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Song Chi felt somewhat emotional; after over a year of hard work, he had gathered just over ten thousand high-rank Soul Stones—such luck was truly unmatched.

Returning to his cave, Song Chi once again entered the Ruins Market.

However, this time he wasn’t engaging in the visualization of Mythical Mech Projections, but rather practicing the Guidance Technique.

Throughout the past year, he hadn’t neglected his training in the Guidance Technique, still vividly remembering the incident of the mysterious fourth-rank entity striking from afar.

As a result, he paid extra attention to his desire to advance to the second rank and undergo his second Life Sublimation as soon as possible.

Inside the All-Attributes Cultivation Room, having just assumed the standard posture for practicing the Guidance Technique, the boundless Spectral Energy around him swarmed in, with the amplification effect of the lv24 All-Attributes Cultivation Room becoming even more astonishing.

In the course of one year, through twelve transactions in the Ruins Market, its level had reached lv24, with the promotion to lv25 expected in the next visit.

Observing the fluctuations of Spectral Energy around Song Chi, it was clear that his level of the Guidance Technique had reached an impressive lv18.

In a little over a year, advancing from the peak of lv16 to lv18 might seem astonishing to others, but Song Chi himself was not satisfied.

He possessed the Body Tempering Liquid, second-rank Insect Race flesh, and an All-Attributes Cultivation Room that far surpassed the typical Ghost Energy Cultivation Platform, which meant his cultivation conditions were ten or a hundred times better than those of his peers among the Torch Ship Captains. Therefore, he was not satisfied with his cultivation speed.

Now at lv18, he still needed to breakthrough to the bottleneck of lv19, followed by the even more daunting second-rank bottleneck. How could he be satisfied when this mere first-rank cultivation in the Guidance Technique had already held him up for so long?

After ten hours, Song Chi emerged from the All-Attributes Cultivation Room.

As expected, his level in the Guidance Technique was still at lv18, with some distance yet to reach lv19. Advancing in the Spectral Energy Guidance Technique became more challenging the further one went; it wasn’t something that could simply be improved with ease.

Pushing down his not-so-great mood, Song Chi connected telepathically with Zhao Lei, who was still at the Asteroid Belt.

"Any unexpected incidents during this period?"

Several tens of seconds later, Zhao Lei’s telepathic reply arrived.

"Master, all is well. The... various resources we’ve mined... are quite substantial. Do you want me to make a trip to the Ruins Market?"

"No need, continue mining!"

Having confirmed the situation there, Song Chi exited the Ruins Market.

In the past year, he had also conducted several explorations of the Alien Star Domain, but the gains were very limited. Fortunately, the situation with the Soul Spirit Clan and Zhao Lei at the Asteroid Belt was still quite good. The resources they mined for him over the year were worth nearly 500,000 strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin in total.

If it wasn’t for the shortage in the number of Floating Land Mining Carts and standard civilian Interstellar Mining Ships, this figure could have been increased by a substantial amount.

As for the Humanoid Alien Race, they hadn’t yet affected Zhao Lei and his mining operations, so Song Chi had temporarily decided not to deal with them.

...

Back in the outer cave, after a quick wash, Song Chi took out a hundred high-rank Soul Stones and placed them around him, then took out ten second-rank Soul Cores, ready to continue visualizing the Mythical Mech Projection.

The recent breakthrough in his Spiritual Force had brought him back to his peak condition, making it no problem to continue with several hours of visualization. Find more to read at empire

However, before starting the visualization, Song Chi’s flickering gaze suddenly became resolute, and he made an important decision.

"I’ll give grandpa a heads-up tomorrow, then head off to the Northern Region... I heard that someone from our clan obtained some aged Deep Water Clam Pearls from the waters there; I hope this news isn’t just an empty rumor!"

Months ago, there were rumors within the Torch Bureau intranet that some had acquired Deep Water Clam Pearls from the Northern Region, and given the aquatic environment there, the authenticity of this information seemed quite high.

Concerned for his own safety and the fact that the Cang Qiong didn’t have specific components for such a venture, Song Chi had thus far refrained from going there.

However, given his incredibly slow cultivation progress, after much consideration, he had decided to take a trip to the Northern Region.

Of course, besides this reason, there was another key factor. In the recent transactions in the Ruins Market, through deliberate attention and requests to purchase, he had acquired a fitting ship-mounted component.

Without this, would he have made such an impulsive decision? n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

It certainly wouldn’t fit his usual style of action.

ps: I’m typing too slowly, sorry.

Also, today’s chapter is a double-length one.

Last but not least, it’s a bit late, but I’m still pleading for Monthly Tickets!!!!