Chapter 505: Venom, Opportunity, and the Eyes of Heaven

With five components upgraded, the warship’s stats took a solid leap. Song Chi’s gaze then landed on the No.004 Cultivation Secret Realm of Chicang.

He only had six Sixth-Tier Void Crystals on hand, not enough to take this module up to seventh tier. But there was still one straightforward way to get more Sixth-Tier Void Crystals.

Dive deep into the Shadow Side of the Void Sea and hunt Void Demons.

At its current strength—especially with the Voidlock Skyseal Sigil installed—the Heavenly Ruin could easily hunt Sixth-Tier Void Demons. With the Market Projection Token as a trump card, even running into a Seventh-Tier Void Lord wouldn’t faze him.

That settled it. Song Chi knew what he had to do.

But, before that, he needed to deal with the Gold-grade Special Law Crystal of Blood he’d been holding onto.

After waiting several minutes, a reply finally popped up in the Star Order group chat—but it wasn’t from “Blood Soul”.

“Whitebrow?”

Song Chi raised an eyebrow, surprised. Never thought this would flush out our resident ‘chilly, hidden rich lady.’

“No.30 Whitebrow: @Jingzhe @Blood Soul I’ve got a gold-quality Patrol Radar. I want the special-grade Ice Law Crystal.”

Then came a full stat screenshot.

Eyes of Heaven lv0

Quality: Gold

Trait: Scan range +140%

Trait 2: Scan priority +3000

Trait 3: Spiritual Detection

Trait 4: Omnidirectional Three-Dimensional God’s View

Trait 5: Eyes of Heaven

Consumption: 50/s (Nether Energy Points)

Scan Range: 200 light-seconds

Precision: 2000

Upgrade cost: 50 threads of Zero-Tier Floating-Land Origin, 5000 Nether Energy Points

{Spiritual Detection: Highlights any life or object with unique energy reactions within scan range on radar display.}

{Omnidirectional Three-Dimensional God’s View: Spend 100,000 Nether Energy, temporarily enter a god’s-eye, real-time 3D interface. View and monitor specified zone for 10 minutes. 72-hour cooldown.}

{Eyes of Heaven: Spend 200,000 Nether Energy to perform cross-starry-sky recon in a specified zone—provided no spatial seals, mana jamming, or supermagnetic interference. Max range 10 light-years. Lasts 30 minutes. 720-hour cooldown.}

After reading the specs, Song Chi’s interest shot up instantly.

If he had to name the biggest weakness of the Heavenly Ruin right now, it was, hands down, the fact that the Eye of Spirit-Seeking was only red-grade. Sure, its ability to detect Starsea Oddities was amazing, but the base quality was just too low.

Compared to that, this new Eyes of Heaven module was in another league—apart from one thing. Its ‘Eyes of Heaven’ trait was too easy to interfere with, making long-range scans unreliable.

Song Chi figured that was probably why Whitebrow was willing to part with such a top-tier Patrol Radar. Otherwise, nobody would trade away a treasure like this on a whim.

It was “Blood Soul” who replied first.

“No.18 Blood Soul: No problem!”

Seeing that, Song Chi quickly sent his own reply.

“No.32 Jingzhe: Deal!”

With no objections, the trade wrapped up in no time.

In the end, Song Chi got his Eyes of Heaven module, Whitebrow took the special-grade Ice Law Crystal, and Blood Soul received the special-grade Blood Law Crystal—a win for everyone.

Back at the Omniverse Market, Song Chi didn’t rush his previously planned hunt. Instead, he headed straight for the Oddity Essence Refinement Platform.

Just like before, he held twenty-three Starsea Oddities. Setting aside the Eyes of Heaven and the now-reset Eye of Spirit-Seeking, there was one orange Oddity and twenty red Epic Oddities—same mix he’d used to refine the Celestial Authority Ring.

Following the same steps, the ‘Eye of Spirit-Seeking’ trait replaced Eyes of Heaven’s ‘Scan range +140%’.

This Patrol Radar’s base scan range was already ridiculous; the scan range boost was just icing on the cake. Replacing it with ‘Eye of Spirit-Seeking’ made it way more cost-effective.

As for its ‘Scan Priority +3000’, Song Chi planned to swap that out for a trait that ignored space seals, supermagnetic disruptors, and mana-jammers one day. That would make Eyes of Heaven flawless.

