Chapter Summaries

Song Xuancang brought the Zhao, Sun, and Liu Families into trade with the Song Family, while Song Chi emerged from three centuries of cultivation with his Guidance Art at Lv. 78. He acquired antimatter resources for the Sky Ruins Firmament and learned that Brook Benjamin had found an Earthmother Stone, leaving him eager to meet its owner.

• Song Xuancang exchanged a Lantern Fruit from the Zhao Family for a first-rate shop lease and agreed to leases for the Sun and Liu Families as well.
• Song Xuancang asked the three families to gather materials the Song Family would buy at fifty percent above market value, and the families began trading with the Song Family.
• Song Chi emerged from three hundred years of seclusion, having advanced his Guidance Art from Lv. 73 to Lv. 78, and decided to give up the Wizard-Magic Auxiliary Cultivation Pod.
• Song Chi noticed Brook Benjamin at the market and traded storage capsules for two clusters of antimatter source and three antimatter energy crystals.
• Brook Benjamin told Song Chi, while he was disguised as a Blueblood, that he had confirmed the location of an Earthmother Stone and that its owner wanted to meet the buyer in person.

Song Chi arranged for the Asura Emperor to meet the White Tower Wizard Alliance and negotiate for the Earthmother Stone. The meeting confirmed the stone was genuine, and Wayne Green began discussing an exchange for other rare resources Song Chi needed.

• Song Chi agreed to Brook Benjamin's request for a face-to-face meeting and sent the Asura Emperor to the Wizard Civilization using a Dimensional Space Stone.
• Brook Benjamin brought the Asura Emperor to the Initial Floating Continent, where Wayne Green and Gulong Aimeier of the White Tower Wizard Alliance received them.
• Gulong Aimeier presented the Earthmother Stone, and Song Chi confirmed it was genuine before ending his mindwave imprint.
• The Asura Emperor offered several items in exchange, but Gulong Aimeier rejected Song Chi's request to choose two of the three offered rewards.
• Wayne Green offered to trade for higher-rank Time Realm Fruits, and Song Chi instead requested several rare resources and Wizard-Magic Auxiliary Cultivation Pods.
• Wayne Green responded quickly to Song Chi's requests, surprising and delighting him.

Song Chi traded for rare Wizard Civilization resources and arranged a long-term exchange with the White Tower Wizard Alliance through the Myriad Heavens Market. He also secured access to the Scarlet Moon life-extending potion for the Song Family’s unawakened research clansmen, and researchers began preparing to obtain it.

• Song Chi exchanged a sixth-rank Time Realm Fruit and two seventh-rank Time Realm Fruits for eighth-rank Chaos Blood Viscera, an eighth-rank Wizard-Magic Auxiliary Cultivation Pod, and Abyssal Demonfire.
• Song Chi persuaded Wayne Green to agree to a long-term trade of Wizard-Magic Auxiliary Cultivation Pods for the Song Family’s resources, and White Tower wizards traveled to the Myriad Heavens Market.
• Song Chi asked Wayne Green for universally applicable life-extending resources, and Wayne Green presented Scarlet Moon, a potion that could extend zero-rank creatures’ lives but prevent them from evolving.
• Song Chi welcomed Scarlet Moon because it could prolong the lives of unawakened Song Family researchers and reduce disruptions to major research projects.
• Researchers at the Song Family’s First Research Institute heard about Scarlet Moon and discussed exchanging family merit for doses.

Song Chi reviewed the Dragonspine Song Family’s growth over the past three hundred years and the latest upgrades to its mythic oddity and the Myriad Heavens Market. He advanced the Sky Ruins Firmament’s Antimatter-Energy Evolution Engine to color lower grade, while the market’s next upgrade remained blocked by rare materials and trading volume.

