Chapter Summaries

Song Chi used enhanced genetic optimization potions to persuade Gore to trade a Third Rank Mermaid's Tear, which could improve Kindling Starship advancement success, for three doses. The Mermaid's Tear gave Song Chi hope of raising the Dragonfly's advancement chances before its scheduled attempt seven months later.

• Song Chi told Gore that Advanced Genetic Optimization Potions were far more potent than ordinary potions, prompting Gore to rush back to the Bronze Halberd Tribe for payment.
• Gore showed his father more than thirty Basic Genetic Optimization Drugs, and the chief agreed to send him back with a valuable item in exchange for as many advanced potions as possible.
• Gore offered a Mermaid's Tear nurtured by a Third Rank mermaid, and Song Chi recognized that it could boost the advancement success rate of Kindling Starships.
• Song Chi lifted the one-potion limit and offered Gore three Advanced Genetic Optimization Potions for the Mermaid's Tear.
• Song Chi obtained the Mermaid's Tear and estimated that it could help raise the Dragonfly's advancement success rate from 24% to over 50%, with a Titanium Crystal potentially improving it further.

Song Chi profited from the Market Ruins trade fair, exchanged for First-Rank Floating Continent Essence, and converted his remaining goods into starship upgrade resources. After preparing for two days, he began upgrading the Cangqiong, raising its Psionic Engine to lv19 so it could supply enough Dark Energy Points for further shield upgrades.

• Song Chi sold his goods at inflated prices and earned more than eight thousand strands of Zero-Rank Floating Continent Essence, including over one hundred strands of First-Rank Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi offered eleven strands of Zero-Rank Floating Continent Essence for each strand of First-Rank Essence, and twelve of the eighteen aliens who stayed traded with him.
• Song Chi ended the fair with over eleven thousand strands of Zero-Rank Floating Continent Essence and three hundred and two strands of First-Rank Essence, then set aside stock and sold other goods for upgrade resources.
• Song Chi returned to the Market Ruins and began upgrading the Cangqiong, but found its Psionic Pool could not hold enough Dark Energy Points for continued shield upgrades.
• Song Chi upgraded the Psionic Engine to lv19, increasing its Psionic Pool capacity to nine thousand Dark Energy Points.

Song Chi spent his resources enhancing the Cangqiong’s Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator, Fire Sunflower Soldier Tree, and White Kindling Hull, while leaving the ship below the threshold for advancement. With Zero-Rank Floating Continent Essence still available, he turned to the Golden Rock Hull Armor.

• Song Chi enhanced the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator to lv15, but lacked enough Dark Energy Points to upgrade it further.
• Song Chi raised the Fire Sunflower Soldier Tree to lv15, leaving only 12 strands of First-Rank Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi enhanced the White Kindling Hull to lv9, increasing the Cangqiong’s special component slots from two to six.
• Song Chi stopped short of lv10 to keep the Cangqiong from advancing into a Void Energy Airship and facing more dangerous deployments.
• Song Chi turned to enhancing the Golden Rock Hull Armor with his remaining Zero-Rank Floating Continent Essence.

Song Chi upgraded several of the Cangqiong’s components and used a Deepwater Mussel Pearl with an Intermediate Body-Tempering Potion to accelerate his cultivation. He left the Market Ruins and found his father studying a star map in the living room.

• Song Chi upgraded the Golden Rock Hull Armor to lv10, adding Phantom Crystals to give the Cangqiong some stealth, and raised the Psionic Main Cannon and Sky-Patrol Radar to lv10.
• Song Chi reviewed the Cangqiong’s improved attributes and reflected on how quickly its upgrades had consumed his resources.
• Song Chi crushed a three-hundred-year Deepwater Mussel Pearl into powder, mixed it into an Intermediate Body-Tempering Potion, and consumed it in the All-Attribute Cultivation Room.
• After a day and a night of cultivation, Song Chi found that his progress equaled about two months of ordinary practice, though he expected the pearl’s effect to diminish with repeated use.
• Song Chi left the Market Ruins after two days and two nights, then found his father at home examining a projected star map.

Song Chi learned that Song Chao had three advanced body-tempering potions and used Deepwater Mussel Pearls to temper their effects. After his first dose raised his Psionic Guidance Technique to lv6, he began a stronger second dose, though he recognized that the remaining nine-hundred-year pearl was too potent to use soon.

• Song Chao warned Song Chi to focus on his third alien starfield deployment and initially said little about the Titanium Crystals.
• Song Chao revealed that he already had advanced body-tempering potions and let Song Chi take all three from the study.
• Song Chi returned to the Market Ruins and took a potion mixed with three three-hundred-year Deepwater Mussel Pearls, cultivating for three days until his Psionic Guidance Technique rose from lv5 to lv6.
• Song Chi took a second potion neutralized with the seven-hundred-year pearl, enduring stronger pain as his body absorbed its effects.
• Song Chi decided he could not use the nine-hundred-year pearl for another dose anytime soon without risking severe internal damage.

