Chapter Summaries

Song Chi settled into Azure Moon Manor, then returned to the Bulo Civilization Ruins to explore beyond the first two layers. After weakening the barrier to the Third Rank space and sending in a drone, he saw something that left him stunned.

• Bai Xiuqin explained the Immortal Puppet Tower's one-time challenge and the Merit Tower's Golden Merit Point system, while Song Chi decided to challenge the tower as soon as its time acceleration ended.
• Song Mingsong established the branch's base on Azure Moon Island, where the Mountain-Shifting Terracotta Soldiers built Azure Moon Manor.
• Once the branch had settled in, Song Chi piloted the Cangqiong back to the Bulo Civilization Ruins and found four Second Rank Ironclad Bugs in the first layer.
• Song Chi killed the four Ironclad Bugs and used the Cangqiong's weapons to weaken the spatial barrier above the second layer without alerting anything beyond it.
• Song Chi sent a Bumblebee Drone through the barrier into the Third Rank space and reacted with disbelief at what it revealed.

Song Chi attacked a third-rank amethyst Bug Mother in the ruins’ third level, but it spawned and rapidly evolved a vast swarm that threatened the Cangqiong. As the insectoids charged, Song Chi kept firing at the Bug Mother, whose survival remained uncertain.

• Song Chi identified the huge creature guarding the Crystal Box as a third-rank Bug Mother and decided to strike first with the Cangqiong’s Hollow Extreme Yang Sword-Intent Divine Light.
• Song Chi damaged the Bug Mother’s head and continued firing the Pure Yang Sword-Light Cannon into the wound while the Electromagnetic Thunderbolt Cannon proved ineffective against its amethyst hide.
• The Bug Mother laid eggs, and Song Chi used the Electromagnetic Thunderbolt Cannon to destroy many before the hatchlings began devouring eggshells and surviving eggs to grow.
• The Bug Mother spent its stored energy to evolve the swarm into tens of thousands of first-rank and second-rank insectoids, including Spitter Bugs and Twin-Wing Tiger-Head Bugs suited to attacking the Cangqiong.
• The insectoids charged the Cangqiong as Song Chi fired on the swarm and kept targeting the Bug Mother, which showed no sign of weakening.

Song Chi killed the Broodmother and cleared the ruins of its insect swarm, then broke open the Crystal Box and discovered a dazzling red light that indicated an epic-grade Star Sea Marvel. The chapter left him staring at the newly revealed marvel, eager to learn what it was.

• Song Chi lured more than twenty thousand Twin-Wing Tiger-Head Bugs into a sand-sea storm and returned to the ruins to attack the Broodmother.
• The Broodmother released a purple ray that nearly overwhelmed the Cangqiong's shield, then bred more insects and ordered its swarm to defend the third level.
• Song Chi used the recharged Hollow Extreme Yang Sword-Intent Divine Light to strike the Broodmother's head wound, killing it despite severe damage to the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi lured the leaderless Twin-Wing Tiger-Head Bugs into another sand-sea storm, then cleared the remaining insects from the ruins.
• Song Chi had ten Fire Sunflower Soldiers strip the Broodmother's purple crystal hide and collect its flesh, then used the Pure Yang Sword-Light Cannon to break the Crystal Box.
• Song Chi saw dazzling red light emerge from the broken Crystal Box and realized it contained an epic-grade Star Sea Marvel.

Song Chi recovered a red-quality Enslavement Medal and a purple main cannon from the Bulo Civilization Ruins, then harvested insect corpses before returning to Azure Moon Manor. He processed the remaining corpses in the Myriad Heavens Market and ended with large stores of refined meat and resources for the Cangqiong’s future advancement.

• Song Chi identified the purple Bulo Superbase Main Cannon and red Enslavement Medal, learning that the medal could enslave two Zero Rank lifeforms and grant them powerful traits.
• Song Chi considered that the Bulo Civilization had likely enslaved the Broodmother to guard the medal, and regretted that he had not kept the creature alive.
• Song Chi and ten Fire Sunflower Soldiers harvested insect corpses in the ruins, and Song Chi found a low-grade energy crystal inside a Second Rank Ironclad Bug.
• Song Chi returned to the Dragonspine Continent aboard the Cangqiong with refined meat, the energy crystal, and other spoils from the ruins.
• Song Chi entered the Myriad Heavens Market and used law blades to process the remaining First Rank insect corpses into more than forty thousand jin of refined meat.