• Song Chi learned that Song Xuancang had secretly become a Star Destroyer captain, Song Shixing’s attempt to advance to a Dreadnought had failed, and Song Xingru had become the family’s fifth Star Destroyer captain.
• Song Yiming reported the family’s population, cultivation, migration, and Titanium Crystal production growth across the Dragon-Serpent Galaxy.
• Song Chi reviewed Swallowing-Heaven Python's Molt after it advanced to color upper grade and noted that its Mythic Molt could now raise a black oddity to color lower grade.
• Song Chi advanced the Myriad Heavens Market from level 78 to level 79 after it met its requirements, then identified the materials and trading volume still needed for its next upgrade.
• Song Chi fed antimatter materials into the Sky Ruins Firmament’s engine, advancing the Antimatter-Energy Evolution Engine to color lower grade and gaining the Antimatter Hyperstate Traversal trait.

Song Chi traveled toward the Demon Serpent and Demon God trading hubs to gather resources for advancing the Sky Ruins Firmament into a Galaxy Warship, while testing the Three-Turn Golden Body Pill. The pill raised the Asura Emperor to the half-step ninth rank, and Song Chi decided to reserve a ninth-rank energy-tide bathing quota for its breakthrough while offering the remaining pills in trade.

• Song Chi used the Wishful Heartflow Pot to shrink the Sky Ruins Firmament and headed toward the transit wormhole, seeking resources to raise its Galaxy Warship advancement chance.
• Song Chi crafted two Aperture-Breaking True Immortal Pills and two Three-Turn Golden Body Pills from three black flame sources.
• Song Chi gave a Three-Turn Golden Body Pill to the Asura Emperor, whose physique and sovereign force improved until it reached the half-step ninth rank.
• Song Chi decided to use a ninth-rank Floating Continent Essence energy-tide quota to help the Asura Emperor break through, and to offer the remaining Three-Turn Golden Body Pill and two Aperture-Breaking True Immortal Pills in trade.

Song Chi returned to the Demon Serpent Continent to collect Neutron Star Remnants and search for resources to advance his Galaxy Warship. After showing Chaos Blood Viscera at Qinyue Trading House, he waited for the shop’s Star Destroyer captain, wary of the value of what he had revealed.

• The Sky Ruins Firmament traveled through a spatial wormhole to the Fifth Fragment Transit Base and descended onto the Demon Serpent Continent.
• Song Chi visited Dragonspine City, where Song Guiyuan gave him eighteen Neutron Star Remnants collected over nearly three hundred years.
• Song Chi searched Dragonspine City for advancement resources, then went to Xianqin City and bought a hundred-thousand-year Deepwater Mussel Pearl at Qinyue Trading House.
• Song Chi asked the shop’s maidservant about resources for advancing a Galaxy Warship and revealed his seventh-rank aura, prompting her to escort him to the top floor.
• Song Chi told the shop’s Star Destroyer captain that he sought high-rank Blood of the Evil God and showed him Chaos Blood Viscera to prove his means.
• The old man left to make arrangements, while Song Chi waited in the isolated reception room and remained on guard.

Song Chi investigated Qinyue Trading House’s offer to join a raid on a ninth-rank Ancient Mother Empress, then visited the Song Family’s Stargrass cultivation base on the Demon God Floating Continent. He left the raid undecided while the family’s plants approached five hundred years of growth under the nourishment of a suppressed Floating Continent Essence vent.

• Ying Yu invited Song Chi to join a planned operation against an Ancient Mother Empress and described the insect forces, participating captains, and expected rewards.
• Song Chi questioned the operation’s risks and the branch’s trustworthiness, then accepted the War King Hall’s notarization as a safeguard against betrayal.
• Song Chi asked for time to decide, agreed to respond within ten years, and found no promising resources during visits to other Ying Clan trade cities.
• Song Chi traveled to the Demon God Floating Continent, where the Song Family had built a vast Stargrass cultivation base on its land.
• Song Bei instructed Song Family workers to nourish each Stargrass plant with Verdant Clear Spirit Spring and then entered the cultivation base’s lowest level.
• Song Bei observed an eighth-rank Star Sea Giant Ape suppressing an Essence eruption vent, whose energy had accelerated the oldest Stargrass to nearly five hundred years of age.