While Song Chi endured the pain of a powerful body-forging potion, Shen Wenjie and Song Chao led a fleet of nine Kindling Starships to the depleted Asteroid Belt Around White Tower to investigate a suspected Titanium Crystal vein. The fleet obtained Skyreach Mining’s star map and continued toward the target, while one ship established a communications blockade over the mining zone.

• Song Chi trained through severe pain after taking a potent body-forging potion that his body could not yet handle.
• Shen Wenjie and Song Chao led nine Kindling Starships into the Asteroid Belt Around White Tower to investigate a possible Titanium Crystal vein reported by Skyreach Mining workers.
• The fleet passed through the asteroid belt as civilian miners moved aside in alarm.
• Old He and patrol captain Lu Erhe saw the fleet arrive, and Lu Erhe sent Shen Wenjie the mining zone’s detailed star map.
• Eight ships headed for the mapped coordinates while the ninth deployed a temporary communications blockade over much of the mining zone, which Old He recognized as a sign of valuable resources.

Song Chao and Shen Wenjie’s fleet found a Titanium Crystal vein, but Zhu Kang and the Black Mountain Society attacked to seize it. The opposing frigates left the mining zone to battle, while the two fleets’ Void Energy airships fought separately.

• Shen Wenjie ordered his airships to survey the coordinates, and one crew found a Titanium Crystal vein containing an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 crystals.
• An enemy attack damaged Azure Sky’s shield, prompting Song Chao to warn Shen Wenjie and order two airships to keep mining while the others regrouped.
• Song Chao and Shen Wenjie identified an opposing fleet of two frigates and seven Void Energy airships, and prepared to fight it.
• Scar contacted Zhu Kang, who ordered his fleet to attack despite the opponents’ apparent strength.
• The four frigates moved away from the mining zone to battle, while the twelve Void Energy airships began fighting nearby; Song Chao engaged the silver warship and Shen Wenjie fought the other enemy frigate.

Song Chao used the Azure Sky’s shield-repair component and a tractor beam to turn the battle against Zhu Kang’s Silver Edge. After trapping the enemy frigate and surviving its attack, he activated an armor-piercing component, leaving the Silver Edge’s shield below 10% when the tractor beam ended.

• Song Chao and Zhu Kang exchanged cannon fire as Zhu Kang’s faster Silver Edge repeatedly hit the Azure Sky and weakened its shield.
• Song Chao activated the Shield Repair Sphere, restoring the Azure Sky’s shield to 68%, while Zhu Kang pressed his attack and coveted the rare component.
• Song Chao caught the Silver Edge in the Azure Sky’s Supermagnetic Tractor Beam, preventing Zhu Kang from escaping with his purple engine.
• The Azure Sky’s repaired shield absorbed the Silver Edge’s next shot, and Song Chao activated Knull’s Armor-Piercing Quiver.
• The tractor beam expired with the Silver Edge’s shield below 10%, while the Azure Sky’s armor-piercing effect remained active.

Song Chao defeated Zhu Kang’s fleet without killing him, forcing him to surrender two blue-quality shipborne components. After Zhu Kang withdrew, Song Chao’s group resumed mining the Titanium Crystal vein while keeping its true reserves concealed.

• Song Chao fired on the Silver Edge despite Zhu Kang’s communication request, shattering its energy shield before agreeing to speak with him.
• Song Chao recognized Zhu Kang as the son of Zhu Yaokui and demanded two blue-quality shipborne components in exchange for letting him leave.
• When Zhu Kang refused, Song Chao attacked the Silver Edge and then turned Azure Sky and Bronze Halberd against Zhu Kang’s loyal retainer aboard the Gentle Breeze.
• Zhu Kang agreed to hand over two blue-quality components to save the Gentle Breeze, and the fleets returned to the Skyreach Mining Zone.
• Zhu Kang departed with his fleet, Scar realized his attempt to win favor had backfired, and Song Chao’s group resumed mining the vein.

Song Chao and Shen Wenjie secured 2,420 Titanium Crystals and agreed to give half to Song Chao’s old man for protection from Zhu Yaokui. Meanwhile, Song Chi adapted to his rapid physical growth and left the cultivation room to find his father waiting at home.

