Chapter 555: The Dawning of the Seventh-Tier Floating-Land

The wait always felt endless. Even though the fifth-tier Night Elf had only been gone from the Market for ten or so minutes, to Song Chi it felt like an eternity.

Around the fifteenth minute, the fifth-tier Night Elf finally returned.

Once she stepped back into the Oddities Exchange, she didn’t waste time. From her storage necklace, she produced three dazzling golden oddities.

A wisp of fireseed.

A peculiar serpent scale.

And a drop of pure silver-hued blood.

Law Power swept through the Oddities Exchange, and Song Chi instantly received all the information on the three items.

[Oddity: Shadowflame of the Dark God]

[Quality: Gold]

[Convertible: None]

[Note: The divine fire left behind by a fallen dark god of the Underworld on the Gods’ Continent. Through a twist of fate, it’s transformed into a single wisp of fireseed oddity.]

……

[Oddity: World Serpent’s Scale]

[Quality: Gold]

[Convertible to: {Mythic Serpent’s Eternal Guard Scale}]

[Note: A scale shed by the mythic World Serpent, long nurtured by mythic power. Once fallen off, it instantly turned into a golden sanctum oddity.]

……

As for the last item, naturally, it was a single drop of eighth-tier Evil God Blood.

Reading the details, Song Chi immediately ruled out the Shadowflame of the Dark God, since it couldn’t be converted into an upgraded Torch Seed for his ship.

But the other two left him genuinely conflicted.

He’d already checked it—the World Serpent’s Scale had components perfectly compatible with the Heavenly Ruin. This was exactly the kind of part his ship desperately needed.

Mythic Serpent’s Eternal Guard Scale lv0

Quality: Gold

Unique Trait: Mythic World Serpent’s Blessing

Consumption: 100/s

Upgrade Requirement: 100 strands of zero-tier Floating-land Origin, 10,000 Eon Energy Points

Note: This part occupies five slots.

{Mythic World Serpent’s Blessing: When installed on a battleship, receives the full blessing of mythic power, allowing it to ignore any detection or targeting by beings of lower rank than the World Serpent.}

This part was almost identical to the family’s Star Annihilator’s Wrath and Sub-Star Annihilator’s Wrath: each had only one unique trait, but a trait that was overwhelmingly powerful.

And that was why their effects could shake the field.

Song Chi had no idea what level the World Serpent had attained, but judging by the part’s description, it was undeniably a mythic being.

And what did ‘mythic’ mean? At the very least, it signified a tenth-tier peak entity.

Meaning that at bare minimum, such a being was ranked color-grade/lower—so with this, it wasn’t impossible to block the Shang Clan’s relentless pursuit.

That was the very reason Song Chi had locked onto this item from the start.

But that single drop of eighth-tier Evil God Blood was just as tempting.

To put it simply: if the Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang failed to evolve this time, at the moment the sixth-tier Timeworld Fruit activated, Song Chi could throw in this eighth-tier Evil God Blood, boosting the ship’s chances even higher for the all-important second attempt.

Pondering his options, Song Chi took a breath, organized his words—and replied.

[Due to special circumstances, this transaction will be postponed for five years!]

With that, without giving the fifth-tier Night Elf a chance to argue, a powerful repulsive force swept over her. Not only her, but every foreigner in the Market felt it; they were all being forced out.

Within moments, hundreds of thousands of non-humans were ejected from the Market Pocket Realm.

Of course, this was just an emergency scenario Song Chi had staged to cover his tracks—he needed to be sure the Moon Goddess Elune wouldn’t catch on and try to squeeze him for more. Besides, the market trade was nearly done anyway, so ending it a few minutes early wouldn’t matter.

With that, everything would have to wait for another five years.

……

Time flowed by, and five years passed in a flash.

Morningstar Kingdom, Dinghai Sector.

From the perspective of the surrounding starry sky, the Dragon-Spine Continent still spanned a thousand lightyears—showing no sign of evolving into a Seventh‑Tier Floating-land.

But hundreds of lightyears away, deep within the void, a concealed Zhulu-class Cruiser hovered in silence.

Inside the control room, a fourth-tier Torch Captain—direct descendant of the Morningstar Family—activated a silver comms module on the ship again.

“No anomalies on the Dragon-Spine Continent for nearly a year!”

“HQ acknowledges. Keep surveillance going.”

“Understood…”

Before he could finish, the Zhulu-class Captain’s eyes flew wide open in disbelief, glued to the long-range holographic screen. On the display, the Dragon-Spine Continent—quiet for a year—suddenly erupted, shattering apart. In its place appeared a super floating-land over 3,000 lightyears wide, still frantically merging with vast fragments and asteroids, swelling even larger.

“Damn—it’s an illusion! No, Dragon-Spine is breaking through to seventh-tier!”

“What are you saying? Hel, repeat that immediately!”

