Chapter 457: A Fortune Divided, Secrets Revealed in the Omniverse Market

Choosing the Silver Upgraded Fire Source and ten Dominion Souls—that was actually pretty logical.

With the three Gold Sanctum Domain Components off the table, the silver Upgraded Fire Source was easily the most valuable item left.

Fireseed Oddities are rare enough, but ones that can be transformed into Upgraded Fire Sources are even rarer. And with it being of Silver Legendary quality, its worth easily rivals that of a Gold Sanctum Oddity.

As for those Dominion Souls, they’re absolutely essential for upgrading components to seventh-tier or above in the future.

Even though it’s only been sixty or seventy years since the Heavenly Ruin advanced to Tier Four, the foundation it’s built during decades of expansionary wars has long since caught up.

For the Zhulu-class Cruiser’s advancement to a battleship, three out of four special resources are already gathered. Add in the sixth-tier Doomstar Blood, regular Dominion blood, and numerous high-tier beasts from the Spirit Beast Sanctuary, and if they can get a high-level Evil God Blood from the Night Elves, the Heavenly Ruin could try for battleship class within a few decades.

Once they cross into battleship ranks, all the high-grade components in the warship will need Dominion Souls.

Song Wujian and Song Shiyuan just shook their heads at Song Chi’s selection.

“Little Chi, you’re selling yourself short here. Dominion Souls and high-tier Floating-Land Origins are meant to be divided equally later on.”

“How about this—twenty-five Dominion Souls, we each get seven and the family Merit Tower’s top floor gets the remaining four. Since the three Gold Sanctum Components are useless to you, every Silver Oddity that can’t be slotted as a ship component—including that Gold Sanctum Oddity—is yours to handle. Anything you earn trading at the Omniverse Market from these is your personal profit!”

Song Chi’s eyes lit up at that.

After all, among the thirty-plus Silver Legendary Oddities, seven can’t be made into ship components. If he got those, his stash of spare Silver Oddities in the market would break into double digits.

That way, when using the Market Projection Token in the future, he’d never have to worry.

As for the Gold Sanctum Oddity, it was called the Starlight Compass. With its many uses, slotting it into the market’s exchange shop could mean a quick trade.

Even if it doesn’t move quickly, it’ll look impressive next to that Imperial Barbarian Blood Puppet—boosting the shop’s face and class. It’s a solid win either way.

When Song Chi didn’t object, Song Wujian and Song Shiyuan quickly started choosing for themselves.

Song Wujian went first and didn’t choose the Gold Sanctum Energy Shield: the Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang already had several gold components. For Song Shiyuan, his Unmoving Vajra only had a single gold armor component so far, so he let the golden shield go.

But Song Shiyuan shook his head; he wasn’t on board.

“Old Ancestor, I’m still using a Red Torch Seed. That High-Energy Particle Energy Shield wouldn’t do me much good right now. The Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang will make better use of it!”

Song Wujian wanted to say more, but Song Shiyuan pressed on.

“You’ll need to bargain with Rosetta next. The Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang must have the strength to back it up. A single Tri-Eyed Dominion flagship just isn’t enough!”

Hearing this, Song Wujian stopped pushing and took the Gold Energy Shield.

With the Tri-Eye Spirit-Lock Ring, he could swiftly and safely remove the Level 70 Silver Energy Shield from the Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang and install the new gold one, boosting the warship’s power once again.

Song Shiyuan ended up choosing a Silver Super Main Cannon.

When Unmoving Vajra advanced to dreadnought class, it gained an extra super cannon slot. But with time so tight, it only had a red super cannon loaded. Swapping in a silver one now was a welcome improvement.

Alongside these, Song Chi also picked a Silver-quality Deathstar Tracking Mark component.

This was a tracking component. The one on the Heavenly Ruin, the Blood Soul Mark, was ancient and the tracking range was minuscule by comparison. The Deathstar Tracking Mark was another level entirely.

Deathstar Tracking Mark, Level 0

Quality: Silver

Trait 1: Deathstar Starlight Mark

Trait 2: Mark stealth priority +800

Trait 3: Doubled tracking range

Trait 4: Deathstar Kill Order

Consumption: 30 energy/second (phantom energy points)

Effect: Strikes a target with the ‘Deathstar Starlight Mark’, then allows you to track its location within a 10-light-year (5×2) radius for ten years flat.

Requires no charge-up or cooldown.

Upgrade cost: 30 strands of tier-zero Floating-Land Origin, 3,000 phantom energy, and five kilograms of Starlight Stone.

Note: This component occupies four slots.

{Deathstar Starlight Mark: Imbues the mark with Deathstar starlight energy, making it extremely difficult to remove or purify.}

{Deathstar Kill Order: Spend 50,000 phantom energy to stamp a target with a kill order mark. No matter where the target hides or how far from the battleship, it can be pinpointed for up to a hundred years. No cooldown, but only one such mark can exist at a time—when one is removed or canceled, the next can be used immediately.}

Song Chi valued this tracker immensely—especially the Deathstar Kill Order. When things get tense, that could be a game-changer.

He immediately upgraded it to Level 60.

At sixth-tier and beyond, its stats became terrifying.

The concealment priority of the starlight mark jumped to 5,400, so it was nearly undetectable to the marked. Tracking range soared to 14,000 light-years.

Finally came the distribution of high-tier Floating-Land Origin. The eighth-tier ones didn’t need discussing—no one in the clan could use them now, so they’d go straight into the family vault to become part of the foundation.

For the seventh and sixth tiers, the three of them each took 100 strands of seventh-tier and 10,000 strands of sixth-tier Origin, with the remainder going to the clan treasury or atop the Merit Tower.