Song Chi sought resources to improve Stargrass production and advance the Sky Ruins Firmament, then upgraded the Neutron Star Core Armor and confirmed it could evolve further. He planned to hunt high-rank Void Demons for Void Crystals to accelerate his cultivation secret realm.

• Song Chi asked Song Bei about cultivation-base preparations, learned that limited spirit-spring output restricted Stargrass growth, and ordered the family to transfer high-rank Void Crystals and search for resources needed to advance Destroyer ships to Galaxy Warships.
• Song Bei gave Song Chi the Neutron Star Remnants collected on the Demon God Floating Continent and left to carry out his orders.
• Song Chi fused Neutron Star Remnants into the Neutron Star Core Armor, raising it to color/lower quality and revealing its Gamma-Ray Burst trait.
• Song Chi fused his remaining Neutron Star Remnants and found that the armor could continue evolving, though reaching color/upper would require 300 more remnants.
• Song Chi decided to hunt high-rank Void Demons in the Dark Side of the Void Sea for Void Crystals to accelerate time in the cultivation secret realm.

Song Chi ambushed a million-strong Void Demon horde to capture an eighth-rank demon lord and gather resources for the Cultivation Secret Realm. After a ninth-rank Void Demon nearly destroyed the Sky Ruins Firmament, Song Chi escaped, resumed hunting elsewhere, and eventually enslaved and began treating the captured demon.

• Song Chi used the Three Realms Five Elements Talisman to conceal the Sky Ruins Firmament as it jumped toward a million-strong Void Demon horde led by an eighth-rank demon lord.
• Song Chi, the Asura Emperor, and the Dragonwhale Divine Temple subdued the eighth-rank demon lord, severed its horns, and imprisoned it in the Void Warehouse.
• Song Chi trapped the horde with the Frost Void Cage and unleashed the Sky Ruins Firmament’s large-scale attacks, killing nearly all the demons and collecting more than six hundred thousand corpses.
• A ninth-rank Void Demon shattered the Frost Void Cage and damaged the Sky Ruins Firmament’s shield with one strike, but Song Chi recalled the battleship to the Myriad Heavens Market before it could attack again.
• Song Chi resumed hunting in a different region, then succeeded after nearly two hundred attempts in enslaving the captured eighth-rank Void Demon.
• Song Chi gave the demon a Life-Reforming Creation Pill and placed it in the Life-System Medical Restoration Pod to treat its severed horns.

After learning of a Law Source Core for sale in Sanctuary City, Song Chi went there to bid for the resource needed to advance the Sky Ruins Firmament. He met Edmond Aclemon, who hinted at a coming crisis, but another bidder offered the seller a powerful set of components just as Song Chi entered the contest.

• Song Chi learned that the Immortal Domain Continent Ruins’ source core had been contaminated by alien energy, making large-scale cultivation there impossible, and Song Bei told him of a Law Source Core rumored to be for sale in Sanctuary City.
• Song Chi decided to compete for the Law Source Core, which could help raise the Sky Ruins Firmament’s advancement success rate, and took a sixth-rank Mist Half-Serpent Folk from the Misty Swamp without opposition.
• Song Chi arrived in Sanctuary City and drew attention as the Firmament King, ranked twentieth on the Kindling Star-Annihilator Overall Ranking.
• Edmond Aclemon approached Song Chi, expressed goodwill, and advised him to strengthen his warship before they went to Human Emperor City together, warning that the final trace of darkness before dawn was the cruelest.
• The civilian Supremacy Chaser captain began accepting bids for the Law Source Core, and Song Chi offered Ascension Flame Sources, Overlord Source Blood, a red-grade enslavement component, and a sixth-rank Mist Half-Serpent Folk.
• Another bidder countered Song Chi with Ascension Flame Sources, Overlord Source Blood, a full set of red-grade components, and a sixth-rank peak Star Sea Giant Ape.

