Global Era of Star trekking

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Pushing open the top-floor door, a number of safes arranged side by side were revealed, and judging from the ghost light emanating from the exteriors of these safes, they were certainly crafted from the most durable alloys of the Starshine Civilization.

Of course, this does not mean they were particularly hard to open, but realistically attempting to open all of them in a short span of time was clearly impractical.

Boom!

Just then, the wall to the side of the top floor suddenly boomed, blasted open from the outside with cannon fire, creating a large hole.

The ten Fire Peony Soldier Figurines were not panicked in the slightest; instead, they quickly took action, forcefully pushing several of the safes in the room towards the hole created by the blast.

Looking outside, the Cang Qiong was quietly floating parallel, less than five meters away from the hole.

As the safes were pushed one after another to the opening, Song Chi inside the Cang Qiong urgently activated the airship's traction beam. Although the true traction stance requires a Spectral Warship of the Torch variety, a pseudo traction field of a slightly lower level is still available for Spectral Shuttles and Spectral Airships.

This pseudo traction stance's pulling power was limited, but the safes in front of them were not the size of tiny asteroids or fragments tens of meters in diameter; the Cang Qiong could still stably pull them in.

Under the effect of this traction beam, several alloy safes were successively drawn into the cargo bay of the Cang Qiong. After this task was completed, the ten Fire Peony Soldier Figurines also leaped onto the airship, and then the Cang Qiong soared into the air, departing the capital city at top speed.

Above the Floating Land, the Cang Qiong sped through the gloomy mists, and this time Song Chi's target was a massive city with a population exceeding 300 million.

He was well aware that more than 90% of the resources in the previous capital city had not been harvested yet, but there was no help for it. A full-sized Floating Land defense force was stationed on this Floating Land, which meant he couldn't linger in the same city for too long.

The Cang Qiong was newly clad in Starshine V-type alloy armor. During the previous enhancement process, those tens of tons of Phantom Crystals had all been utilized, which now made it difficult for the radars on the Starshine Civilization's starships to detect the Cang Qiong, as long as it did not reveal itself in front of their starships.

Based on this, as long as Song Chi maintained his hit-and-run tactic, the enemy would never be able to predict the subsequent cities the Cang Qiong would target, making it the safest operation plan.

The Starry Sea 001 was a Second Rank Starry Sea Floating Land. Just like that, the size of the defense force on this Floating Land also far exceeded that of an ordinary First Rank lifeform-type Floating Land. If that defense force were allowed to assemble, it would still pose a significant threat to the Cang Qiong, forcing Song Chi to remain vigilant.

The concentrated attacks from the Second Freedom Fleet before had left him a bit traumatized.

In this manner, using the same approach, Song Chi hit 6 more large cities in the hours that followed. The defenses at the administrative buildings in two of the cities were so unreasonably strong that when Song Chi saw he couldn't break through their defense lines, he promptly chose to retreat; the other 4 cities did not present any unexpected challenges.

Among the starry skies at the periphery of Starry Sea 001 Floating Land, while the Floating Land defense forces were in disarray below, the Cang Qiong nearing its return trip had already left the Floating Land quietly.

Staring at the astonishingly large Starry Sea Floating Land below, a trace of regret surfaced in Song Chi's eyes.

Over three billion alien races, ah. If only the main cannon aboard the Cang Qiong had been of the area-of-effect attribute, or perhaps some kind of wide-area explosive firepower, he could've just fired a few shots directly above several large and massive cities. In that case, the Floating Land's Origin would have soared rapidly.

Alas, that was only wishful thinking. As a particle beam cannon, which belonged to the class of beam projectile-type main cannons, it had sufficient range and penetration power, but the downside was that it could only target individuals. Even though he had not stopped the attack by the Cang Qiong's secondary cannons during those hours, the harvest of Floating Land Origin was still extremely limited.

This was possibly the most frustrating aspect of the Alien Star Domain exploration for Song Chi.

