Chapter Summaries

Song Chi's Myriad Heavens Market advanced to lv10 just as its defense shield neared collapse, giving him time to upgrade its defenses and resume the Cangqiong's attack. He destroyed the remaining void demons and began collecting their corpses around the market.

• Song Chi confirmed that the Myriad Heavens Market had advanced to lv10, which boosted the attributes of its basic configurations and restored part of the Void Energy Defense Array's shield.
• Song Chi used the Cangqiong and his last energy grenade to attack the void demons while waiting for the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator to finish cooling down.
• Song Chi spent 150 strands of zero-rank Floating Continent Essence to upgrade the Void Energy Defense Array to lv10, restoring its shield to 120,000 points.
• After the Cangqiong's shield generator cooled down, Song Chi piloted it outside the market and destroyed the remaining void demons in less than twenty minutes.
• Song Chi circled the market in the Cangqiong and used its tractor beam to collect the void demon corpses.

Song Chi discovered that a First-Rank Demon Mark on the Myriad Heavens Market was attracting void demons and undermining its Disaster Evasion trait. After collecting a large haul of Void Crystals, he resolved to find a way to remove or conceal the mark rather than risk using it to lure more demons.

• Song Chi collected Void Crystals from more than a thousand dead void demons and hurriedly moved the Myriad Heavens Market away from the battle site.
• After several groups of void demons caught up with the market, Song Chi killed them and relocated repeatedly.
• Song Chi checked the market’s attributes and discovered the First-Rank Demon Mark, which let nearby void demons sense the market.
• Song Chi recognized the mark as the reason the market kept being found and considered how to remove or conceal it, while also worrying about the commotion caused by future advancements.
• Song Chi counted 1,230 Void Crystals but rejected using the mark to attract demons for more, judging the risk of drawing powerful enemies too great.

After the Myriad Heavens Market advanced to the first tier, Song Chi explored its expanded facilities and discovered that its second-floor inn rooms could produce Market Guest Tokens. He left the inn planning to issue the scarce tokens carefully.

• Song Chi examined the upgraded market and found that its area, shops, stall district, and inn had all expanded.
• Song Chi set aside a sealed 20m x 20m section of the stall district to store resources and mining vehicles.
• Song Chi discovered that the inn's second floor had ten rooms, though only one was accessible.
• Song Chi entered the available room and obtained information about a Market Guest Token that could transport an approved holder to the market for 24 hours.
• Song Chi realized that the inn's second-floor rooms served as transfer points for token holders and decided to distribute the limited tokens cautiously.

Song Chi examined the Myriad Heavens Market’s improved configurations, upgraded two of them to level 10, and discovered the Spatial Anchor trait. He planned to use the trait to sell resources through legitimate shops without exposing his identity, while prioritizing a way to remove the Demon Mark.

• Song Chi saw that the All-Attribute Cultivation Room and Ultra-Long Range Random Space Gate Deployment Platform had improved effects, then upgraded both to level 10.
• Song Chi discovered the Spatial Anchor trait, which let him set a coordinate to appear at after leaving the market.
• Song Chi realized he could use an anchor in his bedroom to sell resources through legitimate shops and return home without revealing his identity.
• Song Chi planned to test the method with resources from recent trades and sell more than one thousand Void Crystals to obtain Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi noted that the market still needed greater transaction volume to reach level 11 and prioritized finding a component to remove negative statuses and resolving the Demon Mark.

Song Chi brought goods from the Market Ruins to White River City to sell, but a clerk’s low offer and rude attitude nearly drove him away. The manager intervened, and after Song Chi revealed a Void Crystal, he asked how many Song Chi had.

• Song Chi entered crowded White River Kindling Mall to sell resources he had bought at the Market Ruins and escape unnoticed afterward.
• At Tross Machinery House, a clerk offered Song Chi only seventy percent of the resources’ market value, and Song Chi called for the manager before deciding to leave.
• Rock Tross stopped Song Chi, apologized for the clerk’s behavior, and offered to buy all his resources at market price.
• Song Chi met Rock Tross in a reception room and showed him a Zero-Rank Void Crystal.
• Rock Tross confirmed the crystal was genuine and asked Song Chi how many Void Crystals he had.

Song Chi sold Void Crystals and supplies to Rock Tross, learning that a blue-quality component that could purify negative effects would appear at the White River Auction. After Rock Tross failed to track him, Song Chi returned to the Myriad Heavens Market to cultivate and gather more Void Crystals before the auction.

