From this, it’s clear that the strength of the Dinghai Song Family is extraordinary.
As for why my father has been tailing the Blood Blade Star Thieves for years on end, he did not elaborate, but he revealed that the Blood Blade Star Thieves have something of great value in their possession. If we can get our hands on it, our lineage can make up for past mistakes and be reinstated into the family.
After understanding all this, the first thing Song Chi did upon returning to his bedroom was to connect to the White Tower local network with the Seed of Torch.
He opened the search engine, typed in the five keywords “Blood Blade Star Thieves,” and clicked search.
Soon, a string of information posts popped up. Song Chi chose a few that were trending and had the most replies, all of which required a fee.
Yes, most of these posts weren’t free—credible and hard-to-come-by posts had a viewing fee set by the posters.
Fortunately, they were cheap, only 5 strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin each, so Song Chi straightforwardly viewed all of them, quickly obtaining the basic information about the Blood Blade Star Thieves.
The Blood Blade Star Thieves, a mid to small-sized group active at the border region between the Chaotic Star Field and the Chenxing Principality, have been around for nearly two hundred years, it is said.
The total number of members in the Blood Blade Star Thieves is about a hundred, with five Second Rank Torch Ship Captains and more than twenty First Rank Torch Ship Captains, with the rest being Zero Rank.
Additionally, the leader of the Blood Blade Star Thieves and the owner of the Blood Blade Cruiser, known as “Blood Saber,” is said to have already been a Third Rank Torch Captain as early as one hundred and fifty years ago, with extremely powerful strength.
At this point, Song Chi was shocked—being Third Rank one hundred and fifty years ago meant that this “Blood Saber,” leader of the star thieves, was probably about the same age as Zhu Yaokui.
A three-hundred-year-old at Third Rank, and Song Mingsong is still only two hundred and thirty years old. With such a big age difference, could my grandfather really defeat him?
Song Chi even speculated that the reason why the family members haven’t made their move is probably due to their wariness of the opponent’s strength. Now that his elder uncle is about to advance, having two Third Rankers will basically ensure that they can firmly suppress Blood Saber. Therefore, they’re now preparing to take action.
Thinking of this, Song Chi became somewhat anxious. Realizing he might come into contact with Third Rank level battles within a year, a strong sense of crisis welled up within him.
“No, the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator component must be enhanced to Second Rank limit!”
His determination to enhance the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator component became firmer; however, Song Chi thought for a moment and felt a headache coming on about where to obtain a Mercury Crystal.
This thing isn’t incredibly rare, but it’s also not commonly found—it would probably be very difficult to procure in a short time.
In the basement second level of the Furious Lion Compound, as the elevator came to a halt, Song Chi stepped into the subterranean second floor space made entirely of special alloy.
In front of him was Grandma Bai Xiuqin’s maid, Lan Die, who was said to have come over from the Bai Family at the time of the marriage and possesses absolute loyalty to the current Song Family.
However, this maid, now with white hair and having reached the end of her life at First Rank, was nearing the end of her journey.
“Fourth Young Master, I won’t be going inside. Just go in and choose for yourself, but as the young lady said, you can only take the Mercury Crystal you mentioned earlier,” she said.
“Thank you, Grandma Lan Die. Your grandson understands,” Song Chi replied.
Click. With a light swipe of the access card given by his grandmother,
“Ka-ka-ka!”
The alloy door in front of him slowly opened, and Song Chi stepped into the family’s secret vault.
Yes, this sealed chamber, constructed entirely of special alloy, was the Song Family’s, or rather, their lineage’s, secret vault. Song Chi had heard from his father that there were quite a few treasures inside.
Therefore, stepping into the vault for the first time, Song Chi looked curiously to the left and right.
However, as time went on, disappointment gradually emerged in Song Chi’s eyes. The vault didn’t seem large, covering only dozens of square meters with not too many shelves inside.
But after he had looked at all the shelves, this idea was completely overturned.
Although there were not many items in the vault, they were all exceedingly rare objects. Aside from the common white relics, there were more than twenty blue oddities and even four purple relics, giving Song Chi a dazzling sensation.
Setting aside blue and white relics for a moment, among the four Purple Quality relics, Song Chi saw one that especially aroused his desire.
