Chapter Summaries

Song Chi and the Cangqiong fought a peak third-rank humanoid alien and its companion, raising the ship’s ascension success rate to 90.1%. After retrieving the alien’s spear, Song Chi decided to begin the Cangqiong’s ascension as soon as he returned.

• The peak third-rank humanoid alien transformed into its full thousand-meter form and severed the four Void Shadow-Assassin Clan Soldier-Puppets, but the Cangqiong’s sword-intent attack wounded it.
• Song Chi kept the Cangqiong at range and harassed the wounded alien until it threw its spear, which struck the ship’s Obsidian Guardian armor.
• Song Chi pursued the alien for hours until it collapsed from blood loss and the sword intent in its wound, then helped the Cangqiong and twenty-six soldier-puppets kill its third-rank companion.
• Song Chi and the soldier-puppets wiped out the remaining nearby humanoid aliens, raising the Cangqiong’s ascension success rate to 90.1%.
• Song Chi recovered the alien’s purple-quality spear, identified it as the Azure Nether Stone, and prepared to ascend the Cangqiong after returning.

Song Chi found that the Azure Nether Stone had become a powerful personal spear, then returned from the asteroid belt and began the Cangqiong’s formal promotion. The promotion succeeded, transforming the Cangqiong into a frigate-class Void Energy Warship and making Song Chi a second-rank Kindling Warship Captain.

• Song Chi claimed the Azure Nether Rift-Sky Spear, tested its size and handling, and stored it when he found no suitable user among his forces.
• Song Chi mined more resources in the asteroid belt, noticed groups of humanoid aliens, and suspected a nearby life-bearing Star Sea Floating Continent.
• Song Chi set a new Spatial Anchor in the asteroid belt and returned to Azure Moon Island when his exploration time ended.
• Song Chi began the Cangqiong’s promotion with a 90.1% success rate, then cultivated while the transformation continued.
• Song Chi returned to the Myriad Heavens Market and watched the Cangqiong’s promotion succeed, expanding it to 120 meters and adding three secondary cannon slots.

After Cangqiong advanced to a guard-class airship, Song Chi examined its improved attributes and planned its new secondary cannons. He sold Terra Stone to Luke at a steep markup, and Luke agreed to buy one million pieces.

• Song Chi reinstalled five components and inspected Cangqiong’s guard-class status, finding that its basic components had gained a 50% attribute bonus and three secondary cannon slots.
• Song Chi considered armor-breaking, shield-breaking, control, and soul-targeting secondary cannons for Cangqiong.
• Song Chi collected four million pieces of Terra Stone from his Second Uncle, Song Hai, with Zhao Lei storing the shipment.
• Song Chi met Luke in the Myriad Heavens Market and negotiated a price of two pieces of Terra Stone per strand of zero-tier Floating Continent Essence.
• Luke first asked about 500,000 pieces, then agreed to buy one million pieces of Terra Stone.

Song Chi completed the Myriad Heavens Market’s advancement to the second rank while securing resources for his family and preparing the Cangqiong for a dangerous mission to the Soul Spirit Floating Continent. After the market expanded, he discovered that its new third-floor inn room contained a silver token unlike the bronze Market Guest Tokens.

• Goblin Luke sold Song Chi 500,000 strands of zero-rank Floating Continent Essence and rented an exclusive shop in the market.
• Song Chi upgraded the Light-Hiding Platform, then began the Myriad Heavens Market’s second-rank advancement and handed 400,000 strands of essence to Song Shan for the family.
• Song Shan gave Song Chi resources and four points of Golden Merit for the broodmother’s skin, and reminded him to prepare for the upcoming Soul Spirit Floating Continent mission.
• Song Chi exchanged the Golden Merit for the Frostlight Heavenfrost Cannon, enhanced it to lv30, and saved his remaining resources for upgrades after assessing the mission’s conditions.
• After two days, the market’s area expanded to 5,000 by 5,000 meters, and Song Chi found a silver token in the newly opened room on the inn’s third floor.

Song Chi discovered the Market Walker Token and the Spirit-Mechanism Synthesis Platform, upgraded the market and the Cangqiong, and confirmed the token could enhance his warship. After reaching the peak of the first stage of the Mortal Mind State, he resolved to seek soul resources on the Soul Spirit Floating Continent, just as his grandfather summoned the family to discuss their expedition.

