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Chapter 186: Orange Ascension Fire Core and Orange Engine
Chapter 186: Orange Ascension Fire Core and Orange Engine
Song Chi stepped through the grand entrance connecting the 49th and 50th floors of the Merit Building.
This time, no one stopped him, and he made his way directly to the 50th floor.
The 50th floor of the Merit Building required at least 20 Golden Merit Points to enter. Currently, he had 27 points in his account.
As soon as he entered the 50th floor, Song Chi immediately noticed a stark difference from the 49th floor, the most obvious being the size.
Floors 1 to 49 each had an area of at least several hundred square meters, with the first five floors nearly reaching ten thousand square meters.
In contrast, the 50th floor seemed to be only about a hundred square meters.
However, Song Chi was not concerned. After a moment of surprise, he began to explore the 50th floor.
What he saw made his eyes light up with excitement, far exceeding his previous enthusiasm.
Even though this floor, like the 30th to 49th floors, required Golden Merit Points for transactions, it clearly had more valuable items and even rarer resources.
- Orange Patrol Sky Radar
- Orange Puppet Tree Parts
- Orange Thrusters
- Orange External Launch System
- Fourth-Rank Void Crystal
- Earth Attribute Law Sculpture
- Ten-Thousand-Year Moonlit Tree Sap
-...
In just a few minutes, Song Chi saw numerous priceless ship components and special resources, several of which were needed for the Celestial Vessel.
For example, the orange-quality thrusters and external launch system were either not available on the Celestial Vessel or were of lower quality.
However, the exchange prices, which often exceeded a hundred Golden Merit Points, made him hesitate.
Song Chi felt a bit disappointed. He had thought that with 27 Golden Merit Points, he had a decent amount of money, but now it seemed he was still far from enough.
After leaving the 50th floor, Song Chi continued to the 51st floor.
As he moved through the floors, the variety of rare items left him dazzled. He eventually stopped at a counter on the 59th floor, his eyes fixed on the fire core behind it, filled with fiery excitement.
Name: Lava Core Fire
Quality: Orange
Item Description: A strand of orange fire core that has been nurtured for fifty thousand years deep within the lava volcanoes of a Fire-Attribute Level 3 Star Sea Floating Land. It can evolve a Blue-quality Flame Seed into a Purple-quality one.
Exchange Price: 130 Golden Merit Points
Yes, behind the counter was indeed a strand of orange-quality ascension fire core.
Although it was just a regular orange quality, not the supreme orange-quality ascension fire core that could evolve a Purple-quality fire core into an Orange-quality one, it was still extremely rare.
This was exactly what Song Chi desperately needed. His Flame Seed was currently Blue-quality, limiting the reinforcement level of the ship's components to Level 39, which was a significant restriction.
If he could evolve his Flame Seed to Purple-quality, the Celestial Vessel's combat power would receive a significant boost.
According to the restrictions of the Flame Warship itself, all ship components could not exceed two major ranks higher than the ship's body. Currently, the Celestial Vessel's body was at Rank 2, so the theoretical reinforcement limit for its components was Rank 4, or Level 49.
However, due to the limitation of the Flame Seed, this reinforcement limit was currently capped at Level 39, which had a significant impact on the Celestial Vessel's overall combat power.
(Ps: Can you accept this patch? Many readers said that the lack of a limit on the reinforcement of ship components was too exaggerated, so I added this patch. If you can't accept it, I'll change it back!)
Despite his intense desire, Song Chi could only look.
130 Golden Merit Points were far beyond his current means, unless he uninstalled an orange-quality component from the Celestial Vessel.
Forcing himself to stop thinking about it, he continued to explore the other items on the 59th floor.
Soon, Song Chi found another item that made his eyes burn with desire.
It was an orange-quality ship component, an orange engine that the Celestial Vessel desperately needed.
Light Energy Union Engine Level 0
Quality: Orange
Characteristics: Power Efficiency Increased by 40%
Characteristics 2: Light Energy Union
Consumption: 8/s (Phantom Energy Points)
Supply: 56/s (Phantom Energy Points)
Overload Buffer: 30 minutes
Energy Pool: 8000 (Can store 8000 Phantom Energy Points)
Upgrade Requirements: 10 strands of Floating Land Essence (Rank 0), 1000 Energy Points, 10 Life Nuclei (Rank 0), 10 Lightray Stones
Light Energy Convergence: Consuming 2000 Dark Energy Points, this ability channels the energy from the consumed points to push the engine into an ultra-overload state, doubling its power efficiency and thrust for 10 minutes. The cooldown is 240 hours.