Song Chi acquired a law origin core, then traveled to Divine Xia Continent to secure a ninth-tier origin energy tide slot for the Asura Emperor. He learned that Red Copper Continent would attempt to advance in five years and set off for the Red Yu Divine Dynasty, deciding to register with the Immortal Qin Ember Ancestral Court along the way.

• Song Chi outbid the Gong Family representative with a complete set of red components, a fourth-tier Time Realm Fruit, and other support, winning the civilian Supremacy Chaser captain's law origin core.
• Song Chi traveled from the Demon God Floating Continent to Divine Xia Continent through an inter-realm teleportation array and passed the imperial patrol's identity check.
• Song Chi asked Elder Chong about his ninth-tier origin energy tide slot, which he intended to use to help the Asura Emperor advance.
• Elder Chong told Song Chi that Red Copper Continent would attempt to advance to the ninth level in five years and gave him the origin slot certificate.
• Song Chi sent the Sky Ruins Firmament toward the Red Yu Divine Dynasty and decided to register at the Immortal Qin Ember Ancestral Court.

Song Chi registered the Sky Ruins Firmament with the Ember Ancestral Court and traveled to Red Copper Continent, where he agreed to help Tantai Xuan protect the Tantai Family’s attempt to advance their ancestor. As Red Copper Continent reached Level 9, the Asura Emperor successfully broke through to Rank 9, leaving him to consolidate his cultivation there.

• Song Chi decided that registering the Sky Ruins Firmament would prevent future complications and entered Red Copper Continent to await its Level 9 energy tide.
• Tantai Xuan revealed that rival factions were plotting against the Tantai Family’s advancement attempt and asked Song Chi for help; Song Chi sent a Rank 8 Star Sea Giant Ape to assist in exchange for valuable resources and favors.
• The rival factions discovered the Rank 8 creature and abandoned their plan as Red Copper Continent began transforming into a Level 9 Floating Continent.
• Red Copper Continent completed its advancement and generated a Level 9 energy tide, which the Asura Emperor absorbed while attempting to break through.
• The Asura Emperor overcame the ninth-rank barrier, and Song Chi chose to let him consolidate his cultivation on Red Copper Continent.

Song Chi joined Ying Kuang and fifty other Star-Annihilator captains on an operation, and their fleet arrived at the Endless Insect Sea Front during a fierce assault by the Star Sea Insectoid Race. As the defenders faced a breach inside the Great Wall, Ying Kuang’s Galaxy Warship struck an eighth-rank Tiger-Clawed King Insect with a devastating shot.

• Song Chi visited the Immortal Qin Divine King Stele, then used the alias Lord Yue to enter a secluded courtyard arranged by Qinyue Trading House.
• Song Chi cultivated in the courtyard and gained insight that loosened his bottleneck between lv78 and lv79.
• Ying Kuang gathered Song Chi and fifty-one other Star-Annihilator captains and led them from Xianqin Continent to the Endless Insect Sea Front.
• The group arrived to find Star Sea Insectoids attacking the Starry Sky Great Wall, while a breach had let more than a million creatures into its interior.
• Ying Kuang ordered the fleet to reinforce the battle, and his Galaxy Warship blasted a severe wound into an eighth-rank Tiger-Clawed King Insect.

Song Chi helped turn back an insectoid assault on the Starry Sky Great Wall, then joined Ying Kuang’s secret operation to kill an ancient Mother Empress. The chapter ended as Ying Kuang revealed that the Ninth Primordial Mother Empress commanded four Primordial Emperor Insects, raising the danger of the mission.