• Song Chi asked Rock Tross about components that could remove negative statuses, and Rock Tross revealed that a blue-quality purifying component would appear at the White River Auction in five days.
• Song Chi sold two hundred zero-rank Void Crystals and his supplies to Tross Machinery House, trading the supplies' Floating Continent Essence for 448 strands of first-rank essence.
• Rock Tross ordered his men to find Song Chi, hoping to obtain more Void Crystals for the old man and improve his chance of controlling the Tross Family.
• Song Chi returned to the Myriad Heavens Market through the spatial anchor in his bedroom and spent five days cultivating and fighting Void Demons.
• Song Chi emerged from the cultivation room with slightly improved Guidance Art and nearly twelve hundred Void Crystals still in hand.

Song Chi attended the White River Auction in White River City and noticed an unusually large number of powerful Kindling captains in attendance. The auction began with the arrival of an elderly man whose strength marked him as at least a second-rank Kindling captain.

• Song Chi left home, summoned the Cangqiong in a secluded spot, and flew to White River City for the auction.
• Grim Tros watched a succession of Void Energy Airships arrive and judged Song Chi's shielded ship to have an extraordinary background.
• Song Chi entered the Celestial River Auction Hall and saw that seven private rooms were already occupied by second-rank or higher Kindling captains.
• Song Chi waited while visualizing the Dragonspine Tyrant Whale—Mythic Mecha Projection, then noticed that ten second-rank Kindling captains had arrived.
• An elderly man leaped onto the auction platform, and Song Chi recognized from his powerful vitality that his Guidance Art was at least lv20.

Song Chi attended White River Auction House’s auction, bought Mercury Crystal for the Cangqiong’s shield upgrades, and waited for the blue Abnormal Status Purifier to appear. The purifier drew fierce interest, and Song Chi began weighing how many Void Crystals to offer.

• John Tros, the Tross Family patriarch, opened the auction and presented the blue Aurora Thermal Engine, which a first-tier Torchship Captain eventually won.
• Song Chi passed on bidding for the engine because he prioritized securing the purification component for his plans and the Myriad Heavens Market.
• Song Chi bid 2,060 strands of tier-zero Floating Continent Essence and won 200 tons of Mercury Crystal for upgrading the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator.
• John Tros introduced the blue Abnormal Status Purifier, which could cleanse multiple negative statuses and was available only through barter.
• Song Chi considered whether to offer Void Crystals and whether to include first-tier Void Crystals in his bid.

Song Chi used a remote-controlled Fire Sunflower Soldier to trade Void Crystals for a purple Abnormal Status Purifier at the Celestial River Auction. The auction then revealed Ancestor Blood and its three possible ship-component evolutions, leaving the captains to consider its uses.

• Song Chi left the auction hall and returned in disguise as a remotely controlled Fire Sunflower Soldier before bidding 800 zero-rank Void Crystals for the Abnormal Status Purifier.
• Song Chi negotiated with the seller and agreed to pay 600 zero-rank and 100 first-rank Void Crystals for the purifier.
• John Tros announced that Song Chi had won the purifier, but no engine component appeared at the auction.
• John Tros revealed Ancestor Blood, a purple wonder that could evolve into three different ship-mounted components.
• John Tros displayed the three components’ attributes, and most captains ruled out the damaged Scarlet Vampire Gene Modification Pod because its success rate was low and its upgrades required rare essence blood.

Song Chi escaped White River Mall after acquiring Mercury Crystal and the Abnormal Status Purifier, but John Tros intercepted him in a powerful airship and demanded his Void Crystals. Song Chi recalled the Cangqiong while diving toward the mountains, leaving his next move unresolved.

• Song Chi obtained 200 tons of Mercury Crystal and the Abnormal Status Purifier after the auction ended.
• Song Chi noticed Tross Family pursuers and used the mall guards as a distraction to reach the Cangqiong and flee White River City.
• John Tros intercepted the Cangqiong in a hundred-meter-long escort-class airship and demanded Song Chi's Void Crystals and their origin.
• Song Chi mocked John Tros, provoking him to threaten torture and death.
• Song Chi dove toward the mountains, recalled the Cangqiong into his Kindle Ancestral Aperture, and plunged toward the ground.

Song Chi escaped John Tros by returning to the Myriad Heavens Market, removed the demon mark, and upgraded several Cangqiong components ahead of exploring the Bulo Civilization Ruins. After persistent training, he entered the Limit Break state again just days before the planned action with Shen Qing.

