Chapter Summaries

Song Chi gave his grandmother an intermediate energy crystal as a birthday gift, and Song Mingsong rewarded him with two purple-quality ship components. The chapter left Song Chi overwhelmed by his grandfather’s generosity as he examined the second gift.

• Song Chi told his family that he had obtained premium insect-queen meat, while Song Chao and his brothers secretly watched from the second floor and discussed their plans to return to the Calm Sea Star Domain.
• Song Chi gave Chen Lixia an intermediate energy crystal and agreed with Song Chao to present it to Bai Xiuqin as a birthday gift so Song Mingsong might reward him with a useful component for Cangqiong.
• Song Chi followed Song Chao into a secret chamber and gave the intermediate energy crystal to Song Mingsong and Bai Xiuqin, explaining that he had obtained it from an insect queen.
• Song Chi asked Song Mingsong for a high-quality engine component, and his grandfather gave him a purple-quality Shadowflash Antimatter Hyperstate Engine.
• Song Mingsong presented Song Chi with a second purple-grade component as the grand gift he had previously promised, and Song Chi drew it into his Kindle Ancestral Aperture to reveal its attributes.

Song Chi learned that the Cold Spring Chilling Flame could raise a colorless Kindling Seed by one tier, but he had already advanced his own Seed and chose to give the flame to Song Lin. At Bai Xiuqin’s birthday celebration, the Song Clan’s influence was on display, and the chapter ended with Song Lin accepting Song Chi’s gift.

• Song Chi told Song Mingsong that his Kindling Seed was already white quality, and Song Mingsong let him decide what to do with the Cold Spring Chilling Flame.
• Bai Xiuqin reminded Song Chi that he could rely on the family for protection.
• The White Tower Governor arrived at Bai Xiuqin’s birthday celebration aboard the Pursuit-class warship Deep Sea Endless Sky, drawing awe from the guests.
• Bai Xiurong and Bai He departed after Bai Xiurong arranged with Song Mingsong to attempt the third tier together in two years.
• Song Chao advised Song Chi to give the flame to Song Lin, who had awakened a colorless Kindling Seed.
• Song Chi gave Song Lin the Cold Spring Chilling Flame, and Song Shan urged Song Lin to accept it as family.

Song Chi learned that the Song family planned to confront the Bloodblade Star Pirates to recover a valuable asset and restore their branch’s standing, then searched the family vault for Mercury Crystal. He found enough for his needs and upgraded the Cangqiong’s Shadowflash Antimatter Hyperstate Engine to the second tier, leaving him with fewer resources to upgrade its shield generator.

• Song Chao and Zhao Hongxue gave Song Chi Floating Continent Essence and body-forging potions, and the family elders discussed Song Shan’s planned advancement and their surveillance of the Bloodblade Star Pirates.
• Song Mingsong assigned Song Qi and Song Wen to accompany Song Hai first, while Song Chi and Song Lin would join Song Chao after two months.
• Song Chao explained that Song Mingsong’s past failure on a clan mission involving a red epic-grade component had exiled their branch to White Tower Floating Continent, and that the pirates possessed something that could help them return.
• Song Chi researched the Bloodblade Star Pirates and learned that their leader, Bloodknife, was a powerful third-tier captain, prompting him to resolve to strengthen the Cangqiong’s shield.
• Song Chi entered the family vault, found about 1,200 tons of Mercury Crystal in its mineral storage room, and summoned the Cangqiong there.
• Song Chi upgraded the Shadowflash Antimatter Hyperstate Engine to level 20, bringing it to the second tier and consuming much of his Floating Continent Essence.

Song Chi upgraded the Cangqiong’s Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator to its hull-imposed limit, then gathered supplies for the first market transaction after its advancement. As the transaction began, a first-tier Centaur entered the market.

• Song Chi spent most of his remaining resources upgrading the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator to lv29, where the White Kindling Hull’s limit prevented further advancement.
• Song Chi returned to Jiangyuan City with Song Ting and exchanged first-tier Floating Continent Essence on the black market, but escaped people who targeted him afterward.
• Song Chi sold the Cangqiong’s old components, then purchased a large stock of goods and decided to test selling them at ten times their cost.
• Song Chi opened the Myriad Heavens Market’s first post-advancement transaction and confirmed that the Demon Mark no longer attracted Void Demons.
• Song Chi watched a first-tier alien pass through a vortex gate and identified it as a Centaur.