• Song Chi examined the Market Walker Token, which allowed its holder to enter a private Walker Room and gain combat power one major rank higher for an hour.
• Song Chi found the Spirit-Mechanism Synthesis Platform, upgraded it to Rank Two, and synthesized 1,000 strands of Rank Two Floating Continent Essence.
• Song Chi used the new essence to upgrade the Cangqiong’s Purple River Jump Device and Fixed-Point Deployment Platform, then raised three market facilities to lv20.
• Song Chi activated the Market Walker Token and confirmed that its law enhancement also strengthened the Cangqiong, which he tested against powerful opponents.
• Song Chi realized his mental power had reached the peak of the first stage of the Mortal Mind State and decided to pursue soul resources to break through early.
• Song Chi’s mother called him to join the family meeting after his grandfather returned to discuss the Soul Spirit Floating Continent Expedition.

Song Mingsong finalized the group traveling to the Soul Spirit Floating Continent, and Song Chi exchanged Floating Continent Essence with his grandfather before joining the expedition. The group boarded a transport warship and began its deployment to the distant starfield.

• Song Mingsong decided that he, Bai Xiuqin, Song Hai, Song Chi, and Song You would leave for the Soul Spirit Floating Continent in five days.
• Song Chi gave Song Mingsong 100 strands of third-rank Floating Continent Essence in exchange for 1,600 strands of second-rank essence, then synthesized another 100 strands in the Market Ruins.
• Song Chi and Song You departed Azure Moon Island with the other Kindling warships, and Song You learned that the Cangqiong had recently advanced to the second rank.
• Song Chi loaded supplies at the family assembly plaza and met Song Yuan, deputy branch master of the Seventh Direct Line, before boarding a transport warship with the group.
• The transport warship used the Kindling Warship Passenger Permit to carry the clan members and activated Alien Starfield Deployment toward the Soul Spirit Floating Continent starfield.

Song Chi joined the Dinghai Song Clan expedition against the Soul Spirit Floating Continent and witnessed a fourth-rank ancestor break open its shield. He learned that the continent’s near-fourth-rank rules strengthened its native creatures and suppressed fourth-rank outsiders, leaving the Song Clan’s lower-rank members to weaken it before the ancestors could enter.

• Song Chi arrived at the space combat platform with Song Mingsong and learned that most of the clan’s expedition members had already entered the Soul Spirit Floating Continent.
• Song Xuanfeng transformed the Taixuan Spirit Suppressor into a mythical mech and used the Taixuan Sword to breach the floating-continent shield while another Supremacy Chaser protected the incoming warships.
• Song Chi and the other Kindling captains flew toward the breach as native third-rank monsters attacked them, but a Supremacy Chaser’s cannons drove the monsters back.
• Song Mingsong explained that the Soul Spirit Floating Continent had reached the threshold of Grade 4, giving its natives unusually powerful rule enhancement and suppressing fourth-rank outsiders.
• Song Chi realized that the clan meant to kill the continent’s native lifeforms to weaken its origin rules and allow the fourth-rank ancestors to enter.

Song Chi and Song Hai patrolled the southern region, where they were ambushed by Soul Spirit Clan members and four Chimeras. Song Chi’s group killed one Chimera and wounded the others, but Soul-Spirit Spikes paralyzed Song Hai and forced Song Chi to evade the attack before launching a powerful counterstrike.

• Song Mingsong assigned Song Chi, Song Hai, and the others to patrol the front south of the Soul-Fusing Mountains.
• After several uneventful days, Song Chi’s radar detected hidden Soul Spirit Clan members near a valley, and he warned Song Hai to retreat.
• Four peak second-rank Chimeras emerged from the mountains and pursued the Cangqiong and Black Sea, but Song Chi and Song Hai turned their warships around to attack.
• Song Chi and Song Hai killed one Chimera and slowed the remaining three with their cannons, but the Chimeras charged again and launched Soul-Spirit Spikes.
• Song Chi cut communications and escaped to the Market Ruins before the Soul-Spirit Spikes struck, while Song Hai was paralyzed aboard the Black Sea.
• Song Chi returned to the Cangqiong and fired the Pure Yang Sword-Light Cannon using its Hollow Extreme Yang Sword-Intent Divine Light trait.

Song Chi used Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets to hunt Soul Spirit Clan members and gather soul cores and soulstones, earning more than 60,000 merit points over half a month. After discovering a hidden spatial barrier where two third-rank Soul Spirit Clan members disappeared, he sent the puppets to investigate it, leaving the nature and value of what lay beyond unknown.

