a crescent pendant from Robel Eyor in Binhai City, but his soldier puppets and the Void Demon ambushed them.
• After one cultist died, the other sacrificed himself and transformed into a mass of black blood that formed a Blood Vertical Eye.
• The eye’s radiation caused flesh buds to appear on the Void Demon, and it locked its gaze on the Cangqiong as Song Chi attempted to flee.

Song Chi destroyed the Nightmare Evil God projection with the Cangqiong and recovered Pseudo-Evil-God Blood and Spirit Source Essence. Two months later, he had plundered the Blacksoil Duchy’s resources and gained an orange projection component, Shadow's Touch.

• Song Chi resisted the evil god’s whispers, attacked its vertical pupil with the Cangqiong’s cannons, and destroyed it with a second Soul-Annihilating Pupil Light.
• The Cangqiong’s shield was heavily corroded by the evil god’s tainted blood, but Song Chi escaped and recovered Pseudo-Evil-God Blood and Spirit Source Essence.
• The Firmament Intelligent-Brain System estimated that the blood could add 4% to the Cangqiong’s advancement success rate and the essence could grant Song Chi one to three divided minds.
• Two months later, Song Chi had enslaved the Blacksoil Duchy’s first-generation Grand Duke and used the duchy to gather vast resources and rare objects.
• Song Chi acquired Shadow's Touch, an orange-quality component that could project the Cangqiong through Shadow Medals.

Song Chi weighed how to use the Chapter of Shadow Descent component, then prepared to leave Saint Dragon Continent for the Big Dipper Palace as fifth-rank Dragon Knights made further plundering too risky. Before departing, he ordered Harvey to continue mining, investigate evil god sects, and establish the Spirit Serpent Sect, while he returned to Dragonspine Continent to handle his family’s spoils.

• Song Chi considered installing the Chapter of Shadow Descent on the Cangqiong, Fierce Battle Lion, or Wolf Howl Tiger Roar, but set it aside because he lacked Titanium Crystals to enhance it.
• Song Chi received another shipment of minerals from the First Blacksoil Grand Duke and decided to wait before further plundering because fifth-rank Dragon Knights were patrolling Saint Dragon Continent.
• Song Chi ordered Harvey to supervise mining, gather information on evil god sects, and spread the Spirit Serpent Sect with the Coldmoon Snow Python and Totem subsidiary pillars.
• After Song Chi left, Harvey’s covert guards spread the Spirit Serpent Sect across the Blacksoil Duchy, where its churches began inscribing Totem Runes on believers.
• Song Chi returned to Dragonspine Continent, planned how to exchange or consign the spoils from Saint Dragon Continent, and awaited the Big Dipper Palace · Yaoguang Star Token’s activation.

Song Chi activated the Yaoguang Star Token and entered the Big Dipper Palace’s Yaoguang Hall trial, where he fought real Eight-Armed Serpent Demons to improve his close-combat skills. As he began the second stage against two opponents, observers in the distant Yaoguang Star Tower judged that he had no chance of passing.

• Song Chi discovered that the Yaoguang Star Token responded to the aura of his Kindling Seed, then transported him and the Cangqiong into the Yaoguang Hall entry trial.
• Song Chi identified the trial’s first opponent as a Tier 3 Eight-Armed Serpent Demon and chose to fight it in the Cangqiong’s Mythic Mecha Form.
• Song Chi fought the demon for several hours, then destroyed it with the Pure Yang Sword-Light Cannon and received a wisp of Tier 2 Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi concluded that the demon had been real and asked the Skyvault AI to analyze the Big Dipper Palace’s possible origins.
• Song Chi began the second stage against two Tier 3 Eight-Armed Serpent Demons, while observers in the Yaoguang Star Tower watched his progress and said he could not pass.

Song Chi cleared the Star Tower’s first fifty stages through patient combat, then pushed onward against Fourth-Rank Eight-Armed Serpent Demons despite mounting damage to the Cangqiong. In Stage 56, three Sky Serpent Warships trapped and slowed the Cangqiong, but Song Chi bound them with chains and activated the Neutron Star Core Armor’s Neutron Star Fission trait.

