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Chapter 332: The Silver Apple Mother Tree Finally Advances
Chapter 332: The Silver Apple Mother Tree Finally Advances
Song Chi had never felt ten minutes to be so long until now. Despite the lack of any visible change behind his lifelike mask, his heart was pounding with anxiety.
Star Sea plants were already rare, and even rarer were the Star Sea plant cores that could only be obtained by defeating them. If he missed this opportunity, Song Chi found it hard to imagine when he might encounter another suitable Star Sea plant core again. It could be decades, centuries, or even longer.
In the midst of his anxiety, the ten minutes finally passed. However, the auction did not immediately announce the results. It seemed the black market side was taking its time to make a decision.
In a secret chamber within a mystic realm, an elder stared intently at the projection screen in front of him, his eyes filled with hesitation. The screen displayed a list of bids, but his gaze was fixed on one particular entry.
"Red energy shield. If the Destruction Sea Storm could be equipped with such a high-tier energy shield, its defense would be greatly enhanced."
Muttering to himself, his gaze shifted to the latter part of the bid.
"Three ten-thousand-year dragon blood fruits. For someone with a limited lifespan, the allure of these fruits is immense. Even if only two can be used, the third can still be sold without fear of it going to waste."
After nearly a minute of hesitation, he finally made a difficult decision, prompted by a reminder from the black market management.
...
Among the crowd, Song Chi's face lit up with joy as his bidding device received a reply.
"Congratulations, sir. You have successfully obtained the Desolate Ancient Tree Heart with three ten-thousand-year dragon blood fruits. Please proceed to the back office to complete the final transaction!"
After reading the entire message, his joy grew even more. He had expected that even if he won, it would likely be with the Red Canopy Shield. Compared to a red Epic component, the value of three ten-thousand-year dragon blood fruits was clearly much greater.
But in the end, he received this pleasant surprise.
"Is the consignor of the Desolate Ancient Tree Heart more concerned about extending their lifespan? Then, is it possible that the Desolate Ancient Tree Heart was originally sought for its life-extending properties, but ultimately couldn't extend their life, so they had to put it up for auction?"
With this thought, his steps quickened, and he soon reached the back office near the auction stage. After handing over the three ten-thousand-year dragon blood fruits, he successfully obtained the half-fifth-rank Desolate Ancient Tree Heart.
Feeling the increasingly noticeable tremors from his brow, Song Chi turned around without showing any emotion.
Outside, the final major item of the auction had just been revealed—a red component.
Antimatter Perpetual Engine lv0
Quality: Red
Feature: Antimatter Mimicry
As the heart of a Flame Torch Warship, the appearance of this red engine naturally caused a significant stir. The bidding was currently in full swing.
However, Song Chi had no intention of staying any longer. He wanted to return to Heavenly Charge Valley as soon as possible to test whether the Desolate Ancient Tree Heart could indeed bring the Silver Apple Mother Tree back to fifth rank.
After a quick word with Wang Zhen, the two pushed through the Crowd.
Due to their multiple bids during the auction, their departure naturally attracted the attention of many. These people followed Song Chi and Wang Zhen discreetly, slowly exiting the crowd.
However, when Wang Zhen summoned the Wolf Howl Tiger Roar, the 3,000-meter-long Zelukai warship seemed to strike a bolt of lightning in the minds of all the unscrupulous Flame Torch Captains, leaving them stunned for a moment. They quickly came to their senses and hurriedly retreated.
A Chasing Deer-class warship was an extremely rare existence, not only in the Morning Star Yang Land but also throughout the entire principality. Only someone with a significant background would dare to target such a person.
...
Back in Heavenly Charge Valley, Song Chi immediately headed to the underground warship summoning chamber and then entered the cultivation mystic realm with the Desolate Ancient Tree Heart in hand.
The moment he entered the cultivation mystic realm, the Silver Apple Mother Tree reacted dramatically, its branches swaying wildly. Even a quick glance revealed its intense longing.
Clearly, the Desolate Ancient Tree Heart was of great importance to the Silver Apple Mother Tree.
Recognizing this, Song Chi wasted no time and directly tossed the Desolate Ancient Tree Heart toward the tree.
