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Chapter 367: Prelude to the Bazaar Promotion
Chapter 367: Prelude to the Bazaar Promotion
Before departing from the Spirit Beast Realm to explore the Fragments of the Immortal Domain, Song Chi made another trip to the location of the Fire Willow tree.
Whether it was for incubating the Celestial Phoenix Egg or ensuring the healthy growth of the phoenix chick after hatching, a suitable fiery environment was essential, and the only option Song Chi could think of to provide such an environment for Chuzang's 004 Cultivation Realm was the five-tier Fire Willow tree.
As for the half-step five-tier Fire Scale Python coiled around the tree trunk, there was no need for excessive worry.
Hisssss!
The half-step five-tier Fire Scale Python, perched on the Fire Willow tree trunk, radiated scorching scales, but the Flame Wrath Giant, wielding the Divine Transformation Sword, paid it no heed. The sword's blade pierced through the python's body from several kilometers away, leaving a long wound.
Playing with fire in front of a five-tier Flame Wrath Giant was like brandishing a broadsword before Guan Yu; it posed no threat to the giant.
Before long, the half-step five-tier Fire Scale Python was severely wounded by the Flame Wrath Giant.
However, at Song Chi's signal, the giant refrained from killing the python. Instead, Song Chi used the Enslavement Medal component to complete the final enslavement of the python.
A half-step five-tier creature could serve as a vessel for the Enslavement Seal·Frenzy trait, and Song Chi wasn't going to pass up such an opportunity.
If not for the danger of dealing with a five-tier creature, Song Chi would have attempted to enslave a five-tier alien beast with the help of the two five-tier Frost Dragons. This half-step five-tier Fire Scale Python was a suitable alternative.
As for the Flame Wrath Giant, it was his go-to enforcer, and he would only use it to bear the Enslavement Seal·Frenzy if faced with a life-threatening situation.
After enslaving the python, Song Chi sent it into the Life System Medical Repair Chamber. He then gave the giant instructions to begin the transplantation process for the Fire Willow tree.
First, he retrieved the Immortal Domain Spirit Soil artifact from the Cultivation Sanctuary, and evenly spread it around the roots of the Fire Willow tree. Although the purple-quality Immortal Domain Spirit Soil might not have a significant effect on a five-tier Fire Willow tree, it would still increase the chances of a successful transplantation.
Once everything was prepared, the Cob Alt Number, hovering high above, and the Flame Wrath Giant, embracing the Fire Willow tree, exerted their forces simultaneously. With the combined effect of the gravitational pull and the giant's brute strength, the Fire Willow tree began to be slowly uprooted.
Inside the Cob Alt Number's control room, Song Chi closely monitored the situation below while issuing commands to the Skyward AI.
"AI, carefully monitor the Fire Willow tree's vital signs. Alert me immediately if there's any sign of potential transplantation failure!"
[Command received!]
Below, the thick-trunked Fire Willow tree slowly rose, its roots gradually being pulled from the ground.
However, Song Chi's expression changed abruptly. He swiftly retracted the warship's traction beam and sent a psychic transmission to the Flame Wrath Giant to halt the process.
Just then, the Skyward AI's prompt sounded in his ear.
[Warning: The Fire Willow tree's vital signs are fluctuating, and the concentration of fire attribute energy in the surrounding area is decreasing at an abnormal rate. There are signs of potential transplantation failure, with a 66% probability.]
Due to this warning, Song Chi voluntarily stopped the transplantation process.
A 66% failure rate was not a small probability, and Song Chi wasn't willing to take the risk.
Aside from the difficulty of finding a new suitable fire attribute environment in a short time, there was another crucial reason.
Song Chi possessed something that could increase the chances of a successful transplantation, but he just needed to wait for a while.
Walking up to the Cultivation Sanctuary component, Song Chi immersed his mind into the realm.
Within the sanctuary, the Silver Apple Mother Tree at its center had regrown four Silver Apples. Although they needed more time to fully mature, the "Sanctuary Accelerator" trait of the realm meant that in just a few years, these four Silver Apples would be ripe.
The five-tier Silver Apples could elevate the Immortal Domain Spirit Soil to orange quality, significantly improving the chances of a successful transplantation for the Fire Willow tree.
Song Chi decided to abandon the transplantation attempt and, without hesitation, piloted the Cob Alt Number towards the exit of the realm.
The Fragments of the Immortal Domain, the ruins of the Departed Sect.
With a spatial fluctuation, the Cob Alt Number appeared out of thin air.
