Global Era of Star Trekking

If the current campaign of conquest didn’t encounter any significant surprises, the Red River Star Domain would definitely be incorporated into the Dinghai Star Domain, and at that time, the Dinghai Star Domain would balloon to nearly five thousand light-years.

Of course, this was not the ultimate solution. During this campaign, the Song Family would strive to seize even more resources. A barren star domain with only a single Fifth Rank Floating Land would far from satisfy the appetite of the Song Family.

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Thinking thus, Song Chi’s thoughts shifted, and the space around the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong surged, quickly making the jump toward Goat Floating Land.

Although the battle on Heavenly Star Floating Land had ended, the cleanup process across the entire Red River Star Domain was nowhere near as quick.

It was, after all, a star domain with a diameter exceeding two thousand light-years. Even if the fleets of various powers within were all cooperating to their fullest, working together to clear one valuable Floating Land after another, it would still take at least a few years to complete.

In the following days, Song Chi devoted all his time to accompanying the direct vein’s fleet in attacking various Second and Third Rank Floating Lands. For the Tenth Direct Vein, conquering each additional Floating Land meant a stronger foundation, an overall increase in the direct vein’s power.

Aboard the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, Song Chi handed over the warship controls to the Dome Sky Wisdom Brain and sat down himself, beginning to fully absorb the second Fifth Rank Evil God Essence.

Previously, at Third Rank, he had three Half-Step Sixth Rank and five Fifth Rank Essences left. Right after his Guidance Technique had broken through to Fourth Rank, he absorbed a Fifth Rank Evil God Essence, which, along with the sublimation of life following his breakthrough in the Guidance Technique, helped his Spiritual Force soar to Twenty-Seven Uses With One Mind.

However, absorbing a Fifth Rank Evil God Essence required quite some time, often more than a month, and the effect of Spiritual Force on accelerating Law Comprehension was exceedingly limited. It primarily improved the efficiency of starship operation and the duration for which the Mythical Mech Form could be maintained. Thus, he had not been in a rush to absorb the remaining four Fifth Rank and three Half-Step Sixth Rank Evil God Essences.

It was only now, seeing he had plenty of time, that he had started to absorb these remaining Essences.

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Time passed, and nearly two years went by in a blink of an eye.

During these two years, the fleet led by the Song Family carried out a thorough cleanup and scavenging of the entire Red River Star Domain. Thanks to the enthusiasm of billions of Torch citizens (as ordinary starships required many operators), the progress was very promising.

In less than two years, the fleet had already reached the edge of the Red River Star Domain. Moving forward another hundred-plus light-years would bring them to the western borders of the Chaotic Star Field.

Compared to the progress of the Dinghai fleet, the pace of the Duchy’s Eastern Main Fleet was significantly faster.

Zhu Tian Ruins Market, third floor of an inn, inside a Walking Room.

“Master, that’s the overall situation!”

After detailing all the information, Wang Zhen respectfully watched Song Chi sitting before him.

Song Chi’s eyes moved thoughtfully.

Before the great campaign began, he had seriously considered Wang Zhen’s position. Initially, his thought was to have Wang Zhen come to the Dinghai Star Domain, to act with the family’s Tenth Direct Vein and incidentally take charge of protecting his father, mother, and Song Ting.

After Song Chi’s investments, the [Wolf Howl Tiger Roar] was no longer the same as it was decades ago when it first advanced. Now equipped with multiple Orange Components and a Fourth Rank Enslaved Species, it was in the upper echelons among ordinary Zhulu Warships. If it could offer personal protection to his family, he would feel much more at ease.

However, after extensive consideration, he abandoned this arrangement and instead sent Wang Zhen and his subordinates to follow the Eastern Main Fleet, providing real-time information for himself while also actively purchasing differential resources and Strange Objects that couldn’t be converted into ship components.

Now it seemed his decision was correct.

Though the real-time information about the Duchy’s Main Fleet over the past two years hadn’t been very useful, Wang Zhen’s acquisition of resources and Strange Objects had yielded a significant haul.

Firstly, he managed to buy a staggering two Storage Capsules full of special Floating Land plant seeds, which the Treant Race highly prized.

Then there were Terrastones, various medicinal herbs needed by the Primordial Continent, and other such items.

Most importantly were the Starry Sea Oddities that couldn’t be transformed into ship components. Over the past two years, the Duchy’s Main Fleet had penetrated the entire southern part of the Chaotic Star Field, destroying many Alien Race civilizations. This meant that virtually every Torch Ship Captain in the fleet had one or two of such items.

When Wang Zhen actively offered to purchase these at seventy percent of the price of equivalent components, these Torch Ship Captains practically swarmed to him. Even though Song Chi had already provided Wang Zhen with several million strands of Low Rank Floating Land Origin, they nearly ran out.

Such an extensive distribution of Floating Land Origin led to the acquisition of more than twenty Red Epic Oddities, over three hundred Orange Oddities, thousands of Purple Relics, and tens of thousands of blue and white Strange Objects.

All these were now piled up in the several Storage Capsules in Song Chi’s possession.

Just before, he had got a good deal of cheap Floating Land Origin from Heavenly Star Floating Land, and combined with the profit from the market over these two years, Song Chi once again gave Wang Zhen a large amount of Low Rank Floating Land Origin. In total, there would be no less than five hundred million strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin, enabling him to buy various Strange Objects that couldn’t be converted into components without any restrictions.

Taking these strands of Floating Land Origin, Wang Zhen hesitated for a moment but eventually spoke up:

“Your Highness, it’s not just us actively purchasing these Starry Sea Oddities; other major powers under the Duchy’s conglomerates are also buying, but their purchase price is at most sixty-five percent of the price of equivalent components, which is why they can’t outbid us. However…”