Song Chi upgraded the Enslavement Medal, tested its expanded abilities, and exchanged Insectoid Race meat for family Merit Points. At the Merit Tower, he bought Advanced Body-Tempering Potions and continued exploring the clan’s resources.

• Song Chi upgraded the Enslavement Medal to Second Rank, gaining four Enslavement Marks and a longer Berserk duration.
• Song Chi enslaved a forest wolf and confirmed he could communicate with it across great distances, including from the Myriad Heavens Market and Dragonspine Continent.
• Song Chi distributed First-Rank Insectoid Race meat to his relatives and asked Song Mingsong about powerful creatures suitable for enslavement.
• Song Chi gave Song Mingsong Pseudo-Fourth-Rank Broodmother Amethyst Hide to arrange the production of Bionic Skin Battle Armor for the family.
• Song Chi exchanged 37,200 catties of First-Rank Insectoid Race meat for 44,640 Merit Points and visited the Merit Tower.
• Song Chi bought twenty Advanced Body-Tempering Potions on the tower’s tenth floor.

Song Chi explored the Merit Tower, exchanged for a Spatial Beacon Launcher and a Second-Rank Komoyin Giant Serpent Domination Certificate, and discovered that Thorn Wyverns were far beyond his current budget. On the thirtieth floor, he found a Titanium Crystal exchange counter and considered spending his five Golden Merit on its full quota.

• Song Chi exchanged Floating Continent Essence for one thousand strands of First-Rank essence and two hundred strands of Second-Rank essence.
• Song Chi inspected the clan’s creature domination options, rejected several third-tier species, and considered the costly Thorn Wyvern with a genetic bloodline rating of 80.
• Song Chi spent forty thousand Merit Points on a Spatial Beacon Launcher and ten thousand on a Second-Rank Komoyin Giant Serpent Domination Certificate.
• Song Chi entered the thirtieth floor and found that five Golden Merit could buy him the full three-year quota of five hundred Titanium Crystals.

Song Chi browsed the Merit Tower and found the purple Obsidian Hull Armor he wanted, but lacked enough Golden Merit Points to buy it. He then traveled to the Hidden Valley Rift and successfully dominated a Tier 2 Komoyin Giant Serpent with Song Xiao’s help.

• Song Chi decided not to spend Golden Merit Points on Titanium Crystal and surveyed the Merit Tower’s wares and prices.
• Song Chi found the Obsidian Hull Armor but could not afford its 10 Golden Merit Point price, and his four-point offer for the Bulo Superbase Main Cannon was insufficient.
• Song Chi was barred from the fiftieth floor for having fewer than 20 Golden Merit Points, then left the tower with his domination certificate, Spatial Beacon Launch Device, and body-tempering medicine.
• Song Chi arrived at the Hidden Valley Rift and saw Song Tianyu’s frigate flee a wounded peak Tier 3 Komoyin Giant Serpent, prompting him to worry about the Cangqiong’s weak hull armor.
• Song Xiao helped Song Chi dominate a Tier 2 Komoyin Giant Serpent, and the Cangqiong departed the rift.

Song Chi installed and enhanced the Spatial Beacon Launcher, opened a Floating Continent Essence exchange shop, and hosted a Market Ruins trade with unusually few visitors. The East Azure Tribe's centaur delivered the orange-quality Red Plains Heavenly Flame, which Song Chi displayed for exchange, and he ended the chapter by publicly announcing the Market Guest Token to the gathered aliens.

• Song Chi shrank the Komoyin Giant Serpent, returned to Azure Moon Manor, and enhanced the Cangqiong's Spatial Beacon Launcher and Kindling hull.
• Song Chi opened a shop exchanging lower-rank Floating Continent Essence for higher-rank essence, then activated the Market Ruins trade.
• Zhou Ping arrived with Titanium Crystals and body-tempering supplies, while the new exchange shop drew strong demand despite low visitor numbers.
• The East Azure Tribe's centaur delivered the Red Plains Heavenly Flame, and Song Chi confirmed it was an orange-quality Kindling marvel that could not become a Kindling Seed Ascension Flame Source.
• Song Chi honored his promise by restoring ten Market Guest Token uses for the centaur and displayed the Red Plains Heavenly Flame for exchange with an equal-quality Kindling marvel.
• Song Chi used the Market Ruins' law power to announce the Market Guest Token to the gathered alien creatures, whose eyes filled with desire.