Song Chi’s market attracted a tribe of centaurs who bought large quantities of weapons and supplies, but their crystals proved not to be Titanium Crystal. As the market session neared its end, a centaur revealed that it knew the whereabouts of an orange-quality marvel kindling.

• A Tier 1 centaur discovered Song Chi’s weapon shops and bought an advanced titanium alloy saber before returning to its tribe for reinforcements.
• Hundreds of centaurs returned and bought out the tungsten and advanced titanium alloy weapon shops, earning Song Chi thousands of strands of Floating Continent Essence.
• Several Tier 1 centaurs brought silver-white crystals to the purchasing shop, but Song Chi determined they were a different, unidentified mineral rather than Titanium Crystal.
• More aliens entered the market, its shop goods sold out, and Song Chi exchanged Tier 0 Floating Continent Essence for Tier 1 essence.
• Near the market session’s end, a Tier 1 centaur said its tribe knew the whereabouts of an orange-quality marvel kindling.

Song Chi concluded the Myriad Heavens Market transaction, earned a large profit, and upgraded the market and several components aboard the Cangqiong. After using insect queen meat to advance his guidance technique to lv8, he left the market and began his daily cultivation, while Shen Youran received a delivery at Jiangyuan First Kindling Academy.

• Song Chi accepted the centaurs' offer of an orange fireseed marvel and gave them a Market Guest Token with one year to obtain the Red Plains Heavenly Flame.
• The centaurs returned to their tribe and planned to foment conflict between the Red Plains Tribe and the Grey Wolf Tribe to seize the Red Plains Heavenly Flame.
• Song Chi tallied approximately 130,000 strands of zero-rank Floating Continent Essence in resources and upgraded the Myriad Heavens Market and its basic installations to lv11.
• Song Chi enhanced the Cangqiong's Abnormal Status Purifier to lv20, then ate ten jin of insect queen meat and advanced his Psionic Guidance Technique from lv7 to lv8.
• Song Chi left the market, washed away the impurities from his breakthrough, and began meditating on the Mythic Mecha Projection Rubbing Diagram.
• At Jiangyuan First Kindling Academy, dorm supervisor auntie called Shen Youran to collect a delivery.

Shen Youran received Insect Queen refined meat from Song Chi, and its energy helped her and her roommates advance their Guidance Art. Song Chi acquired and enhanced a Heavenly Eye Sky-Patrol Radar, then prepared to upgrade the Cangqiong’s Purple River Jump Device.

• Shen Youran opened Song Chi’s package and found five pounds of Insect Queen refined meat and a note explaining its benefits.
• Shen Youran shared the meat with Zhou Chun and her two other roommates, and all four advanced their Guidance Art levels after cultivating.
• Song Chi found Lone Valor’s listing for a Blue Heavenly Eye Sky-Patrol Radar and arranged an offline trade.
• Song Chi met the seller at Dongshan Park and bought the radar for twelve hundred strands of first-rank Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi enhanced the Heavenly Eye Sky-Patrol Radar to lv29, greatly increasing its detection range and star-chart coverage.
• Song Chi turned to enhancing the Cangqiong’s Purple River Jump Device.

Song Chi upgraded several of the Cangqiong’s components, planned to open a Star Sea Marvel exchange shop, and chose Guangyuan Floating Continent as his next destination. After obtaining a current star chart, he jumped partway there and entered the Myriad Heavens Market while the Purple River Jump Device cooled down.

• Song Chi upgraded the Purple River Jump Device, Fire Sunflower Soldier Tree, Neural Wave Remote Control System, and Particle Beam Main Cannon, stopping the first two at lv20 because he needed to conserve second-tier Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi decided to test a plan to buy Star Sea Marvels that could not be converted into shipborne components and trade or sell them through a dedicated shop in the Myriad Heavens Market.
• Song Chi reviewed the Cangqiong’s upgraded attributes, left a note for his parents, and flew the ship beyond the White Tower Floating Continent’s gravitational field.
• Song Chi downloaded a current star chart and chose Guangyuan Floating Continent over the dangerous Riotstar and nearly depleted Golden Shark-023, then used the Purple River Jump Device to travel forty light-years toward it.
• After the Cangqiong arrived within twenty light-years of Guangyuan Floating Continent, Song Chi stored it in his Kindle Ancestral Aperture and entered the Myriad Heavens Market while the jump device recharged.