• Song Chi ambushed and killed three second-rank chimeras with the Sword-Intent Divine Light, then had his Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppets kill the two second-rank Soul Spirit Clan members controlling them.
• Song Chi identified the recovered soul cores and soulstones and sent four puppets into Soul Spirit Clan territory to scout and collect more resources.
• Over half a month, Song Chi remotely directed the puppets to hunt, gathering more than ten thousand soulstones, over a hundred first- and second-rank soul cores, and two third-rank soul cores.
• Song Chi kept the puppets watching a hill where two third-rank Soul Spirit Clan members had vanished, then saw them reappear beside a barrier resembling a spatial curtain.
• After the two Soul Spirit Clan members left, Song Chi ordered the puppets to approach and investigate the hidden spatial entrance while staying concealed.

Song Chi discovered a Spirit-Tempering Fruit Tree guarded by Soul Spirit Clan forces and held the cavern entrance while Song Mingsong hurried to help. Song Mingsong arrived and began attacking the defenders, leaving Song Chi to guard the tree and its eight immature fruits.

• Song Chi sent a Void Shadow-Killer Clan Soldier Puppet through a spatial isolation curtain and discovered the Spirit-Tempering Fruit Tree in a cavern guarded by Soul Spirit Clan members.
• Song Chi told Song Mingsong about the tree and the danger, and Song Mingsong flew toward the cavern aboard the Lion's Pride.
• Song Chi's Soldier Puppets blocked two Blackwater Mystic Serpents, and one puppet hurled a Deep-Space Magitech Bomber Drone that badly wounded them.
• The Blackwater Mystic Serpents attacked with soul spikes, overwhelming Song Chi through the Brainwave Beacon and leaving him unable to stop their charge.
• Song Mingsong arrived on a Thorn Wyvern, whose bloodline suppression stopped the serpents, then summoned Blazing Flame Soldier Figurines and ordered Song Chi to guard the Spirit-Tempering Fruit Tree.

Song Chi and Song Mingsong defeated the Soul Spirit Clan and enslaved its two third-rank members before deciding to transplant the Spirit-Tempering Fruit Tree into the Dragonblood Secret Realm. As they searched for a suitable planting site, Song Chi asked how Song Mingsong had obtained the Immortal Domain Spirit Soil and whether it was connected to the Immortal Puppet Tower.

• Song Mingsong subdued the Blackwater Mystic Serpents, and Song Chi enslaved one of them with the Enslavement Medal.
• Song Chi weakened the two third-rank Soul Spirit Clan members, then successfully enslaved both of them.
• Song Mingsong proposed transplanting the Spirit-Tempering Fruit Tree into the Dragonblood Secret Realm and used mid-grade Immortal Domain Spirit Soil to improve its chances of survival.
• Song Chi and Song Mingsong excavated the tree with its spirit soil, opened a passage into the Dragonblood Secret Realm, and carried the tree through with their warships.
• Song Chi asked Song Mingsong where he had obtained the spirit soil and whether it was connected to the Immortal Puppet Tower.

Song Chi learned that the Supreme Immortal Puppet Tower and spirit soil came from a Grade 7 floating continent fragment, then successfully transplanted the Spirit-Tempering Fruit Tree beside the Dragonblood Trees. Back at the outpost, he began preparing for his next plans and discovered an undisclosed mid-grade soulstone vein through a captured Soul Spirit Clan member.

• Song Mingsong explained that the family’s immortal treasures came from a fragment of an Ancient Immortal Domain continent, and that the fragment periodically opened for exploration; he revealed that silver was the quality above red epic.
• Song Chi showed Song Mingsong spirit stones, which could replenish the spirit field, and they decided to plant the Spirit-Tempering Fruit Tree among the ten Dragonblood Trees.
• Song Chi and Song Mingsong successfully transplanted the tree, confirmed it had taken root, and returned safely to the family outpost aboard the Lion's Pride.
• Song Mingsong promised Song Chi a share of the Spirit-Tempering Fruits and warned him that the Soul Spirit Clan might attack if it discovered the underground cavern.
• Song Chi questioned two enslaved Rank 3 Soul Spirit Clan members and learned that one had found an undiscovered mid-grade soulstone vein west of the Soul-Fusing Mountains.
• Song Chi searched the local network for concealment and sound-shielding components, then opened the family marketplace to prepare to secure the vein.