Surveying the familiar surroundings, with the assistance of the Skyward AI, the warship slowly made its way towards the location of the well-hidden Array Seal that Song Chi had discovered earlier.
Song Chi had been curious about this Array Seal, but various circumstances had delayed his investigation until now. With no other distractions, he could finally focus on breaking the seal.
In the warship's control room, Song Chi was pondering the nature of the array seal that had once been guarded by a grand array set up by the Departed Sect. Despite the sect's mountain gate being destroyed long ago, the array seal had managed to persist for an extended period, indicating its extraordinary nature.
As he pondered, the Cangqiong Number vessel beneath his feet moved at an unusually slow pace. They were not within the Spirit Beast Realm; the fragments of the Immortal Domain Continent were filled with countless traces of laws from an ancient, unknown war, as well as countless spatial rifts. It was impossible to fly through this area as they had done in the Spirit Beast Realm.
Although the distance wasn't far, the Cangqiong Number took a considerable amount of time to reach the array seal again.
With the vessel concealed in the void, the naked eye couldn't detect the existence of the array seal on the ruins. It was only by chance that the Void Shadow Assassin Clan Automaton, with its extreme sensitivity to the void, had discovered it. Otherwise, even with the Spirit Glimpse Eye, it would have been impossible to detect.
Not even the red-quality Spirit Glimpse Eye could have done it; Song Chi guessed that even a silver-tier Sky-Scanning Radar enhanced to the fifth rank would have failed to detect any anomalies.
The reason was simple; the Departed Sect was not weak. In the distant past, it was likely a seventh-rank sect, and there was a good chance it had even higher-ranked cultivators. Such a sect would not have set up an array seal below the seventh rank.
Even now, after being eroded by time, the array seal still retained most of its power. To detect it, one would likely need a red or silver radar enhanced to the sixth rank or higher.
Regardless, the array seal had been discovered by the Void Shadow Assassin Clan Automaton, and Song Chi was determined to acquire it.
Once they reached a suitable distance, Song Chi quickly charged the two main cannons while dozens of secondary cannons and externally mounted armor-piercing cobalt launchers fired simultaneously, bombarding the area where the array seal was hidden.
Under the barrage of countless shells, the array seal, concealed in the void, soon revealed itself. The not-so-brilliant light of the array seal began to fade at an extremely slow pace under the bombardment of the Cangqiong Number's heavy fire.
Even though its power had been diminished over a long period, it was still beyond the capabilities of a third-rank vessel's fourth and fifth-rank cannons to break through in a short time.
Song Chi, having experienced this before, was not surprised.
The Pure Yang Sword Light Cannon and the Soul Annihilation Pupil Light Cannon, having completed their charge, fired in succession. The Pure Yang Sword Light Cannon was effective, but the level 59 Soul Annihilation Pupil Light Cannon was even more impressive, causing the light emitted by the array seal ahead to noticeably dim.
However, this was only in comparison to the other cannons; the erosion of the array seal itself was still negligible.
Song Chi estimated that it would take at least several months, if not half a year or more, to completely erode the array seal.
Knowing this, Song Chi wasn't going to waste time waiting. He handed control of the warship to the Skyward AI, instructing it to continue attacking the array seal while he entered the Bazaar to practice Guiding Art cultivation, meditation, and gain insights into the law of space with the Bazaar's assistance.
Additionally, when the time came, he would also open the monthly Bazaar transaction.
In the level 39 Full Attribute Training Room, Song Chi stood in the standard Guiding Art cultivation posture, his shadow energy operating at an astonishing speed under the dense shadow energy and the top-tier body-tempering medicine he had just consumed, which had neutralized a 5,000-year-old Deep Sea Pearl.
After purchasing all the orange and red oddities from the Qingtian Clan, the Bazaar's level had directly risen to 39. However, the required transaction amount to reach level 40 was extremely high, so it had been stuck at this level, unable to meet the criteria for promotion to the fourth rank.
Even so, the level 39 Full Attribute Training Room provided an exaggerated boost to shadow energy Guiding Art. Combined with the 5,000-year-old Deep Sea Pearl obtained from DeGuen, Song Chi's Guiding Art level had rapidly increased from level 35 to level 37 in just a few days.
And he was not far from reaching level 38.
When he exited the Full Attribute Training Room, his shadow energy had stabilized at over half of level 37, and he believed that in a few more years, he would reach the peak of level 37.