Song Chi visited the floating continent fortress above Guangyuan Floating Continent and searched for rare marvels and an area-effect cannon. He found an enormous stock of unusual marvels at the Morning Star Multifunctional Shop, but had not yet chosen what to buy.

• Song Chi saw that the Myriad Heavens Market’s upgrade to level 11 had opened another Guest Chamber, then continued practicing his Guidance Art.
• After the Cangqiong’s Purple River Jump Device cooled down, Song Chi traveled to Guangyuan Floating Continent and docked at its fortress.
• Song Chi used a combat robot to visit shops and asked for non-convertible marvels and a high-quality area-effect cannon; the owner of Oak Shop directed him to the Morning Star Multifunctional Shop.
• Song Chi entered the shop and discovered its owner had more than sixty marvels and shipborne components, including several purple-quality items.
• Song Chi found that none of the shop’s cannons met his needs and began examining its marvels, many of which could not be converted into shipborne components.

Song Chi bought ten wonders and tested an Illusory Butterfly-class Drone at the Morning Star Multifunctional Shop, but refused the shop owner’s invitation to join her operation. After confirming she had not marked his combat robot, he fled in the Cangqiong; more than twenty days later, the airship began another extraterrestrial deployment.

• Song Chi asked the shop owner about weapons and learned that a suitable area-attack cannon might arrive with the next restock in two months.
• The shop owner showed Song Chi an Illusory Butterfly-class Drone, and he found its stealth, endurance, and low noise suited his surveillance plans.
• The shop owner offered Song Chi a ninety percent discount on the drone if he helped with an operation, but he refused after she identified his remotely controlled combat robot and asked about its range.
• Song Chi bought three blue-quality and seven white-quality wonders for his planned Wonder Exchange Shop, then checked the combat robot for tracking marks and departed in the Cangqiong.
• The shop owner watched the Cangqiong leave and deduced that Song Chi had powerful remote-control and energy-shield components.
• More than twenty days after returning to the White Tower Floating Continent, Song Chi activated the Cangqiong’s extraterrestrial star domain deployment function.

Song Chi’s Cangqiong was dropped into a massive battle between factions of the Starlight Civilization, where it survived the opening barrage by activating its Dark Matter Energy Shield and began harvesting Floating Continent Essence. After learning about the civilization, Song Chi attacked a crippled Tier 2 warship and sent Fire Sunflower Soldiers aboard to search it.

• Song Chi piloted the Cangqiong through heavy fire as its hull took severe damage, then entered the Limit Break state and used its cannons to destroy alien ships while the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator charged.
• The shield activated, allowing Song Chi to roam the battlefield and attack Starlight Civilization ships with less risk as the Cangqiong accumulated Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi gathered intelligence and learned that the Starlight Civilization was a low-level Tier 2 technological civilization fighting an internal war within its isolated star region.
• Song Chi spotted a badly damaged Tier 2 Starlight Civilization starship and used the Cangqiong’s Particle Beam Cannon and secondary cannons to disable it and kill many of its crew.
• Song Chi sent ten armored Fire Sunflower Soldiers into the enemy ship, then pulled the Cangqiong away while remotely controlling the boarding party.

Song Chi cleared a Starlight Civilization starship, acquired a repair-type Healing Fruit marvel, and spent hours hunting alien ships before choosing to jump to a life-bearing Floating Continent. The Cangqiong arrived at Radiant 004 Star Sea Floating Continent and immediately attacked the Second Freedom Fleet.

• Song Chi sent the ten Fire Sunflower Soldiers through the alien defenders and broke into the starship’s main control room.
• The Fire Sunflower Soldiers killed the remaining aliens, and Song Chi obtained the white-quality Healing Fruit, which became a reusable ship component that repaired hull armor.
• Song Chi destroyed the crippled starship and hunted second-tier ships for nearly seven hours, collecting Floating Continent Essence and two unusable Radiant-class main cannons.
• Song Chi rejected further battlefield hunting and a return to the Bulo Civilization Ruins, choosing instead to travel toward a life-bearing Floating Continent identified by the Heavenly Eye Sky-Patrol Radar.
• The Cangqiong jumped to Radiant 004 Star Sea Floating Continent, where it attacked the Second Freedom Fleet and pierced several docked second-tier starships with particle beams.