Song Chi acquired stealth components and used them to secretly locate a medium-grade soul stone vein in the Soul-Fusing Mountains, where mining revealed more than 120,000 stones. After discovering that his radar had missed the deep vein, he strengthened it and began investigating its detection limits.

• Song Chi exchanged merit for a Sonic Silence Field and a Void Membrane, and Song Ze personally delivered both components to him.
• Song Chi strengthened the components to level 30, told Song Mingsong he would be away for about half a month, and left to search for the vein.
• Song Chi used the Cangqiong’s stealth and silence systems to reach the site and sent three Fierce Tiger Mining Vehicles underground.
• The mining vehicles found a medium-sized vein about 400 meters below the surface, with an estimated yield of more than 120,000 medium-grade soul stones.
• Song Chi concluded that the Silver III-Generation Superwave Magitech Detection Radar had failed to detect the deep vein, then strengthened it to level 30 to investigate further.

Song Chi upgraded the Cangqiong’s radar, mined a large mid-grade soulstone vein, and began searching the Western Region for more resources. He brought Song You along to guard a second vein while he headed to scan the resource-rich Southern Region.

• Song Chi used the upgraded radar to locate a medium mid-grade soulstone vein and mined 124,700 mid-grade soulstones with five Fierce Tiger Mining Vehicles.
• After returning to the family base, Song Chi told Song Mingsong and Bai Xiuqin he was heading to the Western Region, then began scanning it with the Cangqiong.
• Song Chi contacted Song You and brought him to the Western Region, supplying him with Void Membrane and soundproof barrier components for the operation.
• Song Chi left Song You to guard a small mid-grade soulstone vein estimated to yield at least 30,000 soulstones, promising him 3,000 after it was mined.
• Song Chi piloted the Cangqiong toward the Southern Region to search for more mineral veins.

Song Chi wiped out the Blueblood tribes on the Blueblood Floating Continent and enslaved Tuo Guhong, a prodigy with three innate abilities. Tuo Guhong led him to the Togu Tribe’s hidden treasury, where Song Chi found more third-rank Floating Continent Essence and spotted another valuable resource.

• Song Chi attacked the Shenlong Tribe and then swept across the Blueblood Floating Continent, destroying its tribes for Floating Continent Essence.
• At the largest tribe, Song Chi noticed its chieftain had reached the threshold of the third rank, deliberately spared him, and enslaved him after the battle.
• Song Chi learned that the chieftain was Tuo Guhong, whose three innate abilities made him an exceptionally gifted Blueblood Clan prodigy.
• Song Chi gathered more than a hundred Blueblood Clan members to study whether Tuo Guhong’s bloodline could be cultivated, and Tuo Guhong revealed that the tribe possessed third-rank Floating Continent Essence.
• Tuo Guhong guided Song Chi into the Togu Tribe’s Forbidden-Magic Stone treasury, where Song Chi collected another fifty strands of third-rank Floating Continent Essence and noticed a resource that excited him.

Song Chi found more than five hundred Titanium Crystals in the Togu Tribe’s secret vault, surveyed the Blueblood Floating Continent, and upgraded the Cangqiong’s Pure Yang Sword-Light Cannon to lv37. He then mapped a twenty-one-light-year asteroid belt and left a Soul Spirit Clan member in a safer region to oversee mining as he prepared to return.

• Song Chi identified 520 Titanium Crystals in the Togu Tribe’s secret vault and learned they came from a depleted vein discovered by the tribe’s ancestors.
• Song Chi collected the vault’s resources, surveyed the Blueblood Floating Continent, mined valuable veins, and placed a beacon for the Song Family’s future development.
• Song Chi spent 287 wisps of third-tier Floating Continent Essence and 266 Titanium Crystals upgrading the Pure Yang Sword-Light Cannon from lv30 to lv37.
• Song Chi left the Blueblood Floating Continent and used the Silver III-Generation Superwave Magitech Detection Radar to map an asteroid belt spanning twenty-one light-years.
• Song Chi identified humanoid aliens’ activity zones, jumped the Cangqiong five light-years away, and deployed a third-tier Soul Spirit Clan member with mining vehicles and ships to extract resources.