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"We've got twenty minutes until the return, should I give it a try?"

In the main control room of the Cang Qiong, Song Chi muttered to himself, wondering whether or not to try heading to the Buluo Civilization Star Domain to see if the Cang Qiong could initiate the return on its own.

The hesitation was because if he failed to return, he would lose the pathway back to Torchlight Humanity forever.

After some thought, he finally made up his mind and decided to give it a try.

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Currently, Zhu Tian Ruins Market is only at Lv11. Waiting for another spatial anchor point to be added seems like it would take forever, and he must explore the Buluo Civilization Ruins soon. Depending purely on transactions from Zhu Tian Ruins Market, it's hard to say when he would be able to obtain a top-rank purple Fire Source UpRank.

In a few more months he would have to make a move against the Blood Blade Star Thieves. After all, it's a battlefield of Third Rank Level, and Song Chi felt that the Lv29 Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator was still not secure enough.

The leader of the Blood Blade Star Thieves, "Blood Saber", was likely well-nigh five hundred years old and a Third Rank Torch Captain. It couldn't be guaranteed that there wouldn't be any powerful weaponry on his flagship.

If there were top-rank purple main cannons, or even orange quality main cannons, the current Lv29 Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator might not be able to withstand a single blast.

To further enhance the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator, the quality of the warship itself must be upgraded, meaning the Seed of Torch within his brow's Ancestral Aperture must ascend to blue. This was indeed the most urgent matter for Song Chi.

For the Seed of Torch to advance from white to blue, a top-rank purple Fire Source UpRank was needed. Such a level of Fire Source UpRank was so valuable it could even compare to some of the inferior orange components. Without an object of equivalent quality for trade, it would be nearly impossible to acquire using only Floating Land Origin.

And as of now, the fastest way for Song Chi to get his hands on purple or even orange level strange objects was the Buluo Civilization Ruins.

That was the reason he was in such a hurry to explore the ruins.

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After retracting the Cang Qiong into the Ancestral Torch, Song Chi turned and disappeared into this unfamiliar star domain.

Appearing suddenly against the familiar skyline of the Yellow Sand Floating Continent, a figure emerged. Since the set spatial anchor point was thousands of meters above the floating land, when Song Chi activated the spatial anchor point and left the ruin market to appear here, he began to plummet at high speed.

Prepared for this, he didn't panic, summoning the Cang Qiong at the right moment and landed steadily atop the Cang Qiong that had appeared directly below him.

Once back inside the cabin of Cang Qiong, Song Chi didn't perform any other operations and quietly hovered Cang Qiong in the airspace above the Yellow Sand Floating Continent.

With only a little over ten minutes left before the return, he didn't have time to do anything else. The reason he activated this spatial anchor point was to test whether he could still return normally after changing the star domain coordinates of Cang Qiong.

Although a little nervous in his heart, he wasn't too stressed. After all, previously he and Shen Qing had both managed to return normally to the same location with their two Spectral Airships. Since they could return once, there was no reason they shouldn't be able to do so a second time.

And if he hadn't been quite confident, he wouldn't have come here recklessly to test it.

Time passed, and the ten-plus minutes flew by in an instant.

When the familiar sense of weightlessness enveloped the Cang Qiong like usual, Song Chi was completely reassured in his heart and knew his guess had not been wrong.

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Chenxing Principality, White Tower Floating Land, Jiangyuan City.

Dongjiang Community, Home.

"Mom's Dragonfly successfully advanced to a Spectral Warship?"

As soon as he got home, the first thing Song Chi heard from his dad was the fantastic news that his mom, Chen Lixia's flagship, "Dragonfly", had successfully advanced from a Spectral Airship to a Guardian Class Spectral Spaceship a few hours ago.

For his family, and even the entire White Tower Song family, this was a significant piece of good news.

A brand new escort ship was sure to increase the success rate for the family's future endeavors.