• Song Chi fought through the first fifty stages, adapting to increasingly powerful Eight-Armed Serpent Demons and improving his combat experience.
• Song Chi defeated a Fourth-Rank Eight-Armed Serpent Demon in Stage 51 and continued, clearing later stages despite severe damage to the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi sent out the Flame Tyrant Giant to defeat two Fourth-Rank Eight-Armed Serpent Demons with minor mastery of the Law of Earth in Stage 55.
• The trial presented three Sky Serpent Warships in Stage 56, and Song Chi kept the Flame Tyrant Giant out of the fight as the Cangqiong engaged them.
• The Sky Serpent Warships struck the Cangqiong with Petrifying Main Cannons, slowing it and closing in for a close-range attack.
• Song Chi bound the three approaching Sky Serpent Warships with God-Binding Chains · Replica and activated the Neutron Star Core Armor’s Neutron Star Fission trait.

Song Chi used the Cangqiong’s remaining trump cards to clear stage 60, then faced a Tier 5 Sky Serpent Warship and Eight-Armed Serpent Demon on stage 61. After the Firmament Intelligent-Brain System coordinated a desperate counterattack, the trial ended with Song Chi declared the winner.

• Song Chi used guerrilla tactics to clear stages 57 through 59, then activated the Bhasa Meditation Seal’s time-slowing power to heavily damage the seven Sky Serpent Warships on stage 60.
• Song Chi chose to continue despite the danger and entered stage 61, where he encountered a Tier 5 Sky Serpent Warship and a Tier 5 Eight-Armed Serpent Demon.
• The Tier 5 Eight-Armed Serpent Demon caught the Cangqiong, petrified its hull, and struck with a red rock spear, leaving Song Chi under immense pressure.
• Song Chi activated the Firmament Intelligent-Brain System, which coordinated the Cangqiong’s components to break the petrification, evade the spear, stop time, and melt nearly half the enemy warship with two neutron star bursts.
• The trial space ended the challenge and declared Song Chi had cleared stage 61, and Song Chi breathed in relief.

After clearing the Yao Guang Star Tower trial, Song Chi entered the tower as its newest member and discovered a mall stocked with powerful components. He wanted a golden shield and an evolvable golden engine for the Cangqiong, but his Star Tower points fell short, so he asked how to earn more.

• Song Chi reviewed how the Cangqiong had barely defeated the fifth-tier Sky Serpent Warship and concluded he should use that desperate battle strategy only as a last resort.
• The Yao Guang Star Tower awarded Song Chi 21,672 Star Tower points and six Yao Guang Chaos Stele enlightenment opportunities, then sent him back to Azure Moon Lake with an entry token.
• Song Chi activated the token, entered the Yaoguang Star Tower, met its members, and chose Jingzhe as his codename.
• Song Chi browsed the Star Tower Mall and found a golden energy shield and an evolvable golden engine that he wanted but could not afford.
• A Yaoguang Star Tower member told Song Chi he could earn points by hunting high-tier Eight-Armed Serpent Demons or exchanging valuable resources and Star Sea Marvels.

Song Chi exchanged the Three-Eyed Divine Light Cannon for 25,000 Star Tower points and bought the Antimatter-Energy Evolution Engine. After spending his remaining points on new components and resources, he decided to rest before seeking the Yao Guang Chaos Stele.

• Song Chi learned that Star Tower members could bring resources through their Kindle Ancestral Apertures and log in with their true bodies once a month.
• Song Chi presented the Three-Eyed Divine Light Cannon at the marketplace and exchanged it for 25,000 points.
• Song Chi spent 45,000 points on the Antimatter-Energy Evolution Engine, and Corpse Hound reminded him that he could return it for the same price.
• Song Chi used his remaining points to buy a Black-Gold Ram, a Fallen Angel Soldier Tree, Titanium Crystals, and Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi inspected the Yaoguang Star Tower and postponed visiting the Yao Guang Chaos Stele until he had recovered from the trial.

Song Chi learned about Yaoguang Star Tower’s history and saw the prismatic mythic Civilization Great Wall, then watched a battle begin between the Flandi Kingdom royal fleet and an Eight-Armed Serpent Demon fleet. The Great Wall’s defensive curtain eventually broke under the enemy’s barrage, but the Flandi fleet’s counterattack destroyed tens of thousands of enemy ships at far lower cost.

• Song Chi decided to strengthen his mental power by hunting the evil gods on Saint Dragon Continent before attempting to comprehend the Yao Guang Chaos Stele.
• The Star Tower elders showed Song Chi the Civilization Great Wall, a prismatic lower mythic marvel spanning five hundred million light-years and strengthening ships and captains on it.
• A Serpent Mothership and several hundred thousand Sky Serpent Warships approached the Great Wall, while the Flandi Kingdom’s royal fleet assembled to defend it.
• The Sky Serpent fleet fired over a million main-cannon beams, and the Great Wall raised a curtain of perfect-level earth laws that eventually shattered.
• The Flandi royal fleet counterattacked and destroyed at least twenty thousand Sky Serpent Warships, while losing only several hundred frigates.