• Song Chao and Shen Wenjie counted 2,420 Titanium Crystals from the vein and worried that Zhu Kang might tell Zhu Yaokui about them.
• Song Chao proposed asking his old man for help, and Shen Wenjie agreed to give him half the crystals as payment.
• Song Chao and Shen Wenjie divided their remaining crystals and warned the group to keep the discovery secret before heading to the White Tower Floating Continent.
• Song Chi’s Guidance Art reached lv7 after he used an Advanced Body-Tempering Potion with a seven-hundred-year Deepwater Mussel Pearl.
• Song Chi returned to the All-Attribute Cultivation Room to adapt to his increased strength and protect his foundation, then left and found his father standing cautiously in the living room.

Song Chao gave Song Chi 100 Titanium Crystals and offered him a choice between two blue-quality starship components after Song Mingsong warned him not to involve his nephews in the Titanium Crystal deal. Song Chi inspected the components, though he was not interested in the Obsidian Hull Armor.

• Song Chi greeted Song Mingsong during the call, easing the tension between his grandfather and Song Chao.
• Song Mingsong demanded that Song Chao deliver all 1,000 Titanium Crystals and warned him not to involve his older brothers' children in future schemes.
• Song Chao told Song Chi he had 715 Titanium Crystals left and gave him 100 after Song Chi confirmed he could use them.
• Song Chao returned to the Kindling Network to find promotion resources for Chen Lixia, then stopped Song Chi to offer him one of two blue-quality starship components.
• Song Chi examined the Obsidian Hull Armor and decided it was of little use to the Cangqiong.

Song Chi chose and upgraded a Particle Beam Cannon for the Cangqiong, while Zhu Kang brought news about Titanium Crystal to his father, Zhu Yaokui. The chapter ended before Zhu Kang revealed what he had heard.

• Song Chi chose the Particle Beam Cannon after Song Chao assured him that his mother's Dragonfly already had a powerful blue-quality main cannon.
• Song Chi replaced the Cangqiong's Psionic Main Cannon with the Particle Beam Cannon and upgraded it to lv10, stopping because he lacked enough First-Rank Floating Continent Essence.
• Zhu Yaokui practiced the Guidance Art aboard the Radiance, striving to meet the prerequisite for advancing to fourth rank before his lifespan ran out.
• Zhu Kang approached Zhu Yaokui outside the Radiance and said he had heard news about Titanium Crystal.

Zhu Kang told Zhu Yaokui that a powerful, unidentified person had beaten him to a Titanium Crystal mine, and Zhu Yaokui learned that the person was connected to Song Mingsong. Song Mingsong settled the dispute with two hundred Titanium Crystals, and Zhu Yaokui warned Zhu Kang not to provoke him, privately fearing what the Zhu family would face after his death.

• Zhu Kang told Zhu Yaokui that an unidentified person from Jiangyuan City had taken a mine containing at least six hundred Titanium Crystals and defeated him.
• Song Mingsong contacted Zhu Yaokui about a conflict between Zhu Kang and Song Mingsong's son, and asked both sides to let the matter end.
• Zhu Yaokui agreed to the truce, and Song Mingsong offered two hundred Titanium Crystals as compensation.
• Zhu Kang urged his father to pursue the rest of the crystals, but Zhu Yaokui ordered him to drop the matter and warned him about Song Mingsong.
• Zhu Yaokui privately feared that Song Mingsong's youth and strength could threaten the Zhu family once Zhu Yaokui died.

Song Chi opened the Myriad Heavens Market’s third trading session, which would fulfill the condition for its advancement from zero order to first order. As aliens began trading, he displayed a Titanium Crystal sample and offered to buy more, hoping to acquire the scarce resource.

• Song Chi continued his Guidance Art cultivation after stabilizing his foundation, while Jiangyuan City returned to peace.
• Song Chi anticipated that completing three market sessions would let the Myriad Heavens Market deploy more space gates and admit first-order aliens.
• Song Chi recalled that his third alien starfield exploration had left him stranded in an empty Star Sea void zone for twenty-four hours.
• Song Chi activated the deployment platform, opening nineteen space gates as aliens entered and left the market.
• Song Chi stocked his shops with familiar goods and placed a Titanium Crystal sample in an empty shop to seek sellers, but he decided not to seek special fire-type marvels until he could afford them.

Song Chi watched an injured one-armed alien arrive in the Market Ruins and try to trade a purple-quality Star Sea Marvel for a way to survive the first-rank Moro Race members waiting outside. The crowd failed to offer anything that met its needs, leaving the trade unresolved as the session neared its end.

• Song Chi noticed an unfamiliar, badly injured alien emerge from a previously unused spatial gate and secretly watched it enter the Market Ruins.
• The alien bought a basic healing potion with fifty zero-rank Life Cores, then set up a stall and offered a first-rank Floating Continent Essence for life-saving, combat, advancement, or escape items.
• Song Chi asked what the alien wanted in exchange, but the crowd lacked the valuable items it required.
• The alien revealed a purple-quality Brain-Eater Superwave Cerebrum and said it would trade it for the best chance to survive at least five first-rank Moro Race members waiting outside.
• Hundreds of aliens gathered, but none could offer a solution that satisfied the one-armed alien.