A large amount of Wood Law energy surged from the trunk of the Silver Apple Mother Tree, rapidly forming a Law net that enveloped the Desolate Ancient Tree Heart.
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
The entire cultivation mystic realm trembled, accompanied by blinding light. A flood of light surged from the trunk of the Silver Apple MotherTree, causing Song Chi to instinctively close his eyes.
Though he could not witness it with his own eyes, Song Chi could clearly sense the massive amount of energy gathering around the Silver Apple Mother Tree from all sides of the mystic realm.
It was evident that after consuming the Desolate Ancient Tree Heart, the Silver Apple Mother Tree had begun the process of advancing, or rather, returning to fifth rank.
However, it was a bit unfortunate that the advancement of a Star Sea plant was not an overnight process. Compared to the advancement of an ordinary human, it was much slower.
Despite this, Song Chi was not worried. He shifted his thoughts and exited the cultivation mystic realm, then activated the mystic realm accelerator for a new round.
After two months of rest, the "Meditation Seal InnerSpeed" feature of the "MysticRealmAccelerator" had completed its cooldown.
With the mystic realm acceleration, the time required for the Silver Apple Mother Tree to advance would be significantly reduced.
Song Chi had only been practicing guiding techniques for a few days in the outside world when he received a reminder from the void demon.
The Silver Apple Mother Tree had completed its advancement.
Inside the Sky Dome, even with the mystic realm acceleration, the excited Song Chi did not bother much with the brainwave imprint control of the puppets. He personally entered the mystic realm.
In the cultivation mystic realm, the Silver Apple Mother Tree, towering several tens of thousands of meters high, swayed gently in the wind. A large amount of Wood Law and fifth-rank pressure radiated from it.
Seeing this, Song Chi confirmed that the Silver Apple Mother Tree had indeed successfully advanced to fifth rank.
For a moment, his joy was uncontrollable. He had made the right bet, not wasting the few ten-thousand-year Dragon Blood Fruits. This meant that in the near future, he would be able to continuously harvest fifth-rank silver apples.
However, there is also some bad news.
After the Silver Apple Mother Tree ascended to the Fifth Rank, the layer of Immortal Realm Fertile Soil beneath it could no longer take effect.
The Immortal Realm Fertile Soil is a unique oddity that Grandfather Song Ming Song brought back from a fragment of the Immortal Continent. It is a purple-quality oddity, and its primary function is to accelerate the growth of Fourth-Rank plants. Now that the Silver Apple Mother Tree has ascended to the Fifth Rank, it naturally can no longer benefit from the Immortal Realm Fertile Soil.
As a result, the Silver Apple Mother Tree can no longer be accelerated by the Immortal Realm Fertile Soil, it will only grow at a rate of about ten thousand years per cycle, instead of the previous twenty thousand years.
Additionally, the Silver Apple Mother Tree will now produce Fifth-Rank silver apples, which take much longer to mature compared to Fourth-Rank silver apples. Combined with the issue of the Immortal Realm Fertile Soil, the production speed of Fifth-Rank Silver Apples will significantly decrease.
Song Chi doesn’t have a good solution for this, but he could take one of the mature Fifth-Rank Silver Apples and use it to elevate the Immortal Realm Fertile Soil to an orange-quality oddity. An orange-quality Immortal Realm Fertile Soil should be able to continue taking effect.
However, this will clearly take time.
Song Chi didn’t stay in the cultivation secret realm for long. After confirming that the Silver Apple Mother Tree had successfully ascended to the Fifth Rank, he quickly exited the secret realm.
Joking, this is a time acceleration of over ten thousand times. Every second spent inside is a second of his life.
Returning to reality, Song Chi resumed his daily cultivation.
A month later, the last Spatial Law Fruit in his possession was also used. This Spatial Law Fruit provided a 0.02% increase in his spatial law comprehension, bringing it from 0.46% to 0.48%.
This is the good news, but there is also bad news. After using this Spatial Law Fruit, Song Chi had a premonition that this was the last Spatial Law Fruit he could use. No matter how many more Spatial Law Fruits he consumed in the future, his spatial law comprehension would not improve any further.
