Chapter Summaries

A Mechanical Clan member entered the Myriad Heavens Market searching for something and found Song Chi offering a purple-grade Floating Continent Essence Core Fusion Body. It left and returned with more than twenty guards, and Song Chi anticipated a valuable exchange.

• A mechanical fleet cautiously entered the Fallen Whale Starfield, where it detected an unknown spatial gate.
• Song Chi profited from the Market Ruins trading session as alien traders sold goods, bringing his accumulated resources to more than three thousand strands of Zero-Rank Floating Continent Essence.
• A Zero Rank peak Mechanical Clan member entered the Market Ruins and searched the gathered aliens, making them wary.
• Song Chi set up a stall displaying a Type-1 Floating Continent Essence Core Fusion Body and several Life Cores.
• The Mechanical Clan member asked how Song Chi would trade the purple-grade wonder, then left and returned with more than twenty guards.
• Song Chi looked forward to the exchange but restrained himself from using the Market Ruins' laws to seize the Mechanical Clan's offering.

Song Chi negotiated with the Mechanical Race over his Floating Continent Essence Core Fusion Body and secured an offer of an orange Glory-quality oddity plus one purple oddity. After intimidating the Mechanical Race with the market’s giant phantom eye, he examined their choices and considered which purple oddity to take.

• A Mechanical Race delegation offered Song Chi a purple Many-Eyed Race Origin Eyeball, but he rejected it as insufficient payment for his fusion body.
• The delegation presented an orange Advanced Dark Matter Energy Crystal, which Song Chi recognized could become an orange Glory-quality energy shield generator, but he demanded more.
• When the Mechanical Race members grew hostile, Song Chi summoned a giant phantom pupil that frightened them into abandoning thoughts of attacking.
• The Mechanical Race leader returned with six purple oddities and offered Song Chi his choice of one alongside the orange crystal.
• Song Chi excluded three unsuitable oddities and weighed the Energy-Gathering Stone, Ten-Thousand-Year Stellar Core Flame, and Snook Starship Cannon.

Song Chi traded for the Ten-Thousand-Year Stellar Core Flame and used it to raise his Colorless Kindling Seed to white quality. He then upgraded the Cangqiong’s Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator to lv10.

• Song Chi chose the Ten-Thousand-Year Stellar Core Flame and completed the trade with the Mechanical Clan, receiving it alongside an Advanced Dark Matter Energy Crystal.
• The Market Ruins trade ended, and Song Chi returned to the Cangqiong with three oddities and resources worth nearly four thousand strands of Zero Rank Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi’s Colorless Kindling Hull converted the oddities into a Golden Rock Hull Armor, a Kindling Seed Ascension Flame Source, and a Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator.
• Song Chi drew the flame source into his Kindle Ancestral Aperture, and the Kindling Seed devoured it and transformed from colorless to white quality.
• Song Chi replaced the Cangqiong’s standard Hull Armor and Psionic Shield, then upgraded the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator to lv10 at a cost of 420 strands of Zero Rank Floating Continent Essence and 60 tons of Mercury Crystal.

Song Chi upgraded the Cangqiong’s Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator and Psionic Engine, then spent more resources improving the Myriad Heavens Market and its facilities. He stopped with resources reserved for an upcoming exploration and the Market Ruins’ second transaction.

• Song Chi upgraded the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator to lv10 and the Psionic Engine to lv14, greatly improving the Cangqiong’s defenses and energy supply.
• Song Chi decided not to upgrade the Golden Rock Hull Armor, White Kindling Hull, or Fire Sunflower Soldier Tree because he needed to conserve resources.
• Song Chi raised the Myriad Heavens Market from lv5 to lv9, discovering that its next upgrade required three Market Ruins transactions.
• Song Chi upgraded the All-Attribute Cultivation Room and Ultra-Long Range Random Space Gate Deployment Platform to lv9, boosting cultivation speed and increasing the number of gates deployed to 19.
• Song Chi kept his remaining resources for the second alien starfield exploration and the Market Ruins’ second transaction, then left the market.