• Song Chi escaped John Tros through the Myriad Heavens Market, while John searched the mountain range and could not find him.
• Song Chi installed the Abnormal Status Purifier in the market to erase the demon mark, then moved the component to the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi sold his remaining Void Crystals, bought an Assaulter Engine, and upgraded it alongside the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator and Particle Beam Cannon.
• Song Chi trained himself to divide his attention among three projected screens so he could master the Limit Break state before exploring the Bulo Civilization Ruins.
• After another five days of training, Song Chi entered the Limit Break state again less than three days before his planned action with Shen Qing.

Song Chi mastered his limit-breaking technique, revealed that Cangqiong had advanced into a Void Energy Airship, and joined Shen Qing for a targeted deployment to the Bulo Civilization Ruins. They arrived above a floating continent ravaged by sandstorms, where Shen Qing warned Song Chi to activate his energy shield.

• Song Chi realized he could enter the limit-breaking state at will, though his exhausted mind needed time to recover.
• Song Chi learned that Captain He, who had traded him the Abnormal Status Purifier, had been murdered, and suspected John Tros was responsible.
• Song Chi told Song Chao and Chen Lixia that Cangqiong had advanced into a Void Energy Airship, then summoned it to reassure them.
• Song Chi met Shen Qing and linked Cangqiong with Qingfeng using Shen Qing's starship interlocking device before they began their targeted deployment.
• Song Chi and Shen Qing arrived above a sandstorm-ravaged floating continent, and Shen Qing urged Song Chi to activate Cangqiong's energy shield.

Song Chi and Shen Qing navigated the storm-ravaged floating continent toward a Bulo Civilization ruin hidden inside a giant monolith. Song Chi discovered the monolith concealed a vast Spatial Curtain, and his drone entered the empty space within.

• Song Chi and Shen Qing escaped two approaching sand sea storms and continued toward the ruins, carefully avoiding stronger storms along the way.
• The two airships encountered a second-rank, wormlike desert creature and evaded it by navigating around several storms.
• Song Chi and Shen Qing reached a square monolith more than ten thousand meters tall, and Shen Qing told Song Chi to fire at it.
• Song Chi's Psionic Secondary Cannon shot vanished on impact, leading him to recognize the monolith's Spatial Curtain.
• Song Chi sent a remotely controlled Bumblebee-class Drone through the curtain and saw a vast, dark, empty space inside.

Song Chi and Shen Qing broke through the barrier to the ruins’ second level and discovered thousands of hibernating Zerg, including a Queen. After they retreated, they debated whether to fight the weakened swarm or flee, and Song Chi struggled with the danger and his sense of obligation to Shen Qing.

• Song Chi and Shen Qing spent thirteen hours bombarding the second spatial curtain until its repulsive field faded.
• Song Chi’s drone passed through the curtain and revealed a chamber filled with fleshy tumors, while Shen Qing lost contact with his drone.
• The airships’ earlier shots awakened the tumors, and Song Chi recognized the creatures inside as more than thirty thousand Zerg and a Queen.
• Song Chi and Shen Qing retreated several hundred meters as the Zerg began emerging from their tumors.
• Shen Qing considered fighting the weakened swarm, while Song Chi weighed the risk against abandoning his trusted childhood friend.

Song Chi and Shen Qing fought through swarms of insectoids in the ruin and tried to attack a seemingly weakened insect queen, but Spitter Bugs blocked their advance as the queen began to awaken. With time running short, Shen Qing chose to press on for the crystal box’s potentially precious marvel.

• Song Chi and Shen Qing’s airships fought thousands of Ironclad Bugs on the first level, while toxic mist corroded their shields.
• Song Chi and Shen Qing flew through the spatial curtain to the second level and identified the giant fleshy nest as the insect queen’s lair.
• Song Chi and Shen Qing attacked the nest, then deduced that the queen and its nest had once been much stronger before losing energy in the sealed ruin.
• Song Chi recognized Spitter Bugs and warned Shen Qing as their acidic attacks blocked the airships and the insect queen began to awaken.
• Song Chi suggested retreating, but Shen Qing decided to risk continuing toward the crystal box in hopes of obtaining a marvel that could improve his Kindling Seed.

Song Chi and Shen Qing used two Deep-Space Torpedoes to cripple the awakened Queen Bug and clear the second-floor insect swarm, then spent hours breaking open the Crystal Box. They uncovered five marvels, including one purple-quality marvel, just before their time in the ruins ran short.