• The Winged King Insect disrupted Ying Kuang’s attack and helped the Tiger-Clawed King Insect rally nearby swarms to trigger an insect howl.
• Song Chi summoned the Star Sea Giant Ape, pinned and killed the badly wounded Tiger-Clawed King Insect, then used the Sky Ruins Firmament’s sword array to devastate the swarms.
• The insectoid tide retreated, and Ji Xuan thanked Song Chi and promised to report his contributions to Kindling War Headquarters.
• Song Chi learned that the Civilization Great Wall at the front was mirrored using rare Chaos Mirror Stones, then traveled with Ying Kuang’s fleet to Pegasus Continent.
• At Ying Kuang’s hidden base, the group discussed a plan to kill an ancient Mother Empress behind insectoid territory, and Ying Kuang disclosed that the Ninth Primordial Mother Empress had four Primordial Emperor Insects.

Ying Kuang led fifty-five Kindling Warships through the Thunder Prison Sea and into the Star Sea Insectoid Race’s territory to begin a covert mission. After the fleet jumped, Song Chi detected an approaching King Bug, prompting Ying Kuang to order Backup Plan Two.

• Ying Kuang explained the front’s distance from the Ninth Primordial Mother Empress and revealed a Mass Teleportation Device prepared as an emergency escape option.
• Ying Kuang led the fleet through the Thunder Prison Sea under the Four Seas Divine Ying Star-River Ship’s lightning immunity aura and protective domain.
• The fleet emerged behind the Star Sea Insectoid Race’s front, activated concealment abilities, and jumped into the enemy’s territory.
• A Mother Empress detected abnormal spatial fluctuations and ordered Mo Ran to investigate.
• Song Chi’s Eye of Truth detected an eighth-rank Overlord King Bug approaching the fleet, and Ying Kuang ordered everyone to execute Backup Plan Two.

Ying Kuang’s fleet attacked the ancient Mother Empress on the Yellow Sand Floating Continent, forcing her out of the planet’s core and into battle with the three Galaxy Warships. As the fighting spread, Song Chi decided to send an eighth-rank Star Sea Giant Ape into the fray to obtain a super-grade energy crystal.

• Ying Kuang’s fleet recalled most of its Destroyer warships, while Ying Kuang released a Gold-Rending Owl as a decoy for the pursuing eighth-rank Winged King Insect, Mo Ran.
• After Mo Ran returned with the Gold-Rending Owl’s corpse, the ancient Mother Empress attempted to contact another Mother Empress but sensed interference and summoned her insectoids.
• Ying Kuang’s fleet restored itself to fifty-five warships and bombarded the tunnel leading to the core, then launched five neutron collapse torpedoes to force the ancient Mother Empress out.
• Song Chi and the other captains disrupted the King Insects trying to intercept the torpedoes, allowing them to reach the tunnel and drive the ancient Mother Empress into the open.
• The three Galaxy Warships engaged the ancient Mother Empress while Destroyer warships fought eighth-rank King Insects and enslaved creatures battled the swarms; Song Chi then sent an eighth-rank Star Sea Giant Ape into battle to seek a super-grade energy crystal.

Song Chi joined the battle against the Primordial Mother Empress after defeating an eighth-rank Tiger-Clawed King Insect, helping the Galaxy Warships severely wound the ninth-rank Overlord. The Four Seas Divine Ying delivered the final blow, and the fifty-five Kindling Warships returned to Pegasus Continent with the distribution of a colorful mythical wonder still undecided.

• The Star Sea Giant Ape killed the eighth-rank Tiger-Clawed King Insect, and Song Chi found a special-grade energy crystal in its corpse.
• Ying Kuang agreed that Song Chi could claim the Mother Empress corpse and ninth-rank Overlord Source Blood while the Four Seas Divine Ying secured the kill on the Primordial Mother Empress.
• Song Chi sent the Asura Emperor and Immortal-Slaying Spear into the ninth-rank battle, and the Sky Ruins Firmament's attacks severely wounded the Primordial Mother Empress.
• The three Galaxy Warships combined their Judgment Domains to suppress the Primordial Mother Empress, and the Four Seas Divine Ying killed it with an Ultimate Death Judgment.
• The fleet hunted Insectoids across the Yellow Sand Floating Continent until Ying Kuang called everyone to assemble and withdraw as the spatial lockdown ended.
• The Four Seas Divine Ying teleported all fifty-five Kindling Warships to Pegasus Continent, where the captains gathered to discuss the colorful mythical wonder.