Then there were the special materials. Song Chi took the Hunyuan Copper, which would be needed to upgrade the Omniverse Market in the future—the more, the better. Still, each of the three got a hundred standard Eternal Stone Bricks as well.

So with that, the entire distribution was finally done. All three walked away with heavy spoils, and even what went to the family bulked up their resources tremendously.

As for the Doomstar Secret Arts Inheritance Stele—it was only useful to Song Chi, so it was slated for the Dragon Ridge Sanctuary to bolster the clan’s reserves.

A glance at the stele revealed its first secret art: Deathstar Descent. It was the same kind of technique as Starlight Descent.

Plus, it also held Deathstar Apocalypse and Deathstar Rapid Detonation, which caught Song Chi’s eye right away.

If he could comprehend Deathstar Descent, using it in tandem with Starlight Descent would let him summon projections of two ancient multiverse stars at once.

Both stars would hang in the sky, and he’d become the Lord of the Stars, wielding stellar might. The final power might be unknown—but the sheer spectacle would be off the charts.

Deathstar Rapid Detonation was also invaluable: it let him throw a summoned Deathstar projection as a long-range attack and then detonate it at will. There simply weren’t many techniques like that.

Of course, now wasn’t the time for slow study. They still needed to wrap up their push in the Tianpan Galaxy, and even after that, the biggest challenge remained for all factions who’d joined the expansion war.

With a star region over 800,000 light-years across, it was impossible for the three Immortal Houses to carve up all the territory. At least half would have to go as rewards to the kingdom’s lower powers. Dividing it up and who got what—the debates would be endless.

The kingdom fleet’s advance kept rolling, and time ticked by.

On this day, the Omniverse Market opened for another round of trading.

This would also be the last round before the market itself ascended to fifth-tier.

Actually, they’d met the trading requirements years ago, but Song Chi didn’t want to use Hunyuan Copper just yet. He wanted to see if he could gather the Star Universe Origin Stone himself.

But now he’d decided—if there was still no news from this round, he’d use the copper to push the market up.

He arranged his seven new Silver Oddities and the Starlight Compass front and center in the Oddities Exchange Shop, and synced them into the Divine Realm Player Trading Space.

Only after doing all this did he head for the market’s deepest corner and the Ultra-Long-Range Spatial Portal Drop Zone, officially kicking off the exchange.

This round had Song Chi excited. With so many high-quality oddities, even trading one would bring huge gains.

Two gold Sanctum Oddities? That would be the stuff of dreams.

It reminded him of the time he traded the Spirit Language Book—he got back a Divine Realm Task Platform of equivalent value. That single oddity brought years of solid returns.

As usual, Luke was the first to arrive. After leading a successful completion of a Divine Lord mission and earning a red oddity, his luck lately had been amazing.

He’d managed to get a Type-II War God Mech from his clan’s ancestor and fuse his red oddity into it. Now his mech’s combat power was top-tier for its class.

But when he walked into the exchange shop and saw more than ten Silver Legendary Oddities and two Gold Sanctum Oddities, his haughty look vanished. His triangular eyes widened, almost popping out, glued to the case.

And it wasn’t just Luke—long-time market regulars and new arrivals from every alien corner of the Sea of Stars found themselves just as stunned.

Who could blame them? In the shattered star sea, how many beings ever laid eyes on a Silver Oddity, let alone a Gold Sanctum Oddity? One in a billion wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

Bad news, though: while plenty drooled over the oddities, none actually came forward to trade—or could even afford it.

Song Chi had braced himself for this, but the disappointment was still bitter.

Until the Fourth-Tier Night Elf arrived.

The Night Elf cast a quick glance over the silver and gold oddities but didn’t linger. Instead, they stepped up and respectfully spoke:

“Great Master of the Market, regarding the Market Projection Token’s term you mentioned, our Matron has agreed—of your three options, we choose the third: a peak sixth-tier Evil God Blood!”

With that, it produced a softly glowing wooden box from its belt. When opened, it revealed a single drop of peak sixth-tier Evil God Blood.

Delighted, Song Chi quickly replied in his mind:

[Agreed!]

That tribe’s Market Projection Token lease had just hit fifty years, so Song Chi had given them three renewal choices the round before.

Option 1: Return the Market Projection Token and get a Silver Oddity back.

Option 2: Keep the token and pay with sixth-tier Moon Spring.

Option 3: Keep the token and pay with peak sixth-tier Evil God Blood.

Song Chi’s greatest worry was choice one. The Myriad-Spirit Annihilation Bow was a flawless super main cannon—he’d never want to give it back unless forced.

So them picking option three fit his hopes perfectly.

With the Evil God Blood in hand, the Heavenly Ruin’s shot at battleship class just climbed even higher.

When the deal was done, Song Chi got his prize, while New Moon Tribe got another fifty years with the Market Projection Token—everyone walked away happy.

After that, the next ten-plus hours saw no major developments.

But just as Song Chi thought this trading round was over, the last two hours brought a wild surprise.

With a little over an hour left, the market’s entrance suddenly shimmered—a brand-new portal flared to life.

When someone stepped through, Song Chi’s eyes sharpened.

“A human?”

The newcomer was unmistakably human, radiating the aura of a third-tier Sea of Stars lifeform—definitely no slouch.

Cautious eyes roamed over thousands of alien races in the market, growing more guarded with every step. But seeing no one made a move against him, he approached the rules barrier at the main gate.

After reading the market’s rules through, his vigilance finally eased a little. But instead of entering, he turned and disappeared right back through the portal he’d come from.