Song Chi secured valuable resources and distributed four Market Guest Tokens, then prepared to trade for stronger hull armor and advance the Cangqiong. He left Azure Moon Manor for Dragonspine Divine Mountain with several advancement materials and identified the remaining resources he needed.

• Song Chi announced auction and exchange methods for obtaining Market Guest Tokens, then selected five high-value offerings and accepted all of them, granting four alien creatures tokens with limited uses.
• Song Chi offered Zhou Ping and the centaur shop rentals for fifty strands of second-rank Floating Continent Essence per month, and both said they would consult their elders before deciding.
• After the Market transaction, Song Chi tallied his gains and left to exchange an ordinary purple-quality Ascension Flame Source and the Bulo Superbase Main Cannon for Obsidian Hull Armor.
• Song Chi gave Bai Xiuqin the Ascension Flame Source and Ten-Thousand-Year Volcanic Lava Iron Mother, and she transferred six Gold Merit Points and gave him Ten-Thousand-Year Volcanic Lava Iron Essence from his grandfather.
• Song Chi flew the Cangqiong to Dragonspine Divine Mountain with a Primary Energy Crystal, Moonrubbing Tree Sap, Ten-Thousand-Year Volcanic Lava Iron Essence, and zircon stones, and planned to find Sea Spirit Crystal and Moonrock before beginning its advancement mission.

Song Chi spent Golden Merit Points on an Obsidian Hull Armor and advancement resources, enhanced the Cangqiong, and raised his Guidance Technique to lv11. After receiving a Bionic Skin Battle Armor, he went to Dragonspine Divine Mountain as the Immortal Puppet Secret Realm’s acceleration ended and clan members prepared to enter.

• Song Chi exchanged Golden Merit Points for Obsidian Hull Armor, Sea Spirit Crystals, Moonrock, and second-rank Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi enhanced the Obsidian Hull Armor to lv30, fused Spatial Anchoring Stone into it, and raised the Phantom Thruster to lv23.
• Song Chi cultivated in the All-Attribute Cultivation Room for seven days and advanced his Guidance Technique from lv10 to lv11.
• Chen Lixia gave Song Chi an Amethyst Bionic Skin Battle Armor, which he tried on before heading toward Dragonspine Divine Mountain.
• Song Chi arrived at the Secret Realm Platform, where hundreds of clan warships waited for the Immortal Puppet Secret Realm to reopen.
• A voice from the mountain announced that the acceleration had ended and instructed clan members to recall their warships and enter in order.

Song Chi fought his way through the Supreme Immortal Puppet Tower to the thirtieth floor, where he defeated three third-rank puppet soldiers with the help of the Komoin Colossal Snake. The tower offered him a choice of three orange-quality soldier-puppet tree rewards, leaving his selection undecided.

• Song Chi entered the Immortal Puppet Tower and advanced through the early floors, defeating growing groups of first-rank and then second-rank puppets with the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi survived the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth floors by defeating a third-rank puppet on each, while the Cangqiong sustained heavy damage and relied on its Obsidian Guardian trait.
• Song Chi reached the thirtieth floor and used the Obsidian Guardian trait to withstand attacks from three third-rank puppets as the Cangqiong struggled to evade them.
• Song Chi activated the Enslavement Medal’s Berserk trait on the Komoin Colossal Snake, which fought the puppets and gave the Cangqiong time to destroy them.
• Song Chi ended the challenge when four more puppets appeared, and the tower offered him a choice between three orange-quality soldier-puppet trees.

Song Chi chose the Void Shadow-Assassin Clan Soldier-Puppet Tree, then recovered from the Immortal Puppet Tower trial and tested the puppets’ abilities in the Myriad Heavens Market. After two months of cultivation and eating Broodmother meat, he raised his Guidance Art to lv15, while his mother, Chen Lixia, advanced to Second Rank.

