National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 314 [Hunyuan Civilization] and the Floating Land Origin Core
Suddenly, violent spatial fluctuations were heard in the dark starry sky, and then a 1,300-meter-long warship appeared out of thin air. It was the Sky, which started a new deployment to an alien star domain.

As early as yesterday when Ansevi's birthday party ended, the alien domain deployment function of the Sky had already completed the buffering, so after recuperating, Song Chi started the exploration of the alien domain as soon as possible.

Strictly speaking, he had not explored alien space for a long time. He was either in a hurry to develop the three-eyed royal flagship, or he was comprehending the laws in the Dragon Ridge Secret Realm.

Now that the things at hand have basically been dealt with, and the assimilation of the laws is not something that can be completed in a short period of time, Song Chi now has time to start exploring.

"I just hope that this is my first serious exploration in more than ten years, and I'll have better luck..."

Muttering, Song Chi withdrew his gaze from the dark battleship projection screen in front of him and turned to look at the radar image on the side.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, and the result did not seem to disappoint him. The radar map of the [Spirit-Seeing Eye] clearly showed that not far away from the Sky, there was a large floating land in the starry sea.

"It's over four million kilometers long and wide. It's actually a Level 3 floating landmass?"

Song Chi was a little surprised, not because the level of this floating land was too high, on the contrary, he felt it was a little too low.

Although the current hull level of the Sky is only lv32, which is indeed a normal third-tier level, but with the support of multiple gold, silver, red and other parts, its actual combat power has long reached the level of easily suppressing ordinary fourth-tier life forms.

Therefore, even though the strength of the alien domain deployment has always been the main factor in determining the ship level, the current Sky will never be simply judged as a third-level unit, it is most likely a fourth-level unit.

Since it is a fourth-level one, it is normal for the corresponding alien domain exploration to be launched around the fourth-level floating land, so this third-level floating land now makes Song Chi confused.

With a cautious mindset, he first summoned four Void Shadow Killer Clan terracotta warriors, attached brain wave imprints to them, and then directly sent them out using the [Fixed-Point Delivery Platform].

The combat power of the Sky is indeed very strong now, but Song Chi did not let down his guard because of this.

You have to know that in the exploration of unknown alien areas, even a star destroyer of this level is at risk of being lost, so it is impossible to relax.

While controlling the warship to slowly move towards the unknown level 3 floating land, Song Chi's eyes quickly showed a deep sense of surprise.

From another perspective in his mind, he saw the full picture of the level 3 floating land.

It is neither a life-type floating land nor a resource-type floating land, but a barren floating land of almost no value.

As far as the eye can see, the vast floating land is paved with gravel and the sky is filled with yellow sand. From time to time, sand storms with astonishing diameter pass through and rage wildly in it, without a trace of life to be seen.

The only thing that caught Song Chi's attention was the several small space fortresses suspended in the sky outside this floating land.

Judging from the few intelligent creatures still remaining in these space fortresses, the floating land below has become like this, most likely due to this kind of creatures. At least they know the reason.

Thinking of this, Song Chi used the perspective of the Void Shadow Killing Clan's soldiers to carefully examine it for a while. After confirming that there were no weapons or combat units in these space fortresses that could threaten the Sky, he took the initiative to start the jump.

This level 3 floating land is not far from the Sky, but that is relatively speaking. If it really cruises at the speed of light, it will probably take at least dozens of hours.

As soon as the Sky appeared outside the desolate floating land, his gaze turned to the space fortresses in the distance.

The floating land itself has lost its value after all, and the alien creatures in the fortress are obviously more valuable at this moment.

Although they are called fortresses, they are actually more like small space stations with their own internal ecological cycles. They are much simpler than those super-large wartime fortresses.

Song Chi guessed that their main function was probably to monitor the floating land in the star sea below.

After more than ten minutes, Song Chi easily captured all the alien creatures in several fortresses, and also collected some information he wanted.

This humanoid race with pointed heads and four claws calls itself the "Shouyuan Tribe" and the civilization they belong to is called the Shouyuan Civilization. Based on some scattered information revealed by these monitoring alien races, Song Chi inferred that this "Shouyuan Civilization" is likely to be an intermediate civilization.

It originated more than 30,000 years ago and started out with technology. Now it has jurisdiction over a territory of more than 10,000 light years, controls nearly a thousand floating life continents, and has a population of over 10 billion. Its most powerful combat unit is called the Shouyuan Mothership, which is suspected to have a fourth-level combat capability.