Song Chi plundered the Second Freedom Fleet’s logistics warehouse and escaped the Starlight Civilization’s concentrated fire with the Cangqiong. After upgrading two ship components, he found the coordinates of a nearby Level 2 Star Sea Floating Continent and prepared to explore it before returning.

• Song Chi sent Fire Sunflower Soldiers and a combat robot to clear the logistics warehouse, then loaded its valuable resources onto the Cangqiong and transferred them to the Myriad Heavens Market.
• When Starlight Civilization ships attacked the logistics department, Song Chi abandoned the remaining supplies and forced the Cangqiong through the warehouse wall.
• Nearly a thousand starships fired on the escaping Cangqiong, draining half its Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator’s shield value before Song Chi broke through the encirclement and entered lightspeed cruise.
• Song Chi tallied more than sixty thousand strands of Tier 0 Floating Continent Essence and seven Star Sea Marvels, then upgraded the Healing Fruit and Starshine Type V Alloy Armor to lv20.
• Song Chi used a star map taken from a destroyed Tier 2 starship to locate a Level 2 Star Sea Floating Continent less than forty light-years away, leaving him about three hours to explore it before his return.

Song Chi raided several cities on Star Sea Floating Continent 001 for resources, then tested whether the Cangqiong could return after changing starfield coordinates. Back home, he learned that his mother Chen Lixia’s Dragonfly had advanced into a frigate-class Void Energy Warship.

• Song Chi used the Cangqiong to raid the capital’s administrative building, seize several safes, and escape before the Floating Continent Guard Force could respond.
• Song Chi struck six more large cities, retreating from two heavily guarded administrative buildings and looting four others.
• Song Chi left Star Sea Floating Continent 001 and decided to test whether the Cangqiong could return from a different starfield.
• Song Chi activated the Spatial Anchor above Yellow Sand Floating Continent and confirmed that the Cangqiong returned normally.
• Song Chi returned to his family home and learned that Chen Lixia’s Dragonfly had advanced into a frigate-class Void Energy Warship.

Song Chi prepared for the family’s upcoming operation against the Bloodblade Star Pirates, opened the alloy safes from his alien-domain exploration, and bought the Phantom Butterfly Drone at Guangyuan Floating Continent. A shopkeeper offered him a blue-quality area-attack secondary cannon in exchange for borrowing his purple-quality remote-control component, but Song Chi hesitated over the risk.

• Song Chao set the family’s departure for five days later, giving Song Chi time to handle his plans before joining the others near the Bloodblade Star Pirates’ base.
• Song Chi bought two Scout-class Starsea Shuttles, then opened thirteen alloy safes and found 400 strands of second-rank Floating Continent Essence and a blue-quality Star Sea Marvel among their contents.
• Song Chi remotely controlled a puppet body into Morning Star Multifunctional Shop and bought the Phantom Butterfly Drone for 500 strands of first-rank Floating Continent Essence.
• The shopkeeper showed Song Chi a blue-quality Electromagnetic Thunderbolt Cannon with an area-attack trait and offered it as payment to borrow his Neural Wave Remote Control System.
• Song Chi considered the offer but did not agree, worrying that the shopkeeper might not return his purple-quality component.

Song Chi agreed to lend the Neural Wave Remote Control System for ten days in exchange for a pledged Electromagnetic Thunderbolt Cannon and the chance to buy one of three purple curios, choosing the Pale Boneflame. After returning the component to the Morning Star Multifunctional Shop and receiving the cannon, he set off for home, while the shop's owner prepared another expedition with Ansewei.

• The woman offered Song Chi a choice among the Shadowglow Engine, Shadow Inkstone Armor, and Pale Boneflame, reserving his chosen curio for two years and pledging it alongside the Electromagnetic Thunderbolt Cannon.
• Song Chi agreed to lend the Neural Wave Remote Control System for ten days, and the woman sent her armored subordinates to deal with two shuttles tailing him.
• Song Chi returned to the Cangqiong, checked for a tracking mark, took the Pale Boneflame, and unloaded the Neural Wave Remote Control System.
• Song Chi handed the component to the woman at the Morning Star Multifunctional Shop, received the Electromagnetic Thunderbolt Cannon, and left without pursuers.
• Song Chi began a second spatial jump toward home so he could tell his father about the loan.
• The woman contacted Ansewei, who agreed to bring people the next day for her planned expedition.