• Song Chi chose the Void Shadow-Assassin Clan Soldier-Puppet Tree for its stealth, spatial abilities, and usefulness against Void Demons, then watched the Komoyin Giant Serpent die from the life-draining Berserk trait.
• Song Chi was expelled from the Immortal Puppet Secret Realm with three others, left before the Song Clan members identified the second person to clear the thirtieth floor, and returned to Azure Moon Manor to sleep.
• After waking, Song Chi loaded the puppet tree, summoned fifteen Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets, and enhanced the component to lv20, allowing him to summon twenty Second Rank puppets.
• Song Chi tested the puppets against the Market Ruins’ spatial laws, confirmed that the secret realm could suppress even their spatial abilities, and decided to focus on cultivation instead of hunting Void Demons.
• Over two months, Song Chi consumed Insectoid meat and Advanced Body-Tempering Potions and ate Broodmother meat, raising his Guidance Art to lv15; Chen Lixia also used Broodmother meat to reach lv20 and advance to Second Rank.

Song Chi considered joining the dangerous Soul Spirit Floating Continent expedition but decided to wait until the Cangqiong advanced to second rank. He activated the battleship’s promotion mission, and Song Shan’s family gathering ended with Song You asking about mental power cultivation.

• Song Chi reviewed the Song Clan’s expedition mission and its 30% fatality rate, then decided to postpone joining until the Cangqiong advanced to second rank.
• Song Chi raised the Cangqiong’s Kindling hull to lv19, activated its promotion mission, and used four special resources to increase its promotion success rate to 22%.
• Song Shan told the Tenth Direct Line that they would discuss the expedition after Song Mingsong returned and ordered everyone not to sign up independently.
• Song You asked Song Shan what it meant for a Kindling Captain’s mental power to be stuck at the second stage of the Mortal Thought State.

Song Chi learned how higher mental power benefited Kindling captains and resolved to collect soul-type resources on the Soul Spirit Floating Continent. He hunted sandworms on the Yellow Sand Floating Continent to raise the Cangqiong’s promotion success rate, ending after killing a peak third-tier sandworm and preparing to harvest it.

• Song Shan explained the mental power stages associated with each life evolution, and Zhao Hongxue urged the family to seek soul-type resources that could strengthen their mental power.
• Song Chi realized his uncle and aunt were encouraging him to use his abilities openly, and he resolved to pursue soul-type resources and raise his mental power before his next life evolution.
• After another half month, Song Chi used enhanced biological pheromone to lure sandworms and killed hundreds of second-tier ones, raising the Cangqiong’s promotion success rate to 43.2%.
• Song Chi followed the Bloodsoul mark to the peak third-tier sandworm and struck it with the Hollow Extreme Yang Sword-Intent Divine Light.
• After a prolonged pursuit, Song Chi killed the sandworm, raising the Cangqiong’s promotion success rate to 51.2%, then sent soldier puppets to harvest its remains.

Song Chi returned from the Yellow Sand Floating Continent without finding more nearby resources, then searched for ways to raise the Cangqiong’s advancement success rate and found them too costly. At the Myriad Heavens Market’s latest trade, he enslaved Zhao Lei to manage a storage bag, and a goblin appeared as the session was ending.

• Song Chi killed a peak third-rank sandworm for an 8% advancement success rate, then found no other valuable sites in the surrounding starfield.
• Song Chi searched the Song Clan’s internal channels for advancement resources but rejected the options because they required Gold Merit Points.
• Song Chi reviewed the Myriad Heavens Market’s lv19 upgrade requirements and activated its space-gate platform for another trading session.
• Zhou Ping brought an unconscious cultivator and a Foundation Establishment Pill; Song Chi enslaved the cultivator, Zhao Lei, and gave him a high-grade storage bag.
• More than fifteen hundred foreign races entered the Market, but no promising guest appeared until a green-skinned goblin arrived at the entrance.

Song Chi inspected a goblin merchant’s wares at the Myriad Heavens Market and discovered an orange-quality radar that could greatly improve the Cangqiong. After the goblin demanded an absurd price, Song Chi decided to avoid enslaving it for now and looked over the rest of its goods.

• A goblin entered the market, objected to being called an ordinary goblin, and unpacked more than a hundred goods from a small briefcase.
• Song Chi inspected the orange Goblin Magitech Detector and learned it could convert into a Silver III-Generation Superwave Magitech Detection Radar with powerful detection and star-charting traits.
• The goblin demanded five hundred wisps of Tier 4 Floating Continent Essence for the radar, so Song Chi rejected the price and considered using the Market Guest Token auction to interest it instead of risking the Myriad Heavens Market’s reputation by enslaving it.
• Song Chi examined the goblin’s weapons and machines, including a missile launcher, bomber drone, and mecha blueprint, then asked about a small black stone he suspected was a Terra Stone.
• The goblin called the stone magical and asked Song Chi whether he had any.