Song Chi received his share of the spoils from the battle and negotiated with Ying Kuang for the Adamantine Guardian Hull Armor, ultimately trading for several valuable marvels and Earth-Lung Dragonflame. Half a month later, he attended a major Star-Annihilator trading fair in Ember City, where Lu He of the Jiujiang Lu Clan opened proceedings.

• Ying Kuang and the other captains distributed the operation’s spoils, and Song Chi received a Black marvel, a Gold fireseed marvel, three Silver marvels, Overlord True Spirit, and an energy crystal.
• Ying Kuang offered Song Chi five Black marvels for the Adamantine Guardian Hull Armor, and Song Chi negotiated to obtain a Tier 9 Gold Apple, the Eternal Flame Hibernation Pod, the Resurrection Medal, and Earth-Lung Dragonflame.
• Song Chi agreed to a trading fair in Ember City and prepared valuable resources, including a drop of Tier 9 Overlord Source Blood, to offer there.
• After half a month, Song Chi arrived at the Ember City trading fair, where more than a hundred Star-Annihilator Captains gathered.
• Lu He introduced himself as a descendant of the Jiujiang Lu Clan and began the trading fair as Song Chi recognized him from the earlier operation.

At a trading meeting in Kindling City, Song Chi exchanged rare resources for items that would aid his cultivation and warship, then traded his own stock for powerful materials. Afterward, a patrol fleet squad captain approached him with a Temporal Origin Crystal, a super-strategic resource, leaving Song Chi and the gathered captains astonished.

• Lu He traded his hundred-thousand-year Bloodspirit Ginseng Fruit to Song Chi for a Super-grade Energy Crystal, while Song Chi failed to secure ninth-rank Overlord Source Blood.
• Yue Huo offered a black super main cannon, a Core-Mantle Flame, and a ninth-rank Star-Eating Vine Heart, and Song Chi traded ninth-rank and lower-rank Overlord Source Blood for the latter two items.
• Song Chi sold his remaining rare resources to the gathered captains and acquired Overlord True Spirit, Floating Continent Essence, construction materials, and a portion of Mythical True Spirit.
• After the meeting, Song Chi noticed a Kindling City Patrol Fleet squad captain watching him with unusual excitement and concern.
• The squad captain approached Song Chi and presented a Temporal Origin Crystal, which Song Chi recognized as the fourth-ranked super-strategic resource.

Song Chi acquired a Temporal Origin Crystal from Shi Ge and rewarded him with Ancestral Domain transmission slots, Ascension Flame Sources, fruits, and ship components while warning others not to target him. Back in the Myriad Heavens Market, Song Chi upgraded his cultivation secret realm and installed two new components aboard the Sky Ruins Firmament.

• Song Chi accepted the Temporal Origin Crystal from Shi Ge after confirming that Shi Ge willingly offered it, and summoned a ninth-rank Asura Emperor to deter the watching captains.
• Shi Ge requested three transmission slots to the Kindling Ancestral Domain, and Song Chi agreed on the condition that he bring the travelers for inspection.
• Song Chi gave Shi Ge two Ascension Flame Sources, two Time Realm Fruits, ship components, and enhancement resources, then threatened to destroy anyone who tried to seize them.
• Song Chi returned to the Myriad Heavens Market and used a ninth-rank Golden Apple to evolve Chikang's No. 004 Cultivation Secret Realm, gaining the Flawless Cosmic Laws trait.
• Song Chi installed and upgraded the Eternal Flame Hibernation Pod and Resurrection Medal aboard the Sky Ruins Firmament.