The Farlandi Royal Fleet used a rare fleet-wide amplification component to counter the Eight-Armed Serpent Demons, but the enemy revealed that its mothership carried a vast reserve of Sky Serpent Warships. As millions of enemy cannon beams threatened the fleet, Corpse Hound summoned Yao Guang Star Tower’s power and unleashed Yao Guang Starfall, while Song Chi watched from the Civilization Great Wall and returned to the tower as reinforcements were expected.

• The Farlandi Royal Fleet’s losses rose after the perfected earth law light screen collapsed, until its veteran Tier 6 captain activated Blessing of the Stars and greatly increased the fleet’s shields and firepower.
• The Eight-Armed Serpent Demons withdrew to wait out the amplification, but the captain extended its duration with another component and caught them with a renewed attack.
• The Sky Serpent mothership opened its deployment bays and released more warships, swelling the enemy force to nearly 1.5 million and launching a barrage of more than three million main cannon beams.
• Corpse Hound transformed into a mythical mech and used Yao Guang Star Tower’s power to summon an ancient star with Yao Guang Starfall, strengthening the Farlandi fleet’s defenses and weakening the incoming beams.
• Song Chi learned that Star Tower members could summon Yao Guang star power and study Yao Guang Starfall through the Yao Guang Chaos Stele, then returned to the tower with the others as reinforcements were expected.

Song Chi returned from the Yaoguang Star Tower, sold his lv59 Light Energy Aggregation Engine to Elder Song Xuanfeng, and spent the proceeds upgrading the Cangqiong’s components. After deciding to cultivate while his trump cards recovered and weighing how to explore Saint Dragon Continent, he congratulated Song Mingsong on officially entering the fourth tier.

• Song Chi left the Yaoguang Star Tower after the Serpent Mothership withdrew and considered how to sell or give away his Light Energy Aggregation Engine.
• Song Chi sold the engine to Elder Song Xuanfeng, who removed his own orange engine and prepared to install it.
• Song Chi enhanced the Cangqiong’s Antimatter-Energy Evolution Engine, Black-Gold Ram, Fallen Angel Terracotta Soldiers, Chapter of Shadow Descent, Soul-Annihilating Pupil Light Cannon, armor, and energy shield.
• Song Chi chose to cultivate at Myriad Heavens Market while his warship’s trump cards recovered and considered whether to explore Saint Dragon Continent alone or report it to the family.
• Song Chi congratulated Song Mingsong after his grandfather advanced to the fourth tier and became an official Supremacy Chaser captain.

After Song Chi reported Saint Dragon Continent to the Song Family, the clan decided to use its Space Wormhole Generator to launch an expedition and claim the continent’s resources. Song Wujiang opened a wormhole and led the family’s forces through it toward Saint Dragon Continent.

• Song Mingsong told Song Chi he would enter the Dragonspine Secret Realm to comprehend the Law of Fire, and Song Chi described Saint Dragon Continent and its Spirit Source Essence.
• Song Chi reported Saint Dragon Continent to Song Shiyuan and requested Spirit Source Essence and help expanding the Spirit Serpent Sect.
• Song Shiyuan promised rewards for Song Chi and his lineage, then asked him for Saint Dragon Continent’s extraterritorial coordinates.
• The Song Family elders agreed to connect Dragonspine Continent and Saint Dragon Continent with the Space Wormhole Generator, while Song Shiyuan defended Song Chi’s share of the rewards.
• Song Wujiang activated the seventh-rank Space Wormhole Generator above Falling Fire Plains and led dozens of Supremacy Chasers and three Basic Mobile Warstars through the passage.

Song Wujiang led the Song Family fleet into Saint Dragon Continent, where they gathered evil god artifacts under the cover of conquering nations. After tracing the artifacts to their owners, the family began killing the native evil gods, leaving the remaining gods terrified as the hunt continued.

• Song Wujiang opened a wormhole beside Saint Dragon Continent's Floating Continent shield and led the Dreadnought and the rest of the Song Family fleet through it.
• The Song Family fleet split into three groups, raided nations, and secretly collected artifacts from evil god churches while gathering intelligence from the Blacksoil Duchy.
• A united army of knights confronted the fleet, but the Dreadnought suppressed it, and the Song Family captured its high-tier dragons.
• After the fleet collected nearly all the churches' inheritance artifacts, Song Wujiang's forces used them to trace and kill the first native evil god, causing blood rain across the northwestern region.
• The Song Family killed three more evil gods over the following ten days, while the remaining gods tried unsuccessfully to resist, unite, or hide.

