Chapter 763: Ascension in the All Realms Market

Chapter 763: Ascension in the All Realms Market

After witnessing the effects of the Threefold Golden Body firsthand and spending some time adapting to the changes in his body, Song Chi quickly returned to the Dragon Spine Continent.

At the Dragon Spine Divine Mountain, within the Dragon Whale Hall.

At Song Chi's insistence, the entire hall was enveloped in a chaotic mist, completely isolating it from the outside world.

"Xiao Chi, what's going on?"

With Song Chi's active activation, the "Stellar Projection" effect of the Dragon Whale Hall allowed Song Wujian, Song Yan, and others, who were not currently on the Dragon Spine Continent, to gather in the hall as projections.

Song Chi did not speak but instead took out the remaining two Triple Transformation Golden Body Pills.

"Is this... a new type of pill?"

The True Immortal Breakthrough Pill, Everbloom Creation Pill, True Marrow Pill, and Spirit Nourishing Pill had already been distributed among the younger members of the family, and the core members of the Song Family were well aware of Song Chi's ability to refine special pills. However, this pill, shimmering with a brilliant light, was something they had never seen before.

"Yes, this is the... Triple Transformation Golden Body Pill. It can create the special constitution known as the Threefold Golden Body and also accelerate the mastery of the Guiding Art."

As Song Chi detailed the pill's effects, the excitement in the voices of Song Shiyuan and the others was evident.

Only those who had reached the level of Star Annihilator Captain could truly understand the difficulty of advancing in the seventh-rank Guiding Art. Despite over a thousand years of effort and the support of various special resources, they had only managed to advance by one level, which was a major headache.

For Song Shiyuan, who had ascended later, even after several hundred years, his Guiding Art remained at level 70, essentially stagnant.

If what Song Chi said was true, the Threefold Golden Body, combined with the seventh-rank Mist Half-Serpents they each had bound, and the steady supply of Celestial Star Body Tempering Fluid they could provide in the future, would fundamentally solve this problem.

Song Chi then clearly explained the effects of the Threefold Golden Body. However, when he proposed contributing the remaining two Triple Transformation Golden Body Pills, Song Wujian and the others thought for a while and then shook their heads in refusal.

Three strands of black fire seeds were required to refine three Triple Transformation Golden Body Pills, making it impossible to mass-produce this type of pill.

According to Song Wujian, the family would focus on acquiring black fire seeds that could not be converted into higher-rank fire sources. At that time, Song Chi would only need to refine the pills, and for now, it would be best for him to handle the remaining two pills himself.

Song Chi had contributed a great deal to the family. With the current progress of the Heavenly Ruins Firmament, the Dragon Spine Song Family found it difficult to provide significant assistance, but the family could not continue to take without giving back.

In the end, Song Chi handed the remaining two Triple Transformation Golden Body Pills to his parents.

Compared to Shen Youran, Song Hanyu, and Song Ting, who had higher talent and faster cultivation speeds, Song Chao and Chen Lixia's cultivation was significantly slower. Even with the abundant resources he provided, they had only just entered the Dauntless Captain rank, but this was not enough.

At their current cultivation speed, it would be very difficult for them to reach the Star Annihilator Captain rank in the future, so it was necessary to use the Threefold Golden Body as soon as possible.

As for Shen Youran, Song Hanyu, Song Ting, and Song Mingsong, their cultivation speeds were still acceptable, and they had the support of sixth-rank Mist Half-Serpents. It would not be difficult for them to reach level 69 before their time ran out.

Of course, if there was an opportunity to collect more black fire seeds, Song Chi would not hesitate to refine more Triple Transformation Golden Body Pills.

...

In the All Realms Market, within the all-attribute cultivation chamber.

Deep within the most secluded compartment, Song Chi once again entered a new period of seclusion.

Time flowed, and a hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.

Exiting the standard Guiding Art cultivation stance, Song Chi, who had been in seclusion for a century, reopened his eyes.

"A hundred years, from level 78 to the peak of level 79. It's time!"

With this thought, Song Chi stepped out of the all-attribute cultivation chamber.

Outside, in the sky of the All Realms Secret Realm.

Standing high in the air, Song Chi's eyes flickered over the attribute panel that appeared before him, finally settling on the last line.

[Upgrade Requirements: 500 strands of Floating Land Essence (7th rank), All Realms Market transactions reaching one million strands (1,128,409/1,000,000), one Sovereign Spirit, one World Shattering Stone, and ten Spatial Stabilization Spirit Crystals.]

