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As for why one should acquire Starry Sea Oddities, the reason is quite simple: in the domain of the Torch Human Civilization, although oddities that can be converted into warship components make up the majority, the number of oddities that cannot be converted is also terrifyingly large compared to their vast base number.
Such Starry Sea Oddities are greatly discounted in actual value within the realm of the Torch Human Civilization, often only half the price of normal oddities. The kind that Song Chi is looking to acquire are precisely these.
According to his plan, he wants to buy these oddities at a low price and then set up a specialized Oddity Exchange Shop in the Zhu Tian Ruins Market.
Due to the extreme rarity of Starry Sea Oddities, even the Zero Rank and First Rank aliens who are lucky enough to enter the Ruins Market are unlikely to offer them, given their great value.
If there were a specialized Oddity Exchange Shop that could exchange the oddities in their possession for other oddities of equal quality that are more suited to their own use, surely those alien species with oddities would be very interested.
Even if he cannot exchange them, by selling the oddities at their innate value, Song Chi could make quite a fortune.
Buying at half price and selling at the original price may seem like only double the profit margin, but it cannot be calculated that simply. Given the inherent high value of Starry Sea Oddities, even the lowest level white oddities can be sold for double the profit, yielding thousands of strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin in profit—a remarkably substantial figure.
And that’s just for white oddities; blue or purple ones would yield even more.
As for Song Chi himself, not only could he earn Floating Land Origin through this venture, but he could also take the opportunity to exchange unconvertible oddities for those that can be used as warship components. In this way, he could find oddities suitable for the Cang Qiong, a case of multiple benefits in one move.
The more Song Chi thought about this idea of setting up an Oddity Exchange Shop, the more promising he found it. Soon his eyes firmed with decision, resolving to give it a try at the next Ruins Market transaction. He was not someone to dither.
However, for this first attempt, he wouldn’t buy too many of the non-convertible oddities; mainly he wanted to test the waters with seven or eight items to see how the market would react.
Before leaving the Ruins Market, he glanced at the overall attributes of the Cang Qiong. After several large-scale enhancements, the Cang Qiong had undergone significant changes.
[Name: Cang Qiong]
[Model: Torch-Spectral Airship]
[Level: lv10]
[Basic Components: White Torch Warship Body lv10, Particle Beam Cannon lv20, Spectral Secondary Cannon lv10, Goldrock Ship Armor lv10, Shadowcapture Antimatter Overstate Engine lv20, Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator lv29, Sky Eye Patrol Radar lv29, Spectral Cultivation Room lv0 (8/8)]
[Special Components: Fire Peony Soldier Figurine Tree lv20, Brainwave Remote Control System lv20, Abnormal Status Purifier lv20, Purple River Translocation Device lv20 (4/10)]
[Spectral Energy Pool: 30000/30000]
[Supplies: Second Rank Floating Land Origin 20 strands, First Rank Floating Land Origin 1026 strands, Mercury Crystal 14 tons, Primary Nutrient Elixir, freshwater…]
Song Chi felt a bit proud, or rather, proud of himself.
Having been awakened for less than four months, compared to his peers from the First Torch Academy, 99% of whom were probably still at the Spectral Shuttle stage, he had not only progressed from a Colorless Seed of Torch to White but had also enhanced the components of his airship to frighteningly high levels.
Most of the components had been enhanced to lv20, which, for a Torch Ship Captain who had been awakened for less than half a year, was an unimaginable speed and required an unimaginable amount of resources.
Furthermore, the current configuration of the components on the Cang Qiong included one orange, two purple, and four blue pieces. This setup might even surpass that of First Rank and even Second Rank Torch Ship Captains who had been awakened for over a century.
With such achievements, how could Song Chi not feel a little pride?
But this pride did not last long. Sometimes a little pride also acts as a form of encouragement, fostering one’s confidence. But if it turned into complacency, that would be an entirely different matter—a situation Song Chi naturally would not allow to develop.
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Upon leaving the Ruins Market and with his parents still not back, Song Chi left a note on the table explaining that he needed to be away for a few days. After leaving the house, he summoned the Cang Qiong immediately.
The tremendous power provided by the Shadowcapture Antimatter Overstate Engine propelled the airship swiftly into the sky, quickly disappearing into the clouds above.
Under Song Chi’s control, the Cang Qiong did not head towards any other cities of the White Tower Floating Land but shot straight up into the sky. Indeed, his destination this time was not any city on the White Tower Floating Land but rather to head to other Floating Lands of the Duchy.
Above the White Tower Floating Land, the Cang Qiong, having escaped the floating land’s gravitational pull, paused in its ascent, its vessel enveloped in a dark energy shield as it hovered quietly. Its streamlined body and warship armor, shimmering silver with a tinge of gold, made the Cang Qiong look quite spectacular.
Inside the vessel, Song Chi’s consciousness converged, linking with the White Tower local network once again.
The Purple River Translocation Device component had been enhanced to lv20, but he still needed a star chart. Although star charts were available on the civilian network of the White Tower Floating Land, those charts were outdated by who knows how many years.
With numerous changes in the surrounding Star Domains over the years, it was essential to get an updated star chart for safety reasons.
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