However, the status of those Shouyuan people in charge of monitoring is average, and they are not clear about how many Shouyuan motherships are under the jurisdiction of this Shouyuan civilization.

In addition, there was no Level 4 floating land in the territory of Shouyuan civilization, either in terms of life or resources, which made Song Chi extremely disappointed.

An intermediate civilization like this without a level 4 floating land is extremely rare in the Broken Star Sea. It is usually the kind with low potential and limited civilizational heritage. However, Song Chi did not expect to encounter one himself, which made him full of complaints.

Finally, there is one more point that makes Song Chi quite puzzled. In the impression of these Shouyuan people, there are actually a large number of barren floating lands similar to the one in front of them in their civilization territory. This is obviously abnormal.

Generally speaking, the floating land in the Broken Star Sea is basically divided into two categories: life-type floating land and resource-type floating land, of which resource-type floating land accounts for more than 99%.

Among these astonishingly large number of resource-based floating lands, they are divided into barren floating lands, mineral floating lands, special astronomical resource floating lands, etc.

Even if it is a barren floating land, there will be a small amount of various resources distributed on it. A truly completely barren floating land like this is actually extremely rare, even rarer than a life-type floating land.

Based on this, Song Chi was certain that this situation was abnormal.

After getting the information he wanted, Song Chi easily eliminated all the members of the Shouyuan tribe.

However, he didn't quite believe it, so he stayed on this level 3 floating land for a while and roughly surveyed it with the [Ultrasonic Geomagnetic Detector] component.

It was not until he failed to detect the existence of any resource veins that he was completely certain that the floating land in the star sea under his feet was indeed a desolate floating land of almost worthless value.

It’s not that Song Chi doesn’t believe in evil, but it’s really rare to land on a purely desolate starry sea.

The reasons for the formation of desolate floating land can be divided into two types: congenital and acquired. However, their dense appearance in the same star field makes it unlikely to be congenital, and it is more likely to be acquired.

But it is not easy to achieve this after birth.

Apart from creatures like the Zerg that devour everything and consume all the energy on the floating land without restraint, the only way is to extract the core of the floating land in the star sea.

Excluding the Zerg, a species that will never coexist peacefully with other civilizations, there is only the last one left.

After this speculation, Song Chi's doubts were still not answered.

Extracting the origin core of the floating land in the Star Sea is something that only a fourth-level life form in the Star Sea can do. And to extract the origin core of a level 3 or 4 floating land, a fifth-level existence is required and it will take a long time. With the peak combat power of the Shouyuan civilization, it should not be possible.

So the question is, how did the Shouyuan civilization do this?

After confirming that the floating land under his feet was a desolate floating land, Song Chi had this doubt in his mind.

With this curiosity, he activated another jump device on the Sky.

Dozens of light years away, outside a level 2 floating land under the jurisdiction of the Shouyuan civilization, the Sky quietly appeared.

Without any pause, with the cover of [Mirage Dragon Pearl] and [Void Membrane], and the fact that there was no Hunting Source mothership stationed on this floating land, Song Chi directly controlled the Sky to land on this floating land. A few hours later, when the Sky rushed out of this floating land again, he had obtained a complete star map of the territory under the jurisdiction of the Hunting Source civilization, and also obtained the specific number of its Hunting Source motherships.

"There are only four source-hunting motherships? In this case, there is nothing to worry about..."

Having made up his mind, Song Chi quickly set his next stop as the only floating land No. 003 in the Shouyuan civilization.

One of the Shouyuan motherships is stationed on this floating land No. 003. Song Chi's goal is to meet this Shouyuan mothership which is said to have fourth-level combat power.

In addition, he also wanted to find out the other party's method of extracting the floating land's origin core from this hunting source mothership, or the specific information.

Extracting the origin core of a floating land has never been an easy task. Even for a fifth-tier battleship captain, if he wants to extract an origin core of a level 1 or 2 floating land, it will take at least 10 years. For levels 3 and 4, it will take more than 20 years. It is not uncommon for some to take 40 years.

But even such a time-consuming and labor-intensive thing is of great value.

An ordinary level 1 or 2 floating land origin core is as valuable as a purple shipborne component, and a level 3 one is even as valuable as an orange component.

As for level 4, those with higher purity can even be exchanged for red top-grade upgraded fire sources.

If it is at level 5 or 6, its value is said to be comparable to that of silver legendary parts.

Why is the Floating Land Origin Core so valuable?