With the refinements complete, he fitted the brand-new gold Patrol Radar onto the Heavenly Ruin. But he didn’t upgrade it right away.

Upgrading the previous five modules had drained his titanite crystals. What he’d just reclaimed from the Eye of Spirit-Seeking wasn’t enough to boost the gold Patrol Radar up to seventh tier.

Helpless, Song Chi had to shamelessly borrow some titanite crystals from his own wife.

Luckily, Shen Youran had scored big during the last expansion war—she split off twenty thousand titanite crystals for him without hesitation.

With this emergency stash, the Eyes of Heaven module shot up to level 70 in one go.

Now that the final weak point on the ship was covered, Song Chi was in a great mood.

……

Vrrrrmmmm!

Up in the Market Pocket Realm sky, engines roared as the Heavenly Ruin shot out of the energy shielding and disappeared into the pitch-black depths of the Void Sea.

For this demon-hunting run, Song Chi brought along a Light Attribute Oddity to attract Void Demons with its dazzling glow.

The tactics stayed the same, but Song Chi was a lot more careful this time. Before, he stuck to a small area while moving around, which meant every Void Demon he hunted ended up belonging to the same Void Lord—drawing unwanted attention.

This time, he would clear out the Void Demons he’d lured in, then instantly warp thousands of light-years away before repeating the process.

You heard right—actual spatial warps.

Why dare warp-jump in a place as turbulent as the Shadow Side of the Void Sea? He was that confident in the Heavenly Ruin.

After hundreds of years of upgrades, the ship was nothing like it used to be. It had absorbed countless Spatial Anchor Stones and Eternal Stone Bricks, plus modules like Void Shroud, Space‑skipping Pearl, Behemoth Heart, and Voidlock Skyseal Sigil, all of which massively boosted spatial resistance and hull strength.

Even if a warp landed them right in the center of a spatial storm, the level 70 gold engines would let him tear free by brute force.

With no repeatable route, his hunt went off without a hitch.

Two months later, when he reentered the market with the Market Token, Song Chi had dozens of new Void Crystals—over thirty at fifth and sixth tier alone.

Free Stall Area—Battleship main console.

A prompt chimed in his ear from the Sky-Domain AI.

“Confirm spend: 3 threads of Sixth-Tier Floating-Land Origin + 300,000 Nether Energy + 204 titanite crystals + 125 Law Stones + 1 Sixth-Tier Void Crystal to boost No.004 Cultivation Secret Realm of Chicang from level 60 to level 61?”

“Confirmed!”

Ten bursts of silver radiance later, the silver mobile secret realm module reached level 70.

No.004 Cultivation Secret Realm of Chicang, level 70

Quality: Silver

Trait: Plant growth speed +250%

Trait 2: Exotic plant transplant success rate +60%

Trait 3: Sanctuary Accelerator

Trait 4: Time Essence Liquid

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{Sanctuary Accelerator: Spend 200,000 Nether Energy to accelerate time within the secret realm. Acceleration factor is 200x (per module level). 1-year cooldown.}

Song Chi was mainly focused on the ‘Sanctuary Accelerator’. Now that it was boosted to seventh tier, the acceleration factor had hit a wild 14,000×. Add in treasures like Celestial Spirit Earth and Azure Spirit Spring inside, and the effect would be nothing short of monstrous.

With this module maxed, the Heavenly Ruin’s upgrades were basically complete for now.

Song Chi tallied up what was left: 34 Dominion Souls, a bit over 10,000 titanite crystals, and still hundreds of threads of Seventh‑Tier Floating-land Origin thanks to the Doomstar Race’s secret realm and hunting in the Divine Realm.

“Titanite crystals… always titanite crystals…”

No matter how he sliced it, titanite crystals were still the bottleneck. Song Chi decided not to dwell on it.

It’s all up to luck. With a bit of fortune, he might find a good deal in the market, or stumble on a titanite crystal vein during an Outer Domain run.

If luck’s not on your side, worrying gets you nowhere.

A quick stop back at Dragon‑Spine Continent confirmed the Old Ancestor hadn’t left yet. Leaving a Voidform Avatar in his place, Song Chi returned to the market.