Song Chi inspected a purple Brain-Eater Superwave Cerebrum and discovered it could become a Neural Wave Remote Control System for controlling marked creatures, constructs, and his Kindling Starship. He wanted to acquire it and offered the one-armed alien several advanced weapons and devices in exchange.

• Song Chi learned the one-armed alien’s purple marvel could evolve into a Neural Wave Remote Control System and asked to inspect it.
• Song Chi summoned the market’s laws as a witness, then concealed his identity while using his Kindling Seed to examine the marvel’s shipborne attributes.
• Song Chi discovered the component could remotely control beacon-marked targets within ten light-seconds, and considered using it to command soldier puppets, control his starship, and monitor the outside world while inside the Myriad Heavens Market.
• Song Chi returned the marvel to the one-armed alien and waited as it searched for a suitable trade.
• Song Chi offered an advanced exoskeleton, a Tier 1 combat robot, and three energy grenades, explaining how each could help the alien fight powerful opponents.

Song Chi traded for the Brain-Eater Superwave Cerebrum, completed the Myriad Heavens Market’s transaction, and spent 200 strands of zero-rank Floating Continent Essence to advance it to first-rank. As the market transformed, violent winged creatures far away in the void noticed a brief flash of light.

• Song Chi offered the one-armed alien equipment, potions, and batteries, and obtained the Brain-Eater Superwave Cerebrum in exchange.
• Song Chi traded zero-rank Floating Continent Essence for 210 strands of first-rank essence and calculated that his overall gains were lower than in the previous transaction.
• Song Chi confirmed the market’s advancement by spending 200 strands of zero-rank Floating Continent Essence, causing the Myriad Heavens Market to shake and shine brightly.
• Blue-black, horned, winged creatures in a distant void turned toward a brief flash of light.

During the Myriad Heavens Market's major advancement, Song Chi discovered that over a thousand Void Demons were attacking its protective barrier. He upgraded the market's defense array and advanced the Cangqiong, leaving the battle against the demons about to begin.

• Song Chi noticed the Myriad Heavens Market's advancement taking longer than its previous upgrades, then saw a huge swarm of Void Demons attacking its barrier.
• Song Chi realized the advancement's flash might have drawn the demons to the market and considered how to defend it.
• Song Chi spent 450 strands of zero-rank Floating Continent Essence to upgrade the Void Energy Defense Array to lv9.
• Song Chi summoned the Cangqiong and began advancing its White Kindling Hull to lv10 after installing the Neural Wave Remote Control System.
• The Cangqiong transformed into a Void Energy Airship, growing from seven meters to nearly twenty meters long.

After advancing the Cangqiong to a Tier 1 Void Energy Airship, Song Chi enhanced its cannons and sent it out to draw the Void Demons away from the defense array. He remained inside the Market Ruins, where he ordered ten Fire Sunflower Soldiers to fire on the demons as the battle began.

• The Cangqiong advanced to a Void Energy Airship, gaining a 20% boost to its basic components and four additional special slots.
• Song Chi spent Tier 1 Floating Continent Essence to raise the Particle Beam Main Cannon to lv16 and the Psionic Secondary Cannon to lv10.
• As the Void Energy Defense Array's shield continued to fall, Song Chi implanted a Brainwave Beacon and remotely controlled the Cangqiong from inside the Market Ruins.
• The Cangqiong left the array and fired its secondary cannons, drawing most of the Void Demons away from the defensive screen.
• Song Chi ordered ten Fire Sunflower Soldiers to shoot the demons overhead with their modified Tier 1 Energy Pulse Guns.

Song Chi struggled to hold off the Void Demons as the Cangqiong’s shield failed and the Myriad Heavens Market’s defense array rapidly weakened. Believing the market could not be saved, he recalled the Cangqiong to protect it, leaving the demons to turn their full assault on the market.

• Song Chi and the ten Fire Sunflower Soldiers killed Void Demons, but their corrosive black blood steadily drained the Void Energy Defense Array.
• The Cangqiong’s shield neared overload while Song Chi, exhausted from controlling the battle, threw an energy grenade that killed fifteen zero-rank Void Demons.
• The Cangqiong’s shield overloaded, and the Void Energy Array’s shield value fell below twenty thousand as Song Chi realized the market might be destroyed.
• Song Chi decided to preserve the Cangqiong as his best chance of survival and ordered it back into the Myriad Heavens Market.
• The Void Demons shifted their attacks to the market, making the Void Energy Array’s shield value plummet.