Song Chi traded a Terra Origin Stone to the goblin Luke Thor for an orange-quality radar and then bought goblin weapons and drones. With the market session nearing its end, he auctioned a Market Guest Token, and Luke Thor appeared poised to win it.

• Song Chi learned that Terra Stones were called magic stones in the Silver Goblin Empire and told Luke Thor he knew where to find an orange-quality one in exchange for information about their value and uses.
• At the Marvel Exchange Shop, Song Chi traded the Terra Origin Stone for a Goblin Magitech Detector and 500 strands of second-rank Floating Continent Essence, receiving the orange-quality Silver III-Generation Superwave Magitech Detection Radar.
• Luke Thor explained that his Romash Space Box used spatial folding technology but refused to sell it.
• Song Chi bought twenty magitech missile launchers and five Deep-Space Magitech Bomber Drones, while passing on goblin grenades and armor.
• Song Chi auctioned one Market Guest Token, and Luke Thor eagerly prepared to bid for it.

Song Chi manipulated the Market Guest Token auction to make Goblin Luke offer a fortune in Floating Continent Essence, then discovered that a visitor had left a dangerous tracking mark. He destroyed the marked void gate, survived a fourth-rank Black Moon Clan elder’s retaliation, and ended the chapter tallying an exceptional haul for the Cangqiong.

• Song Chi disguised himself as a Gnoll and revealed an orange-quality Star Sea Marvel to pressure Goblin Luke into raising its bid for the Market Guest Token.
• Goblin Luke won the token with 700 strands of second-rank, 100 strands of third-rank, and 40 strands of fourth-rank Floating Continent Essence, receiving ten uses.
• After the market closed, Song Chi detected and erased a hidden mark, then used the market’s law power to destroy the marked void gate.
• Black Moon Tu, a fourth-rank Black Moon Clan elder, tried to stabilize the gate, but the first-rank clansman inside died in the spatial turbulence; a surge of energy then struck the market and forced Song Chi to shelter in the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi survived the backlash and counted his gains, including an orange Silver III-Generation Superwave Magitech Detection Radar, Floating Continent Essence, Titanium Crystals, and other goods.

Song Chi reinforced the Cangqiong’s purification, puppet-summoning, and detection components, then cultivated to improve his strength after realizing the Myriad Heavens Market could be threatened by higher-ranked beings. He began a new exploration and arrived at a vast asteroid belt, where he prepared to search for resources using the upgraded radar.

• Song Chi upgraded the Abnormal Status Purifier to lv39 and raised the Void Shadow-Assassin Clan Soldier-Puppet Tree to the third rank.
• Song Chi gave Song Shan Amethyst Hide to trade with branch clansmen, arranged for his family to acquire Terra Stone, and listed the resources he needed.
• Song Chi spent Golden Merit and ordinary merit points on Titanium Crystals, Floating Continent Essence, and Advanced Body-Tempering Potions, then upgraded the Silver III-Generation Superwave Magitech Detection Radar to lv27.
• Song Chi trained in the All-Attribute Cultivation Room for more than twenty days, raised his Guidance Art to lv16, and launched another round of Alien Starfield Exploration.
• Song Chi used the radar’s star chart to jump to a huge asteroid belt and prepared to use its Magitech Detection trait to search for resources.

Song Chi used Cangqiong’s advanced radar and shipboard intelligence to locate alien creatures and valuable resources in an asteroid belt, then sent Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets to hunt the creatures remotely. After raising Cangqiong’s advancement success rate to 73.2%, he pursued the remaining Tier 3 targets, with the latest one proving to be a peak Tier 3 enemy.

• Song Chi used the Silver III-Generation Superwave Magitech Detection Radar to find and mine fifty-two tons of Iron Mother, then gathered more resources while Cangqiong continued through the asteroid belt.
• Song Chi had Cangqiong’s semi-automated intelligence mark more than a hundred Tier 2-or-higher biological energy fields, including nearly ten Tier 3 fields.
• Song Chi strengthened the Neural Wave Remote Control System component and sent four Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets 1.9 light-years away to hunt the marked creatures.
• The puppets killed four Tier 3 alien creatures and more than forty Tier 2 creatures, raising Cangqiong’s advancement success rate to 73.2%.
• Song Chi sent the puppets toward another marked Tier 3 creature, but they discovered it was a peak Tier 3 enemy.