The ship upgrades might be done, but idle time was nowhere in sight—there was still a mountain of things to handle.

Inside the Full-Attribute Cultivation Chamber, Song Chi sat cross-legged. Once his state was optimal, he grabbed the Space God Crystal and poured every ounce of his mind’s focus into it.

The next instant, a flood of Space Law insights poured into his mind, sending his understanding of the Law of Space rocketing upward.

It wasn’t just his imagination—his comprehension really was skyrocketing. Unlike the slow-burn pace of a Law Crystal, the Space God Crystal poured every bit of knowledge straight into your head, whether you could handle it or not.

Thankfully, his mental strength had reached the point where he could multitask fifty ways at once. That kind of tenacity meant he could take it, mostly.

Half a month later, when he left the Full-Attribute Cultivation Chamber, his Space Law comprehension had climbed from just over 60% to 63%.

It might look like only a small 3% jump, but if Song Chi tried to achieve this on his own, it’d take him at least fifty years.

After 60% comprehension, the difficulty shot up ridiculously.

“Guess that Eye Essence of the Multi-Eyed Race has to wait… and working on Martial Heaven’s Eye will have to be put off too!”

Song Chi shook his head, muttering to himself.

Absorbing the Space God Crystal hadn’t messed him up too badly, but it wasn’t without its downsides. Right now, his mind felt totally foggy—he could barely keep his eyes open.

He’d need at least ten days, maybe two weeks, to fully bounce back.

But rest would have to wait—by the second day, word came down from Song Wujian. Time to move out.

Inside the Family Ancestral Hall on Dragon Spine Sacred Mountain.

Noticing Song Chi’s tired eyes, Song Wujian frowned.

“Chi, are you alright? You don’t look in top shape…”

Song Chi smiled and shook his head.

“Really, Ancestor—I’m fine. Just used the Space God Crystal and haven’t recovered yet.”

He paused, then finally asked the question that had been on his mind these past two months.

“Ancestor, where exactly are we headed?”

This time, Song Wujian gave him a straight answer.

“Silverplate Galaxy. Tuoba Royal Clan!”

That got Song Chi’s attention—he was familiar with the place. In fact, he still had a spatial anchor set up on Silverplate Floating-land.

Thinking for a moment, Song Chi pointed at the Dragon Whale Hall overhead, motioning for the Ancestor to activate the ‘Chaos Mist’.

Song Wujian didn’t hesitate. Thick mist quickly filled the Family Ancestral Hall, cutting off any outside snooping.

With privacy assured, Song Chi took out the Dimensional Spatial Stone.

“I can send us straight to Silverplate Floating-land, but you’ll have to wait a bit inside the dimensional space first, Ancestor!”

He meant the spatial anchor. The reason he offered was simple: a round trip between Dragon‑Spine Continent and Silverplate Floating-land would eat up at least a year. Far too troublesome.

With the Chaos Mist covering their tracks, spatial anchor jumps saved tons of time without exposing the existence of the Omniverse Market.

Song Wujian didn’t doubt him—he stepped into the Dimensional Spatial Stone without question.

The family core already knew Song Chi could return to Dragon‑Spine Continent at will, so it made sense he could hop between floating-lands too.

Barely a minute later, when Song Wujian emerged from the Dimensional Spatial Stone, he found himself atop a shop’s upper floor.

Through floor-to-ceiling windows, he could see teeming crowds in the street and tens of thousands of starships coming and going overhead. The buzz was incredible.

Outwardly, Song Wujian showed no emotion, but inside, he was rattled. Knowing about the tech was one thing—experiencing it firsthand was something else.

Instantly crossing over a million light-years from the Dragon‑Spine Continent to Silverplate Floating-land? It didn’t feel real at all.

Sure, the High-Dimensional Wormhole Generator module could send you thirty billion light-years. But opening a wormhole made a ruckus—and if you weren’t careful, everyone would notice. Compared to Song Chi’s silent method, it couldn’t compete.

Not getting hung up on that, the two of them took the stairs down, heading directly for the Tuoba Royal Clan’s domain.

On the first floor of Taibai Trading Co., Song Wujian looked at the dazzling array of goods and glanced at Song Chi.

He didn’t even have to ask. Song Chi volunteered:

“Just bought the place recently!”