Song Chi learned the Dinghai Song Clan’s Dragonspine Tyrant Whale Mythic Mecha Visualization Diagram from his father and used the Limit Break state to imprint seventy percent of it. After his father avoided explaining the clan’s past, Song Chi went to sell resources from the Cangqiong and returned with only essential supplies and emergency enhancement materials.

• Song Chi left his room and reassured Song Chao and Chen Lixia after nearly two days of sleep.
• Chen Lixia activated a sealed space in the house, and Song Chao led Song Chi into a transformed study to view the clan’s visualization diagram.
• Song Chao explained that Song Chi had to imprint the diagram to strengthen his spiritual power, and Song Chi entered the Limit Break state while doing so.
• Song Chi told Song Chao that he had captured seventy percent of the diagram’s essence, exceeding his father’s forty-five percent result.
• Song Chi asked Song Chao about the Dinghai Song Clan, but Song Chao refused to explain and reminded him to pick up his sister the next day.
• Song Chi sold resources from the Cangqiong at the black market and returned home with floating continent essence and emergency starship enhancement supplies.

Song Chi practiced the Psionic Guidance Technique in the Myriad Heavens Market’s All-Attribute Cultivation Room, then picked up Song Ting and her friends from school. He gave the girls intermediate body-tempering potions and urged them to improve their guidance techniques, while keeping the details of his awakening private.

• Song Chi entered the All-Attribute Cultivation Room to use its cultivation speed bonus and try to advance his Psionic Guidance Technique to lv5.
• Song Chi drove his father's hovercar to Soaring Dragon Middle School and waited for Song Ting while visualizing the Dragonspine Tyrant Whale projection.
• Song Ting met Song Chi with Lu Xue and Wang Mengjing, and asked whether he had successfully awakened a Kindling Seed.
• Song Ting tried to persuade Song Chi to take them for hot pot, but he offered her intermediate body-tempering potions instead.
• Song Chi reassured Song Ting that his welfare exploration had brought in a good haul, then gave Lu Xue and Wang Mengjing potions and urged all three girls to practice their guidance techniques.

Song Chi spent the day shopping with Song Ting and two friends, then overheard a Black Mountain Society member searching for missing miners. The confrontation spilled into their restaurant room but was stopped by security, and Song Chi left without getting involved.

• Song Chi gave the two girls wooden boxes containing intermediate body-tempering potions and hoped they would awaken their Kindling Seeds.
• Song Ting took Song Chi shopping with her and two friends, and the group ate at a hotpot restaurant on Minyuan Road.
• Song Chi overheard Brother Peng of the Black Mountain Society beating a man and demanding to know where Ma Erhua and other miners were hiding.
• A fight burst into Song Chi's private room, but the restaurant's security personnel intervened before Song Chi had to act.
• Song Chi refused the manager's offer to waive their bill, then drove the three girls home after they finished shopping.

After half a month of training in the Myriad Heavens Market, Song Chi advanced his Psionic Guidance Technique to Lv. 5 and decided to seek cultivation potions to speed up further progress. His father told him to go to the Kindling Bureau the next day to activate the Kindling Network after his first alien star domain exploration, and they set out together that morning.

• Song Chi trained in the Omni Training Room and visualized the mythical mech imprint for half a month.
• Song Chi broke through to Guidance Technique Lv. 5 and considered buying high-grade cultivation potions to help him reach Lv. 6 sooner.
• Song Chi's father told him that he could apply to activate the Kindling Network after his first alien star domain exploration.
• Song Chi continued his cultivation and visualization before bed.
• Song Chao took Song Chi to the Kindling Bureau in a Pentium Type-3 Kinetic Flyer.

Song Chi went to the Jiangyuan Kindling Bureau with his father and activated the Kindling Network with special authorization arranged by Shen Wenjie. After learning he would have to wait a day to log in, he joined his father, Shen Wenjie, and his old friend Shen Qing in the office.