This news was like a heavy blow to him. Although he had suspected it before, now that it was confirmed, he still found it hard to accept.
However, there is another piece of good news.
With the last Spatial Law Fruit taking effect, all of his spatial law comprehension has been thoroughly assimilated into the Star Sea Law.
After the assimilation, Song Chi could clearly feel a significant increase in the power of his law force.
This is the difference between the perfect Star Sea Law and the incomplete secret realm law. He estimated that even if it was still spatial law, the power of the law he now controlled was at least three times stronger than before.
The enhancement wasn’t huge, but considering that he still needed to deepen his comprehension of the law to achieve minor, intermediate, and major accomplishments, it was no small number. Moreover, the key difference between the Star Sea Law and the secret realm law was the upper limit.
Creatures that comprehend the incomplete secret realm law will have their ultimate rank capped by the level of the secret realm itself. In contrast, the Star Sea Law has an infinite future.
Additionally, the complete assimilation of the law force also means that Song Chi no longer needs to stay in the outside world.
He could confidently enter the market ruins and use the spatial origin law of the Multiverse and the Low-grade Spatial Law Crystal in his possession to accelerate his law comprehension, maximizing the speed of his spatial law comprehension.
However, with the complete assimilation of the law, it also a source of new hesitation for Song Chi.
With the law assimilation complete, he could re-enter the family’s Dragon Spine Mystic Realm to accelerate his law comprehension while also continuing to learn other secret arts.
But the problem is, if he continues to enter the Dragon Spine Mystic Realm to comprehend the law, he would have to spend a considerable amount of time to re-assimilate the law when he comes out again.
This is the reason for Song Chi’s hesitation.
In the future, he won’t be able to use Spatial Law Fruits to speed up the assimilation of the law. Instead, he would need decades to slowly assimilate it. In that case, wouldn’t he have to spend decades unable to freely seclude himself in the market ruins for cultivation?
Finding it difficult to decide, Song Chi didn’t think about it further.
He planned to ask the family’s elders later to see if there was a solution to this problem.
He remembered that not long ago, his First Ancestor, after his warship ascended to a dreadnought, secluded himself in the Dragon Spine Mystic Realm for hundreds of years. If that’s the case, there should be a way to solve the problem of the law becoming fixed in the secret realm due to prolonged comprehension of the original origin law.
No longer thinking about it, Song Chi recalled the Sky Dome and then entered the market ruins.
His mind gathered, a large number of divine sense threads surged from his mind, quickly finding the location of the spatial origin law in the market ruins. He then took out the two Low-grade Spatial Law Crystals and began to comprehend the spatial law.
Since he no longer needed to worry about the law becoming fixed, he would spend a large amount of time in the market ruins.
Practicing the guiding technique and visualizing the mech projection Blueprint, he would accelerate his law comprehension as quickly as possible.
Time passed, and another month went by.
This day, the void demon left outside sent a message to Song Chi through telepathic communication.
The communication from Answei arrived.
Since the market ruins block all communication, whether it’s the family’s quantum communication bracelet or the ember network, Song Chi left the void demon outside to ensure he wouldn’t miss Answei’s communication.
Personal Estate.
"Is everything done?"
After connecting the communication, Song Chi asked proactively.
On the other side, Answei quickly replied:
"Yes, but I need to rest a bit. Let’s set the detailed exploration time for half a month from now!"
"No problem!"
Song Chi nodded directly and didn’t continue the conversation, as he could tell from the communication projection that Answei’s mental state wasn’t good, clearly indicating she hadn’t rested well recently.
After ending the communication, Song Chi didn’t return to the market ruins.
He had been under a lot of mental strain recently, either cultivating or comprehending the law, and he needed a good rest.
Time passed in this routine, and half a month flew by.
This day, the warship covered by the five-color light shield rose from the Tianchong Valley and quickly disappeared into the sky.
This obvious sign naturally caused many ember ship captains to start discussing Song Chi’s next move.
They debated whether he was embarking on a new exploration of an alien domain or preparing to return to the Dragon Spine Continent.
(End of Chapter)
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