Very simple!
It can be integrated into the floating land origin core of other star sea floating lands to quickly strengthen the other party. This method can quickly improve the level of a star sea floating land.

Take the Morningstar Twin Floating Lands for example. When they were first discovered five thousand years ago, they were all ordinary level 5 floating lands. Now, thousands of years have passed, and because the Morningstar Family has continuously provided the floating land origin cores of low-level floating lands, the Morningstar Yin Land has been able to go all the way from the initial level 5 to the current level 5 peak.

It is said that Morning Star Yinlu is now stuck at the node of being promoted to level 6, and within a hundred years it will become the first level 6 floating life land in the principality.

The same is true for the Dragon Ridge Continent. Three thousand years ago, it was also an ordinary level 5. With the help of a large number of low-level floating land origin cores provided by the Song clan, although it has not yet reached the peak of level 5, it is not far away, basically within one or two hundred years.

Therefore, even though the core of the floating land's origin is difficult to extract, there are still many fourth-level life forms in the starry sea that are eager to obtain it.

This is also the reason why Song Chi is so interested. If the Shouyuan civilization really has some special means to extract the core of the floating land's origin, and can ignore the restrictions of high-level life forms, its value must be beyond imagination.

……

Several days later, after travelling for thousands of light years, the Sky finally arrived at the Shouyuan 003 floating land. He also saw the Shouyuan mothership, which was of an astonishing size.

Compared to the size of most fourth-tier units in the Shattered Star Sea, which are around three thousand years old, the length of the Shouyuan mothership reaches a terrifying ten thousand meters. At first glance, Song Chi thought that the other party was a fifth-tier combat unit.

However, after seeing the countless bombing drones carried on this battleship, Song Chi understood it immediately.

As an interstellar mothership, this battleship does not adopt the single-body battleship system with perfect volume proportions, but is more inclined to cluster bombing. The larger the size, the more unmanned carrier-based aircraft it can carry, and the more terrifying its combat power will naturally be.

However, Song Chi didn't care about this.

Although there are many unmanned bomber carrier-based aircraft on this mother ship, the prerequisite is that the mother ship must have the opportunity for them to take off.

The radar on the Shouyuan mothership was obviously not very good. Even though the Cangqiong had approached within the 10,000-meter range, it still hadn't detected the existence of the Cangqiong.

This also gave Song Chi plenty of time to prepare.

Pure Yang Sword Light Cannon

Soul-destroying pupil light cannon

Electromagnetic Lightning Cannon

Red Fire Sky Cannon

Shadow Demon Cannon

Cold Light Frost Cannon

External armor-piercing cobalt projectile launcher
All the weapons on the Sky began to gather momentum, and when the two main guns completed the final charge, the seven roared at the same time.

Song Chi did not aim at the weaknesses of the Shouyuan mothership. All his targets were the unmanned carrier-based aircraft on the mothership.

Boom boom boom...

Amid the fierce bombing, brilliant fireworks exploded across the entire deck of the mothership.

This is not over yet, the two group attack secondary guns [Electromagnetic Lightning Cannon] and [Red Fire Sky Cannon] have played their greatest effect at this time. Both of them continue to fire, and each round of fire can cover multiple unmanned carrier-based aircraft.

In a short period of time, before the Shouyuan tribe on the opposite side could react, most of the drone swarm on the mothership had been destroyed.

By the time the enemy realized the situation and put up a fourth-level nuclear shield, only one in ten ship-borne drones had survived.

Without the threat of these drones, the Sky could easily suppress the Source Hunting mothership head-on.

Nuclear shield?

Under the concentrated fire of the [Shadow Demon-Breaking Cannon] and the two main guns, it soon collapsed completely.

More than twenty minutes later, the Shouyuan mothership was successfully sunk by Song Chi.

This was the result of Song Chi keeping his men back because he was afraid of damaging various important components on the mothership.

Then it is time to count the harvest and collect relevant information about the "Floating Land Origin Core".

After the Void Shadow Killing Clan soldiers searched the entire Hunting Source mothership, Song Chi received two pieces of news, one good and one bad.

The good news is that he really found the special device used by the Shouyuan civilization to extract the core of the floating land's origin.

The bad news is that this special device is not a rare item and cannot be removed from the Shouyuan mothership. It was automatically destroyed the moment the mothership sank.

PS: I adjusted my biological clock. The second chapter should be completed around noon tomorrow. I will also code out the two chapters tomorrow as early as possible.

(End of this chapter)