After a century of seclusion, the final transaction amount for the Pantheon Market's ascension was finally met.

In fact, this amount had been reached several years ago. However, Song Chi wanted to wait until his Guiding Art reached the peak of the seventh tier before proceeding with the ascension.

Of course, there was another reason.

Although the Market of All Heavens Secret Realm was far from its initial state, the ninth-tier Sovereign Power he possessed was enough to give Song Chi the confidence he needed. However, the Secret Realm was located deep within the dark side of the Void Sea, where the void demons, a notorious disaster race on par with the Star Sea insectoids, were hidden.

If the Market of All Heavens were to be exposed due to its ascension, the trouble it would face would be more than just a minor inconvenience.

In short, the current silver-quality Shadow Veil Platform would be hard-pressed to conceal the Market of All Heavens as it pushed for the eighth tier. Song Chi was also unwilling to waste a precious eighth-tier Golden Apple on it. After all, using it to create a golden ascension flame would yield a value several times greater than that of the Shadow Veil Platform.

Therefore, he had to find a higher-quality component of the same type.

Buzz!

With a slight spatial fluctuation, Song Chi vanished from the sky.

On the Dragon Spine Continent, at the foot of the Dragon Spine Divine Mountain.

The Merit Building of the Song Family.

The 100th floor of the Merit Building, the top floor of the Song Family's Merit Building.

This place could only be accessed by a few core members of the Song Family and was one of the highest-level secret vaults the family openly maintained.

As he stepped into the 100th floor, a formidable aura hit him, but it quickly dissipated once the presence recognized him as Song Chi.

Song Chi's gaze also caught the black shadow in the corner.

A seventh-tier void demon.

The Song Family, now the royal family of the Dragon Spine Kingdom, was a first-class immortal lineage. The security level of the family's secret vaults was naturally not to be underestimated.

In addition to the seventh-tier void demon, there was also a sixth-tier family member on this top floor.

Seeing Song Chi, Song Tianshu stood up with a smile.

Although Song Tianshu was Song Chi's great-great-uncle, Song Chi respected him greatly. However, as the undeniably strongest member of the Song Family, Song Tianshu did not hold himself above his younger relative.

After Song Chi explained his purpose, Song Tianshu retrieved a golden item from a secret storage cabinet behind him.

Sub-Dimensional Barrier lv0

Quality: Golden

Trait: Sub-Dimensional Barrier

...

This was the type of concealment and isolation artifact he had asked to be acquired before his seclusion.

Although the golden quality was not the highest, it was sufficient to support the Market of All Heavens as it pushed for the eighth tier.

After receiving the item, Song Chi, eager to ascend the Market of All Heavens, had no intention of staying longer. He bid farewell and was about to log into the Market of All Heavens.

However, Song Tianshu unexpectedly called him back.

Under Song Chi's inquiring gaze, Song Tianshu stepped forward and handed him a Storage Capsule.

"This is... a black ember artifact?"

"Six strands? Where did you get so many?"

Scanning the contents of the Storage Capsule, Song Chi was surprised to see six strands of black ember artifacts emitting a dark glow.

He had spent a long time acquiring even one, and now, after just a century, the family had provided six strands. How could he not be surprised?

After listening to Song Tianshu's explanation, he finally understood.

A century ago, after confirming the powerful effects of the Threefold Golden Body, the family saw the tremendous value of the Triple Transformation Golden Body Pill. After several discussions among Song Wujian and others, they decided to use a sixth-tier Mist Half-Serpent and a sixth-tier Time Realm Fruit as trading chips.

Over the past century, the family had traded two sixth-tier Time Realm Fruits and two sixth-tier Mist Half-Serpents with several deep-rooted immortal lineages, acquiring six strands of black ember artifacts.

Of course, these six strands of black ember artifacts could not be converted into ascension flames, which was a given.

Song Tianshu added:

"Chi, the elders said that out of the six strands of black ember artifacts used to refine the Triple Transformation Golden Body Pill, you only need to hand over four to the family. The remaining two are for you to distribute as you see fit."

...

At the Pantheon Market, after refining the Triple Transformation Golden Body Pill, Song Chi did not rush back to the Dragon Spine Continent. Instead, he immediately began the Market of All Heavens' ascension.

"Do you confirm the use of the above resources to upgrade the Market of All Heavens to level 80?"

"Confirm!"