After receiving Spirit Source Essence from Song Xuanfeng, Song Chi raised his mental power to twenty-one-mind multitasking and used a Strong Body Fruit to withstand the strain. He then entered the Yaoguang Star Tower to comprehend the Yao Guang Chaos Stele, leaving after more than an hour without mastering Yao Guang Starfall.

• Song Xuanfeng delivered Song Chi twenty pieces of Spirit Source Essence and a drop of half-step sixth-rank Evil God blood from the Saint Dragon Continent operation.
• Song Chi sent one fifth-rank and one half-step sixth-rank piece of Spirit Source Essence to his grandfather, Song Mingsong, then absorbed ten half-step fifth-rank pieces in the Market Ruins.
• Song Chi reached twenty-one-mind multitasking and ate a Strong Body Fruit to strengthen his physique and ease the strain on his mind.
• Song Chi logged into the Yaoguang Star Tower and began his first comprehension of the Yao Guang Chaos Stele, while its members speculated about whether he would master Yao Guang Starfall.
• After more than an hour of comprehension, Song Chi returned to the first-floor hall without mastering Yao Guang Starfall, and the other members reassured him that most members failed on their first attempt.

After failing to comprehend a secret art from the Yao Guang Chaos Stele, Song Chi improved his Space Law comprehension and spent months preparing for the Cangqiong’s coming exploration of the Immortal Domain Continent Fragment. At the market’s final trade before the expedition, he acquired fifteen antimatter source crystals and found a popular stall selling stone-wrapped objects.

• Song Chi reassured the Yao Guang Star Token group, then digested his Chaos Stele insight and raised his Space Law comprehension to 0.53%.
• Song Chi trained in the Myriad Heavens Market for months as the Cangqiong’s combat abilities neared the end of their cooldowns.
• Song Chi opened the market’s final trade before the Immortal Domain Continent exploration, and Goblin Luke completed his Terra Stone purchase before browsing the listing shops.
• Song Chi bought fifteen crystals that the Firmament Intelligent-Brain System identified as antimatter sources, then encouraged the White-Wing Clan seller to search for more.
• Song Chi asked Ailong about an advanced intelligent chip, visited De Gu'en at the Marvel Exchange Shop, and headed to the Free Stall Area.
• Song Chi stopped at a third-rank ratfolk’s popular stall, where the wares were stones wrapped in layers of special rock.

Song Chi found valuable treasures in the ratman's source stones, including seventh-tier Floating Continent Essence and a Bloodline Baptism Platform. He loaded the platform into the market and began testing it on a second-tier humanoid alien, whose scream abruptly stopped with a dull bang.

• Song Chi used market laws to identify two source stones containing fourth-tier Floating Continent Essence and a Law Stone, then had a humanoid alien buy two stones he could not see through.
• Song Chi revealed the fourth-tier Essence and Law Stone at the stall, ordered ten more source stones from the ratman, and privately opened the two hidden stones.
• The first hidden stone contained one strand of seventh-tier Floating Continent Essence, while the second contained a red epic Bloodline Baptism Platform.
• Song Chi auctioned Market Guest Tokens, and the ratman won one with a purple wondrous item before the market trade ended.
• Song Chi loaded the Bloodline Baptism Platform into the market and activated a basic baptism on a second-tier humanoid alien after seeing its compatibility score of 33.
• The humanoid alien screamed as blood mist enveloped the platform, then fell silent after a dull bang.

Song Chi tested the Bloodline Baptism Platform on more than a hundred alien creatures and established the compatibility thresholds and effects for its three baptism levels. He began planning how to price the service, while considering whether he could raise his own compatibility enough to use it.

• Song Chi discovered that creatures with low bloodline baptism compatibility died during baptism and tested aliens of different ranks and species to identify what affected compatibility.
• Song Bo learned that Song Chi had requested alien creatures, and he chose to contribute captured White-Dragon-Blooded Half-Dragons as the lineage gathered specimens.
• Song Chi’s tests showed that greater physical strength generally meant higher compatibility, and that baptism was unreliable below 70, nearly certain at 80, and required at least 90 for advanced baptism.
• A second-rank Blueblood Clan member succeeded at basic baptism, raising its genetic bloodline talent from 33 to 46, while most Blueblood Clan members with compatibility in the sixties failed.
• Song Chi concluded that basic, intermediate, and advanced baptism could raise creatures’ genetic bloodline talent by one tier at second rank or below, and he planned to seek Strong Body Fruits and set fees for future customers.