There was no doubt that this Orange-quality Light Energy Convergence Engine far surpassed the current Shadow Antimatter Hyperstate Engine on the Skyvault. Not only was its power efficiency superior, but it also consumed less energy during operation, resulting in a significant surplus of energy per second.
Moreover, the key point was that this engine's exchange price was much lower than that of the Lava Core Fire, requiring only 90 points of Golden Merit. If Song Qi could scrimp and save a bit more, he stood a good chance of acquiring this engine before heading to the Copper Mountain Floating Land.
For example, he still had the remaining segment of the Mother Bug's skin and the Shadow Antimatter Hyperstate Engine that would be replaced. These could be exchanged for Golden Merit points, adding to the 27 points he currently had. The opportunity was indeed significant.
The more he thought about it, the more eager Song Qi became.
It wasn't that he wasn't interested in the Lava Core Fire; it was just that the Skyvault's greatest weakness right now was its engine components. Due to this, over the past year, apart from the newly installed Water Molecule Isolation Outer Membrane, none of the other components on the Skyvault had changed.
Why?
Because the Shadow Antimatter Hyperstate Engine's power efficiency simply couldn't keep up. This factor had significantly hindered the Skyvault's continued enhancement in combat power.
Components like the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator, Neutron Star Core Armor, and Silver III Generation Hyperwave Magic Energy Detection Radar all had considerable room for reinforcement, yet they had been stuck at Level 30 for over a year.
Over the past year, Song Qi had accumulated over ten thousand strands of Second-Class Floating Land Essence and over 1,400 strands of Third-Class Floating Land Essence. Even though he had fewer titanium crystals, with less than a thousand, it was still enough to support over twenty Third-Class reinforcements.
With a determined gaze, Song Qi made his decision.
In the next three months, he would do his best to accumulate Golden Merit, striving to exchange for the Light Energy Convergence Engine before heading to the Copper Mountain Floating Land.
The golden-armored giant beast he would face was a Fourth-Class entity. Although the Bai family had assured him that it had suffered severe injuries and was now only a fraction of its peak strength, no one in the family dared to be complacent, especially not the cautious Song Qi.
As the saying goes, even a cornered rabbit will bite. This was a golden-armored giant beast, with a genetic lineage surpassing that of the Thorned Dragon. If it were provoked, who knew what might happen?
Therefore, he had to be fully prepared.
The two most critical steps in this preparation were to reinforce the Skyvault's main defensive components, the Neutron Star Core Armor and the Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator, to their Third-Class limits.
Only then could he feel a bit more at ease.
Before leaving the Merit Tower, Song Qi was once again stopped at the 60th floor. To enter the upper floors, one needed at least 100 Golden Merit points, which he couldn't achieve in the short term.
Before leaving, he exchanged a zircon and a low-grade energy crystal from the Tokugawa tribe's secret vault with the family, earning 3 more Golden Merit points.
The zircon was worth 1 point, and the low-grade energy crystal was worth 2 points.
Thus, his Merit points returned to 30, but he still had a long way to go before reaching 90. He needed to keep working hard.
...
In the outer space of Dragon Spine Continent, at the Song family's exclusive spatial portal.
Spending 1,000 Merit points, the Skyvault successfully caught the next mid-range spatial transmission.
The destination of this transmission was the Thorned Star Region, adjacent to the Red River Star Domain, where the family's Thorned Dragon Floating Land was located.
As a border region of the Red River Star Domain, the Thorned Star Region was not large, with a diameter of only a few dozen light-years. However, despite its small size, it was permanently garrisoned by a family fleet of over ten thousand ships, the Thorned Guard Fleet.
The Thorned Guard Fleet was led by a Fourth-Class Chasing Deer Flagship, supported by ten cruisers, a hundred frigates, and over ten thousand standard Microglow Nuclear Frigates.
Just from this configuration, one could see the formidable combat power of this fleet.
