Chapter 300 - 176: The 21 Light-Year Diameter Asteroid Belt_2
By comparison, the fact that the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon can exhibit such firepower is already quite impressive.
But understanding this does not mean Song Chi can accept it. Judging by the current advancement of the family’s battlefront, it shouldn’t take a year for the Southern Region, Central Region, and Northern Region to be completely under the family’s control. By then, the two Clan Elders of The First Direct Lineage outside of the Floating Land will likely be able to arrive in person.
Therefore, he does not have much time left. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
If he wants to acquire as many resources as possible from the Soul Spirit Floating Land, he can’t wait until the family’s battlefront has fully advanced. He must take the initiative to enter the territories controlled by the Soul Spirit Clan for exploration and search in advance.
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As such, it is impossible to completely avoid conflict with the high-rank Soul Spirit Clan, which is why he must further enhance the firepower of the Cang Qiong.
The stronger the firepower of the Cang Qiong, the better the odds of success when encountering high-rank Soul Spirit Clan members, and the safer he will be.
[Are you sure you want to use 20 strands of Third-Rank Floating Land Origin + 350 Sunflame Ore + 32 Titanium Crystals to upgrade the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon from lv30 to lv31?]
"Confirmed!"
After seven consecutive enhancements, the [Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon] was upgraded to lv37.
It’s not that Song Chi didn’t want to continue enhancing it, but he ran out of Third-Rank Floating Land Origin.
To upgrade this orange main cannon from lv30 to lv37, a total of 287 strands of Third-Rank Floating Land Origin and 266 Titanium Crystals were spent. Now, he only had the last 67 strands of Third-Rank Floating Land Origin left in his hands.
Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon lv37
Quality: Orange
Feature: Mixed Hollow Extreme Yang Sword Intent Divine Light
Feature 2: Main Cannon Might Enhancement of 122%
Consumption: 3700/shot (Spectral Energy Points)
Attack: 1,798,200
Charge: 4s; Buffer 5s
UpRank Requirement: 69 strands of Third Rank Floating Land Origin, 49,000 Spectral Energy Points, 700 tons of Sunflame Ore, 46 Titanium Crystals
But to be fair, the attributes of the lv37 [Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon] are impressive.
The consumption of resources may be extravagant, but the enhancement of its attributes is substantial. Not to mention anything else, just the attack stat has skyrocketed from the previous 600,000 to nearly 1.8 million, almost a threefold increase.
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After ten hours, having preliminarily explored the entire Blue Blood Floating Continent and incidentally mined several valuable ore veins, Song Chi retracted all the Furious Tiger Mining Carts.
Adding to the time previously spent clearing all Blue Blood Clan tribes, his exploration of the Alien Star Domain had taken over 22 hours, leaving not much time before his return.
There are still quite a few resources left on this Blue Blood Floating Continent for mining. Some biological resources, if invested time to cultivate, could also yield some profit, but these would require time to slowly come to fruition. Naturally, Song Chi wasn’t interested in that.
With the time he had, he was better off going to the Asteroid Belt near the Spatial Anchor Point. What did it mean to have an Asteroid Belt spreading over 17 light-years in diameter?
If gathered and merged into a single Starry Sea Floating Land, it would be at least a Rank 4 Starry Sea Floating Land. In other words, the potential value of that Asteroid Belt far exceeded the Blue Blood Floating Continent he stood upon.
Clear about this, Song Chi naturally understood the basic issue of priority.
In the vault of heaven above the Blue Blood Floating Continent, before leaving through the Ruins Market Secret Realm, Song Chi activated the Space Beacon Emitter component, marking the Blue Blood Floating Continent with a Pathfinder Mark.
Though he had little interest in this Floating Land, he could later report it to his grandfather. A Rank 2 life-form Floating Land, though requiring the use of components like an Alien Domain Beacon Launcher to sustain the passage, albeit troublesome, was still worth deploying manpower to develop for the Tenth Direct Vein that had only recently been established.
This kind of operation wasn’t something exclusive to his lineage. The entire Song Family, the entire Chenxing Principality, and even all the factions of the Torch Human Civilization operated in this manner.
The time and investment for remote development might be greater, but as long as it could be stabilized, the subsequent profits were still good.
After marking the Pathfinder Mark, Song Chi left without any lingering attachment. As he retracted the Cang Qiong, his figure suddenly vanished.
In an unnamed Asteroid Belt, within a kilometer diameter vacuum area inside the belt, with a faint spatial fluctuation, Song Chi appeared out of thin air.
Since there wasn’t much time left, mining the surrounding resources was of course impossible, and that wasn’t his purpose for being there anyway.
Looking over the [Silver III Generation Ultra-Wave Magic Energy Detection Radar], he saw that within the radar’s detection range of over two Light Moons, there again appeared several Second-Rank and Third-Rank biological energy fluctuations, which with high probability was the same as a month ago - those humanoid Alien Races.
Song Chi frowned, as his visit this time was not to clear out these humanoid Alien Races, but to place one of the two Third-Rank Soul Spirit Clan members in this Asteroid Belt to command the Furious Tiger Mining Carts and the standard civilian interstellar mining ships to slowly extract the resources from this Asteroid Belt.
However, with so many Second and Third-Rank Alien Races appearing nearby, this plan was clearly problematic. A single Third-Rank Soul Spirit Clan member, if encountered by those humanoid Alien Races, would not be able to match them.
Considering this, Song Chi rubbed his forehead, pondering what would be best to do.
With only just over an hour left before his return, it was obviously too late for him to clear out the surrounding humanoid Alien Races.
Therefore, there was only one method left: to leave this place and find an area far away from the activities of these humanoid Alien Races.
Only by doing so could the Soul Spirit Clan safely command those Furious Tiger Mining Carts and standard civilian interstellar mining ships over the next month to commence mining this Asteroid Belt.