Song Chi upgraded the Cangqiong’s Electromagnetic Thunderbolt Cannon and continued training while five Kindling warships launched a dangerous raid on the Deep Blue Spore Mother Tree. The warships reached the tree, where Ansewei prepared to seize its life-extending Deep Blue Fruits as the Mother Tree’s defenses escalated.

• Song Chi replaced the Cangqiong’s secondary cannon with the Electromagnetic Thunderbolt Cannon and strengthened it to lv20.
• Song Chi trained to advance his Guidance Art and then began visualizing the Dragonspine Tyrant Whale imprint diagram.
• Ansewei sent a Second-Generation Cicada Drone into the Deep Blue Spores and used its white smoke to create a safe zone for five warships to jump in.
• The five warships formed a Threefold Isolation Barrier and raced toward the Deep Blue Spore Mother Tree as its Level 1 stress response produced evolved spores.
• Ansewei ordered the four other warships to cover her, and all five main cannons fired at the evolved spores above the tree.

Ansewei and four Kindle captains stole a Deep Blue Fruit from the Tier 5 Deep Blue Mother Tree and escaped its spore storm through a spatial warp. They arrived hundreds of light-years away with Ansewei’s silver cruiser badly damaged, and she collapsed as its alarms sounded.

• Ansewei controlled the silver cruiser through the array curtain, cut a Deep Blue Fruit from the mother tree, and brought it aboard.
• The Three Talents Array Curtain collapsed, and Deep Blue Spores swarmed the five Kindle warships; William activated the Repulsion Energy Field to drive them back.
• Ansewei gathered the four other captains aboard her cruiser and used components to shorten the Warp Device’s cooldown and charging time while the spores corroded the ship.
• A Deep Blue Spore Storm became a storm dragon and struck the cruiser, but Ansewei used the Inkstone Shield to propel it into the spatial vortex.
• The cruiser emerged hundreds of light-years away, damaged by spatial rifts; Ansewei paid the four captains, refused the black cruiser owner’s request for her Neural Wave Remote Control System, and then collapsed as the ship’s alarms sounded.

Song Chi returned the Neural Wave Remote Control System to the shop owner and traveled with Song Chao, Song Lin, and Song You toward the Bloodblade Star Pirates' headquarters. The Azure Sky emerged in the dangerous Star Sector 0155, where Song Lin wondered whether the pirates had established their headquarters.

• Song Chi met the shop owner with Song Mingsong guarding the entrance, exchanged the Neural Wave Remote Control System for the Pale Boneflame, and received a one-way communication wristband.
• Song Mingsong checked the wristband aboard the Lion's Pride, and Song Chi later stored it in the Market Ruins before reinstalling the Neural Wave Remote Control System on the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi finished buying supplies for three upcoming Market Ruins trades and departed with Song Chao, Song Lin, and Song You aboard the Azure Sky.
• The Kindling Warship Passenger Permit sealed Song Chi, Song Lin, and Song You's internal energy during the journey, and the Azure Sky made multiple spatial jumps.
• The Azure Sky emerged in Star Sector 0155, and Song Lin recognized the barren region and asked whether the Bloodblade Star Pirates' headquarters was there.

Song Chao and his group reached the Song family's hidden base in Star Sector 0155, where they learned more about the Bloodblade Star Pirates and saw an orange component monitoring the pirates' headquarters from afar. Song You asked what the family had been planning for decades, leaving the purpose of their operation unexplained.

• Song Lin explained that the Morning Star Duchy's first grand expedition had conquered Gold Shark and nearby star domains by destroying the Moro Race with spatial collapse bombs.
• Song Chao activated the Azure Sky's Void Membrane, and the warship hid among asteroids during its cooldown before reaching a concealed base inside a small debris field.
• Song Hai and the others greeted Song Chao's group, and Song Qi praised Song You for advancing his flagship on his fifth exploration.
• Song Hai reported that Blood Wolf had left the pirates' nest, and Song Chao and Song Hai agreed to investigate his whereabouts and inform the Old Master.
• Song Chao revealed that an orange component generated the live projection of the Bloodblade Star Pirates' headquarters, which lay 1.5 light-years away.
• Song You asked Song Hai and Song Chao what the family had been planning for decades.