The Sub-Dimensional Barrier had already been loaded and enhanced to level 80. Without hesitation, Song Chi initiated the formal ascension.

In an instant, boundless golden light enveloped the entire Market of All Heavens space, and the Market of All Heavens Secret Realm began to vibrate continuously.

Since this wasn’t a true Ascension from third to fourth rank or sixth to seventh, the time required was only half a year. While this was considerably longer than the initial Ascension, it was still negligible compared to the ten years needed for a sixth to seventh rank Ascension.

Half a year is neither too long nor too short. Song Chi wouldn’t stay in the All Realms Market the entire time.

With the "Mind Control" ability, he could clearly perceive everything happening within the All Realms Market even when he was outside, eliminating any worries about unexpected incidents during the Ascension process.

...

Time passed, and half a year flew by.

During this period, Song Chi’s mood wasn’t the best. He had applied for the second opportunity to bathe in the ninth-rank Floating Land Essence Tide over a hundred years ago, but he still hadn’t received a response.

Even though he had been mentally prepared, given the rarity of eighth-rank Floating Lands, let alone those at the peak of the eighth rank, which were required for a ninth-rank breakthrough, it was still surprising that even after incorporating the entire octopus demon star cluster, he hadn’t found one.

However, the century had still exceeded his expectations.

Because of this, the Heavenly Ruins Firmament’s breakthrough plan had to be delayed.

Without the boost from the ninth-rank Floating Land Essence Tide, the success rate of the Ascension was too low.

When Song Chi entered the All Realms Market again, the area of the Market Secret Realm had expanded significantly.

Most noticeable was the layer of Sovereign Power surrounding him. Half a year ago, it was at the ordinary ninth-rank level, but now it had reached the peak and limit of the ninth rank. This meant that the use of a "Market Projection Token" would no longer be limited to the near-ninth-rank level but would achieve true ninth-rank combat power.

This was undoubtedly excellent news.

Suppressing his excitement, Song Chi focused his mind, and soon a detailed attribute panel of the All Realms Market appeared before him.

Name: All Realms Market

Owner: Song Chi

Level: 80

Size: 2,000,000 km x 2,000,000 km

Basic Configuration: 100,000 shops, 100,000 km x 100,000 km street market area, 1 four-story inn, 1 level 79 all-attribute cultivation room (doubles Spiritual Energy cultivation efficiency), 1 level 79 Umbra Energy Defense Array, 1 level 79 long-range spatial gate random placement platform, 1 level 79 Spirit Mechanism Synthesis Platform, 1 level 79 Artifact Origin Refinement Platform, 1 level 79 All Realms Transmission Platform

Additional Configuration: Sub-Dimensional Barrier (Gold) Level 80, Level 6 Bloodline Baptism Platform (Red), Divine Realm Quest Platform (Gold) Level 80 (11/32)

Traits:
1. Evade Disaster (can freely move in the void and avoid natural disasters)
2. Spatial Anchor (can set seven coordinate anchor points in any star domain of the Shattered Star Sea)
3. Sovereign Rank (possesses Sovereign power while in the All Realms Market)
4. Mind Control (can control the All Realms Market from outside)
5. World Anchored Spatial Gate (can anchor and connect to a life-bearing Floating Land of a rank not higher than the Market Secret Realm every hundred years, with the connection lasting up to 24 hours)

Upgrade Requirements: 100 strands of eighth-rank Floating Land Essence, the All Realms Market’s trading quota reaching 100,000 strands of eighth-rank Floating Land Essence, 1 eighth-rank Sovereign Spirit.

As Song Chi reviewed the detailed attribute panel of the eighth-rank All Realms Market, his brows furrowed.

From the panel, it was clear that the changes brought by the All Realms Market’s Ascension were not significant. The inn’s floors remained unchanged, indicating that the All Realms Market had not derived any new All Realms Tokens.

This disappointed Song Chi, who had been quite hopeful. However, thinking about the boost in Sovereign Power to the peak ninth rank and the additional Spatial Anchor, he quickly calmed down.

At least he had received what he expected, and that was enough.

Additionally, he didn’t overlook the new trait.

World Anchored Spatial Gate

From the description, it seemed to overlap with the Spatial Anchor, but upon closer inspection, the differences were clear.

The Spatial Anchor required Song Chi to be present to set it and could only be used by him for subsequent teleportation.

The World Anchored Spatial Gate, however, could autonomously anchor a life-bearing Floating Land and connect it via a special spatial gate.