Satisfied, Song Chi retracted his inner Qi fluctuations and opened the Zhutian Bazaar attribute panel beneath his feet.
【Name: Zhutian Bazaar】
【Bazaar Owner: Song Chi】
【Level: lv39】
【Specifications: 11,800m x 11,800m】
【Basic Configuration: 245 shops, 1 market area of 2,900m x 2,900m, 1 three-story inn, 1 lv39 Full Attribute Training Room (doubles efficiency when training in Shadow Energy), 1 lv39 Shadow Energy Defense Array, 1 lv39 Ultra-Long Range Spatial Gate Random Deployment Station, 1 Third Rank Spirit Machinery Synthesis Station.】
【Additional Configuration: Light Concealment Platform (Purple) lv30, Third Rank Bloodline Baptism Platform (Red) (2/14)】
【Feature: Evil Avoidance (Free movement in the void, subconsciously avoiding natural disasters)】
【Feature 2: Spatial Anchor Point (Can set two coordinate anchor points in different star domains in the Shattered Starsea)】
【Upgrade Requirements: 500 strands of Floating Land Essence (Third Rank), 10 strands of Floating Land Essence (Fourth Rank), Bazaar transaction amount reaches 500,000 (488,560/500,000) strands of Third Rank Floating Land Essence, 1 Time Spirit Crystal】
Song Chi's gaze lingered on the last item in the attribute panel. When he saw that the Bazaar's transaction amount was just over 10,000 strands short of the 500,000 target, a smile played in his eyes.
By his calculations, he estimated that one or two more transactions would be enough to meet the required amount. For the needed Time Spirit Crystal, Song Chi had already decided that if he couldn't find it before reaching the target, he would use the versatile enhancement resource, the 'Chaos Copper', as a substitute.
From its name, one could infer that the Time Spirit Crystal, like the Void Spirit Crystal, could only be derived from medium to large-sized time-attributed mineral veins. Its function wasn't significant, and its value was limited, but it was also quite rare, which was the most frustrating aspect.
The Void Spirit Crystal was already difficult to find, let alone time-attributed mineral veins, which were even rarer than space-attributed ones. Moreover, not all time-attributed mineral veins would contain such crystals.
When the Bazaar was promoted to lv39, and Song Chi learned about the Void Spirit Crystal, he immediately posted acquisition notices on the family forum, bazaar shops, and also reached out to Song Yufeng and Wang Zhen. Later, he even entrusted the Star Tower members in the Shining Star Order Chat Group to help search, but there had been no news.
Clicking to close the Bazaar attribute panel, Song Chi sat down at a hidden location in the Bazaar's original space, preparing for another round of Law Perception.
Simultaneously, he eagerly anticipated the scene when the Bazaar would be promoted to the fourth rank.
Advancing from the third to the fourth rank in the Shattered Starsea would be a qualitative change, and he believed that the Bazaar would also undergo significant transformations.
Soon after sitting down, a call from the Thorn Dragon, which he had left on the Cob Alt Number, reached his mind.
"The Array Seal is about to break?"
Hearing this, he immediately stood up, and his figure quickly disappeared from the Bazaar.
In the fragments of the Immortal Domain, suspended high in the sky, Song Chi's figure appeared within the Cob Alt Number as spatial fluctuations flashed.
His gaze immediately went to the holographic projection in front of the warship. As the Thorn Dragon had warned, after months of continuous erosion, the light on the Array Seal ahead had dimmed to the extreme, and it was about to shatter completely.
Amidst his joy, Song Chi's eyes shifted, and he suddenly spoke,
"Brain, retreat the warship a hundred li!"
Though curious about what was within the Array Seal, Song Chi didn't lose his vigilance. If there was a sixth-rank or higher existence within, having the Cob Alt Number retreat to a safe distance would buy them some time to react.
Once the warship reached the designated position, the main cannon, auxiliary cannons, and external launchers fired again.
Amidst the deafening bombardment, fine cracks began to appear on the dimmed Array Seal below, gradually growing until it shattered completely.
Song Chi's gaze remained fixed on the area below. After the Array Seal broke, he finally saw what was beyond it.
When he saw the scene beyond the Array Seal, his eyes narrowed slightly.
"It's actually a... Spirit Herb Garden?"
Looking at the symmetrically planned plots of Spirit Soil and the scattered Spirit Herbs and Spirit Plants within, he was a bit surprised.
After a brief moment of surprise, joy filled his eyes.
Among the numerous plots of Spirit Soil, he spotted a captivating red glow.
(End of Chapter)
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