• Song Chi traveled with Song Chao to the Jiangyuan Kindling Bureau while his damaged Cangqiong continued repairing itself in his Kindle Ancestral Aperture.
• Song Chi and Song Chao greeted Shen Wenjie, who congratulated Song Chi on awakening and teased him about missing Shen Youran.
• Shen Wenjie brought Song Chi to the Kindling Network Room, where an auxiliary activator explained that his network access would have authorization one level above ordinary captains' and began the activation.
• Song Chi regained consciousness after the activation and learned that he would need to wait twenty-four hours before logging in.
• Song Chi found Song Chao and Shen Wenjie in Shen Wenjie's office with Shen Qing, and the two old friends greeted each other by their childhood nicknames.

Song Chi and Shen Qing reunited over lunch, where Shen Qing told him about the Bulo Civilization Ruins and invited him to explore them together in two and a half months. Just as they began discussing the ruins, Shen Qing detected something with his enhanced hearing.

• Song Chi and Shen Qing left the Kindling Bureau at lunchtime and went to a nearby restaurant in Shen Qing's Pentium Type II Flyer.
• Shen Qing revealed that he had discovered the Bulo Civilization Ruins during an Alien Starfield Exploration and found valuable marvels on its first level.
• Shen Qing proposed that he and Song Chi return to the ruins together, and Song Chi agreed to go in two and a half months.
• Song Chi considered why Shen Qing had not told Shen Wenjie about the ruins and chose not to raise the matter of bringing his father along.
• Shen Qing abruptly silenced Song Chi and used his Void Energy-enhanced hearing to listen for something.

After Song Chi and Shen Qing overheard the Black Mountain Society discussing kidnapping and Titanium Crystal, they reported it to Shen Wenjie and Song Chao, who ordered them to stay out of the investigation. Song Chi then connected to the White Tower Ring Local Area Network and discovered his account’s special privileges as he browsed its messages.

• Shen Qing told Song Chi that people in the neighboring private room had mentioned kidnapping and Titanium Crystal, and Song Chi connected this to the Black Mountain Society’s earlier search for missing miners.
• Song Chi and Shen Qing reported what they had heard to Shen Wenjie and Song Chao, who began investigating and warned the two not to get involved or reveal anything.
• Song Chi returned home and practiced the Guidance Art in the Myriad Heavens Market until the next day, when he connected to the Kindling Network’s White Tower Ring Local Area Network.
• Song Chi watched the network’s introductory history of Kindling Human Civilization and learned that the White Tower Ring network served Kindling users around the White Tower Floating Continent.
• Song Chi examined his account and learned he could chat anonymously, trade without transaction taxes, and post or accept missions with default priority features.
• Song Chi browsed local messages about clearing debris fields, finding the Blood Capital Star Pirates, and a missing airship from Viscount Yellen’s Estate.

Song Chi explored the local trading market, continued his training, and returned to the outskirts for his second alien-domain deployment after the Cangqiong's cooldown ended. He arrived in the alien domain safely behind the newly installed Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator.

• Song Chi browsed the White Tower Floating Continent trading market but found few affordable or useful Star Sea Marvels, and decided not to use his account's anonymous feature for future sales.
• Over the next ten-odd days, Song Chi trained while Song Chao stayed busy outside the home, working on matters involving titanium crystals.
• Song Chi and Chen Lixia went to the outskirts for his second alien-domain exploration, and Song Chi looked forward to testing the Cangqiong's orange-quality Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator.
• At the crowded deployment platform, Song Chi met Sun Hao, who had advanced his Guidance Technique to lv4 and teased Song Chi with a line from his book.
• Song Chi and ninety-nine other captains summoned their Psionic Shuttles and were transported into the alien domain.
• Song Chi recovered from the journey, activated the Cangqiong's dark matter energy shield, and relaxed behind its protection.