Through this gate, the beings in the All Realms Market could travel to the anchored life-bearing Floating Land.

What can be done with the past?

There are many possibilities. A brand new life-sustaining Floating Continent is bound to have its value, isn't it?

As for the spatial gate only lasting 24 hours, Song Chi had a solution in mind: coordinating with the All-Heaven Teleportation Platform. Within the 24-hour window, a new All-Heaven Teleportation Platform could be constructed on the other side of the Floating Continent. This way, by securing this platform, the inhabitants of the Pantheon Market could freely travel to the life-sustaining Floating Continent.

With this in mind, Song Chi had already formulated a comprehensive plan to utilize the unique characteristics of the World Anchored Spatial Gate.

When the World Anchored Spatial Gate is activated in the future, he could choose the Pantheon Market as the trading location. By posting missions, he could have the myriad alien races from the Pantheon Market explore the life-sustaining Floating Continent on the other side of the spatial gate, even fully exploit the value of the Floating Continent.

Additionally, he could have the alien races conduct initial explorations to ensure there is no powerful civilization or race on the Floating Continent. Only then would he send his own forces for colonization and development.

Although this plan was still in its early stages and required further refinement, it had great potential.

After all, the Pantheon Market now housed powerful forces such as the Wizard Civilization, the Ancient Dwarf Civilization, the Supreme Daoist Traditions of the Divine Realm Continent, and the eighth-rank faith deity, the Moon Goddess Elune. Not utilizing such a formidable lineup would be a waste.

Afterward, Song Chi visited the Pantheon Market Inn and the All-Heaven Teleportation Platform.

Although the inn's floors hadn't increased, and no new Pantheon Market tokens had been generated, the number of Market Projection Tokens and Market Passage Tokens had risen.

Upon final confirmation, the number of All-Heaven Door Rooms on the second floor of the inn increased from 200 to 500, the All-Heaven Walking Rooms from 100 to 200, and the All-Heaven Projection Rooms from 10 to 20.

This also meant an increase in the corresponding Pantheon Market tokens.

After the All-Heaven Teleportation Platform was enhanced to level 80, it could now spawn up to 50 sub-teleportation platforms.

The increase wasn't significant, but for the World Anchored Spatial Gate, which could only be opened once every hundred years, it was a considerable improvement.

After understanding all the changes in the Pantheon Market, Song Chi enhanced the Ultra-Long-Range Spatial Gate Deployment Platform, the All-Attribute Cultivation Chamber, and the Spiritual Energy Defense Array to level 80. He then left the Pantheon Market.

Although the cultivation buffs provided by the level 80 All-Attribute Cultivation Chamber had improved, his Guiding Art was already at its peak at level 79. He needed a long period of seclusion to break through, which wasn't something he could achieve in a short time.

Compared to that, he was more concerned about when the second opportunity to bathe in the ninth-rank Floating Continent Essence Tide would come.

Another matter that troubled him was the 3.5 kg Time Source Crystal in his possession. At 3500 grams, it could eliminate 3500 years of the artifact cooldown period.

This time could allow the Heaven Devouring Python's Metamorphosis effect to cool down immediately, which was perfect as the Heavenly Ruins Firmament was preparing to ascend to the Galactic River Vessel. Once the Ascension was successful, all the colored components on the warship could be enhanced to level 100.

However, this required his Ember Seed to be upgraded to a tricolor state first.

Song Chi was currently torn on this. Should he immediately cool down the Mythic Metamorphosis effect to evolve a strand of colored fire for himself?

Or should he wait to see if the eighth-rank Void Demon sent to the Immortal Domain Continent could find a strand of the Inferno of the Wood, which would allow his incomplete Samadhi True Flame to transform into its perfect form?

Based on Song Chi's own estimation, a complete and flawless Samadhi True Flame would certainly be a Colored Myth-level fire source.

After much deliberation, Song Chi shook his head and stopped pondering.

Since the Heavenly Ruins Firmament hadn't ascended yet, there was no rush. If the eighth-rank Void Demon managed to collect the Inferno of the Wood in advance, everything would fall into place naturally.

In the meantime, Song Chi quietly waited for news from the Xinfu Ancestral Court.

Fortunately, the outcome wasn't too bad. After a few more years, the Xinfu Ancestral Court of the Immortal Qin finally brought news. The long-awaited opportunity to ascend to the ninth-rank Floating Continent had finally arrived.

(End of Chapter)

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