Song Chi established mining operations across the Soul Spirit Floating Continent, used Zhao Lei and the Market Walker Token to bring minerals to the Myriad Heavens Market, and opened its first trade session after its advancement to the second tier. As the market filled with alien buyers, a fleeing scavenger named Ailong approached one of its spatial gates while carrying a red-quality Oddity and being pursued by star pirates.

• Song Chi left Zhao Lei in charge of transporting mined resources and returned to the Soul Spirit Floating Continent to find additional Soul Stone veins.
• Song Chi assigned Song You to mine a medium-sized vein and deployed the remaining Fierce Tiger Mining Vehicles at a smaller vein.
• Song Chi contacted the Soul Spirit Clan member in the asteroid belt, then brought Zhao Lei and several thousand tons of minerals into the Myriad Heavens Market.
• Song Chi opened the market’s first trade session after its advancement, and Goblin Luke exchanged 500,000 strands of zero-tier Floating Continent Essence for one million Terra Stones.
• Aliens entered the market and bought minerals in bulk as Song Chi watched the shops grow busy.
• Ailong fled Imperial star pirates with a red-quality Oddity, and he raced toward a spatial gate that appeared ahead of him.

Ailong escaped pursuing star pirates by entering the Myriad Heavens Market, where he offered a red-quality Neutron Star Core for anything that could save his life. Song Chi recognized its extraordinary potential as Neutron Star Core Armor and watched as the bids rose, ending with Ailong tempted by an orange-quality Dark Ability Field Stone.

• Ailong abandoned his starship and escaped through a void portal into the Myriad Heavens Market as star pirates fired after him.
• Song Chi examined Ailong's advanced combat armor and realized it could be valuable to resell in Kindling Human Civilization territory.
• Ailong revealed the red-quality Neutron Star Core and called for offers of items that could protect his life.
• Song Chi discovered the marvel could become powerful Neutron Star Core Armor, with traits for increased protection, neutron-star transformation, and self-repair.
• Alien bidders offered various goods while some left to alert higher-tier allies, and Song Chi resolved to obtain the marvel.
• A first-tier alien offered an orange-quality Dark Ability Field Stone capable of resisting fourth-tier attacks, drawing Ailong's interest.

Song Chi exchanged the Market Walker Token for Ailong’s Neutron Star Core Armor and upgraded the Cangqiong with it, greatly increasing its protection and self-repair. After boosting the ship’s engine to support its greater energy demands, Song Chi was left short of resources and recognized that further upgrades would require replacing the engine.

• As Ailong’s enemies entered the market, Song Chi revealed the Market Walker Token and offered it for the Neutron Star Core in exchange for three years of use.
• Ailong accepted the offer, took the token, and pursued the pirates; nearly two hours later, Song Chi learned that Ailong had won the battle.
• Song Chi approached Ailong about buying his high-performance armor, but instead discussed future trades for the compact storage capsules Ailong’s region produced.
• Song Chi bought spirit stones from Zhou Ping and tallied the market’s earnings, then synthesized Floating Continent Essence for upgrades.
• Song Chi replaced the Cangqiong’s Obsidian Hull Armor with the Neutron Star Core Armor and raised the new component to lv30, gaining powerful protection and automatic armor and shield repairs.
• Song Chi enhanced the Cangqiong’s Shadow Antimatter Trans-State Engine Component to lv35 to meet the ship’s increased energy demand, then ran short of third-rank Floating Continent Essence.

Song Chi upgraded the Cangqiong, oversaw Tuo Guhong’s advancement to the third rank, and broke through to the second stage of the Mortal Thought State. After trading many soulstones to his branch and continuing his cultivation, he decided to head to the Northern Region in search of Deepwater Mussel Pearls.

• Song Chi infused the Cangqiong’s Neutron Star Core Armor with Spatial Anchoring Stone and sent Tuo Guhong into the All-Attribute Cultivation Room to attempt a breakthrough.
• Tuo Guhong advanced to the third rank, adapted to his new strength, and accepted the Azure Nether Rift-Sky Spear from Song Chi.
• Song Chi and Song You spent a year mining soulstone veins across the Southern and Central Regions, while Song Chi advanced his mind power to the second stage of the Mortal Thought State.
• Song Chi traded 1.2 million mid-grade soulstones to Song Mingsong’s branch for soul-related resources and future payments, then continued practicing his guidance technique and learned Zhao Lei’s mining operation was progressing safely.
• Song Chi decided to travel to the Northern Region to search its marshes for Deepwater Mussel Pearls, having obtained a suitable shipborne component.