• Song Chi agreed to help Shen Qing attack the Queen Bug Nest after learning Shen Qing had two military-grade Deep-Space Torpedoes.
• Shen Qing's first torpedo struck the nest but failed to destroy it, awakening the once-third-rank Queen Bug and driving thousands of insects into a frenzy.
• Song Chi held back the insect tide with the Cangqiong while Shen Qing launched a second torpedo through the breach, severely damaging the nest and killing more than half the insects nearby.
• Song Chi and Shen Qing cleared the surviving insects, then spent over seven hours bombarding the Crystal Box while keeping watch on the Queen Bug Nest.
• The Crystal Box shattered, revealing five marvels: two white-quality, two blue-quality, and one purple-quality.

Song Chi and Shen Qing divided the rare components they found, then discovered another sealed layer they could not explore before their deployment ended. While harvesting the insect queen’s valuable prime meat, Song Chi spotted a faint glow inside its body, leaving them with a new discovery to investigate.

• Song Chi and Shen Qing identified five rare items, including a nonconvertible Pollution Core, a Purple River Jump Device, and a purple Molecular Repulsive Energy Shield.
• Shen Qing offered to take the purple shield, and Song Chi let him keep it while collecting the other four items.
• Song Chi and Shen Qing found a barrier covering a possible third layer, but stopped attacking it because they lacked time to explore and needed to return safely.
• They examined the dead insect queen, learned its reward had been one strand of Tier 2 Floating Continent Essence, and split its forty-jin piece of prime meat.
• Song Chi noticed a faint glow inside the insect queen’s opened body, and Shen Qing followed his gaze in alarm.

Song Chi and Shen Qing found a valuable mid-grade energy crystal in the ruins and returned to the Kindling Human Civilization. Song Chi headed to White Tower City to give the crystal to his mother, but the chapter ended before he found her.

• Song Chi and Shen Qing recovered a mid-grade energy crystal from the insect queen and divided the remaining loot, with Song Chi taking the crystal and Shen Qing receiving the Pollution Core and a faint-light-grade ship cannon.
• Song Chi and Shen Qing left the ruins, and Song Chi secretly placed a Spatial Anchor so he could return to the starfield later.
• Song Chi and Shen Qing agreed to keep their discoveries secret, then returned to Kindling Human Civilization and passed near a mining fleet whose miners watched their warships in awe.
• Song Chi went home intending to give his mother the energy crystal, but found a note saying his parents had gone to White Tower City for his grandmother's upcoming birthday.
• Song Chi set out for White Tower City to join his parents and deliver the crystal to his mother.

Song Chi returned to White Tower City for his grandmother’s upcoming birthday banquet and reunited with his family’s household and guests at Furious Lion Estate. After greeting his eldest aunt and the visiting elders, he found Song Ting and Song Shishi watching recordings of starship battles in the screening room.

• Song Chi stored the Cangqiong outside White Tower City and took a taxi to Furious Lion Estate, where the driver mistook him for a celebrity’s boy toy before learning he belonged to the Song Family.
• A servant recognized Song Chi as the Fourth Young Master, and guests discussed his colorless Kindling Seed and his family background.
• Song Chi learned that his grandparents were receiving a third-rank lord, his parents were buying banquet supplies, and his siblings were in the screening room.
• Song Chi greeted Zhao Hongxue and the visiting elders in the reception hall, where he sensed that a beautiful guest in palace attire was a third-rank Kindling captain.
• Song Chi entered the screening room, sat beside Song Ting, and greeted his Sixth Sister, Song Shishi, while the young Kindling captains watched real exploration combat footage.

At the Song family estate, Song Chi reunited with his relatives and learned that Bai He, a girl with a purple Kindling Seed, belonged to his grandmother’s powerful Bai Clan. Later, he shared insect queen meat with five relatives, whose Guidance Art levels rose sharply, and told them to keep its source secret.

• Song Chi greeted his cousins after the exploration footage ended and avoided revealing the valuable rewards he had gained.
• Song Chi noticed Bai He drawing attention at the screening, and Song Ting told him she was a Bai Clan prodigy with a purple Kindling Seed.
• Song Chi grilled five jin of insect queen meat and shared it with Song Ting, Song Shishi, Song Ming, Song Bo, and Song You.
• The meat helped Song Ting and Song Ming break through to Guidance Art lv2, Song Bo reach lv3, Song Shishi reach the limit of lv3, and Song You make substantial progress toward lv5.
• Song Chi warned the five to conceal the meat’s effects and not reveal that he had provided it.