The fleet was stationed here not only to deter the aggression of alien races from the Red River Star Domain but also to ensure the safety of the Thorned Dragon Floating Land.
Unlike other family-controlled floating lands, the Dragonflight Floating Land is not a product of artificial modification. Instead, it is a rare Grade 3 Life-Type Floating Land.
Moreover, it is not an ordinary Grade 3 Life-Type Floating Land. This one contains a high-grade Dragon Core, which ordinary Grade 3 Life-Type Floating Lands cannot produce or sustain. According to information from the family's upper echelons, a dragon of the Fifth Rank once perished on this Dragonflight Floating Land. Its essence eventually merged with the core of the floating land, transforming it over time. This transformation led to the birth of Dragon Core energy, which gave rise to the Thorned Dragonflight, a dragon species with exceptional bloodlines.
In the southern region of the Thorned Star Zone, the Celestial Dome and other family warships emerged from a spatial portal, only to be intercepted by a small fleet.
"Thorned Defense Fleet inspection. Please present your personal identification for verification before proceeding."
As the message played from the lead escort ship, Song Chi and the other warships that had just emerged from the spatial portal halted. They then sent their identification information to the fleet.
The Thorned Star Zone is a border region adjacent to alien territories, far from peaceful. It's not surprising that the family has assigned a fleet to patrol and maintain strict checks here.
After their personal information was verified, the Celestial Dome was quickly cleared to proceed, heading straight toward the Dragonflight Floating Land.
While piloting the Celestial Dome, Song Chi's mind was preoccupied with information about the Thorned Defense Fleet.
The Thorned Defense Fleet is an auxiliary fleet under the family's War Council, not a regular combat fleet. In simpler terms, it is the local fleet responsible for the Thorned Star Zone and the Dragonflight Floating Land. Tasks such as suppressing the floating land or engaging in external wars fall outside its responsibilities.
Additionally, it is said that the Thorned Defense Fleet is now largely under the control of the family's Third Direct Line. The highest commander of the fleet, the owner of the Chasing Deer Flagship, is Song Xuan Guang, one of the two Fourth-Rank Elders of the Third Direct Line. He is a contemporary of Song Xuan Feng, an Elder of the First Direct Line, and both are members of the family's Elder Council.
As these thoughts raced through his mind, the Celestial Dome arrived above a floating land with a diameter of nearly 8 million kilometers. Yes, this was the Dragonflight Floating Land.
However, what first caught Song Chi's attention upon approaching the Dragonflight Floating Land was not the land itself but the elliptical, grid-patterned shield that enveloped it. As a Grade 3 Life-Type Floating Land, the Dragonflight Floating Land's core is powerful enough to generate this formidable defensive shield.
Another point that drew his attention was the massive war machine constructed above the floating land. A ring-shaped alloy track over 100,000 meters in diameter, countless warship berths, terrifying fortress railguns, and a continuously maintained circular nuclear shield. Indeed, this war machine, built on the Dragonflight Floating Land, is a floating fortress, similar to the one he had seen on the Guangyuan Floating Land.
In the center of the fortress, a large warship over 3,000 meters in length was quietly docked. If his guess was correct, this was the flagship of Elder Xuan Guang.
Pulling his gaze away from these two points, the Celestial Dome quickly descended toward the floating land's shield. Since they had already been verified, there was no further obstruction. As the family's warships approached, the shield below them split open, creating a kilometer-wide gap.
The warships then entered one by one.
At the peak of Dragonflight Mountain on the Dragonflight Floating Land, this is the family's base of operations.
In the main hall of the base, a middle-aged Third-Rank Flame Captain addressed Song Chi.
"Do you need my assistance?"
Song Chi nodded quickly in response.
While the Celestial Dome's current combat strength is sufficient to take down a Third-Rank Thorned Dragon, he wouldn't refuse help.
Several hours later, in the Sunset Mountains.
The sound of cannon fire gradually subsided. With the suppression of a Third-Rank cruiser, the targeted Third-Rank Thorned Dragon was quickly injured and fell into a deep coma, a moment when its willpower is at its weakest.
From the cruiser above, the middle-aged man's voice echoed once more.
"Alright, you can attempt to enslave it now!"
(End of Chapter)
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