Song Chi entered a battle between two alien civilizations, destroyed a damaged warship to obtain its star chart, and traveled to a nearby debris belt to search for resources. After finding a large Adamantine deposit, he investigated unusual energy fluctuations among a cluster of fragments, where excavation of the fourth fragment was underway when the chapter ended.

• Song Chi hid at the edge of a battle between two alien fleets and destroyed a heavily damaged warship to take its star chart.
• Song Chi used the chart to reach the nearest debris belt, since the listed floating continents were too far away for the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi surveyed the debris belt and sent a Fierce Tiger Mining Vehicle to mine a fragment containing over a thousand tons of Adamantine.
• Song Chi steered the Cangqiong into a densely packed cluster of fragments after his surveying instruments detected unusual energy fluctuations.
• Song Chi had the mining vehicle search the remaining fragments one by one, and it began excavating the fourth fragment.

Song Chi and the Fire Sunflower Soldiers battled a powerful Starsea plant whose barbed vines attacked them after the mining vehicle disturbed it. Song Chi suspected its main body lay beneath the excavation pit and fired the Cangqiong’s Psionic Main Cannon at the spot; as the cannon cooled and began charging again, the fight continued.

• Black, barbed vines burst from the fragment and battered the Fire Sunflower Soldiers, while the Cangqiong’s dark matter energy shield protected Song Chi from their strikes.
• Song Chi identified the coordinated vines as likely belonging to a first-rank peak Starsea plant and suspected its main body was beneath the mining vehicle’s excavation site.
• The vines redirected half their attack against the Cangqiong as Song Chi charged its Psionic Main Cannon.
• Song Chi fired into the rocky pit, blasting it nearly four meters deep, then maneuvered the Cangqiong away from the vines.
• After the cannon’s eight-second cooldown, Song Chi began charging it again.

Song Chi and the Cangqiong defeated a Metal-Eating Vine inside a Floating Continent fragment and recovered a valuable Life Crystal. As Song Chi prepared to leave, the Fierce Tiger Mining Vehicle detected over a hundred tons of Phantom Crystal Ore beneath the fragment.

• The Metal-Eating Vine's golden barbs pierced the Cangqiong's defenses more effectively, but Song Chi kept attacking until the Psionic Main Cannon blasted through the fragment's rocky layer.
• Song Chi identified the plant as a peak first-rank Metal-Eating Vine and sent the seven Fire Sunflower Soldiers to wear it down while the Cangqiong fired from above.
• After the Metal-Eating Vine died, Song Chi had the surviving soldiers search the battlefield and recovered a fist-sized Life Crystal from its body.
• Song Chi checked the damaged Fierce Tiger Mining Vehicle and decided to have it repaired rather than discard it.
• As Song Chi was about to depart, the vehicle AI detected more than a hundred tons of Phantom Crystal Ore below, prompting him to reopen the shuttle hatch.

Song Chi discovered and mined 112 tons of Phantom Crystals, then learned that his mother Chen Lixia’s Dragonfly had only a 24% chance of advancing into a Second-Rank starship. He worried that the Dragonfly’s odds would remain dangerously low when its one-year preparation period ended.

• Song Chi sent the Fire Sunflower Soldiers to excavate beneath the fragment’s core and found a large deposit of Phantom Crystals.
• Song Chi summoned the Cangqiong and a Fierce Tiger Mining Vehicle to mine the deposit, then replaced a damaged vehicle and collected 112 tons of Phantom Crystals.
• Song Chi mined additional Adamantine and other minerals while waiting for the return time.
• Song Chi and Chen Lixia returned to East River District in their Kindling Starships.
• Song Chi asked Chen Lixia about the Dragonfly’s advancement chances, and she said they were 24% after five months of preparation.
• Song Chi worried that Chen Lixia’s Dragonfly might fail its only chance to advance into a Second-Rank starship.