“No, it’s not just breaking through—the Dragon-Spine Continent has already evolved into a Seventh‑Tier Floating-land! Our Morningstar Kingdom’s very first, and it belongs to the Song Family of Longji!”

It wasn’t only the Morningstar side. All the hidden watchers from various factions in the starfields around the Song Family’s Dragon-Spine Continent frantically relayed this shocking news back to their headquarters.

Within moments, every major power in the Morningstar Kingdom was shaken to its core.

……

Deep underground, at the bottom of a gigantic pit connecting to the core of the continent.

Eleven Song Family core members stood in silent anticipation.

Staring at the surging origin core ahead, Song Wujian stepped forward.

With a flick, he summoned the Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang from his Ancestral Orifice and had the ship hover right above the restless Floating-land Origin Core. His gaze then snapped to Song Shiyuan and the others behind him.

“Shiyuan, head out to the exterior and welcome our approaching ‘guests.’ Remember, summon the Three-Eyed Clan’s Dominion Flagship immediately. Only then will these so-called guests show proper respect!”

“Understood!”

As Song Shiyuan quickly departed, Song Wujian continued:

“Shixing, stand guard here. Make certain nothing disrupts the Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang’s evolution!”

“Xiaochi, Xiao Yan—you two proceed to the designated energy tide evolution site. Miss Ru, Tianhao, Tianshu, you’re in charge of their safety!”

Order after order flowed from Song Wujian. For a moment, the Song Family’s greatest strength was laser-focused, every nerve on edge.

……

Dragon-Spine Continent, Blazing Fire Valley.

The Heavenly Ruin hovered at the center of this valley—Song Chi’s chosen site for his ship’s ascension.

Inside the battleship, Song Chi stared closely at the status panel in front of him.

[Warship Evolution Task (Heavenly Ruin)]

[Current Evolution Success Rate: 90.81% (Initial 0.01% + Special Resource Formula 10% + Sixth-Tier Peak Evil God Blood 6% + Seventh-Tier Tribulation-Transcending True Immortal Source Blood 17% + Seventh-Tier Ordinary Sovereign Blood 1% + Bathed in Alien Blood 56.8%)]

[Special Resource Formula (2/2): Celestial Meteorite x1, Advanced Law of Space Crystal x1]

[Additional Evolution Resources: Sixth-Tier Peak Evil God Blood, Seventh-Tier Tribulation-Transcending True Immortal Source Blood, Seventh-Tier Ordinary Sovereign Blood]

[Bathed in Alien Blood: Sixth-Tier Bloodwar Clan x68…]

In two years, he’d managed to raise the evolution rate above 90%. Sure, it wasn’t as high as the 98% or 95% from earlier attempts, but keep in mind—this was a battleship evolving into a dreadnought.

For ships of this caliber, even the heirs of Immortal Houses with a hundred-thousand-year legacy would struggle to push the success rate past 70%. Achieving 90% was nearly unheard of.

So why didn’t Song Chi keep pushing higher?

Simple—it wasn’t a matter of will. It was simply impossible.

Once past 90%, increasing the rate further required killing sovereign beings, not just sixth-tiers.

Still, Song Chi was very content. With 90% odds, plus the extra fifth-tier Timeworld Fruit already invested, even if the first attempt failed, he could try again. The chances of failing twice at nine-tenths odds were nearly nonexistent.

And if fortune really turned against him and both efforts flopped, he still had the Timepiece Chessboard installed on the ship. At that point, he’d use the ‘Nine Lives Game of Life and Death’—his last resort.

Time passed. Dragon-Spine Continent kept expanding. Everyone knew that as soon as the growth ended, the energy tide would rise. Right now, the entire Song Family was holding their breath, waiting for that moment.

Elsewhere on the continent, another evolution site.

Several cruisers had gathered here.

Within the warship’s comms group chat, several younger Song Family members were exchanging.

“Yiming, do you think you’ll manage to evolve your Zhulu-class Cruiser this time?”

“Yeah, my current success rate’s at 76%. With the energy tide, I might break 85%!”

“76%, huh? That’s wild. I’m only at 64%. Hitting over 70% at the end would make me happy!”

……

There were contenders for evolution like this all across Dragon-Spine Continent right now.

But while anticipation filled the inside of Dragon-Spine, things outside were getting tense.

“Shiyuan, what’s the meaning of this? Dragon-Spine just evolved to seventh-tier—we only came to congratulate you! Blocking us at the door isn’t how you treat guests!”

Outside the floating-land’s shield, the Dreadnought Unmoving Vajra hung in stillness. Above it, the Three-Eyed Clan’s Dominion Flagship waited with cannons ready, the faint light at its prow warning it was on hair-trigger alert.

Suddenly the warship group ahead of the Unmoving Vajra parted.

The next moment, the Morningstar Traverse—a Star-Annihilator-class ship over ten thousand kilometers long—glided forward from the rear.

Clearly, Dragon-Spine’s evolution had gotten the attention of the Morningstar Kingdom’s one and only Star-Annihilator-class Captain.