This relic, known as the “Streaming Light Essence,” is born from an extremely special essence of the starry sea and can be converted into a special component called the “Streaming Light Propulsor,” which can effectively enhance the cruising speed of a Torch Warship.
Streaming Light Propulsor lv0
Quality: Purple
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Feature: An additional 50% increase in thruster thrust.
Consumption: 8/s (Spectral Energy Points)
Effect: Increase of 80% in thrust, 80% increase in warship travel speed.
UpRank Requirement: 8 strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin, 800 Spectral Energy Points, 1 Streaming Light Stone
With a Purple Engine already in hand, the Cang Qiong had a sufficient energy supply. In order to convert this energy into increased agility and speed for the warship, what was needed was this thruster.
However, it was clear that he, who had acquired two Purple Relics in a short period, was unlikely to lay his hands on this Purple Thruster component any time soon, as it was part of the entire family’s wealth.
Besides, Song Chi saw many other extremely rare resources and treasures.
For example, a Starry Sea Tiankui tree heart that was several thousand years old; the Starry Sea Tiankui is a relatively common Starry Sea plant. However, that is only relative to other Starry Sea plants, and actually finding it in the vast Starry Sea is extremely difficult, not to mention killing it and preserving its most precious heart.
Just this piece of the Starry Sea Tiankui tree heart alone could extend a person’s life by 50 years; in the outside world, it would certainly cause an uproar.
Or, for instance, a fist-sized piece of ten-thousand-year-old volcanic lava iron essence, which is one of the special resources needed when a First Rank Torch Warship advances to Second Rank, and its value is extremely high.
After observing for a while, Song Chi did not find the Mercury Crystal he needed, or rather, there were no such resources in quantities of dozens or hundreds of tons on these shelves.
Seemingly having thought of something, he made his way to the deepest part of the vault and indeed found an alloy door marked “Mineral Storage Room”.
If he wasn’t mistaken, those large quantities of mineral resources should all be placed in this Mineral Storage Room.
Indeed, as expected, shortly after entering the Mineral Storage Room, Song Chi found many moderately rare minerals, such as gas and uranium ores, and including the Mercury Crystals he needed.
After checking, Song Chi estimated that there were about 1200 tons of Mercury Crystals in this spacious Mineral Storage Room, which he thought should be roughly sufficient for the enhancement of the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator components.
Summoning the Cang Qiong on the warship platform intentionally left open in the center of this Mineral Storage Room, Song Chi began to enhance it right there without intent to transfer the materials elsewhere.
The first enhancement wasn’t the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator, but the newly acquired Purple “Shadowcapture Antimatter Overstate Engine”. Only by enhancing this engine to a certain extent could he then confidently enhance the Dark Matter Energy Shield.
[Are you sure you want to spend 8 strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin + 500 Energy Points + 5 Zero Rank Life Cores to upgrade the Shadowcapture Antimatter Overstate Engine from lv0 to lv1?]
“Confirmed!”
He enhanced the Shadowcapture Antimatter Overstate Engine to lv20 in one go, using a total of 259 strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin + 478 strands of First Rank Floating Land Origin and some zero and First Rank Life Cores.
Shadowcapture Antimatter Overstate Engine lv20
Quality: Purple
Feature: An additional 65% increase in energy supply efficiency
Consumption: 40/s
Energy Supply: 660/s
Post-overload Buffer: 20 minutes
Energy Pool: 30,000 Points (able to store 30,000 Energy Points)
Convertible: {Shadowcapture Reactor}
UpRank Requirement: 20 strands of Second Rank Floating Land Origin, 10,000 Spectral Energy Points, 20 Second Rank Life Cores, 1 Titanium Crystal.
After enhancing to Second Rank, Song Chi found himself left with only 721 strands of First Rank Floating Land Origin, which caused him some pain as the Shadowcapture Antimatter Overstate Engine, although powerful, had consumed an astonishing amount of resources. In the blink of an eye, thousands of strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin were gone.
It was only thanks to the funds supplied by his great-uncle that he could afford such an enhancement. Otherwise, with the meager amount he had left previously, not to mention further enhancing the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator components, just the Shadowcapture Antimatter Overstate Engine would have been more than enough to deal him a heavy blow.
Furthermore, to continue enhancing, he would need strategic level resources like Titanium Crystals.
However, to be fair, the Shadowcapture Antimatter Overstate Engine at lv20 did justify such expenditure with its attributes.
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