Song Chi worried that his mother Chen Lixia might not have enough time to recover her Kindling Seed and advance, then sought funds and supplies for his next Market Ruins trading session. He sold Adamantine and other expedition gains, and ended by offering a Metal-Eating Vine Life Crystal to Eagle Machinery Store.

• Song Chi realized Chen Lixia’s weakened Kindling Seed and slow Guidance Art cultivation made it unlikely she could reach the second tier, but his mother reassured him that his father was searching for a solution.
• Song Chi considered the possible Titanium Crystal lead his father and Uncle Shen were investigating, then resolved to grow stronger rather than rely on the Dinghai Song Clan.
• After disguising himself, Song Chi sold one thousand tons of raw Adamantine at the Jiangyuan Black Market and planned to stock up before the Market Ruins reopened.
• Song Chi sold his remaining scattered minerals to Eagle Machinery Store and presented the Life Crystal of a peak first-tier Metal-Eating Vine.
• The saleswoman offered thirty-two strands of first-tier Floating Continent Essence for the Life Crystal, or thirty-five strands if Song Chi also supplied the vine’s remains, but he said he did not have them.

Song Chi spent his remaining Zero-Rank Floating Continent Essence stocking up on weapons, gene optimization potions, and exoskeletons while saving his First-Rank essence. Meanwhile, four First-Rank captains attacked Black Mountain Gold Store, captured its guard, and escaped before the black market patrol arrived.

• Song Chi bought 10,000 Tungsten Battle Shields, 10,000 Tungsten Spears, 1,000 Basic Gene Optimization Potions, 10 Intermediate Gene Optimization Potions, and five sets of Basic Civilian Exoskeletons, spending 2,210 strands of Zero-Rank Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi kept his 32 strands of First-Rank Floating Continent Essence to strengthen the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator rather than exchanging them at Eagle Machinery Store.
• Four First-Rank captains who had secretly watched Black Mountain Gold Store for nearly ten days received confirmation that their target was inside and launched their attack.
• The four attackers summoned forty Terracotta Soldiers, surrounded the store, and captured its First-Rank Black Mountain Society guard before he could summon his Void Energy Airship.
• The attackers fled without taking the store’s mineral goods, and the black market patrol arrived two minutes later but found no clues.

Song Chi welcomed Gore and several young merfolk into the Myriad Heavens Market, where Gore learned that pearls at least three hundred years old could be exchanged for the Basic Gene Optimization Potion. Gore returned to the Coral Sea Region and persuaded his father, the Bronze Halberd Tribe chief, to trade their old pearls for the potion, hoping to purify their bloodline.

• Song Chi restarted the deployment platform, and several merfolk entered the Myriad Heavens Market through a newly activated space gate.
• Song Chi found the merfolk’s pearls too young to be valuable, while Gore became intensely interested in the Basic Gene Optimization Potion.
• Gore learned from the market’s light screen that pearls at least three hundred years old were required to buy the potion.
• Gore returned to the Coral Sea Region, where he resolved to pursue the possibility of restoring his tribe’s royal bloodline.
• Gore convinced his father, the Bronze Halberd Tribe chief, to risk their old pearls on the potion, and his father produced a jade box containing several pearls.

Song Chi persuaded Gore to trade rare Deepwater Mussel Pearls for Gene Optimization Potions, hoping to accelerate his Guidance Art training. After securing the exchange, he approached Gore with a new request for an Enhanced Gene Potion.

• Gore returned to the Market Ruins and exchanged a three-hundred-year Deepwater Mussel Pearl for three Basic Gene Potions.
• After taking a Gene Potion and feeling its effects, Gore traded three more three-hundred-year pearls for nine potions.
• Song Chi disguised himself as another customer and prompted Gore to trade a seven-hundred-year and a nine-hundred-year Deepwater Mussel Pearl for thirty Gene Potions.
• Song Chi asked Gore to buy him an Enhanced Gene Potion in exchange for Floating Continent Essence, and Gore asked what that potion was.